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John Huston’s film of MOBY DICK is perhaps a rare exception. It’s a broad film in its bear lawful, apart from the colossal original upon which it is based. The case can easily be made that this film does not ‘do justice’ to the book, if only for the reason that it does not hide every aspect of Melville’s modern. But this film proves that a slavish literary imitation is not notable for a large film.
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Huston also fought with Ray Bradbury over the screenplay. The colossal science fiction author was literally reduced to tears by the gruff director, and he wrote a book about the experience. There was also some conflict over the casting of Gregory Peck as Ahab. Some say Orson Welles or Leo Genn (Starbuck) would have been a better choice. This may well be, but it should be admitted that Peck rises to the occasion when it’s called for. The immense scene with the Spanish doubloon and the broad scene with Starbuck on the bridge, where Ahab explains his obsession. Few other actors are likely to have surpassed these moments.
According to IMDb, MOBY DICK was shot in 1.66:1 aspect ratio. This DVD does not exhibit the film in that ratio, yet it does not appear to be a pan & scan transfer. The film looks very agreeable and and nothing appears to have been done to tamper with the color. This is most likely how it should see. The director fought with the studio over the color process aged in MOBY DICK: it’s intentional. He and the cinematographer were trying to rob a visual style that would be evocative of a period style of painting that would contribute to the mood of the memoir.
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Anyone enthusiastic in background on this film should read THE HUSTONS by Lawrence Grobel. The harrowing production is detailed, with plenty of attention given to the above-mentioned conflicts and also to the shooting of the Fabulous final sequence.
Some extras would have been welcome, but this DVD is more than worth owning by any fan of Melville, Huston or American film.
One of John Huston’s very best films has also been by far his most overlooked and underrated. Preceded by a hilariously dreadful version with John Barrymore (in which Ahab has a like interest and succeeds in killing Moby Dick, who resembles a floating mattress) and later redone as a TV-movie with Patrick Stewart, Huston’s version remains by far the best film of what may be the greatest American sage ever told. The fact that it is level-headed well-remembered proves its lasting power; many other films-from-novels sink correct out of gape. Ray Bradbury’s script captures the essence of Melville’s modern, using his words (and some words so suitable you’d issue they were his) and keeping moral to the vision and the atmosphere, but is never confined to being anything like a mere “adaption”. The best films-from-books transcend their sources and stand as independently immense works. Melville’s recent is grand because it’s unfilmable – messy, rambling, convulted, something you need to use a while digging into; something rich and endlessly rewarding. Any shimmering adapter of such material won’t kill any time trying to copy those elements onto the screen; he’ll go true for the essence of the narrative, what drives it: Ishmael’s spirited search for the unknown and Ahab’s all-consuming quest to confront the unknown – to indicate that God cannot treat him like the Jonah of Orson Welles’ unforgettable sermon, to “strike through the conceal” of the God that torments man. It’s a “despicable book,” as Melville said, and the blasphemous edge survives to the screen; Huston and Bradbury never slow the point but if anything sharpen it. Best of all, they select Fedallah, a character who really is, as Bradbury said, “a bore”; unprejudiced something to suggest that Ahab is cursed like Macbeth – even the ironic prophecies are practically a knock-off of the three witches’. Bradbury instead uses a more subtle, mysterious prophecy spoken through Elijah, a more subtly horrid and eerie character than Fedallah who is objective obsolete as a throwaway in Melville, but here takes on a huge importance. The prophecy is fulfilled stunningly in a final scene that, for me, stands as one of the greatest in film history. It begins with the odd heart-broken and still of the “Symphony” scene, and then progresses fleet to the final fling. Ahab’s destruction seems even more powerfully done here than in the original; isn’t it so profoundly fair that he and the whale should be lashed together forever and ever? The leer of him drowned and chillingly ‘beckoning’ to his crew to follow him is the most haunting moment in the film. There are very few misfires in this film; I would call it one of the best examples of how glorious a movie can be made of an ‘untouchable’ classic. By inequity, the unique TV-remake was a snide misfire. The script was haphazardly faithful to Melville, with some bizarre changes (the Pequod stuck in Antarctic ice? ), a total lack of the atmosphere Huston drenches his film in, and rather anemic performances, with the exception of Patrick Stewart’s fiery version of Ahab. Stewart treated Ahab as a remarkable Shakespearean tragic figure, the procedure he always should have been done. Mild, Gregory Peck’s interpretation shows that he was far from miscast, honest cast unusually. He holds Ahab’s madness down under a brooding darkness and does indeed hold a “deranged dignity,” never lets the epic turn merely absurd. The film ends holding on the floating coffin that saved Ishmael – a typical Huston gesture. But this film is not typical, far from it. If you are unusual to Melville, contemplate it; if you are a Melville purist, begin your mind to something that is very far from a watered-down rewrite of a colossal but dramatically flawed book, something considerable and bewitching in its hold proper.
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