Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Master and Commander is a historical naval novel by Patrick O'Brian. First published in 1970 it is first in the Aubrey-Maturin series of stories of Captain Jack Aubrey and the naval surgeon Stephen Maturin.
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is a 2003 film directed by Peter Weir and starring Russell Crowe as Jack Aubrey, with Paul Bettany as Stephen Maturin. It is adapted from three novels in the Aubrey–Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian.
Captain Aubrey of HMS Surprise pursues a French frigate into the Pacific Ocean, there are a number of encounters between the ships before the climactic final battle but much of the film deals with the relationships and life aboard the British ship.
In 1805, in the midst of the Napoleonic Wars, the Royal Navy frigate, Captain Aubrey of HMS Surprise is ordered to pursue and destroy the French privateer Acheron, bound for the Pacific.
In the opening scene, a midshipman briefly sees a dark shape in a fog bank and calls for the captain. As Aubrey scans the fog bank with his spyglass, the Surprise is suddenly raked by cannon fire. The Acheron appears and the Surprise is hit repeatedly, causing severe damage and many casualties. In the calm, Aubrey orders the Surprise to be towed into the fog bank where she evades the Acheron.
The film is constructed from episodes from several novels in Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series. The main plot, in which Aubrey in HMS Surprise chases an enemy frigate round Cape Horn into the Pacific, is based loosely on The Far Side of the World, but the American frigate USS Norfolk in the book becomes the American-built French privateer Acheron in the film (the Acheron is based on 44-gun American frigates like the USS Constitution).
The movie opened #2 in the first weekend of North American release, Nov. 14-16, 2003, grossing $25,105,990. Outside of the U.S. and Canada the movie grossed $116,550,000, doing best in Italy (at $15,111,841) with an overall worldwide total of $210.5 million.
Хозяин морей
Приключения "Хозяин морей: На краю Земли" (Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World)
Действие фильма, снятого по культовым романам Патрика О'Брайана, разворачивается во время наполеоновских войн. Кроу играет капитана британского военного флота Джека Обри по прозвищу Счастливчик, а Пол Беттани - его друга, корабельного врача Стивена Мэтьюрина. Их корабль "Сюрприз" неожиданно атакуют превосходящие силы противника. Несмотря на сильные повреждения и людские потери, Обри решает преследовать врага и начинает беспрецедентный переход через два океана. На кон поставлена репутация Счастливчика Джека, его жизнь и жизнь его команды.
Вместе с кораблём Джека Обри зрители совершают долгое и трудное путешествие - от берегов Бразилии до бурных вод у мыса Горн и далее на юг, сквозь лёд и снег, на самый край света - к далёким Галапагосским островам.
Съемки картины начались 3-го июня 2002 года, а закончились в середине октября того же года. Бюджет картины составил 135 миллионов $. Рабочим названием картины было "The Far Side of the World".
В ролях: Рассел Кроу, Пол Беттани, Джеймс Д'Арси, Эдвард Вудал, Крис Ларкин и др. |
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