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B0U /\/ T Y, THE is the third screen version of one of the best-known stories in naval history, here with Anthony Hopkins as Lieutenant William Bligh and Mel Gibson as Fletcher Christian heading an extraordinary cast including Laurence Olivier, Edward Fox, Daniel Day-Lewis, Liam Neeson, Bernard Hill and Dexter Fletcher. HMS Bounty's voyage to Tahiti of 1787-9 and its infamous consequences are recounted with far greater historical accuracy than in the 1935 or 1962 Mutiny on the Bounty. The movie is gorgeously shot on location in Tahiti, England and New Zealand as well as on a full-size recreation of the original Bounty.
Roger Donaldson's film benefits from a literate screenplay by Robert Bolt, who here as in Lawrence of Arabia (1962), brings real insight into the English institutional mind in conflict. Hopkins is at his complex best and Gibson offers more depth than his usual two-dimensional hero persona; here Bligh and Christian emerge as complex men gripped by circumstances beyond their control. The haunting score by Vangelis contributes immensely to a very underrated film which deserves to be considered a modern classic

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[riazomonero]

The music in this film is utterly mindblowing.

Vangelis created a masterpiece.

[thomasg74]

@02:51 a 1789 version of the Sony Vaio,Nice one Bligh.

[cmsahe]

one of the girls looks white, maybe daugter of a sailor.

[RachelHurdWood4ever2]

Vangelis really knows how to write music for maritime historical films, like he did for 1492.

[TXGTR]

The scene where he gets her on her own is so erotic. He knows what he wants, but she doesn't know how to give it to him and what she's got will keep his piece of eight well satisfied.

[UniteForgetLeftRight]

@elgransenor1 id rather live there than to 18th century england

[Mr1958louief]

The sweating they Got Right!! It Is Humid!!

[bgrodner]

Thinking as a former military man myself, I wonder what I would have done differently had I been the Captain. Would I have encouraged Fletcher and the others who wished, to marry with native girls, and allow them to bring their wives back to England? (Would that even have been permitted by naval regulations?) Might I have felt that a less harsh regimen of discipline might have produced equally good results? Military ethics in the late 20th century has emphasized morale as second only to mission.

[MrGrevy]

@starquant I'm dead sexy!!

[starquant]

@MrGrevy My comment still stands, look at your youtube picture... WHAT a WANKER.