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#movies#polls#master and commander: the far side of the world#master and commander the far side of the world#master and commander#the far side of the world#2000s movies#peter weir#russell crowe#paul bettany#requested#have you seen this movie poll
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At first I wanted to make some kind of trailer for Master and Commander, because I don't like the official one. But I think this has too many spoilers to pass as a trailer.
Anyways, I swear to god, finding acceptable clips I could download online for this has been SO TEDIOUS, so they sort of alter in quality😬
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https://youtu.be/NQ8OXX_Zx-I?si=rAXBHjjrBorKkQPm
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Imagine being this guy and a wizened scruffy little Englishman (???or???) comes up and starts hopping around and croaking and then stands up like everything’s normal, waits for a minute, says something you KNOW is rude, and then walks off. What a moment to experience.
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one of the funniest things in all of the aubrey-maturin books (to me) is when jack has to babyproof his day cabin so stephen doesn’t fall out the stern window again.
#window-opening privileges REVOKED#and he’s gotta be SO tactful about it too#bc Stephen is already so embarrassed about the whole thing#aubreyad#jack aubrey#stephen maturin#the far side of the world
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Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World (2003)
#2003#film#movie#naval military#Master And Commander#The Far Side Of The World#Russell Crowe#Captain Jack Aubrey#Jack Aubrey#Paul Bettany#Dr. Stephen Maturin#Napoleonic Wars#H.M.S. Surprise#Acheron
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Not memes today but my first Master and Commander Crack.
Enjoy!
#aubreyad#jack aubrey#master and commander#stephen maturin#russell crowe#paul bettany#crack#crackvideo#master and commander crack#video edit#these ideas have been on my mind FAR too long#also I had the ideas for one of these in a dream#like I dreamt that i made a crack using that#aubrey maturin#master and commander the far side of the world#the far side of the world#movie edit#master and commander movie#movie crack#Youtube
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It's a bit frustrating to look at the Aubrey-Maturin tag and be deluged with gifs from the movie. Now I like the movie, it was my introduction the series as giddily presented to me by my grandmother when it hit theatres (her copies of the series are over on my left), and if half of it hadn't been filmed on now-awful-looking 2K digital film, I'd love it even more: the cinematography is excellent. Russel's Crowe's Jack Aubrey is about as good as we are likely to get from Hollywood: he's nowhere near fat enough, he's nowhere near scarred enough, he's not nearly taut enough with his officers and men (because somebody probably complained it made him sound 'mean' if it even reached the script stage—several times in the film he lets his officers give their opinions, which goes against Jack's character), and he honestly not nearly goofy enough (the famous weevil crack is about the most we get), but all in all it's a good performance for a Hollywood flicker and it acquits itself well. It's the Jack in Heroic mode we essentially get throughout, and I get the motivations behind it even if it lacks the complexity of the character I love. But Paul Bettany's performance as Maturin is frustrating. First, its offensive in and of itself to cast as an Irishman an Englishman who is so English his father is godfather to the wife of Prince Edward. You wouldn't know Bettany's Maturin was Irish (much less half-Spanish) if he didn't expressly say so in the picture. For a character so inextricably Irish to just be an Englishman is very vexing. He looks like Stephen Maturin even less than Russel Crowe looks like Jack should: he's much too handsome, much too well-dressed, and far too pleasant. None of Stephen's peevish waspishness makes it into the movie: at best FilmStephen mopes, and none of his cutting wit, far less his erudition, really makes it to the screen. Part of the problem, of course, is the same issue that inflicts every Jane Austen adaptation too: a distinct refusal by the part of filmmakers to depict an era with such a different understanding of intimacy among the upper classes. Even O'Brian struggled with this, as I once heard an interview where a historian complained that in the early books it was downright promiscuous how often O'Brian's characters shook hands. So of course both characters come off as less-formal on screen than they do in the books. But the movie flattens all of Stephen's wrinkles out, leaving him a caricature of his dynamic, prickly, funny, often dangerously drug-hazed, Butcher of Boston, sometimes stuffy, sometimes radical, always sui generis self. It's not a bad performance, Bettany does what he can with the material he's given, but the character on screen is decidedly not Señor Esteban Maturin y Domanova, MD.
