Comparing the novel Moby Dick to the movie version
These days, producers and writers work together to try and reproduce classic novels as motion pictures. How precise can a motion picture company re-create a classic? Sometimes they aren't as accurate and realistic as they may think. Although the motion picture somewhat differs from Melville's work, the realistic portrayal and overall cinematography of the movie are worthy of praise. In this motion picture re-creation, the writers seem to have added a small amount of their own opinions and left out a great deal of Melville's work. In the beginning of the movie, the first event that contrasted Melville's novel was the entire first day. Ishmael, according to the novel, was alone the entire first day. Queequeg did not appear at church with him as they show in the movie. Ishmael also went to check out ships himself, not with Queequeg. As read in the novel, Ishmael visited two other ships before he visited the Pequod. The movie production failed to show this. On board the ship, the movie shows the harpooners drinking grog out of the end of their harpoons after Ahab has dripped his own blood into the liquid. The harpooners did drink out of their harpoons in the book, but Ahab never put his blood in the
There were many realistic scenes in this movie. The church scene was very well done. The church and pulpit authentically resembled that of a real church. The blood on the deck of the Pequod while the crew was gutting the sperm whale was genuinely portrayed also. The movie reproduced the character of Queequeg well. It incorporated all of the descriptions when creating his appearance. Ahab's character was also very well done. His scar and other characteristics were exactly as the book had described them. As in the book, his speech to his crew when aboard the ship was very convincing. In the movie, Ahab's character shouted at random times in different tones of voice, which helped to show his complete insanity. The writers and producers of this movie didn't portray Melville's work perfectly, but they came as close as they could. The re-creation of a novel is not usually very precise, although the realistic portrayals of the work and the cinematography assist in making the movie acceptable to the public. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ f Queequeg as they did in the movie. When the Pequod met up with the British ship, the captain's arm was supposed to have been made out of whalebone. In the
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