Captain Flint
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Captain Flint | |
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Treasure Island character | |
Created by | Robert Louis Stevenson |
Portrayed by |
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Voiced by | Peter Cullen (Treasure Planet) |
In-universe information | |
Full name | J. Flint |
Species | Human |
Gender | Male |
Title | Pirate Captain |
Occupation | Pirate |
Nationality | English |
Captain J. Flint is a fictional golden age pirate captain who features in a number of novels, television series, and films. The original character was created by the Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894). Flint first appears in the classic adventure yarn Treasure Island, which was first serialised in a children's magazine in 1881, and later published as a novel in 1883.
In Treasure Island
Captain Flint is a fictional character in the book Treasure Island, created by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1883.[1] In Stevenson's book, Flint, whose first name is not given, was the captain of a pirate ship, The Walrus, which accumulated an enormous amount of captured treasure, approximately £700,000. On August 1, 1750, Flint and seven members of his crew bury the plunder on an island located somewhere in the Caribbean Sea. Flint then murders his 2 assistants, leaving the hand of one, Allardyce, with its legs outstretched in the direction of south and west.
The only person Flint was said to fear was his quartermaster John Silver, who later even called his parrot "Captain Flint" in mockery.
Flint is said to have died in
Other novels
Flint has a major part in the 1924
John Drake's prequels: Flint and Silver (2008), Pieces of Eight (2009), and Skull and Bones (2010), all heavily feature Captain Flint and give his Christian name as Joseph.[2]
Flint is mentioned in the novel Peter and Wendy by J. M. Barrie, a friend of Stevenson. The first mention is in a passage introducing Captain Hook's pirate crew: "Here is Bill Jukes, every inch of him tattooed, the same Bill Jukes who got six dozen on the WALRUS from Flint before he would drop the bag of moidores." The second mention is as Hook is attempting to intimidate the Darling children and the Lost Boys, but is heckled by his inner demons: "'I am the only man whom Barbecue feared,' he urged, 'and Flint feared Barbecue.' 'Barbecue, Flint—what house?' came the cutting retort."[3]
In
Appearances in film
Flint appears briefly in the
In the film
Captain Flint was shown briefly in the animated feature film Treasure Planet by Disney. In this film, the character was voiced by Peter Cullen and known as Nathaniel Flint, a space pirate of non-human origins whose reputation was legendary for leading his ship and his crew to plunder merchant ships, infamously appearing and disappearing without a trace, and eventually burying his treasure (called by many "Flint's Trove" and/or "the loot of a thousand worlds") inside the giant alien mechanism known as Treasure Planet. To make sure nobody would steal his treasure, he rigged the planet to explode should anyone set off the booby trap and stole the memory of B.E.N so he would not tell anyone about it.
Appearances on television
Set roughly two decades before the events of
References
- ^ "Treasure Island, 1883". Robert Louis Stevenson.org. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
- ^ "Flint and Silver by John Drake". Harper Collins (Australia). 2013. Archived from the original on 9 September 2013. Retrieved 9 September 2013.
- ISBN 9781443842822. Retrieved 14 June 2016.
- ^ Hardyment, Christina (1984) Arthur Ransome and Capt. Flint's Trunk. London: Jonathan Cape