#master and commander#Jack Aubrey#stephen maturin#the far side of the world#paul bettany#Russel Crowe#patrick o'brian#Esteban Maturin y Domanova#aubreyad#aubrey-maturin#Jane Austen
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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
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Incredibly immersive and believable; every carefully included detail feels intricately researched, and you can all but smell the salts of sweat and sea. Thrilling naval combat and subtle turns of drama feel not so much earned as simply like they belong - this is less a story than a focused (fictional) snippet of the Age of Sail. A remarkable achievement.
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Drop everything that you're doing, we've got ourselves a new term!
#SEa DaDDy#JACK AUBREY#master and commander#aubrey/maturin#aubrey Maturin#debs reads#the far side of the world#IM FERAL
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I love one pharmacological mess. Stephen is hovering on the verge of death for days, only to wake up as soon as snuff gets spilled on him.
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i love normal guys doomed by the narrative
#either that or hilariously dysfunctional or both#tf one#orion pax#d 16#megop#megatron#optimus prime#my art#saw one post pointing out in the trailer that a like5 frame shot of megatrons cannon that was snuck between their mahoushoujo type transfor#mations and like.messed up deeply messed up u see how goofy best friends orion and megsy are theyre just silly guys but in every telling of#their story they always end up enemies ok like in a meta multiverse hopping way think about it.like oh my god prewar tfp megop was already j#juicy and earthspark divorced-remarried megop is like.RGHFH tf one is going to destroy me bc this is what they had Before do u get me#before the war before they fell apart before friends became enemies and hands were stained before the beginning of the end im so so normal#like ok.this silly tight goofy buddy dynamic thats shown in tf one so far is.is what they had before. its what they could have kept if only#if only things turned out differently. but in every world optimus prime and megatron end up leading opposite sides of the bloodiest war ever#ok.its a universal fact and everyone who knows any transformers knows this BUT THE CHARACTERS DONT THEYRE POWERLESS TO PREVENT IT#ill clean up these tags in the morning but like im so.so normal about fictional robot guys#anyway i was intending to draw a background for this but i got lazy and also spent too long on the hands!!!!so whatever
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Master & Commander remains an excellent movie (still slaps after all these years) but I checked out the book and y'all-- it was *WILD*
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This reminds me of a line from The Far Side of the World by Patrick O’Brian, where the character Stephen Maturin throws a batch of portable soup overboard, describing it as “common glue”.
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Good Morning, World.
[First] Prev <–-> Next
#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#wei wuxian#jiang yanli#jiang cheng#'Good Morning World' because to wwx the jiang household is what grounds him. It is his burrow and blanket.#The familiar soup and banter is his home. The familiar arguments and tension are also his home.#Notice how quickly he throws LWJ to the side once he has JC back in reach! 'He was so boring; I wish *you* were there!'#WWX is very quick to constantly remind himself that he fits within a very specific power structure and role.#He pushes boundaries but almost always only the boundaries that he knows he can push against.#Sitting here now and realizing that if WWX did take life more seriously and act more diligent he would totally usurp JC.#Because the contrast with Them (tm) is wwx is the one that gets in trouble and JC is the one that sticks to the rules.#That responsible appearance especially in contrast is the thin line that holds JC's self-esteem together.#And lets be fully honest. From JC's perspective the last week was also extremely intense and stressful.#It truly was a feat to travel so far so fast despite also being exhausted. Never knowing if it is all in vain.#JC said with his actions 'I would move mountains for you and dig through stone with my bare hands if it meant reaching you.'#and WWX said '[read]'#It's about wwx chronically asking 'why would someone care for me? I'm always tool to be used' than accepting that people love him.
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Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World (2003)
#2003#gif#film#movie#naval military#Master And Commander#The Far Side Of The World#David Threlfall#Preserved Killick#Russell Crowe#Captain Jack Aubrey#Jack Aubrey#Billy Boyd#Barrett Bonden#Edward Woodall#2nd Lieutenant William Mowett#William Mowett#Paul Bettany#Dr. Stephen Maturin#Napoleonic Wars#H.M.S. Surprise#Acheron
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