In the Heart of the Sea | Based on a True Story

In the Heart of the Sea is fun movie that shows the travails of the Essex, whose 1820 adventure was the inspiration for Melville's famous Moby Dick. It has perhaps the best showing of what it was like to sail in the Golden Age of sailing. That being said, it also has a rather unforgivable framing device that is so easily fixable that I am rather confused as to how they made such a blunder.
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Owen Chase, Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex of Nantucket (New York: W.B. Gilley, 1821). https://books.google.ca/books?id=qgaD...

Stackpole, Renny. “In the Heart of the Sea.” The New England Quarterly, v73 n4 (Dec. 2000) 687-689. Accessed 4/16/2006: http://mysite.du.edu/~ttyler/ploughbo...

Paul Gilje, Liberty on the Waterfront: American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004), 228-264. https://amzn.to/2OrKwDB

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In the Heart of the Sea is a 2015 adventure-drama film based on Nathaniel Philbrick's non-fiction book of the same name, about the sinking of the American whaling ship Essex in 1820, an event that inspired the novel Moby-Dick. An international co-production between the United States and Spain, it was directed and produced by Ron Howard and written by Charles Leavitt. The film stars Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker, Cillian Murphy, Tom Holland, Ben Whishaw and Brendan Gleeson.
It premiered in New York City on December 7, 2015 and was released in cinemas in the United States on December 11, 2015 by Warner Bros. Pictures. In the Heart of the Sea received mixed reviews from critics, and grossed $93 million against a $100 million budget, making it a box office bomb.[3]
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