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...same goes for The Bounty. The traditional plot of the mutiny that occurred on board the H.M.S, Bounty some 300 years ago has always come from the well-known novel Mutiny on the Bounty--which has twice been enacted on film already. In both film versions, the tyrannical Captain Bligh provokes a rebellion aboard his ship, led by the romantic Fletcher Christian, s the ship is returning home after spending some months in Tahiti on a mission for King George...
Told in flashbacks by Bligh at his naval trial for losing the ship, the movie switches back and forth between the present and the story of Bligh's tragic removal from his command. The flashback technique makes the movie even more choppy, we aren't sure if the Flashbacks are from Bligh's perspective or an objective portrayal of the events. The film becomes a potpourri of disjointed images, which sacrifices character development for landscaping...
...production staff of The Bounty took obvious pains at making sure that their movie would not merely be a remake of standard Mutiny on the Bounty fare. Using new historical sources for the true story behind the mutiny, the filmmakers tried to flesh out the relationship between Bligh and Christian and make it clear that their motivations and personalities are much more complex than the cardboard characters in the originals. The movie also focuses much more than the originals on the details of the Bounty's journey and stay in Tahiti. The cinematography spends an inordinate amount of time presenting...
ANTHONY HOPKINS, however, does succeed in making Captain Bligh into a complex figure, whose binding ambition to sail around the world and fierce love of order somehow is not strong enough to overpower his deep-seated insecurity and desire to be accepted by his men. By showing, with amazing intensity. Blight's torturous, sleepless nights while in Tahiti, Hopkins reveals his character's inner turmoil. Bligh realizes that by allowing his men to frolic with the native women he is losing his control on them, yet if he forces them to stay on board the ship, their anger will take...
...Bounty, the climax supposedly occurs with the actual mutiny, yet when the mutiny does occur towards the end of the film, it seems to come with a sense of fizzling. Bligh is too pathetic to have deserved the disruption of his ship, and Christian too wimpy to lead such an adventure. The Bounty turns out to be a very frustrating movie; it drags out the plot so much that when a crucial action does occur, we are so numbed by the close-ups of the isolated characters or the grand views of the ocean that the drama loses all sense...