My favorite scene from my favorite movie, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. I love the small details in this fight, the volleygun, primitive grenades and just the general chaos just makes this battle scene amazing.
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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World Appreciation Post
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It is a great movie. Isn’t there a book series?
Did you catch the short scene of the Nock volley gun?
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Richard Widmark used one in John Waynes "THE ALAMO". May the same gun.
One of my all time favorite movies. "I want fresh flints in all the locks".
Striving for historical accuracy, they had all of the ship's rigging made a left-lay or left-hand twisted ropes. An amazing movie!
Also check out the 'The Admiral' on Netflix for a 2015 Dutch film about the 17th-century Admiral Michiel de Ruyter; this one has some amazing nautical battle scenes too!
Also check out the 'The Admiral' on Netflix for a 2015 Dutch film about the 17th-century Admiral Michiel de Ruyter; this one has some amazing nautical battle scenes too!
O’Brian: Master and Comander is the first one. It’s not the story in the movie. It follows ‘Lucky Jack’ from his first command a sloop of war ( that’s actually a brig).
He climbs the stairs of command.
Largely a version of the Hornblower books.
Alexander Kent re Douglas Reedmans Bolitho stories and Alan Lewrie books by Lambin are also good reads
Bolitho is honor and service to the king above all else, Lewrie is a rouge who spends the entire series hoping no one finds out the truth and Jack Aubrey is in between
It was a very enjoyable movie.
I have only ever seen a few minutes of it. Next on my list. Looks good.
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Yes it was good our local group of re enactors got up uniforms for the Traffalgar Bi centenary .Myself as Gun Captain , Big affair with both Australian & NZ Navy takeing part if in current uniforms The whole main street had marching & bands , While we all stood on the Cathedral steps at the top of Traffalgar street in the city of Nelson NZ.
Later I fired 10 rounds Pyrotecknics from the Youaght Club from a little 3 pounder .I wrote a piece and pointed out the Navyies had all the kit & got trained & paid , While we had watched ' Master & Commander' a couple of times & the only item Govt once owned was my musket & B net and that was 200 years ago . Good event I must try get a photo to illustrate it .
Regards Rudyard
Later I fired 10 rounds Pyrotecknics from the Youaght Club from a little 3 pounder .I wrote a piece and pointed out the Navyies had all the kit & got trained & paid , While we had watched ' Master & Commander' a couple of times & the only item Govt once owned was my musket & B net and that was 200 years ago . Good event I must try get a photo to illustrate it .
Regards Rudyard
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OMG. Look for the Patrick O'Brian books upon which this is based. A series of couple dozen perfectly detailed, true to science, naval 18th C. books, with much specific and accurate information from that now-vanished world of English seafaring. Yes, the movie was inspired by these books; any real historically-interested person will know of O'Brian's works. Great movie! But you could almost see in advance that there was an ambush in waiting! Could not have knocked 100% of the crew out of action.
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Matthew Drinkwater books also in that vein.
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Great movie. Saw it in a nice theater with surround sound with my girlfriend at the time when it first came out.
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Iron men and wooden ships.
Imagine being able to hit a ship at 200 yards with a cannon, that has no sights, from the deck of another ship, that is rocking in the waves....
one Sene a guy cocks his pistol to fire and as he does with it pointing up with the frizzed left in the foreword position in several Seens, kind of hard to keep powder in the pan and make it spark. it shows him shouting in several Seens with it in this position. you would that Thay would have caught it?
and the sailor who puts his hand between the cannon's flint and frizzen to stop it firing ... ouch!
The look on his eyes tells all.
