In the Heart of the Sea
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Short description
In the winter of 1820, the whaling ship Essex sets out from New England under an inexperienced captain, George Pollard, with the experienced Owen Chase serving as first mate. Months into a successful voyage, a sperm whale of extraordinary size and apparent intent attacks the vessel, leaving the crew stranded far from land in small boats. What follows is a prolonged struggle to survive at sea, as the men face storms, hunger, thirst and desperate choices that test their morale and their beliefs.
The film is directed by Ron Howard, the twenty-third of the thirty-two features he has directed in chronological order, following Rush and preceding Inferno. Charles Leavitt wrote the screenplay, and Brian Grazer, Howard and Paula Weinstein produced. Chris Hemsworth plays Owen Chase, Benjamin Walker plays George Pollard, Cillian Murphy plays Matthew Joy, Brendan Gleeson appears as the older Thomas Nickerson, and Ben Whishaw plays Herman Melville. The story draws on the real maritime disaster that later inspired Melville's novel.
Released in December 2015, the film had a budget of 100 million US dollars and took about 94 million worldwide, so it did not recover its cost at the box office. On IMDb it holds 6.9 out of 10 from roughly 158,000 votes, and on TMDB 6.8 out of 10 from about 4,500 votes, while the critics' rating stands at 5.5 out of 10 from 237 reviews, lower than the audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- The film is based on the real events experienced by the crew of the whaling ship “Essex,” which sank after being attacked by a sperm whale in the South Pacific Ocean in 1820. This incident inspired Herman Melville to write the novel “Moby Dick”.
- In 2000, Barry Levinson began filming a cinematic adaptation of the novel. "Miramax" was to handle distribution.
- According to Chris Hemsworth, the actors involved in filming were on a diet, consuming no more than 500-600 calories per day, in order to lose weight and look more believable in scenes where the ship's crew is starving.
- This is the sixth film based on a true story directed by Ron Howard. Previously, Howard directed "Apollo 13", "A Beautiful Mind", "Cinderella Man", "Frost/Nixon", and "Rush".
- Herman Melville himself never sailed on the "Essex." He was a sailor on the whaling ship "Acushnet."
- Some scenes of the film were shot in the Canary Islands. John Huston also filmed his cinematic adaptation of Melville's novel there.
- The crew of the "Essex," which suffered an attack by a sperm whale, is attempting to reach one of the islands of the Juan Fernández Archipelago. More than a hundred years before the events described, the same island served as a refuge for a certain Alexander Selkirk from Scotland, who spent several years there. His story was described by Daniel Defoe in the novel "Robinson Crusoe."
- Michelle Fairley, Joseph Mawle, Donald Sumpter, and Jamie Sives appeared in "Game of Thrones" as Catelyn Stark, Benjen Stark, Maester Luwin, and Jory Cassel, respectively.
- Cillian Murphy, Charlotte Riley, and Paul Anderson all starred together in the British crime drama "Peaky Blinders."
- Before Benjamin Walker, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Hiddleston, and Henry Cavill were considered for the role of the captain.
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