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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: [Overblown] instances of pettiness aside, Bligh is really quite lenient with his crew.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: [Overblown] instances of pettiness aside, Bligh is really quite lenient with his crew.crew, far more than other British captains.
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* TheyCallMeMisterTibbs: The voyage starts off with Christian being on a FirstNameBasis with Bligh, calling him "William." However as relations become strained later in the voyage, Bligh objects to Christian calling Bligh "William":him by his first name:
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'''Bligh:''' We're civilised men, not savages. As civilised men, we shall die. Have no fear.
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* ImAHumanitarian: Briefly Discussed when Mr. Nelson offers his flesh to save the weakened people on the boat, but Lieutenant Bligh defies this with the following quote:
'''Bligh:''' We're civilised men, not savages. As civilised men, we shall die. Have no fear.
'''Bligh:''' We're civilised men, not savages. As civilised men, we shall die. Have no fear.
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The film stars Creator/AnthonyHopkins as Captain Bligh and Creator/MelGibson as head mutineer Fletcher Christian. It is also a notable case of RetroactiveRecognition, since it features a young Creator/LiamNeeson as a mutinous sailor, a young Creator/DanielDayLewis as the most obnoxious of Bligh's officers, and a young Creator/DexterFletcher as another mutinous sailor. It also has Creator/LaurenceOlivier as Admiral Hood, Creator/EdwardFox as Capt. Greetham (Hood and Greetham both being on the Navy's board of inquiry, in the FramingDevice) and Wi Kuku Kaa as King Tinah. Music/{{Vangelis}} composed the score.
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The film stars Creator/AnthonyHopkins as Captain Bligh and Creator/MelGibson as head mutineer Fletcher Christian. It is also a notable case of RetroactiveRecognition, since it features a young Creator/LiamNeeson as a mutinous sailor, a young Creator/DanielDayLewis as the most obnoxious of Bligh's officers, Creator/BernardHill as another officer who remained loyal to Bligh, and a young Creator/DexterFletcher as another mutinous sailor. It also has Creator/LaurenceOlivier as Admiral Hood, Creator/EdwardFox as Capt. Greetham (Hood and Greetham both being on the Navy's board of inquiry, in the FramingDevice) and Wi Kuku Kaa as King Tinah. Music/{{Vangelis}} composed the score.
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--> '''King Tinah''': My daughter... She has something of yours.
--> '''Christian''': Of mine?
--> '''King Tinah''': [showing her belly] You are here now. [[BilingualDialogue Tamari'i]]. [[labelnote:translation]]"Child" in Tahitian[[/labelnote]]
--> '''Christian''': Of mine?
--> '''King Tinah''': [showing her belly] You are here now. [[BilingualDialogue Tamari'i]]. [[labelnote:translation]]"Child" in Tahitian[[/labelnote]]
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'''King Tinah''': [showing her belly] You are here now. [[BilingualDialogue Tamari'i]]. [[labelnote:translation]]"Child" in Tahitian[[/labelnote]]
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'''King Tinah''': [showing her belly] You are here now. [[BilingualDialogue Tamari'i]]. [[labelnote:translation]]"Child" in Tahitian[[/labelnote]]
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-->'''Christian''': William, about your decision to go around the Horn...
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-->'''Christian''': William, about your decision to go around the Horn...
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'''Bligh''': "William"? Not "sir"? Not "captain"? "William".
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'''Bligh''': "William"? Not "sir"? Not "captain"? "William".
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** Blow me down! Shades of ''Film/TheCaineMutiny'', matey!
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: For all his overbearing manner, Bligh does love his family.
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* IRegretNothing: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. Believing that Bligh and his loyalists would have no choice but to put ashore on a hostile shore and remain there forever, Christian would state he regretted not giving Bligh some muskets to better defend themselves.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: As the ''Bounty'' burns, Christian and the mutineers that accompanied him experience a moment of this which is clearly visible on their face. Christian and the mutineers all know they threw away their careers and will never see their homes again.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: As the ''Bounty'' burns, Christian and the mutineers that accompanied him experience a moment of this which is clearly visible on their face.faces. Christian and the mutineers all know they threw away their careers and will never see their homes again.
