I saw *Master and Commander* tonight (IMDB:0311113). It was a well-done movie about the time of naval engagements and pirates, but without any pirates. No treasure, no Peter Pan, no crew abandoned on lonely islands, only the hard life on a ship, the weather, fighting, travelling, wounds... It seemed almost historical, and yet it was captivating. There is not much of a plot: One ship trying to capture another, that’s it. But all the details make it an interesting movie.
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Just saw something that might interest you.
http://isometric.spaceninja.com/_/the_better_ninja/ninja-episode-1-lofi.html
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– LionKimbro 2004-01-11 21:52 UTC
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Is “Master and Commander” as anti-napoleonic as the TV-trailer suggested? There in the trailer somebody asks “Do you want Napoleon to become your king?” and all the sailors cry “Nooooo!”. Whenever my flatmate and me saw this trailer, we cried “Yeeees!” loud enough to drown those sailors. 😄 (Hey, he put an end to feudalism in Europe and introduced the code civil (and thus constitutional state)”
– OliverScholz (”Vive le Empereur!”) 2004-01-15 11:21 UTC
Sounds great. I have a faible for “the age of fighting sail”. Did you ever happen to read a novel by Frederick Marryat? Exciting naval stories by a real English captain of this aera.
– OliverScholz 2004-01-15 16:00 UTC