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"Its my fault you say?I daresay its all thanks to me!" -Ishmael if become Ahab

4:15

They really dont make movies like this anymore.

CURSE YOU BAYLE

3:30 he said the name of the movie😂😂😮😮

THE FAULT LIES WITH YOUR ISHMEAL AGAIN THE FAULT LIES WITH YOU

Easily one of my favorite Peck scenes

Riveting. The ego in full flight. What is the whale to him ? I must know! My appetite whetted-henceforth I go, ! to find out

THE FAULT LIES WITHIN QUEEQUEG

Starbuck is so conflicted, yet at the end, he is a whaling man, And jumps headlong to take on Mobi Dick; he is the real center of the story.

4:16 imagine writing something THIS good. MD is my favourite novel of all time.

even if it is fiction, i don't get why man has to kill innocent animals.

ISHMAEL

Hard to remember sometimes that Captain Ahab is a Quaker! Thank you for this, it's a pleasure to hear such nicely adapted dialog that sticks very close to the language of the book.

While there are no 100% (in)correct interpretations, I always used the following interpretation to convey to people who didn't want to read Moby Dick how profound Melville's writing can be. Again, you may disagree, but the fact alone that it inspires such debate is proof enough of its beauty and depth. It's a textbook interpretation, and I'm not religious, but it's by far my favourite. In essence, the "pasteboard masks" seem to be gesturing toward a deep religious claim underpinned by one of the oldest and still-relevant philosophical concepts of Western civilization: the subject-object distinction, the epistemology of that dynamic, and whether one can be subsumed into the other (i.e., subjects are simply complex objects that can be known as the objects are known or, as is most relevant here, objects, at least as far as they are available to us, can be subsumed into subjects as a confluence of sensory information created by the mind). Plato's allegory of the cave, Kant's idealism, and Schopenhauer's pessimistic take on it represent the tradition descending from _Athens,_ which Melville leverages to actualize the West's other traditional source, _Jerusalem,_ in which man, as the name "Israel" implies, "wrestles with God." While you probably know what I'm getting at, just to briefly set it up: I think the concept of pasteboard masks first relies on Philosophical Idealism, which was at its zenith at the time of its writing, and its emphasis on the fact that we're forever restricted to perceiving the "phenomenal world." We are limited to experiencing reality through the secondary qualities our sensory systems assign to objects (colour being a prime example, functioning as labels assigned by our minds to represent particular wavelengths of light reflecting off said objects). What we don't "see" are "things in themselves"--generally called "noumena" in contrast to phenomena--or the objects' true forms before being interpolated by our senses; assuming there is anything behind the surface level; as some more radical forms call into question. While we can't directly perceive noumena, Ahab is insisting that their nature can be inferred by interpreting the behaviour of their corresponding phenomena; i.e., the pasteboard masks. If Starbuck is right and the whale is nothing more than an unthinking brute without malice, then the mission is absurd, but if Ahab is correct, the agency hiding behind and directing its behaviour can be discerned. To strike through the mask is then to attack the malicious force for which the whale is a proxy. Ahab likely views this force as having agency because it provides a target for his vengeance, but he justifies it by insisting that the way the mask moulds to the principal agent's features hints, if only momentarily, at the characteristics of whatever this inscrutable entity that lies beneath is; something driven by far more malevolent forces than the blind reflexes of a dumb brute. So, with that groundwork out of the way, we can finally ask: what is this agency motivating the whale's actions? It's implied that it's a thinking being rather than some vague force because it's supposedly subject to moral culpability and, therefore, "fair play"? Well, there are a number of non-exclusive possibilities, all of which are fairly obvious: fate, the natural world in its opposition to man, the culmination of man's cruelty reflected back at the cruelest of our kind, Ahab's insanity, shadow, and/or hubris made manifest so as to finally overcome and kill him, and the most popular option, which could be thought to encompass the rest: _God._ It should be noted that Ahab is insane, so whatever he thinks it is or whatever Melville's intention, I prefer the interpretation that Moby Dick's actions are only _perceived_ to be the direct intervention of a controlling God, when in reality it's more akin the ravings of a madman attempting to divine the future by reading the steaming entrails of the dead-type vibe. I know it's kind of trite at this point, assumed to be a given by some, and utterly rejected as outdated by others, but it's a popular interpretation for a reason, and this passage is one of the best pieces of supporting evidence. The While Whale serves as a vector for God's wrath and Ahab, knowing this, doesn't take it as a pious lesson and change his ways, but instead doubles-down on his hubris in seeing it as an insult and call to arms. Taking into account 19th Century slang and numerous contextual clues, it's strongly implied that Ahab's "demasting" doesn't simply refer to his leg, but his other "mast" as well: his sex organs and ability to procreate. Moby Dick is an obvious phallic symbol: its physical shape, the fact that it's a male sperm whale, the odd juxtaposition of eroticism and violence during the process of rendering dead whales that Melville describes in excruciating detail, and the base physicality of it as a manifestation of raw, natural fecundity. At the very least, Ahab is attempting to demast God as God had demasted him, and at worst, he's essentially saying to God (knowing he likely won't survive this voyage), "If I have to die, God, you'll have to die too!"