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** Bligh sheds tears upon hearing the verdict of the courtthat the admiralty has cleared him of blame in the loss of the ''Bounty'' and that commended his seamanship in getting his crew to safety in a small launch with only a few days worth of supplies.
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** Bligh sheds tears upon hearing the verdict of the courtthat court that the admiralty has cleared him of blame in the loss of the ''Bounty'' and that commended his seamanship in getting his crew to safety in a small launch with only a few days worth of supplies.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: As the ''Bounty'' burns, Christian and the mutineers that accompanied him experience a moment of this which is clearly visible on their face. Christian and the mutineers all know they threw away their careers and will never see their homes again.
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* ManlyTears: When his daughter decides to leave Tahiti with the mutineers, King Tynah breaks down sobbing, knowing he will never see her again.
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* ManlyTears: A couple instances occur in the film.
** When his daughter decides to leave Tahiti with the mutineers, King Tynah breaks down sobbing, knowing he will never see heragain.again.
** Bligh sheds tears upon hearing the verdict of the courtthat the admiralty has cleared him of blame in the loss of the ''Bounty'' and that commended his seamanship in getting his crew to safety in a small launch with only a few days worth of supplies.
** When his daughter decides to leave Tahiti with the mutineers, King Tynah breaks down sobbing, knowing he will never see her
** Bligh sheds tears upon hearing the verdict of the courtthat the admiralty has cleared him of blame in the loss of the ''Bounty'' and that commended his seamanship in getting his crew to safety in a small launch with only a few days worth of supplies.
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* HornySailors: The men of the ''Bounty'' are very happy when they finally land on Tahiti after a long voyage and discover an island full of gorgeous, topless native women. This is a major cause of the mutiny that follows, after the men have to go back to life at sea.
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* TimePassageBeard: After weeks at sea most everybody with Bligh on the open boat has long, unkempt beards.
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* BlindMusician: A blind guy is part of the crew for the sole purpose of playing violin and singing for the sailors.
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* ChasedByAngryNatives: Bligh and his loyal crew make one attempt at a landing, on the island of Tofoa. They wind up getting chased back to the launch by angry Tofoans, and Nelson the quartermaster is killed. After that they agree that they will have to stay at sea for thousands of miles until they can reach the Dutch settlement of Coupang.
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''The Bounty'' is a 1984 film telling the story of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutiny_on_the_Bounty famous 1789 mutiny]] on the British ship HMS ''Bounty'', in which many sailors mutinied and cast their commanding officer Lieutenant William Bligh adrift on an open boat. Lt. Bligh and the men who were loyal to him (over half the crew) eventually made it to the Dutch colony on the island of Timor after a harrowing voyage across the ocean. The mutineers, led by first mate Fletcher Christian, made a home for themselves on Pitcairn Island in the south Pacific, where their descendants remain to this day.
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''The Bounty'' is a 1984 film telling directed by Roger Donaldson.
It tells the story of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutiny_on_the_Bounty famous 1789 mutiny]] on the British ship HMS ''Bounty'', in which many sailors mutinied and cast their commanding officer Lieutenant William Bligh adrift on an open boat. Lt. Bligh and the men who were loyal to him (over half the crew) eventually made it to the Dutch colony on the island of Timor after a harrowing voyage across the ocean. The mutineers, led by first mate Fletcher Christian, made a home for themselves on Pitcairn Island in the south Pacific, where their descendants remain to this day.
It tells the story of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutiny_on_the_Bounty famous 1789 mutiny]] on the British ship HMS ''Bounty'', in which many sailors mutinied and cast their commanding officer Lieutenant William Bligh adrift on an open boat. Lt. Bligh and the men who were loyal to him (over half the crew) eventually made it to the Dutch colony on the island of Timor after a harrowing voyage across the ocean. The mutineers, led by first mate Fletcher Christian, made a home for themselves on Pitcairn Island in the south Pacific, where their descendants remain to this day.
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This film was originally supposed to be a pair of films directed by Creator/DavidLean for Creator/DinoDeLaurentiis, but after [[DevelopmentHell a long production delay]], Lean left the project and Creator/RogerDonaldson directed.
