Master and commander movie movie#
Will Menaker, the co-host of the popular leftist podcast Chapo Trap House, said, “I don't know how there could be ironic fans of a movie that's this brilliant-a movie that does onscreen everything movies promise. They would get a misty, far-away sound in their voice, almost as if they were on the bow of a ship, gazing out over the open ocean, ponytail flapping in the breeze. You come away with a sense of satisfaction at their accomplishments and camaraderie, and just a bit of longing over a bygone way of life.ĭespite any surface-level irony, everyone I talked to adopted a tone of reverence and awe when speaking about the movie. (You know it smells crazy in there.) Even better? All the screen time devoted to close conversations between Aubrey and Maturin, and their two-dude violin and cello jam sessions. The bulk of the film-and the heart of its charm-is instead a meticulous rendering of daily life at sea: the monotony of hard labor, the palpable threat of scurvy, the dirty-faced sailors who sleep in close quarters and grin through yellowed teeth. Though Master and Commander is ostensibly about the Surprise sailing to intercept a French enemy warship, the battle scenes, exhilarating as they may be, are few and far in between. If you kidnapped a hundred of Hollywood’s top minds and forced them to work around the clock, they could not engineer a more exquisite Dad Movie. Stephen Maturin, the ship’s surgeon, an erudite naturalist, and Captain Aubrey’s BFF. Set inside the hermetically sealed world of the HMS Surprise, an early 19th-century British Royal Navy frigate, the movie stars Russell Crowe-fresh off Gladiator and A Beautiful Mind-as Jack Aubrey, the bold, daring, and conspicuously ponytailed captain. That would be Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, director Peter Weir’s adaptation of the historical seafaring novels by writer Patrick O’Brian. And a moderate box office success from 2003 has become an unlikely streaming favorite, a poster child for the kind of movies Hollywood doesn’t make anymore, and a beacon of positive masculinity. Only the British fleet stands before him.
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