Comments on: Bligh Hard http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2011/08/13/bligh-hard/ david cairns Sat, 25 May 2013 21:01:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: dcairns http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2011/08/13/bligh-hard/#comment-33916 Mon, 15 Aug 2011 09:18:31 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/?p=16219#comment-33916 The assumption made in both the first two films that the guys in the boat will be OK is obviously phony then. Which reflects even more badly on the mutineers, who could have dropped them off at an island, as they did with a few leftover non-mutineers.

Bligh certainly got a bum deal from the movies, although it must be said that mutinies followed him around throughout his career. Maybe he just lacked authority? Maybe he was just a bit annoying? Supposedly he resorted to punishments for his men less often than was normal, which is certainly the opposite of his cinematic rep.

]]> By: judydean http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2011/08/13/bligh-hard/#comment-33914 Mon, 15 Aug 2011 08:16:36 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/?p=16219#comment-33914 My partner says that the real Bligh’s expert navigational skills have gone down in the annals of seafaring history. What he achieved in getting a number of men to safety in a very small boat with minimal equipment was astonishing.

]]> By: dcairns http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2011/08/13/bligh-hard/#comment-33903 Sun, 14 Aug 2011 18:12:09 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/?p=16219#comment-33903 Well, Howard’s performance isn’t nearly as sympathetic as Anthony Hopkins’ – in fact, Bligh’s intransigence here causes him to lead his men not towards the nearest safe haven but towards a more distant port from which an attack on the Bounty can be directed. He’s completely unredeemed, he’s just less perverse than Laughton.

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