Moby Dick 1998, cabin scene

[@colinp2238]

This scene is a bare shadow against the Peck/Genn 1956 version. In that you can feel the madness of Ahab in his obsession to kill the whale and the polar opposite of Starbuck wanting to do the business that they are sailing for. The genius of Melville is that at the end when the whale has destroyed Ahab he, Starbuck is now stricken with the madness.

[@BJ-zd2or]

This film come to love, it is about revenge. But if you just see it as revenge and only just only see a madman claiming to see all. The book goes deeper then that and to the personality of Ahab as Ishmael perceived and interprets the angry captain. And that the whale and Ahab are without realising they are a reflection of one anther. They're both angry, they're determined, but pained, lost and beaten down by outsiders, their venerable shells, scared and un-grasped by the swaying waves that is, life itself. Beaten that they are crew the same as Ahab and everyone. And Ahab wanted in his well crazy idea, or desperate idea, to defeat "evil" get rid of it completely out of the universe. But he was only fighting himself and died taking all the crew with him. Selfish? Yes. He didn't think what he was doing after starduck was trying to say lets leave to Nantucket. But Ahab seeing whale had nothing and went to his fate.

[@Robert_Douglass]

And this was not the first sign that Ahab had cajoled the crew of the Pequod into finding and slaying one whale for their captain's sole satisfaction, and not for the profit of the owners or the welfare of Nantucket, let alone their own. To see the charisma of Ahab and the way he plays the crew like the Pied Piper, and to see these roles portrayed by Sir Patrick Stewart and Mr. Ted Levine, amaze me still....

[@stravinsky1300]

This cabin seems a bit too comfortable, and spacious for a mere whaling ship.