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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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[BrianfuckingG]

Bloody Savages!

[TheDavidG54]

atleast the english didn't eat people and pray to pagan gods

[cmsahe]

-i like the Sun symbol the king wears on his forehead. A common symbol around the world.

[cmsahe]

@TheDavidG54 but they invented Monty Python! :)

[cmsahe]

@TXGTR they use tweeter I follow a lot of them!

[AwYourFunny]

we the people of the pacific didn't believe in pagan gods. Thats all i can say.

[TXGTR]

I wonder how civilised those remote islands are today.

[crumpetbutterdrips]

I've just been reading A Voyage to the South Sea by William Bligh at Project Gutenberg. His description of the attack by the natives that killed John Norton is written in a very matter of fact fashion but it must have been absolutely terrifying. 200 natives chased them into the sea and then followed them in canoes throwing rocks and attempting to board them. Bligh writes that he throw some clothes into the sea and this distracted them long enough to get away.

Well worth a look.