History Film / TheBounty

* ManOnFire: This happens early in the film as the ''Bounty'' struggles to make it through Cape Horn.

* PetTheDog: On the open boat Bligh is doling out the pitiful amount of food they have (the carcass of a bird that got caught in the sails. When asked who gets each piece, he goes through the officers one by one. Purcell angrily shouts that the officers shouldn't be treated special with their limited food and some of the regular men haven't had anything in days. Bligh shows how he's grown, instead of punishing him for his outburst (as he would have before he lost the Bounty) he orders his share of the food given to Purcell, indicating that he's learned that discipline must be tempered with kindness.

* TheAlcoholic / TheDrunkenSailor: The ship's doctor, who drinks himself to death before the ''Bounty'' leaves Tahiti.* AllStarCast: Especially when you throw RetroactiveRecognition in. Besides Hopkins and Gibson as Bligh and Christian, and an elderly Creator/LaurenceOlivier as Admiral Hood, this film features Liam Neeson as a mutineer and Creator/DanielDayLewis as a martinet officer, and Bernard Hill as Cole the boatswain.

--> '''King Tinah''': [showing her belly] You are here now. [[BilingualDialogue Tamari]] [[note]]means child[[/note]].

--> '''King Tinah''': [showing her belly] You are here now. [[BilingualDialogue Tamari]][[note]]means child[[/note]].

--> '''King Tinah''': [showing her belly] You are here now. [[BilingualDialogue Tamari]][[note: means child]].

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* TheAlcoholic / TheDrunkenSailor: The ship's doctor, who drinks himself to death before the ''Bounty'' leaves Tahiti.
* AllStarCast: Especially when you throw RetroactiveRecognition in. Besides Hopkins and Gibson as Bligh and Christian, and an elderly Creator/LaurenceOlivier as Admiral Hood, this film features Liam Neeson as a mutineer and Creator/DanielDayLewis as a martinet officer, and Bernard Hill as Cole the boatswain.

* WoodenShipsAndIronMen

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* WhatTheHellHero: The king of Tahiti is horrified and disgusted after Christian returns to the island and tell him what they've done.

* InnocentFanserviceGirl / NationalGeographicNudity: The Tahitian women generally go topless. Their [[EthicalSlut frank and open sexuality]] wind up being one of the reasons the ''Bounty'' crew mutinies.

** Churchill (Creator/LiamNeeson), who stayed behind on Tahiti, was murdered by another mutineer, who was in turn executed by the Tahitians. All of the other sailors who stayed behind on Tahiti either drowned when [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Pandora_%281779%29#Wrecked the ship that eventually fetched them wrecked]], or were hanged after returning to England. However, the one officer who stayed behind in Tahiti, Peter Haywood (in the film, the young officer who lets Churchill and the others desert), was pardoned and returned to a long and successful career in the Royal Navy.

* GoingNative: Captain Bligh worries that this is happening to Christian and the men in Tahiti--and he is right. Fletcher Christian falls in love with a Tahitian girl, and the rest of the men are in no mood to submit to Royal Navy discipline again after enjoying quite a long vacation on Tahiti, with the surf and sand and the sex with island girls.
* HappilyEverBefore: Sort of--the film ends with the mutineers landing on Pitcairn Island, burning the ''Bounty'', and realizing that they are stuck there forever. It omits the violence and murder that led the mutineers and the Tahitian men that accompanied them to kill each other, leaving only one mutineer alive (along with a bunch of women and children) when an American ship found them on Pitcairn Island in 1818. (Descendants of the mutineers still live there today.)

** Churchill (Creator/LiamNeeson), who stayed behind on Tahiti, was murdered by another mutineer, who was in turn executed by the Tahitians. All of the other sailors who stayed behind on Tahiti either drowned when the ship that eventually fetched them wrecked, or were hanged after returning to England. However, the one officer who stayed behind in Tahiti, Peter Haywood (in the film, the young officer who lets Churchill and the others desert), was pardoned and returned to a long and successful career in the Royal Navy.

The film stars Creator/AnthonyHopkins as Captain Bligh and Creator/MelGibson as head mutineer Fletcher Christian.