Why is Hollywood so afraid of Moby-Dick? Even now with Heart of the Sea they're making sure to use something that's not actually Moby-Dick.
>>63411166
BOX OFFICE POISON
>>63411166
BIG
>>63411205
WHITE
>>63411346
SPERM
>>63411166
Because Moby Dick's subtext of vengeance and ends justifying the means doesn't translate well without narration.
>>63411414
WHALES
>mfw they ruin Heart of Darkness next
>>63411641
There are two god tier films based on/influenced by HoD already(Apocalyse Now and Aguirre). Moby Dick has none. Just a really old sort of okayish (but not quite) film, a couple crappy forgotten tv versions, and some The Asylum sci-fi action bullshit.
You could Titanic the shit out of it, even WHILE stating true to the material.
>>63411166
Fucking dammit I'm so afraid of whales and that image all but solidifies that phobia
Maybe he's going for an accurate retelling of what actually happened.
>>63411776
The sea is spoopy
Because his name is slang for penis and the soccer moms wouldn't like that.
>>63411166
One word:
Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooring
>>63411907
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>>63411166
What is it then? Just some other whale?
>>63412026
In real life, Melville heard the story about some boat getting really really fucked up by a whale. He thought "o shit nigger that's fucking terrifying". A few brainstorming sessions later he decided to write Moby Dick. This movie is the story about that original ship.
That's it.
>>63411776
you have thalassophobia, same as me.
The reddit subreddit for thalassophobia (click highest rated monthly / yearly) is good. You'll be glad you're on land
>>63412205
>The reddit subreddit
as opposed to some other site's subreddit
>>63411166
>sailor here
Moby Dick is boring.... and this movie is about as realistic as air bud
>>63412138
That sounds really uninteresting desu
>>63412260
how is the movie any different from what happened in real life?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essex_%28whaleship%29
Probably because some other studio has the right of a Moby Dick movie adaption
>>63412335
Moby Dick is public domain.
>>63412296
let me check out some details and get back to you with an educated response
they've done several movies and series about moby dick already, how many adaptations do you want?
>>63412205
I honestly have no idea what the interface of that website looks like let alone how to get to a subreddit
>>63412428
just fuck my adaptations up
>>63412428
And most of them are super low budget and obscure. It has had this pre-Cameron Titantic treatment, but it hasn't had it's Cameronization, which is odd.
>>63412205
>>63412437
Nevermind. Googled it.
How the actual fuck do people navigate through that shit? 0/10 would not browse again
gochu senpai
>>63412459
>john houston, ray bradbury and gregory peck
>super obscure
m8
>>63411776
Then you'll love the scene where a qt cabin boy is eaten whole.
>>63411595
Why not have narration then? Just have Ishmael keeping a diary and use that as a vehicle for his narration.
>>63412463
I just googled it to, I clicked on a link expecting to go to a thread but it just lead to some picture? What the fuck is this shit
because Moby Dick is less a Novel and more and exposition of whale anatomy and other scientific facts of whaling
>>63412258
>as opposed to some other site's subreddit
/tv/ is a 4chan subreddit
>>63412516
>most
That's the main adaptation. It's also ancient (in Hollywood terms), skips over the vast majority of the content and themes, and honestly not that good, despite the people involved.
>>63411751
JAMES CAMRON
MOBY DICK
PLEASE MAKE IT HAPPEN
>>63412478
Wasn't this one considered pretty good?
>>63412568
Does the whale actually eat someone in the book? I can't remember shit.
>>63412813
It's alright. Has none of the depth of the novel.
>>63411751
>Forgetting the fucking gregory peck version
Books like that heavily rely on the fact they're books, an adaption will never do it justice
>>63411166
They should just make moby dick black in the remake
>>63411166
Have you ever read Moby Dick?
It's a great story but you have to sift through hours of discombobulated bullshit to find it. Every movie ever made about that story revolves around something like half a dozen scenes.
The book has a musical number in it. I shit you not.
