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April 19, 2008
Oscar Challenge: Mutiny on the Bounty
Normally I'm a History Snob and I know too much about a story to enjoy it. Here's what I knew before I saw this flick: There was this dick named Captain Bligh, and he was on this ship called the Bounty, and there was a mutiny and Tahiti and some breadfruit and, tangentially, Sir Joseph Banks (he has a nice rose named after him).
Yeah, that's pretty much it. Timothy Spall Charles Laughton was a total dick, Clark Gable was a shirtless hottie, and the mostly naked chicks in Tahiti all had great hair.
Ignorance is bliss, I guess.
Comments
Did you say mostly naked Tahitian chicks?
Netflix...
Posted by: bob at April 24, 2008 12:30 PM