Word: tahiti
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...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 panoramic views of the ship at sea, of Tahiti, and of the grueling life of the crew members on board the ship...
...never given a chance to see what motivates his actions. Why, for instance, does his passion for the princess turn into a romance de coeur so strong that he is willing to risk his life and those of the men on board the Bounty to return to Tahiti? All we see are a few semi-nude water love scenes or views of his getting tatooed--nothing substantial enough to explain his deep depression upon leaving Tahiti...
...Though Brando was chastised by critics for his excesses, there was something brave in his giddy decision to play the role as a mincing fop who warms to liberal consciousness when he contrasts the rigors of sailing under Bligh with the delights of their long, languorous layover in Tahiti. Inevitably the shades of these wild, rich performances (and the fantasy of what might have been had they been combined in a single film) hover over The Bounty, which tips the balance of interest back to Bligh again but somehow manages to dim both characters into incomprehensibility...
During the 1920s, a spendthrift charmer named Tom Mount lived with (and on) Hobson for five years while remaining married to another woman. Hobson endured two abortions, one without anesthesia, before Mount went off to Tahiti to write. A six-year marriage to well-heeled Publisher Thayer Hobson proved more placid, until he stunned her one evening by announcing over the demitasse that he was leaving her for another woman. Looking back on that divorce, what makes her "boil with fury" is the thought that "any woman (most women?) should feel her life exploded into shreds and shards because...