Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | |
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Directed by | Peter Weir |
Screenplay by |
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Based on | Aubrey–Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian |
Produced by |
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Starring | |
Cinematography | Russell Boyd |
Edited by | Lee Smith |
Music by | |
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Distributed by | 20th Century Fox[note 1] |
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Running time | 138 minutes[2] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $150 million[3] |
Box office | $211.6 million[3] |
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is a 2003 American epic period war-drama film co-written, produced and directed by Peter Weir, set during the Napoleonic Wars. The film's plot and characters are adapted from three novels in author Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey–Maturin series, which includes 20 completed novels of Jack Aubrey's naval career. The film stars Russell Crowe as Aubrey, captain in the Royal Navy, and Paul Bettany as Dr. Stephen Maturin, the ship's surgeon. This is the second onscreen collaboration for Crowe and Bettany, who previously co-starred in 2001’s A Beautiful Mind.
The film was a personal project of Fox executive
The film was critically well received and garnered Weir the
Plot
During the
Following the privateer south, Surprise rounds Cape Horn and heads to the Galápagos Islands, where the whaling fleet is concentrated. The ship's surgeon, Stephen Maturin, is interested in the islands' unique flora and fauna, and Aubrey promises his friend several days' exploration time. However, when Surprise reaches the Galápagos, they recover the survivors of a whaling ship, Albatross, burned by Acheron. Aubrey hastily pursues the privateer, dashing Maturin's expectation of more time to explore.
Surprise is becalmed for several days. The crew becomes restless and disorderly, and superstition begins to take hold among them. Midshipman Hollom, already unpopular with the crew, is named a "Jonah" by the sailors (someone who brings bad luck to a ship). As the tension rises, crew member Nagle deliberately bumps shoulders with Hollom as he passes him on the deck and is flogged for insubordination. That night, Hollom commits suicide by jumping overboard with a cannonball; Aubrey holds a service for Hollom the next morning. The wind picks up again, and Surprise resumes the chase.
The next day,
Surprise readies for battle once more. Due to Acheron's stronger hull, the crew recognizes that they must be extremely close for their guns to have an effect. After observing the camouflage ability of one of Maturin's specimens, Aubrey disguises Surprise as a whaling ship; he hopes the French will be lured in to capture the valuable ship rather than destroy it. Acheron falls for the disguise, and Surprise launches her attack. With the back wheels of the cannons taken off, the cannons are angled upward and fire upon Acheron's mainmast while Captain Howard's Marine sharpshooters pick off the crew of Acheron from above. Acheron is disabled when the mainmast snaps and falls into the sea. Aubrey leads boarding parties, engaging in fierce hand-to-hand combat. Upon capturing the ship, Aubrey is informed by the ship's doctor, Le Vigny, that the French captain is dead and is given the Captain's sword.
Acheron and Surprise are repaired and Surprise remains in the Galápagos. Lieutenant Pullings is promoted to captain and ordered to sail the captured Acheron to Valparaíso. As Acheron sails away, Maturin mentions that Le Vigny had died months ago. Realising that the French captain deceived him, Aubrey gives the order to change course to intercept Acheron and escort her to Valparaíso, and for the crew to assume battle stations. Maturin is again denied the chance to explore the Galápagos, but Aubrey wryly notes that since the bird he seeks is flightless, "it's not going anywhere." The two then play Musica notturna delle strade di Madrid by Luigi Boccherini as Surprise turns in pursuit of Acheron once more.
Cast
- Russell Crowe as Jack Aubrey[4]
- Surgeon[4]
- James D'Arcy as First Lieutenant Thomas Pullings[5]
- Edward Woodall as Second Lieutenant William Mowett
- Captain Howard, Royal Marines
- Robert Pugh as John Allen, Master[6]
- Max Benitz as Midshipman/Acting Third Lieutenant Peter Myles Calamy
- Max Pirkis as Midshipman Lord William Blakeney
- Lee Ingleby as Midshipman Hollom
- Surgeon's Mate
- Ian Mercer as Mr. Hollar, Boatswain
- Carpenter
- David Threlfall as Preserved Killick, Captain's Steward
- Billy Boyd as Barrett Bonden, Coxswain[7]
- Bryan Dick as Joseph Nagle, Carpenter's Mate
- Joseph Morgan as William Warley, Captain of the Mizzentop
- Able Seaman
- Patrick Gallagher as Awkward Davies, Able Seaman
- John DeSantis as Padeen Colman, Loblolly Boy
- Mark Lewis Jones as Mr. Hogg, Master of the Whaler Albatross
In trying to find men who looked as though they were from the 19th century, Weir recruited many extras from
Production
Source material
This section possibly contains original research. (July 2023) |
The film is drawn from the Aubrey–Maturin novels by Patrick O'Brian, but matches the events in no one novel.[citation needed] The author drew from real events in the Napoleonic Wars, as he describes in the introduction to the first novel, Master and Commander.[citation needed] Various opinions have been offered with regard to which Royal Navy captain most closely matches the fictional character of Aubrey;[citation needed] David Cordingly, writing for The Daily Telegraph, unabashedly suggests Captain Lord Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald,[9] a view with which the Royal Navy Museum concurs, at least with regard to the inspiration for the captain's character in the first novel, Master and Commander.[10]
While no one historic English captain is a complete match for Aubrey,[citation needed] the exploits of two naval captains are said to have inspired events in the novels, the forementioned Captain Lord Thomas Cochrane,[9][10] and Captain William Wolseley.[citation needed] Cochrane used the ruse of placing a light on a floating barrel at night to avoid capture.[11][non-primary source needed][original research?] Wolseley, aboard HMS Papillon, disguised a ship under his command as a commercial boat; on discovering information that a rogue ship was on the other side of a small island, he sailed around the island and captured the Spanish ship, on April 15, 1805.[12][non-primary source needed][original research?]