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This film was originally supposed to be a pair of films directed by Creator/DavidLean for Creator/DinoDeLaurentiis, but after [[DevelopmentHell a long production delay]], Lean left the project and Creator/RogerDonaldson Donaldson directed.
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The film stars Creator/AnthonyHopkins as Captain Bligh and Creator/MelGibson as head mutineer Fletcher Christian. It is also a notable case of RetroactiveRecognition, since it features a young Creator/LiamNeeson as a mutinous sailor and a young Creator/DanielDayLewis as the most obnoxious of Bligh's officers. It also has Creator/LaurenceOlivier as Admiral Hood and Wi Kuku Kaa as King Tinah. Music/{{Vangelis}} composed the score.
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The film stars Creator/AnthonyHopkins as Captain Bligh and Creator/MelGibson as head mutineer Fletcher Christian. It is also a notable case of RetroactiveRecognition, since it features a young Creator/LiamNeeson as a mutinous sailor and sailor, a young Creator/DanielDayLewis as the most obnoxious of Bligh's officers. officers, and a young Creator/DexterFletcher as another mutinous sailor. It also has Creator/LaurenceOlivier as Admiral Hood Hood, Creator/EdwardFox as Capt. Greetham (Hood and Greetham both being on the Navy's board of inquiry, in the FramingDevice) and Wi Kuku Kaa as King Tinah. Music/{{Vangelis}} composed the score.
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* MalignedMixedMarriage: Bligh is [[DeliberateValuesDissonance extremely racist about it]], but he isn't ''wrong'' when he tells Christian that there's no way that he can possibly take Mauatua back to England. What he fails to consider is what Christian might do about that problem.
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* ShutUpGunshot: A mutinous sailor fires his flintlock pistol into the air when things start getting out of hand on deck, in the immediate aftermath of the mutiny.
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* CallBack: Churchill's EstablishingCharacterMoment has him picking a fight in the crew's quarters and establishing himself as an alpha dog. Another sailor tells him not to push things too far, saying "You don't have a lucky face." Much later, when Churchill elects to stay in Tahiti rather than go on the voyage to Pitcairn, he says "Maybe I have a lucky face." (He didn't.)
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* ManOnFire: This happens early in the film as the ''Bounty'' struggles to make it through Cape Horn.
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* ManOnFire: This happens early in the film to Lamb, a sailor, as the ''Bounty'' struggles to make it through Cape Horn.
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The film stars Creator/AnthonyHopkins as Captain Bligh and Creator/MelGibson as head mutineer Fletcher Christian. Music/{{Vangelis}} composed the score. This film was originally supposed to be a pair of films directed by Creator/DavidLean for Creator/DinoDeLaurentiis, but after [[DevelopmentHell a long production delay]] Lean left the project and Creator/RogerDonaldson directed. This film is also a notable case of RetroactiveRecognition; in addition to Hopkins and Gibson as stars, it features a young Creator/LiamNeeson as a mutinous sailor and a young Creator/DanielDayLewis as the most obnoxious of Bligh's officers. (And Creator/LaurenceOlivier has a cameo as Admiral Hood.)
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The film stars Creator/AnthonyHopkins as Captain Bligh and Creator/MelGibson as head mutineer Fletcher Christian. It is also a notable case of RetroactiveRecognition, since it features a young Creator/LiamNeeson as a mutinous sailor and a young Creator/DanielDayLewis as the most obnoxious of Bligh's officers. It also has Creator/LaurenceOlivier as Admiral Hood and Wi Kuku Kaa as King Tinah. Music/{{Vangelis}} composed the score. score.
This film was originally supposed to be a pair of films directed by Creator/DavidLean for Creator/DinoDeLaurentiis, but after [[DevelopmentHell a long productiondelay]] delay]], Lean left the project and Creator/RogerDonaldson directed. This film is also a notable case of RetroactiveRecognition; in addition to Hopkins and Gibson as stars, it features a young Creator/LiamNeeson as a mutinous sailor and a young Creator/DanielDayLewis as the most obnoxious of Bligh's officers. (And Creator/LaurenceOlivier has a cameo as Admiral Hood.)
