Moby Dick (1930)
| Movie | |
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| German title | Moby Dick |
| Original title | Moby Dick |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1930 |
| length | 80 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Lloyd Bacon |
| script | Oliver HP Garrett |
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Moby Dick is an American black and white film by director Lloyd Bacon based on the novel of the same name by Herman Melville in 1930 . The script was written by Oliver HP Garratt.
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Ahab, captain of the whaling ship “Pequod”, is looking for the whale Moby Dick, who almost killed Ahab when the two Ahab met earlier. His prosthetic leg, made from the jawbone of a sperm whale, is a reminder of this fight. The captain, originally to be regarded as a person of authority, however, increasingly loses trust and credibility with his crew in the course of the voyage. In New Bedford he falls in love with Pastor Mapple's daughter. He eventually kills the whale and returns to his great love.
Comparison to the book and review
The film Moby Dick leaves out the first-person narrator Ishmael. The film turns the antihero Ahab into a human and likeable man. The character Faith Mapple was invented for the film. Walter C. Metz said of the film that it was producing a conventional Hollywood love story between Ahab and Fath and that Ahab's background was explained in more detail than in the book.
Individual evidence
- ^ Marc Di Paolo: Emma Adapted: Jane Austen's Heroine from Book to Film . Peter Lang, 2007, ISBN 978-1-4331-0000-0 , p. 15.
- ^ Walter C. Metz: The Literature / film Reader: Issues of Adaptation . Scarecrow Press , 2007, ISBN 978-0-8108-5949-4 , pp. 71-73.
Web links
- Moby Dick in the Internet Movie Database (English)