Moby Dick - Enter Queequeg

This is an excerpt from the 1998 tv miniseries "Moby Dick", in which Ishmael (Henry Thomas) first meets the huge Maori harpooner Queequeg (Piripi Waretini) when they are forced to share a room.

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• moby
• dick
• ishmael
• queequeg
• henry
• thomas
• piripi
• waretini

[hamkinnes]

Is that supposed to be a maori what the fuck thats racist that dissing my culture.

[OzWatcher]

@hamkinnes Admittedly, I don't think Herman Melville did any real research on Maoris when he originally wrote the book, but at least in this version they used an actual Maori actor. Have you seen the latest mini-series remake? Sorry, Raoul Trujillo, you're a nice guy but you're no Maori!

[QueenMegaera]

@OzWatcher In the book he's not even Maori, but some unstated "cannibal" (Moby Dick was forward for its time but seems rather rasist now).

[OzWatcher]

@QueenMegaera After reading up on it, you're right. Huh. I wonder where I got it in my head that the character was supposed to be Maori? Oh well, guess I owe Raoul a letter of apology and a box of steaks.

[tropewhat]

what about the chimney flashback =[

[OzWatcher]

Hmm, now you've got me curious, what chimney flashback?

[blueskies8405]

LOL! I love Queequeg's laugh at the end. :)

[pwoggyland]

lol i love queequeg. <3

[CharvakaJim]

@QueenMegaera I think Melville is being a bit facetious in calling him a cannibal, in that at that time in history that was the perception of people but Queequeg in fact is noble (and is called that in Moby Dick too).

[gumonthepants]

@OzWatcher "I had been cutting up some caper or other I think it was trying to crawl up the chimney, as I had seen a little sweep do a few days previous; and my stepmother who, somehow or other, was all the time whipping me, or sending me to bed supperless, my mother dragged me by the legs out of the chimney and packed me off to be, though it was only two o'clock in the afternoon of the 21st June, the longest day in the year in our hemisphere. I felt dreadfully..."

[bryanvsmith]

I thought Queequeg was gonna rape him

[Piquarian]

His pipe is surprisingly more elongated than I had pictured in the novel... Did he hollow out a tree for that thing?

[rotedrachen]

@MattyJ0731 No! i am referring to the book!!!!