Don’t ask how long we will be able to arrive, it depends on how far we have sailed-thoughts about "The Mutiny on Blood"

Okey 2022-01-12 08:01:04

A manuscript I read a few days ago mentioned an old movie from 1935-"The Mutiny on Blood". So, look for it.

The film is adapted from real events. The "Bounty" mutiny is the most successful mutiny in the history of the British navy.

The English name of this movie is Mutiny on the Bounty. Mutiny means rebellion and mutiny, and Bounty is the name of this warship "Bounty". The Chinese translation of the name is really confusing. In fact, the whole rebellion did not shed blood or sacrifice, let alone bloody.

Speaking of bloodshed, at the beginning of the film, Captain Bligh's cruel torture of the crew is more obvious.

As the saying goes, where there is oppression, there is resistance. This is particularly evident in this film. The protagonist of the film, Fletcher, is the first mate on the ship. He is dissatisfied with Captain Bligh's authoritarian and brutal style, but he suppressed his anger several times. Finally, the anger finally gathered into strength and exploded. He mobilized the crew to defect.

At this time, someone said that he would kill Bly, but Fletcher's human kindness appeared, and he let Bly and the people who were willing to follow him to get on the boat and leave.

Surprisingly, many people followed Bly and embarked on a small boat. You know, in the vast ocean of 3,600 nautical miles from the nearest land, a boat with a deep draft will surely turn over if it encounters wind and waves. Letting them leave in a small boat is actually equivalent to announcing their death sentences, except that the executioner is not himself.

At first, I hated Captain Bligh especially. He treated the crew cruelly and inhumanly, and he was the incarnation of the devil. But when he got on the boat, my impression of him slowly began to change. The boat stumbled forward on the sea. With his superb sailing ability, he commanded the crew to cross the wind and waves and fight the storm.

The supply on the ship is getting less and less, and finally it reaches the minimum that it is difficult to survive. The crew tried to shoot the seabirds and finally succeeded. At this time, the crazy version of Captain Bligh rushed over to snatch the seabirds. I thought that he would take it as his own arrogantly like on a warship. However, he did not. He said to the weak old man: "Give the seabird blood to the sick to make up for the body." The

crew member asked him, when will he reach the land? Bligh said: "Don't ask how long we can arrive, it depends on how far we have sailed."

The boat's situation is getting more and more difficult. People fainted due to hunger and exhaustion, only Captain Bligh's eyes widened, and he held on there. Suddenly, land appeared in front. He wanted to shout, but he had no energy. He tried his best to say: "Timor! Timor!" The crew slowly got up, seeing the long-lost land, and they were so excited that they shed tears.

Supporting the advancement of the boat is not only Captain Bligh's superb navigation ability, but also his firm, decisive, and confident confidence in his victory.

Murphy's law tells us: if you think you can do it, you can do it; if you think you can't do it, you may really fail. I believe that many people will feel frustrated when facing the situation of Captain Bligh, allowing the boat to drift in the wind, then starve to death, or be swept into the vast sea by the wind and waves.

What Bly chose was that the challenge was impossible. Supporting his conviction is to see the land, return to Portsmouth, and see the scene of Fletcher being hanged.

A person’s belief is very important, and it determines how far a person can go. Regardless of whether this belief is good or bad, it can become a source of motivation for people to act.

Bly on the warship made me resent, and Bly on the boat made me admire.

People are not absolutely good or absolutely bad. Human nature is complex, with good and evil coexisting. A bad person in one situation is a good person in another situation. Judge a person cannot only use a single dimension, it can not show the complexity and multi-faceted human nature.

In contrast, the protagonist Fletcher is a person who advocates freedom from beginning to end. He cares for his subordinates and advocates humanity. After capturing the "Bounty" through a mutiny, he led the crew back to Tahiti and spent a paradise life on earth.

