tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32636283.post2790718762108812066..comments2023-03-26T03:50:25.501-04:00Comments on David's Secret Blog: O'Brian v. Weir: It's A Master & Commander-athon.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32636283.post-91804268723015328812011-02-17T05:03:38.771-05:002011-02-17T05:03:38.771-05:00Great review.
There's another service earlie...Great review. <br /><br />There's another service earlier in the movie, for Hollom - who commits suicide after being mentally tortured for being a 'Jonah'.<br /><br />Aubrey says: If there are those among us who thought ill of Mr Hollom, or spoke ill of him, <br />or failed him in respect of fellowship, then we ask for your forgiveness, Lord."<br /><br />Always gets me that "failed him in respect of fellowhip." Wonderfully understated.Brithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32636283.post-67807472416550394452011-02-16T07:57:55.619-05:002011-02-16T07:57:55.619-05:00No, it wasn't a movie, it was a reality that h...No, it wasn't a movie, it was a reality that had many of the same elements as the movie, which, after all, gains much of its power from so effectively conveying reality.<br /><br />A Christian service did not a Christian war make; nor does it, in and of itself, make a Christian movie.<br /><br />Try this: imagine the movie without the service. How do the main themes change? Do the characters motivations change at all, or become less believable; the tension between discipline and liberalism change?<br /><br />Given the tenor of the time, the absence of religious observation would have been jarring (just like the absence of the Chaplain's benediction would have been during DS), but its presence says nothing about the religiousness of the enterprise.<br /><br />(BTW -- your review is excellent.)Hey Skipperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10798930502187234974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32636283.post-82973141433594282182011-02-15T19:37:56.807-05:002011-02-15T19:37:56.807-05:00I hope I'm not popping a bubble, Skipper, when...I hope I'm not popping a bubble, Skipper, when I note that Desert Storm wasn't a movie.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16902329503560660425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32636283.post-17025186906068226452011-02-15T19:24:22.342-05:002011-02-15T19:24:22.342-05:00Weir's movie is significantly more Christian -...<i>Weir's movie is significantly more Christian -- at least, more explicitly Christian -- than O'Brian's novel.</i><br /><br />Before every mission during Desert Storm, the squadron chaplain performed a Christian ecumenical service.<br /><br />That didn't make the reality Christian.Hey Skipperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10798930502187234974noreply@blogger.com