Making Melville
Wednesday, May 4, 2016
Monday, April 25, 2016
Benito Cereno, The Movie
Here's a trailer for Serge Roullet's 1969 film adaption of Melville's novella. Half of it's in French, but there is definitely a sense of palpable unreality that the narrator describes aboard the ship. Watch out for vague spoilers!
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Moby-Dick dessin animee!
Here is a French cartoon, "The adventures of young Moby-Dick!" It's one of the "Les contes immortels," children's cartoons based on classic novels. Other titles in the series include The Count of Monte Cristo, Voyage to the Center of the Earth, and Jack London's Call of the Wild. Pretty wacky.
As far as I can tell, this is the only one that isn't just a re-telling of the novel. In this cartoon, it's the day that young Moby learns to swim up to the water's surface! Unfortunately it has no subtitles, but I plan to watch it at some point this weekend and I promise to report back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ148Yt3oZQ
As far as I can tell, this is the only one that isn't just a re-telling of the novel. In this cartoon, it's the day that young Moby learns to swim up to the water's surface! Unfortunately it has no subtitles, but I plan to watch it at some point this weekend and I promise to report back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ148Yt3oZQ
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Binky Barnes, Wingman
In this episode of Arthur, the whole class is doing a research on bugs. Binky becomes so obsessed with catching butterflies that Sue Ellen compares him to Ahab in Moby-Dick. Fun stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzuf5uM6_7A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzuf5uM6_7A
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