Around 2/21/2006 1:12 PM, Martin Schöön wrote:

My main problems with the film are really how one-dimensional
they managed to make the main characters and how they turned a rather
exciting, action-packed novel into not so exciting, pasteurised
Hollywood product.

Just which movie were you watching, anyway? It can't be the same version
of "Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World" that's sitting on my
DVD shelf...

Read the entire series, in order. I think you'll find that, although
some plot sacrifices were made for the sake of the medium, almost every
shot of the movie was lifted directly from one of the books or another.
The level of detail in both the visual and sound effects are nothing
short of breathtaking; It's one of the few movies I've ever seen that
holds up to *frequent* repeated viewings.

The characters may have come across as one-dimensional, but that's
almost exactly how they're portrayed in the later books, when both
Aubrey and Maturin are older and more set in their ways. If you've only
read M&C, you've only read about the younger, more vibrant versions of
those characters.


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