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* GoingNative: Captain Bligh [[DefectorFromDecadence worries that this is happening]] to Christian and the men in Tahiti, and [[DefectorFromDecadence 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 sex with the island girls.
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* GoingNative: Captain Bligh [[DefectorFromDecadence worries that this is happening]] happening to Christian and the men in Tahiti, and [[DefectorFromDecadence 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 sex with the island girls.
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* GoingNative: Captain Bligh [[DefectorFromDecadence worries that this is happening happening]] to Christian and the men in Tahiti, and [[DefectorFromDecadence 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 sex with the island girls.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: [Overblown] instances of pettiness aside, Bligh is really quite lenient with his crew.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Bligh does, anyways, several times throughout the film, at least. It's not his logic that turns everyone against him, it's his ''manner.''
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* FatalFlaw: Bligh is a superb seaman who came from humble beginnings, but the reason he finds himself on the wrong end of a mutiny is because he doesn't understand that command is all about people. He ultimately alienates everyone because he never considers the human aspect of this equation. [[CharacterDevelopment After the mutiny, he overcomes his deficiencies as a leader and overcomes great adversity to get himself and his men to safety.]]
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* {{Hypocrite}}: The crew mutinies against Bligh for supposedly being an iron-fisted tyrant. This overlooks the ''months'' on Tahiti he let them do essentially whatever the hell they wanted as long as they did their jobs competently enough. They just got used to the good life and resented Bligh's attempts to start treating them like the Royal Navy crew that they are. (Although admittedly, Bligh's vindictiveness and inability to read the atmosphere didn't help him out)
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The film stars Creator/AnthonyHopkins as Captain Bligh and Creator/MelGibson as head mutineer Fletcher Christian. Music/{{Vangelis}} composed the score. This film was originally supposed to be a pair of films directed by Creator/DavidLean for Creator/DinoDeLaurentiis, but after [[DevelopmentHell a long production delay]] Lean left the project and Creator/RogerDonaldson directed. This film is also a notable case of RetroactiveRecognition; in addition to Hopkins and Gibson as stars, it features a young Creator/LiamNeeson as a mutinous sailor and a young Creator/DanielDayLewis as the most obnoxious of Bligh's officers.
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The film stars Creator/AnthonyHopkins as Captain Bligh and Creator/MelGibson as head mutineer Fletcher Christian. Music/{{Vangelis}} composed the score. This film was originally supposed to be a pair of films directed by Creator/DavidLean for Creator/DinoDeLaurentiis, but after [[DevelopmentHell a long production delay]] Lean left the project and Creator/RogerDonaldson directed. This film is also a notable case of RetroactiveRecognition; in addition to Hopkins and Gibson as stars, it features a young Creator/LiamNeeson as a mutinous sailor and a young Creator/DanielDayLewis as the most obnoxious of Bligh's officers.
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** Churchill (Creator/LiamNeeson), who stayed behind on Tahiti--"Maybe I have a lucky face"--was murdered by another mutineer, who was in turn killed by the Tahitians. Most 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, 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.
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** Churchill (Creator/LiamNeeson), who stayed behind on Tahiti--"Maybe I have a lucky face"--was murdered by another mutineer, who was in turn killed by the Tahitians. Most 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, Peter Haywood Heywood (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.
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* YoungFutureFamousPeople: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Heywood Peter Heywood]], as a young and unfit junior officer. And ultimately, years later, one of the best hydrographers of his times.
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See also ''Literature/TheBountyTrilogy'', the trilogy of novels by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, or the two ''Film/MutinyOnTheBounty'' films (1935 and 1962), which were adaptations of the first novel. Those novels and films were much less historically accurate than this film.
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See also ''Literature/TheBountyTrilogy'', the trilogy of novels by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, or the two 1935 film ''Film/MutinyOnTheBounty'' films (1935 and 1962), or the 1962 film ''Film/{{Mutiny on the Bounty|1962}}'', which were both adaptations of the first Nordhoff and Hall novel. Those novels and films were much less historically accurate than this film.
