Moby Dick (1998)

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Moby Dick on Reel 13
by jjgittes in jjgittes Blog

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"A month or so ago, in my blog of LUST FOR LIFE on Reel 13, I mentioned how I did a study on fifties films for an essay I was working on. I also mentioned that I listed LUST FOR LIFE as 10 on my top ten list for 1956. Well, this week's Reel 13 Classic – MOBY DICK – actually was my 9 film of that year.In many ways, it's the perfect story for director John Huston. It's a very masculine story and also manages to deal with some of Huston's favorite themes – greed, revenge and obsession (as the story goes, Huston himself, became fascinated with hunting elephants in Africa during the shooting of THE AFRICAN QUEEN five years earlier). So, it's no wonder that MOBY DICK is as successful as it is on screen.Really, in my mind, it's the details that make the movie work. Huston does a great job of using cutaways to show the smaller aspects of whaling and the whaling community. He shows you how it was done (its accuracy is debatable, but I certainly don't know any better, so I'l ... " [More]

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