#moby dick adaptation

[coulson-is-an-avenger]

KILL THE WHALE (LYRICS AND COMMENTARY)

HELLO! Over the past couple of months I have been making it a personal project to transcribe and annotate the lyrics for Daniel Emond's musical adaptation of Moby Dick, called "Kill The Whale".

For those unfamiliar with this album/adaptation, here is the official description of it right from Emond's website:

Kill the Whale is a concept album and live rock opera, built in the characters and waters of Melville's Moby Dick. When Ishmael, a young rocker with an unknown past falls in love with the hiphop harpooner Q, they join Peek-Wow, the Whaleship/Orchestra led by steel-eyed frontwoman Ahab, who sets her crew upon a course to kill the gigantic sperm whale that maimed her, a plan opposed by Ahab's first mate (and secret admirer), the devout and soulful Starbuck. Contending with face-melting squalls and mad mates, the hymnic wonder of whales nursing in the heart of the Ocean, and the poignant Gospel of the castaway cabin kid Pip, Peek-Wow embarks on a rock and roll quest for vengeance. Kill The Whale is memory manifested as a 1970's folk/hiphop/rock opera, that centers two queer romances, lifts voices of color, and re-casts authority roles as women.

The album was released on Spotify in April of this year, with two live performances at Joe's Pub taking place only a few days after it's release.

I have archived and noted the lyrics as they appear in the studio album, the live variation, and Daniel's "official" lyrics as posted to his personal Reddit, and the differences therein. I and my good Melville scholar friend and partner @pocketsizedquasar-2 have also left extensive commentary, notes of context, and criticisms of this album in the document. Please enjoy the fruit of much labor and insanity :)

[balu8]

Christophe Chabouté: Moby Dick

[focsle]

I hate and love that my comic scratches the ultimate itch of the sort of narrative I want to consume because on the one hand, I love working on it and it is fully my Essence. But on the other hand, when I want to unwind and am craving a particular Type Of Story only to remember that it doesn't exist I'm just like......do I gotta do everything myself?

[firestorm09890]

they knew they had to get Stubb out of the picture early because in the book his main personality trait and also coping mechanism was cracking a thousand jokes per minute and that wouldn’t have fit the atmosphere they were going for

[mossy-rainfrog]

[ID: A digitally drawn photo of Queequeg and Ishmael from Moby-Dick, kissing. Ishmael is a lean white man with short, wavy blond hair and sideburns. He is wearing gray pants and a gold wedding band. Queequeg is a muscular Māori person with warm brown skin, short, curly hair in a top knot style, and many intricate tattoos over his face and body. He is wearing dark pants and a gold wedding band. Both are shirtless.

Ishmael is sitting on Queequeg's lap, with a hand on his face and the other on his chest. while Queequeg holds him with one hand on his neck and the other on his back. They are kissing each other with lips parted in tender smiles. End ID.]

sooooo this was partially inspired by finding an adaptation of MobyDick that refered to these two as friends rather than a canonically married couple lmfao and I Needed to draw them being gay about it. congrats to the canon homosexuals in mobydick

anyways. this is what friends are for 😍🙏🕊✝️💖😍🙏🕊✝️💖😍🙏🕊✝️💖amen

[graham--folger]

woah moby dick 2011 has quite the cast

[wormboyfriendcentralstation]

what the tags to my posts have taught me is that the wurthering heights stans are eating devouring enjoying while im locked in Moby Dick Jail with the ahab starbuck emotionally draining yuri that lives only in my mind-

[the-golden-vanity]

Last night, I decided I was going to watch In The Heart Of The Sea. I'm fully aware that it's a terrible movie, but I know I'll end up watching it eventually. My interest in boat cannibalism demands it.

However, when I typed the film's title into the Apple TV search bar, In The Heart Of The Sea came up... as did Moby-Dick and Life Of Pi. It was as if Apple TV was telling me, "hey, would you like to watch something that has similar themes, but doesn't suck?"

[tortoisesshells]

god help me, through the power of joan bennett's wiki page i remembered the 1930 Moby Dick with barrymore existed, and the whole thing is, i'm happy to report on youtube. none of the words in the synopsis are in the book. let's do it for joan.

[kyouka-supremacy]

Sorta continuation of this, here's some observations on how the bsd anime adaptation rate (average of number of chapters adapted per episode) changed every season:

Season 1: 10 plot episodes + 2 ln adaptation. Adapts up to chapter 16. Average of chapters adapted per episode: 1.60

Season 2: 8 plot episodes + 4 ln adaptation. Adapts chapters 17-37 (21 chapters). Average of chapters adapted per episode: 2.63 (+1.03)

Season 3: 9 plot episodes + 3 ln adaptation. Adapts chapters 38-39 & 41-53 (15 chapters). Average of chapters adapted per episode: 1.67 (-0.96)

Season 4: 10 plot episodes + 3 ln adaptation. Adapts chapters 54-77 (24 chapters). Average of chapters adapted per episode: 2.40 (+0.73)

※ I opted out of counting the Hitori Ayumi OVA this time around, reasoning that the factors that play into conditioning the season episodes adaptation rate wouldn't have influenced the OVA given its nature of stand-alone episode.