This is the one thing the movie does better than the book (not that this isn’t a great adaptation). In the book, Ahab had this feud with Starbuck on deck, when he announced this wouldn’t be an ordinary whale hunt. I like this better, because it allows more tension to grow with the two characters.

They rarely make movies of this caliber any longer, hence the reason I try watching older movies I have never seen before. Anything is better that most of the rubbish Hollywood produces today.

This and a caramel macchiato

Amazing scene from what is still the best adaptation of Melville’s book. Apologies to the great Patrick Stewart, but Gregory Peck WAS Ahab!!!

Peck made a very fine Ahab in an almost impossible book to film. Had a picture of Moby Dick been made earlier, in the late 1930s, then one could quite easily have seen Basil Rathbone as Ahab. He had all the technical apparatus for the role, which is, after all Shakespearean in its grandeur and burning intensity.

It's like Ahab is at war with Reality itself.

I disagree with those that say Ahab is simply crazy. They're wrong. Ahab is like a maniacally driven Job who is aware of God sending down punishment without reason. He wants to kill the living embodiment of God's wrath, strike the sun as he says. And that whale is God. Moby Dick is something beyond mortal, beyond human comprehension. He dies in this attempt, but dear God what a brazen and promethean attempt it is. Strike through the mask, hit back? Grand and terrible and wonderous

Melville had a way with words.

What terrible casting

"Money is not the measurer man. It will fetch me a great premium.. here."

I feel sorry for those that only saw the remake of this great film.

Not to be THAT guy, but Ahab describes the blood flowing in his veins "from heart to hand," but veins return deoxygenated blood to the heart to be oxygenated through the pulmonary circuit. Therefore "from hand to heart" would have been more anatomically correct. Either that or refer to his ARTERIES pumping blood from heart to hand. Not sure why Herman Melville didn't google that. 🤷

Gregory Peck doesn't blink once during his haunting speech! Something that was very intentional revealing the incredible actor he was.

All visible objects are but paperboard masks... Strike through that mask!

"Speak not to me of blasphemy, man. I'd strike the sun if it insulted me."

Peck may not have cared for his performance in this film but I think he was tremendous as Ahab and he delivers the pasteboard masks speech here with restraint but the obsession bubbling under the surface is still plain.

cap ahab is based

What a scene!!! Awesome!!!

Ahab does have a point here. If he were to be something like a doctor or a health researcher, his burning drive to destroy "the malignant thing which mauls and mutilates us" would be well directed. Pity he was obsessed with a whale and not something like cancer or AIDS.

Seems like something eldritch behind the mask

"To be enraged with a dumb brute who acted out of blind instinct is blasphemous."

Ahab was insane. Rational and calculating in his own mind but obsessed beyond reason. Trouble is, he's not only Insane, he's in charge. A brilliant scene and a caution that has clear relevance today.

Brilliant script, acting, and direction! Still the best version of Moby Dick.

Sometimes I've felt like Captain Ahab, other times like Mister Starbuck, and still other times like Ishmael, watching a tragedy unfold between good and evil while powerless to stop it. Mom and dad come to mind. After two decades of fighting they finally and mercifully divorced. I think I danced the Tarantella on that day.

As always the book is better than the movie.

Kinda looks like Wolverine in the thumbnail.

A very underrated film....young people won't like it due to it's dated FX...a story of obsession

I wonder, seriously, if this how Starbucks got it's name!

Very telling how in love with British accents movie makers were at the time, that they had a Nantucket Quaker, like Starbuck here, speak with a very posh English accent.

"Let Ahab beware Ahab." Sums up the heart of the story fairly concisely in that line.

I don't sleep, I die.

Belíssimo

Leo Genn is perfectly cast.

Ray Bradbury's condensing of the original text is even better, in my opinion.

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