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Shana 2021-11-28 08:01:20
"In the Depths of the Ocean": As a giant whale, I don't get angry easily
The film is adapted from the novel of the same name, but it is a real story. To quote the brief introduction of Baidu Encyclopedia: In the cold winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex was under an incredible attack while sailing in the South Pacific. A huge whale with the will to... -
Malvina 2022-03-25 09:01:08
Industrial Civilization Requiem
The huge white sperm whale (Moby Dick) in "Moby Dick" has many translation names, among which my favorite translation name is "Moby Di", which is full of domineering. From the description of the novel, Mobi Di may be a sea monster two or three times bigger than an ordinary whale. This is of course...
Martin Wilde
In the Heart of the Sea quotes
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Herman Melville: Something else you've given me tonight.
Old Thomas Nickerson: And what's that?
Herman Melville: The courage to go where one does not want to go.
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[first lines]
Herman Melville: [in his letter] How does one come to know the unknowable? What faculties must a man possess? Since it was discovered that whale oil could light our cities in ways never achieved before, it created global demand. It has pushed man to venture further and further into the deep blue unknown. We know not its depths, nor the host of creatures that live there. Monsters. Are they real?
[a huge whale passes]
Herman Melville: Or do the stories exist only to make us respect the sea's dark secrets?
Title Card: NANTUCKET ISLAND Massachusetts February 1850
Herman Melville: The question both vexes and excites me, and is the reason I've written you a second time to request a meeting. A conversation with you, sir, I believe will serve me well for the novel I intend to write, currently entitled: Moby Dick. I hope you will reconsider my offer. The unknown. That is where my imagination yearns to venture. And so the question plagues me still: How does a man come to know the unknowable? Sincerely, Herman Melville.