Seasons 1-3 adaptation rate: 27 plot episodes, 52 adapted chapters. Average of chapters adapted per episode: 1.93

Season 4 adaptation rate compared to the average of all the previous seasons: 2.40 (+0.47)

Seasons 1-4 overall adaptation rate: 37 plot episodes, 76 adapted chapters. Total average of chapters adapted per episode: 2.05

That being said, let's try to guess how season 5 might play out taking in the previous four seasons adaptation rate of 2.05 as standard. Here's the fun thing: if season 5 is just 12 / 13 episodes of plot adaptation, that would mean adapting up to chapter 102 / 104. Coincidentally, chapter 104 (fukufuku flashback) is also the furthest in the manga plot that was shown in the last season 5 trailer. Feel free to draw your own conclusions, but as of now a new light novel adaptation seems positively unlikely and a Stormbringer adpatation basically impossible to make fit.

[thishadoscarbuzz]

253 - Moby Dick (with Emily St. James!)

We're going back further than ever before this episode and we've got writer/critic/author Emily St. James along for the ride! After a consecutive run as an Oscar favorite in the late 1940s to early 1950s, director John Huston gave us 1956's Moby Dick, an adaptation of perhaps the greatest novel of all time and often seen as unadaptable. With Gregory Peck as Captain Ahab and a cameo performance by Orson Welles, the film earned Huston favor at the DGA Awards, but even with its (then) technical feats, the film did not continue Huston's Oscar streak.

This episode, we talk about the impossible task of bringing Herman Melville's novel to the screen and the perception of Peck as miscast. We also discuss the 1956 Oscars, Peck's run as Academy president, and outrage over Home Alone's underwhelming Oscar nomination tally.

Topics also include the Grumpy Old Men blooper reel, Reba McEntire as Trish, and we also announce the return of Vulture's Movies Fantasy League! Join the rest of the Garys with league name AllOfUsGarys!

And don't forget to sign up for our Patreon, This Had Oscar Buzz: Turbulent Brilliance over at patreon.com/thishadoscarbuzz!!

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[coulson-is-an-avenger]

NATIONAL HOLIDAY TODAY BTW

[ID: An edited screenshot of a Tumblr post. The first part reads: "people who celebrate album birthdays are annoying pass it on." The second part reads: "FUCK this post and happy birthday Moby Dick or The Whale by Caleb Hayashida." End ID]

[btrflyng]

(Making a second poll with more characters)

[charliethomascoxuniverse]

💕 Charlie Cox as Ishmael 💕

Moby Dick (2011) Pt II ~

“I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts. Not ignoring what is good, I am quick to perceive a horror, and could still be social with it -- would they let me -- since it is but well to be on friendly terms with all the inmates of the place one lodges in.”

[shotbyafool]

hi anna i just got back from seeing preludes!! sent you that ask a while ago thank you so much for your response it was absolutely wonderful. not at all what i was expecting from the little i knew going in but i could absolutely feel dave malloy in it. rach was such a modern feeling and relatable character in a way that i don’t feel exists in any of his other work and i loved it. i did end up bringing the person i was unsure about and, while i do think i was able to follow the story a bit better, he loved it as well. dave malloy king of musicals that make me want to stand up in my seat and start screaming at various points. also going to go spend the rest of my night reading about rachmaninoff

this ask is from a MONTH ago and I haven't replied because I'm terribly jealous but also because I was so anxiously awaiting your answer that I got too giddy to even read it fully. I am so delighted you went (objectively the correct move of course, I am just the messenger)! Dave Malloy king of musicals in general, end of sentence! I find Preludes so so upsetting and excellent and I am glad you found something in Rach; I find Rach to be, in simplest terms, Malloy's rawest fucking protag. and of course, he is not Malloy's invention, but what strikes me so much about Preludes and Great Comet is his way of pulling out these absolutely killer emotions and concepts from pre-existing characters or people that are not even his creation. like man, why did you come up with something like "Why am I screaming? / Why am I shaking? / Oh God, was there something that I missed? / Did I squander my divinity? / Was happiness within me the whole time?" for the author's self-insert in War and Peace? did you seriously have to do that to me at age 16? if someone let me get my hands on Moby Dick I'm sure I'd be completely losing it right now. but anyhow, again I repeat that I am jealous and that I am glad you had a wonderful time watching it (I wonder if it was less frightening than the recording? 'frightening' may be wrong; ominous? upsetting? again that sound design just truly shakes me to my core). anyhow I hope you listen to the recording too, if not to be frightened but to hear Gabriel Ebert's Rach and Nikki M. James' Natalya. insane stuff on that tiny little cast recording that they inexplicably made for Preludes!

[teatitty]

Ishmael is the most arabic/hebrew name I’ve ever seen in a book so how the fuck was he always cast as a white dude in adaptations like I know why [racism] but that’s fucking shameful