Fletcher launched a mutiny, but did not choose to execute Bligh, which has left him a hidden danger. With Captain Bligh's excellent sailing ability, does Fletcher do not believe that he can really come back to life, or does he choose to do so even knowing that he will go back to find himself? We don't know. However, the brilliance of humanity that this highlights has made people unable to calm for a long time.

Fletcher said to the crew: "Whoever wants to follow Bly, just follow him to the boat." Many crew members got on the boat in silence. It's also shocking here. No matter how cruel and fierce Bly is to them, they still choose to be loyal to their leadership and absolutely obey.

Bligh did not disappoint them. The boat drifted more than 3,600 nautical miles at sea, and when it finally reached Timor, no one died. This has to be said to be a miracle.

In the film, Charles Lawton portrays Captain Bligh's conceited, arrogant, and arrogant image to life, in sharp contrast with the exhausted face on the boat, making this character more three-dimensional and vivid.

The three actors in this film were nominated for best actor Oscars at the same time, which is the only time in Oscar history.

"Don't ask how long we will be able to arrive, it depends on how far we have sailed."

I think this sentence is worthy of everyone's thinking. When faced with an event, do we think about when I can finish it, or do we think about how much I have finished? Under these two mentalities, the results are different. The former focuses on the unknown future, while the latter focuses on the achieved goals.

Rather than predicting the unknowable future pessimistically, it is better to take every step before you down to see how much we have accomplished.

Read a book, you just read it, ho, I have read more than half of it. And not, oops, there are hundreds of pages left to read.

Do a task, bingo, I have completed 1, 2, 3! It is worth celebrating! Rather than, it's so annoying. I've been busy for many days, but I haven't gotten it yet.

Negative attitudes bring negative responses, and positive attitudes bring positive thinking. Thinking like Captain Bligh, doing things like that, we can dismantle it with a positive attitude, no matter how great the difficulty we face, and complete all the seemingly impossible possibilities, and climb countless seemingly unconquerable. mountain peak.

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Mutiny on the Bounty quotes

  • Captain William Bligh: Mr. Christian!

  • [Byam enters the courtroom and sees that the midshipman's dirk on the table points toward him; he knows that he has been condemned to death]

    Lord Hood: Have you anything to say before the sentence of this court is passed upon you?

    [long pause]

    Byam: Milord, much as I desire to live, I'm not afraid to die. Since I first sailed on the Bounty over four years ago, I've know how men can be made to suffer worse things than death, cruelly, beyond duty, beyond necessity.

    [turns to Captain Bligh]

    Byam: Captain Bligh, you've told your story of mutiny on the Bounty, how men plotted against you, seized your ship, cast you adrift in an open boat, a great venture in science brought to nothing, two British ships lost. But there's another story, Captain Bligh, of ten cocoanuts and two cheeses. A story of a man who robbed his seamen, cursed them, flogged them, not to punish but to break their spirit. A story of greed and tyranny, and of anger against it, of what it cost.

    [turns to Lord Hood]

    Byam: One man, milord, would not endure such tyranny.

    [turns again to Captain Bligh]

    Byam: That's why you hounded him. That's why you hate him, hate his friends. And that's why you're beaten. Fletcher Christian's still free.

    [back to Lord Hood]

    Byam: Christian lost, too, milord. God knows he's judged himself more harshly than you could judge him.

    [turns to Fletcher Christian's father]

    Byam: I say to his father, "He was my friend. No finer man ever lived."

    [addresses the court again]

    Byam: I don't try to justify his crime, his mutiny, but I condemn the tyranny that drove 'im to it. I don't speak here for myself alone or for these men you condemn. I speak in their names, in Fletcher Christian's name, for all men at sea. These men don't ask for comfort. They don't ask for safety. If they could speak to you they'd say, "Let us choose to do our duty willingly, not the choice of a slave, but the choice of free Englishmen." They ask only the freedom that England expects for every man. If one man among you believe that - *one man* - he could command the fleets of England, He could sweep the seas for England. If he called his men to their duty not by flaying their backs, but by lifting their hearts... their... That's all.