Movie Week 1

Moby Dick

Moby Dick

by Miranda Cummings -
Number of replies: 6

Title: Moby Dick

Author: Herman Melville

DOB: Aug. 1, 1819

DOD: Sept. 28,1891

Lived: New York

Original Publication Date: Oct. 18, 1851

Setting: Massachusetts, The ship Pequod

Theme: Obsession, Religion, and Racism

Plot: The crew of Pequod is lead by Ahab who is obsessed with finding and getting revenge on the great white whale, Moby Dick, who took his leg.

Characters:

Ishmael- He is the narrator of the story, the only man to survive the attack of Moby Dick.

Ahab- The Captain of the Pequod. He has a peg leg because Moby Dick took his leg. Ahab is now looking for revenge on the whale.

Moby Dick- The white whale who is known though out the sea.

Starbuck- First mate of the Pequod, he questions Ahab a lot. He's a Christian who uses his beliefs to understand the world around him.

Queequeg- Ishmael's best friend, he joined him on the Pequod as a harpooner. Their meeting was rough at first but they had a great friendship.

These were main characters but there were many more crew members on the ship who had minor roles.

Symbols: The story of Jonah and the whale told by the Preacher before the ship left. Moby Dick was a symbol of evil to Ahab.

Personal Response : So I watched Moby Dick last Friday, I just didn't get a chance to make a reply on here yet.
Well, I thought that this movie would be a lot cooler then it actually was! I got really mad at this story. Its about a man named Ishmael who joins a whaling boat. Ahab is the captain of the Pequod, the only thing on his mind is to kill the great white whale, Moby Dick. Ahab really made me mad because he was willing to risk every man and his boat in order to kill the stupid whale who ate his leg. In the end he did exactly that, except kill Moby Dick. Queequeg was my favorite character in the movie because he's a great friend to Ishmael during the journey. He sadly died though at the end, Ishmael was the only man who survived the journey and thats how the story got out. I was really disappointed with this movie because I've always heard really good things about Moby Dick, and plus the actor from To Kill A Mockingbird was in it and I love that movie.

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Re: Moby Dick

by Tariq Elagamy -
I think the problem with it is that it stretches out the search for the white whale for a very very very long time. The way I see it, it would have been good in written form because the author could have put in a lot of symbolism during the search, in film you could also put symbolism but people could easily mistake it for something else or just overlook it. And I do believe that the movie would have been worth while if Moby Dick had laser beams for eyes. That would be incredibly awesome.
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by Marcus Kisielewski -
tariq - what are you on? honestly...because you could sell it on the street for ALOT! lol
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Re: Moby Dick

by Tariq Elagamy -
I am on a steady diet of chocolate chip cookies and milk. Every now and then I decide to shoot up some Pepsi, through the esophagus that is. And occasionally you might see me doing some Tee-Vee in my room.
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Re: Moby Dick

by Marcus Kisielewski -

MIRANDA ----- Very Important Question For You!!! ((srry its really late..))

The Moby Dick movie you watched...was it the original or the newer version? 1956 or 1998? Id just like to know because i "Acquired" the older version and wasnt sure if i should throw it away or watch that one.