The film combines elements from three different novels of Patrick O'Brian,[
The episode in which Aubrey deceives the enemy by means of a raft bearing lanterns is taken from Master and Commander,[citation needed] while the episode in which Maturin directs surgery on himself, while gritting his teeth in pain, to remove a bullet is taken from HMS Surprise.[16][non-primary source needed][original research?] The stern chase around Cape Horn is taken from the novel Desolation Island,[citation needed] although Acheron replaced the Dutch 74-gun warship Waakzaamheid,[citation needed] Surprise replaced Leopard,[citation needed] and in the book it is Aubrey who is being pursued around the Cape of Good Hope.[citation needed][original research?]
Development
Filming
Great efforts were made to reproduce the authentic look and feel of life aboard an early nineteenth-century man-of-war. In addition to 2,000 hats and 1,900 pairs of shoes, some 400 pounds of hair were used on actors.[14]
However, only ten days of the filming took place at sea aboard
There was a third HMS Surprise which was a scale model built by
Master and Commander was the first non-documentary film to shoot on-location in the
Sound
Sound designer Richard King earned Master and Commander an Oscar for its sound effects by going to great lengths to record realistic sounds, particularly for the battle scenes and the storm scenes.[19] King and director Peter Weir began by spending months reading the Patrick O'Brian novels in search of descriptions of the sounds that would have been heard on board the ship—for example, the "screeching bellow" of cannon fire and the "deep howl" of a cannonball passing overhead.[19]
King worked with the film's Lead Historical Consultant Gordon Laco, who located collectors in Michigan who owned a 24-pounder and a 12-pounder cannon. King, Laco, and two assistants went to Michigan and recorded the sounds of the cannon firing at a nearby National Guard base. They placed microphones near the cannon to get the "crack" of the cannon fire, and also about 300 yards (270 m) downrange to record the "shrieking" of the chain shot as it passed overhead. They also recorded the sounds of bar shot and grape shot passing overhead, and later mixed the sounds of all three types of shot for the battle scenes.
For the sounds of the shot hitting the ships, they set up wooden targets at the artillery range and blasted them with the cannon, but found the sonic results underwhelming. Instead, they returned to Los Angeles and there recorded sounds of wooden barrels being destroyed. King sometimes added the "crack" of a rifle shot to punctuate the sound of a cannonball hitting a ship's hull.[19]
For the sound of wind in the storm as the ship rounds Cape Horn, King devised a wooden frame rigged with one thousand feet of line and set it in the back of a pickup truck. By driving the truck at 70 miles per hour (110 km/h) into a 30–40-knot (56–74 km/h; 35–46 mph) wind, and modulating the wind with barbecue and refrigerator grills, King was able to create a range of sounds, from "shrieking" to "whistling" to "sighing", simulating the sounds of wind passing through the ship's rigging.