>>63412574
Y don't ur mom narrate my dick m8y
>>63413104
The musical number is one of my favorite parts.
>>63413104
>The book has a musical number in it. I shit you not.
How does that even work? You just read the men singing with descriptions of the music? No wonder the whale wanted to wreck the crew
>Implying it won't be Peter Jackson's next project
>Viggo as Ahab
>>63413371
>anything but DDL as Ahab
>>63411166
Just like Jaws, film makers are worried that people might see the animal antagonist as the enemy of humanity and will end up killing the species out of fear. Moby Dick would cause the decline of whales similar to how Jaws caused Sharks to be endangered.
>>63412272
the crew ate each other after sailing past an island they thought was full of cannibals
>>63413296
look up sea chantey
>>63413633
A legitimate threat. Would you rather risk capture and death of the whole crew or sacrifice a few members of the crew to sustain you until you can next reach land.
>>63413517
Nobody watching movies these days would care. There's been no save the dolphins or "write your governor" campaigns for today's youth. They don't care about that stuff anymore. The closest they got was after Black Fish and all the San Diego SeaWorld did was release their Orca. Nobody will see whales as a threat.
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>>63411166
>Moby Dick
They're making a sci-fi adaptation of it, it seems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3H0-lv6D3M
>>63411595
ends justifing means?
what the fk he died at the end what good does it give him
>>63413729
it wasn't legitimate. i studied the book in college. people from nantucket had weird superstitions that the rest of the world knew were unfounded, including that island having cannibals
>>63411166
>he's never heard of the Moby Dick curse
>>63412609
This is the correct answer.
Nobody else here has read the book.
>>63412609
>he doesn't understand metaphor
autist confirmed
>>63414445
fuck off pleb
>>63412919
This. God tier monologuing. And the Patrick Stewart version was top tier too. What is OP even going on about? We got two good Moby dick adaptations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9uo0I9fZ4I
>be /lit/erate
>start reading Moby Dick
>enjoying it, get half-way
>stagnate
>stagnate
>start browsing /tv/
>become film buff and put Moby Dick away
Thank you for listening to me.
>first time captain, leadership problems from day 1
>ship is in horrible condition
>everyone is miserable and fatigued as fuck
>makign nowhere near the $$ they thought they could
>epic whale fight
>adrift forever
>eat people because they are all delusional about cannibals
this is going to be a rage enticing movie for anyone who has ever said, and a borefest for everyone else
>>63415858
Heart of the Sea?
>>63416108
That has to be what he means. BBC did the same Essex story a couple years ago. Actually turned out pretty good. It was called The Whale (2013).
>>63416415
I think Heart of the Sea could be cool. I'll probably watch it some time.
I wish there were more boat movies that weren't POTC.
>>63412609
>>63414445
Except that only makes up about half the book and if anything that makes it easier to adapt as it's easily cut for a movie.
>soundtrack not by Ahab
WHITE WHALE HOLY GRAIL
>>63413784
Moby Dick isn't about Ahab getting revenge on the whale, it's about the whale getting revenge on Ahab.
>>63417182
More like it was about how revenge consumes someone obsessed with vengeance.
>>63417299
Except Melville was pro-revenge.
>>63412478
man peck was too damn handsome to play ahab
>>63417324
was he secretly a whale?
>>63411776
>>63411838
>>63412205
Speaking of sea scariness, anyone played Reveal the Deep ? It's 66 cents on steam right now, should be with horror elements or some shit
Haven't gotten to playing it yet, but bought it already, would like to hear something about it
>>63412615
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>>63412977
already happened
Leviathan, Megalodon, Sarcosuchus, Cthulu, Bloop or some other terrifying deep sea/water creature movie and shit ?
I'd pay real money to see that
>>63417940
>if it was capeshitted up I'd watch it
leave the board now you child
>>63417977
>capeshitted
Did I say I want fucking aquaman fucking his dolphins ? I want some deep sea horror like movie or a game that panders to my fear of open, deep and invisible-past-nose water
>>63418030
you literally have no idea what kinematographie is even about.
