{"id":978,"date":"2008-12-02T03:29:28","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T08:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=978"},"modified":"2018-08-10T17:12:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T21:12:54","slug":"moby-dick-huston-1956","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=978","title":{"rendered":"(Huston 1956) Moby Dick"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"Moby<\/a>Crit\u00adics were not kind to John Hus\u00adton\u2019s 1956 film\u00ading of Melville\u2019s sym\u00adbol\u00adic mas\u00adter\u00adpiece, but it has much to com\u00admend it. Gre\u00adgo\u00adry Peck looked awk\u00adward in the role of Ahab, but in the scenes where he whips his crew into a col\u00adlec\u00adtive fren\u00adzy (where Star\u00adbuck sees \u201ca mad\u00adman beget more mad\u00admen\u201d) he was very effec\u00adtive. Ray Brad\u00adbury wrote the script, and I think it one of his most bril\u00adliant accom\u00adplish\u00adments, for it remains very true to the inten\u00adtions and style of the book. Richard Base\u00adhart was fine as that sim\u00adple soul, Ish\u00admael, and Leo Genn per\u00adformed bril\u00adliant\u00adly in the role of Star\u00adbuck. The spe\u00adcial effects were superb for their time, though they might embar\u00adrass a film-mak\u00ader today. Visu\u00adal detail was accurate.<\/p>\n

The world of the New Bed\u00adford whalers in the 1840s holds many sur\u00adpris\u00ades for a mod\u00adern view\u00ader. It was strik\u00ading\u00adly cos\u00admopoli\u00adtan \u2014 the whal\u00ading ships sailed every sea in the world, and Africans, Native Amer\u00adi\u00adcans, Asians, Poly\u00adne\u00adsians, and Euro\u00adpeans crewed the ships and walked the streets of New Bed\u00adford. Peo\u00adple were gen\u00aduine\u00adly, pro\u00adfound\u00adly reli\u00adgious. Unlike the pho\u00adny-balony \u201cChris\u00adt\u00adian fun\u00adda\u00admen\u00adtal\u00adists\u201d of mod\u00adern Amer\u00adi\u00adca, who nev\u00ader actu\u00adal\u00adly read the bible, these peo\u00adple knew it by heart. Melville expect\u00aded his read\u00aders to get every one of his thou\u00adsands of bib\u00adli\u00adcal ref\u00ader\u00adences in the nov\u00adel. The movie cap\u00adtures both these ele\u00adments exactly.<\/p>\n

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Crit\u00adics were not kind to John Hus\u00adton\u2019s 1956 film\u00ading of Melville\u2019s sym\u00adbol\u00adic mas\u00adter\u00adpiece, but it has much to com\u00admend it. Gre\u00adgo\u00adry Peck looked awk\u00adward in the role of Ahab, but in the scenes where he whips his crew into a \u2026<\/p>\n

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