Richard Tognetti, who scored the film's music, taught Crowe how to play the violin, as Aubrey plays the violin with Maturin on his cello in the movie.[20] Crowe purchased the violin personally as the budget did not allow for the expense. The violin was made in 1890 by the Italian violin maker Leandro Bisiach, and sold at auction in 2018 for US$104,000.[21] Bettany learned how to play the cello for the role of Maturin, so the pair could be filmed playing with proper posture and technique instead of miming. The recording was dubbed in the final version of the film.[22][23]
Music
The song sung in the
Release and reception
Theatrical release
On November 17, 2003, Master and Commander had its UK Premiere at the 57th Royal Film Performance, a fundraising event held in aid of The Film and TV Charity.[27]
Box office
Hoping to draw adults during the film awards seasons, Master and Commander was slated for a release in mid-November 2003. However, the film failed to reach the No. 1 spot on its opening weekend.[8] It opened #2 behind Christmas comedy Elf in the first weekend of North American release, November 14–16, 2003, earning $25,105,990.[28][8][3] It dropped to the #4 position in the second weekend and #6 in the third, and finished the domestic run with $93,927,920 in gross receipts. Outside the U.S. and Canada, the film grossed $118,083,191, doing best in Italy (at $15,111,841).[3] The film grossed $212 million globally, barely recouping its $150 million budget.[8]
Critical response
On review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes, 85% of 222 critics gave the film an overall positive review, with an average rating of 7.6/10. The site's critics consensus states: "Russell Crowe's rough charm is put to good use in this masterful adaptation of Patrick O'Brian's novel."[29] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 81 out of 100 based on 42 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[30] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.[31]
Christopher Hitchens gave a mixed review: "Any cinematic adaptation of O'Brian must stand or fall by its success in representing this figure [Dr. Stephen Maturin]. On this the film doesn't even fall, let alone stand. It skips the whole project." (The film omits completely the fact that the doctor and naturalist is also a spy for England—a key plot element in the novels.) Hitchens nonetheless praised the action scenes, writing: "In one respect the action lives up to its fictional and actual inspiration. This was the age of Bligh and Cook and of voyages of discovery as well as conquest, and when HMS Surprise makes landfall in the Galapagos Islands we get a beautifully filmed sequence about how the dawn of scientific enlightenment might have felt."[34]
San Francisco Chronicle film reviewer Mick LaSalle was generally downbeat and, after praising director Weir's handling of scenes with no dialogue, observed that "Weir is less surefooted as a screenwriter. Having not read any of O'Brian's novels, I can't say if the fault is in Weir's adaptation or in the source material, but halfway into 'Master and Commander,' the friendship of the captain and the doctor begins to seem schematic, as if all the positive traits that an individual could have were divided equally between these two guys, just so they can argue. Their interaction takes on a preening quality, reminiscent of the interaction of the 'Star Trek' characters four or five movies down the line. We come to realize that the specific adventure matters little except as a showcase for these personalities. Once that happens, the story involving the French ship loses much of its interest and all of its danger, and the movie starts taking on water. 'Master and Commander' stays afloat to the finish, but that's all that can be said."[35]
Accolades
At the
Legacy
Weir, asked in 2005 if he would make a sequel, stated he thought it "most unlikely", and after internet rumors to the contrary, stated "I think that while it did well...ish at the box office, it didn't generate that monstrous, rapid income that provokes a sequel."[39] In 2007 the film was included on a list of "13 Failed Attempts To Start Film Franchises" by The A.V. Club, noting that "this surely stands as one of the most exciting opening salvos in nonexistent-series history, and the Aubrey–Maturin novels remain untapped cinematic ground."[40]
In December 2010, Crowe launched an appeal on Twitter to get the sequel made: "If you want a Master and Commander sequel I suggest you e-mail Tom Rothman at Fox and let him know your thoughts".[41]
Film critic Scott Tobias wrote a positive retrospective article about this film in 2019, begrudging the fact that Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, another sea-faring film also released in 2003, had led to a string of Pirates of the Caribbean fantasy films, but there was no demand for a sequel featuring Captain Jack Aubrey and deeply rooted in historical facts of the Napoleonic Wars, the Age of Sail and the Age of Discovery.[42]
In summer 2020,
Prequel
In June 2021, it was reported that a second film is in development by 20th Century Studios, a prequel based on the first novel only, with Patrick Ness penning the script.[48] [needs update]
Notes
- ^ Although 20th Century Fox engaged Miramax Films and Universal Pictures to co-finance and co-produce the film, Fox itself distributed the film.[1]
- ^ The Acheron design presented in the film was constructed by the film's special-effects team who took stem-to-stern digital scans of USS Constitution at her berth in Boston, from which a computer model of Acheron was created.[15]
- San Diego Maritime Museumand serves as a dockside attraction. In September 2007, the ship was returned to sailing status.
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Further reading
- "At Sea with Peter Weir". DGA Quarterly. Directors Guild of America. Fall 2005. Retrieved March 11, 2023.
- Birkenstein, Jeff; Froula, Anna; Randell, Karen, eds. (2010). Reframing 9/11: Film, Popular Culture and the "War on Terror". The Continuum International Publishing Group Inc. ISBN 978-1-62892-828-0.
- Chapman, James (2007). Chapman, James; Glancy, Mark; Harper, Sue (eds.). 'This Ship is England': History, Politics and National Identity in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003). London: Palgrave Macmillan UK. pp. 55–68. )
- Golden, Gerald (2005). "The Physician at the Movies: Master and Commander". The Pharos. 68 (1). Alpha Omega Alpha-Honor Medical Society: 51. PMID 15792082.
- Lozano Sánchez, Francisco S. (2016). "Master and Commander: Cirugía y cirujanos". Revista de Medicina y Cine. 12 (1): 12–20.
- Strong, Jeremy (2015). "Time, Tide and Narrative: Adapting Chronology in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World". Coriolis. 5 (2): 1–19. ISSN 2163-8381.
- Reynaud, Daniel (2017). "Authenticating the Imaginary: Cloaking with history the characters of O'Brian's fiction and Weir's film" (PDF). Journal of History and Cultures. 7: 1–9. ISSN 2051-221X.
External links
- A Literary Companion to the Film which explores the film's connections to the Aubrey Maturin series
- Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World at IMDb
- Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World at Box Office Mojo
- Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World at Rotten Tomatoes
- Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World at Metacritic
- Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World at the Wayback Machine (archived August 1, 2003)
- Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with Gordon Laco – podcast with a historical consultant attached to Master and Commander