Recommendations of the Editorial team
The films that were most difficult to rotate were “The White Hai”, 1995 “Waterworld”-and in 2003 Peter Weir’s “Master and Commander”, the film adaptation of a novel of the “Aubrey Maturin” novel series by Patrick O’Brian. The focus is on a British captain, who during the Napoleonic wars in 1805 a French caper ship around the Cape Horn and further.
Weir had the warship HMS Rose recreated one to one and filmed a lot on the open sea, which caused great fears in the 20th Century Fox production studio. In the end there were ten Oscar nominations. Two awards, for the camera and sound cut. So an appreciation for work in the large (action sequences in the battle of two warships) as well as in the small (claustrophobia and warehouse bracket within the crew).
Peter Weir is an actor director who is his two main actors-Russell Crowe as an art-loving but stubborn Lucky Jack, Paul Bettany as a pessimistic doctor Dr. Maturin – helped her best performance. But “Master and Commander” is not just a film about friendship, report lines and renunciations under extreme travel conditions.
Weir is also a landscape filmmaker, in whose formative work – “Picnic on Valentine’s Day”, “The Last Welle” – man feels the hardness of inhospitable nature. In this, its most beautiful film, it is the other way around. The captain interrupts the ordered hunt for the French and enables his doctor’s long-awaited land gang to the Galapagos Islands, which never looked more splendid than here (now also in 4K). Crowe and Bettany would also like to make a sequel.
But Peter Weir, 81, ended his regional career after the failure of “The Way Back” from 2010. (Leonine)