SYNOPSIS:
This movie is based on the book "In the Heart of the
Sea" by Nathaniel Philbrick. Set in the year 1820, Captain George Pollard,
Jr. (Benjamin Walker), first mate Owen Chase (Chris Hemsworth), second mate
Matthew Joy (Cillian Murphy), and cabin boy Thomas Nickerson (Tom Holland) are
on a voyage in their whaleship Essex. The whaling ship is preyed upon by a
large bull sperm whale, who eventually strikes it and the crew is left stranded
at the sea for 90 days over a thousand miles from home. Things turn ghastly as
the crew sails for South America but under the circumstances is forced to turn
cannibalistic.
Based on the 1820 event, a whaling ship is preyed upon by a
sperm whale, stranding its crew at sea for 90 days, thousands of miles from
home.Based on the 1820 event, a whaling ship is preyed upon by a sperm whale,
stranding its crew at sea for 90 days, thousands of miles from home.
In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex was
assaulted by something no one could believe: a whale of mammoth size and will,
and an almost human sense of vengeance. The real-life maritime disaster would
inspire Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. But that told only half the story.
"In the Heart of the Sea" reveals the encounter's harrowing
aftermath, as the ship's surviving crew is pushed to their limits and forced to
do the unthinkable to stay alive. Braving storms, starvation, panic and
despair, the men will call into question their deepest beliefs, from the value
of their lives to the morality of their trade, as their captain searches for
direction on the open sea and his first mate still seeks to bring the great
whale down.
Can't wait to see the movie. Also people seem to be confusing this movie, a fictional take on the account of the true disaster that befell the Essex as an adaptation of Herman Melville's work of fiction Moby Dick. One inspired another. Not the other way around.
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