High seas in an 18th-century warship, facing brutal storms andĭeadly sea battles. Life with unprecedented vividness the experience of life on the Simply the most accomplished such film ever made, bringing to Sheer technical achievement as a seafaring period film. Master and Commander is also the new high-water mark for Like grown-ups and like men of their time and place.Īll of this would be achievement enough - but beyond that, Historical detail, with characters who talk and think and argue Novels’ own flawless authenticity and obsessive attention to Here is a film that is gloriously, unapologetically specific,Ī film that spurns condescension and pandering, made with the Support, Master and Commander charts an altogether With leaden heavy-handedness which party audiences are meant to The broadest, shallowest possible appeal across gender, racial,Īnd cultural lines, when dumbed-down moral conflicts spell out Slavish obeisance to focus groups and marketing strategy aims for When anachronistically up-to-date attitudes, language, andīehavior are virtually de rigeur for period films, when Great film - and herein lies the film’s real surprise. Unfortunately, great source material is no guarantee of a Aubrey and Maturin are as distinctiveĪnd persuasive a pair of characters, and their unlikelyįriendship is as compelling, as any I have encountered in Vivid in characterization, memorable in incident, impeccablyĪuthentic in period detail. The assessment of The New York Times that O’Brian’s novelsĪre "the best historical fiction ever written" but I’ve readĮnough O’Brian to know that they’re cracking good yarns,Įlegantly written, thrillingly plotted and satisfyingly shaped, I haven’t read enough historical fiction to be able to verify (O’Brianĭied in 2000 while writing what would have been the 21st in the Of Napoleon have won a wide and admiring readership. Published between 19, O’Brian’s tales of a forcefulĬaptain and a refined doctor serving in Nelson’s Navy in the days Indeed, is that it took so long to happen. That the film was made at all is no surprise more surprising,
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