Talk:The Bounty (1984 film)

Copyvio
Possible copyvio, but no big deal. I just read a long review by a university professor or student and recognized several phrases. We should probably give credit for these. I'll try to google it up again. --Uncle Ed 19:35, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

This edit is identical in several paragraphs with this copyrighted web page. So either someone plagiarized Wikipedia, or we did a copyvio. Until I can figure out which copied from which, I think I'll just delete the identical paragraphs. Better safe than sorry. --Uncle Ed 19:54, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Boy will I be embarassed if it turns out they copied from us, because I just cut all but one of the identical paragraphs, and left a link. --Uncle Ed 20:05, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

I wrote the paragraphs originally that were cut out, and I didn't copy them from any other source. I'm pretty sure that these people copied the articles word for word from Wikipedia. JesseG 18:48, 26 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Ok, I put some of it back, but made sure it was not a word for word repition of what's on solar navigator.
 * JesseG 19:13, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Lots of POV in this...
Wow... so the mutiny was all about carnal sex? That's not accurate. It was more complicated than that. It was also about love. I mean, these guys started a new colony... what, for sex? So the captain did "just as any other captain would do"? NO... he continuously risked the lives of his men for his own glory and became increasingly mad at sea... remember, the whole "rounding the Horn"(Cape Horn, South America) part? How about that being a GREAT motivator for mutiny instead of this sexual motivation you are dishing out in this POV entry. This entry does not represent the movie. It's someone's slanted opinion of it; missing fact after fact that would allow the reader to have more balanced and accurate info in regards to the movie. It's like the writer didn't see the movie.

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BetacommandBot (talk) 02:37, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Round The Horn
Regarding whether the mutiny was sparked by Bligh wanting to go past Cape Horn.

From his own writings: "It was proposed that our route to the Society Islands should be round Cape Horn;" So the route was supposed to be from UK past Cape Horn to Tahiti. So going West all the way.

This makes perfectly sense, and will not impact any breadfruits as these would not be onboard at the time of passage.

However, the problem was that due to the seasonal weather it was impossible for Bligh to actually pass the Horn. And his repeated attempts certainly caused anguish amongst his crew, thereby fuelling what was later to become the mutiny.

Through it would be fair to say that the attempts to pass the Horn did not directly cause the mutiny - I believe it is incorrect to state that it was a historical error that they did not have an effect. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.59.206.86 (talk) 14:01, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

I see where the confusion comes from. Bligh's orders were to enter the Pacific via the shortest route, westwards round the Horn. He knew it was too late in the season so he requested orders to allow him the discression to take the longer easterly route. On the voyage out Bligh spent a whole month battered by westerly gales trying to round the Horn to get into the Pacific. In the end in accordance with his discretionary orders he turned east for the Cape of Good Hope then Tasmania. That much is historical fact. What is fiction is a scene in the film when, after the breadfruit trees have been loaded, Bligh decides to round the Horn Eastwards to get into the Atlantic, supposedly because of his ambition to circumnavigate the globe, mentioned earlier in the film. What the filmmakers were trying to suggest was that, having been batterered by the Horn once, the mention of a second attempt on the Horn aroused dread in the crew which added to the crew's disquiet immediately preceeding the the mutiny. It is only the proposed second attempt on the Horn which is fictional. Petecarney (talk) 12:45, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Fiddler
Does anybody know, who plays the fiddle in this movie? I suspect it's Frankie Gavin, but the man's face is well hidden.--Ginness (talk) 07:27, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

Plot
This article's plot summary violates WP:FILMPLOT in a number of ways: first, it is entirely too long, at more than 1,000 words, when the policy calls for a 400-700 word summary; second, it is filled with opinion and analysis of the events and motives of the characters, as well as comparison to other film versions; third, there are repeated references to the film-as-film, when it should be a straight, succinct, recitation of the events. Put simply, it is a mess and needs to be completely rewritten. --- The Old Jacobite The '45  02:09, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

Historical errors
The list of historical errors must be substantiated with reliable sources and should contain neither opinions about what might not be plausible nor any interpretation of second-hand information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.64.48.38 (talk) 12:14, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

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