Understanding the film’s adaptations of the original work, where the various plots in the film come from, which are fictional and which are taken from the original work, can increase the interest and trigger associations when watching the film, but if these adaptations and fictional parts are compared with It is unnecessary to compare the original works and try to judge the pros and cons. These are two different things. The original works are great, but the movies are also great. And its actors are so good that people have nothing to say. Compared with Captain Jack O'Bre in the original book, the captain played by Russell Crowe is more powerful, shrewd and determined. Jack in the original book is very interesting. In addition to being a capable and honest captain, he is also very compassionate. He is very kind to the crew and subordinates. His ships do not have the most popular torture in the Royal Navy. Law, the flogging that few captains like to use, discipline is executed naturally by the conscious cooperation and sense of responsibility of mature crew members. He is also willing to promote his subordinates and recommend them to develop a better future. He has no jealousy, no narrow-minded mind that must be reported, on the contrary, he appears enthusiastic, frank, and simple. I believe that in addition to the secret naval intelligence duties undertaken by the doctor, the qualities of Captain Aubrey also attracted him to be on the Marvel as a medic on board. One of the reasons, even the more important one. Although Russell Crowe could not fully express the virtues of the chapter spent in the original book (limited to the script), he still made us feel the respect and love he received as a captain among subordinates and sailors. Although he is not beautiful, even though he is overweight, even though he inadvertently reveals the arrogance of the actor himself-who calls him a two-time Oscar actor-but he is still the lovely Captain Aubrey. You can touch his inside through his words and deeds.
As for Stephen Maturin, he has many qualities, a genius with the most dimensions and the most complicated contradictions that a novel can create. Twenty and a half long scrolls will not make this character lose its luster, which is tiresome. In the eyes of Captain Jack, he was initially a scholar, naturalist, and philosopher, and a "simplest fellow in the world", but later, Jack discovered that the facts are far more than that. Of course some are still secrets to him. Stephen is an illegitimate son of Irish and Spanish blood (another one). His father is an Irish officer and his mother is a Spanish nobleman. A minority Catholic. Grew up with noble education. Irish, English, Spanish, French, and Catalan are all his mother tongues. He is also fluent in Latin and Portuguese, and is fluent in Greek, Malay, Arabic and Urdu. . But he doesn't understand navy jargon. He has a castle in Spain and a large estate. In addition, he is also a skilled surgeon who can do the most thrilling operations as perfect as art. And secretly, he is still the number one veteran spy working for the British Naval Intelligence Department. He has rich experience in spying. The admiral also consults him, but refuses to receive his wages completely, but would rather expose himself and fulfill the mission to the end. He participated in the Irish independence movement, participated in the Catalan independence movement, and participated in the French Revolution before Napoleon. During his time in Ireland, he had to fight more than twenty times a year, and later dragged Jack to the duel.
However, what is more attractive than all these strange identities to fall into the doctor's whirlpool is each plane of his wonderful character, which is reflected by the light refracted by the sharp edges of crystals. His sensitivity, his friendliness, his compassion, his irritability, his childishness, his innocence, his pride, his meanness, his fragility, his gloom... He is a contradictory complex of multiple personalities. . He was a tough doctor when fighting with death, he was a cautious, mature, and calm warrior when faced with danger, and when he stayed with his animals and plants, he was a naive scholar who would be as cheerful as a child. He will become the most susceptible philosopher at low tide. He is sloppy, eccentric in taste, sloppy clothes, and often wears a shabby wig. He has never learned how to walk steadily at sea. He has fallen into the sea countlessly. Although he is engaged in naval espionage, he has no control over ships and military ranks. Discerning is like an idiot, and if you don't speculate with people, you will close your lips like an oyster, regardless of the rigidity of the atmosphere. He is so agile and alert and sometimes so incomprehensible. Not knowing whether it was the luck of the doctor or the luck of O'Brien's readers, Peter Will asked Paul Bettney to play him. The gloom of the unknown past in Stephen's bones, the sensitivity and stubbornness, as well as the isolation and rebellion, Paul also concealed deeply in his body, and all of his past life was buried in the ashes. And the British actor's unique, gentle and gentle, even sloppy, unconcealed style, that kind of implicit and restrained style, allowed Paul to bring the birthplace of medical life from the two-dimensional world to the three-dimensional world, still sensitive and unnoticeable loneliness, although The sharp edges of the crystal have also been cut a lot due to the script, but Paul's doctor has the same warmth, respect and trust as in the original book. There is no doubt that the crew on the Marvel loved him, relied on him, and regarded him as a true nobleman. His bravery, his stubbornness to insist on justice even in the face of Jack, his love and broad knowledge of natural life, his gentleness and patience, his tolerance. Paul once said that the doctor is the kind of person who still feels refreshed even after putting him in a confinement room for a month, because he is so rich inside that he can still be self-sufficient in any boring environment. , Enjoy yourself.
There are also those lovely supporting actors. Although there are many, each of them can be clear, different in appearance, and leave an impression on others. Prince, who used to work under Jack, came to Marvel in the tenth "The Other Side of the World". Despite the rank of colonel, he did not have a ship for him to command. When Jack’s ship was anchored in the military port And when the establishment was insufficient, Prince came to invite Ying again, he used to be Jack's first mate. He is still the first adjutant in the movie. The handsome young officer with a scar on his face played by James D'arcy is believed to have impressed many audiences. And Horan, this poor alternate officer, this unlucky man with the word Jonah written all over his face, this desperate guy, he has served under Jack before, of the kind that is neither bad nor nonsense. He has a dispensable crew. He was on the Marvel at the same time as Prince, and he couldn’t see a way out, but his prospects were much slimmer than Prince’s. Jack couldn’t stand the sympathy. But in the movie he did not endure the rejection, the superstitious hostility, the inaccessibility of isolation. Although he has a good voice and sings very well, he committed suicide, holding a cannonball. The sea. This is the gloomy, helpless life dilemma shown in the movie, and the gloom that may exist in any corner of the world. There is also the weird-looking captain butler Chiric, who overheard the captain and the doctor talking, and the beautiful and smart young noble officer candidate Blankney. He was sawed off by Stephen in the movie, and Jack gave him a biography of Nelson. Blankney’s actor later played the premature boy Octavian in the HBO+BBC TV series "Rome"... There are many more, as well as the friendly group of mainland turtles from Galapagos. The doctor wears glasses. Measure their necks...
O'Brien is obviously a doctor. For the 20 and a half Aubrey-Maturin series, what does the role of a doctor represent, and how much the shadow of the author himself can make the author treat him like this. preference? Every author has a certain Narcissus complex, reflecting himself in the characters in his novels. However, as a reader, O'Brien is like his doctor, or the doctor reflects O'Brien's soul, which is a lucky thing. Fortunately, Peter Will brought them to the screen.
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