Herman Melville
Nacimiento : 1819-08-01, New York City, New York, USA
Muerte : 1891-09-28
Historia
Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. He is best known for his novel Moby-Dick and the posthumous novella Billy Budd. His first three books gained much contemporary attention (the first, Typee, becoming a bestseller), but after a fast-blooming literary success in the late 1840s, his popularity declined precipitously in the mid-1850s and never recovered during his lifetime. When he died in 1891, he was almost completely forgotten. It was not until the "Melville Revival" in the early 20th century that his work won recognition, especially Moby-Dick which was hailed as one of the literary masterpieces of both American and world literature. He was the first writer to have his works collected and published by the Library of America.
Writer
Filmed primarily at sea onboard an active fishing trawler, Ishmael is a blending of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick with a personal story of a battle with terminal illness.
Story
An unassuming Wall Street lawyer finds himself beset by a new employee, Bartleby, who refuses to work--in an ongoing act of passive refusal, he simply 'prefers not to.' A quiet, dogged battle of the wills ensues in this stop-motion reimagining of a Melville classic.
Novel
El estreno de Billy Budd de Benjamin Britten en Madrid marca, sin duda alguna, uno de los grandes acontecimientos del Bicentenario del Teatro Real. Su magnífico libreto basado en la obra homónima de Herman Melville, narra la historia del marinero Billy Budd: un joven bello, leal, generoso, fuerte, ingenuo y bondadoso que logra desquiciar con su belleza y personalidad al maestro de armas del navío, quien es incapaz de canalizar la situación, y crucifica al ingenuo sin miramientos. Esta nueva producción del Teatro Real se presenta por primera vez en Madrid, en coproducción con la Opéra national de Paris, de la mano de Deborah Warner, uno de los grandes nombres de la dirección escénica actual.
Story
Moby Dick es la ballena blanca que mutiló a Ahad, un capitán dispuesto a iniciar un viaje sin retorno con un único objetivo: encontrar a la ballena y acabar con ella. Una obsesión a la que arrastrará a toda una tripulación entre la que se incluye Ishmael, un joven ansioso por encontrar nuevas experiencias. De las tantas adaptaciones que se han hecho de la novela de Herman Melville, Trey Strokes optó por variar la época en la que sucedían los hechos y traer el argumento hasta el siglo XXI. De esta manera, la clásica historia se convierte en una película de ciencia ficción destacada por el uso de las nuevas tecnologías dentro de un submarino de última generación.
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When Ahab's mother dies in childbirth, the infant's gruff father places his son in the care of his pious aunt. It is Rose who sparks the imagination of the young boy by teaching him to read the Bible, though when Ahab is reclaimed by his father a decade later the growing boy strives to become a hunter like his old man. Later, after Ahab warms to his father's lover Louise, the old man dies and the boy is sent back to his God-fearing aunt. Rejecting Rose and her abusive husband Henry's unforginv brand of discipline and infuriated that his aunt confiscated the locket given to him by Louise, young Ahab boldly stages his own kidnapping as an ingenious escape plan.
Novel
Follows the creation of a stage play adaptation of "Moby Dick".
Novel
The film follows a young Achab and the events that inspire his eventual journey to the sea.
Short Story
Machine shop entrepreneur Partanen has severe work pressures and his life is messed up. The foundation of Partanen's life is work. Due to rather unfit subordinates and increasing production pressure, he decides to hire a new employee.
Novel
An adaptation of Herman Melville's short story "Bartleby, the Scrivener" told in the setting of a modern office.
Novel
Moby Dick is an unfinished film by Orson Welles, filmed in 1971. It is not to be confused with the incomplete (and now lost) 1955 film Welles made of his meta-play Moby Dick—Rehearsed, or with Moby Dick (1956 film), in which Welles played a supporting role. The film consists of readings by Welles from the book Moby Dick, shot against a blue background with various optical illusions to give the impression of being at sea. It was made during a break in the filming of The Other Side of the Wind. There is some ambiguity about what Welles intended to do with the footage, and how he was going to compile it. It remained unedited in his lifetime.
Story
Un sargento de la Legión Extranjera en Djibouti, África, siente atracción, luego celos y, finalmente, odio por uno de sus soldados más sobresalientes. El enfrentamiento entre los dos hombres se convierte en la única guerra concreta para ellos, sumergidos en el tedio del entrenamiento y los rituales cotidianos de los militares en tiempos de paz. Libre adaptación de la novela "Billy Budd", de Herman Melville.
Novel
Pierre vive felizmente con su madre, está a punto de casarse con su bella prometida y ha alcanzado un gran éxito como escritor. Una noche, sin embargo, conoce a una misteriosa muchacha que deambula por el bosque y que le hace una sorprendente revelación que cambiará su vida. (FILMAFFINITY)
Writer
Pierre vive felizmente con su madre, está a punto de casarse con su bella prometida y ha alcanzado un gran éxito como escritor. Una noche, sin embargo, conoce a una misteriosa muchacha que deambula por el bosque y que le hace una sorprendente revelación que cambiará su vida. (FILMAFFINITY)
Novel
Animated feature about a young whale named Moby Dick.
Novel
In 1841 young Ishmael signs aboard the whaling ship Pequod, under the command of the strict, one-legged Capt. Ahab. Ishmael soon finds out that Ahab is searching for the legendary while whale Moby Dick, who cost Ahab his leg, and he will let nothing stand in the way of his getting his revenge on the beast.
Novel
Adaptation of the novel "Bartleby the Scrinener: A story of Wall Street" (1853) by Hermann Melville.
Story
An asocial and enigmatic office clerk refuses to do his work, leaving it up to his boss to decide what should be done with him.
Novel
French short adaptation of Herman Melville's classic. The employee of a lawyer is in a mental hospital following a scandal. Some time later, he finds his employer.
Story
Bartleby, an enigmatic man who calmly refuses to carry out his duties, is introduced in this period dramatization of Melville’s haunting story as a scrivener in a 1969 film production of Encyclopedia Britannica Educational Corporation.
Author
A version of Benjamin Britten's opera based on the Melville story. Will the virtuous young sailor Billy Budd be hanged for murder?
Story
A French sailor circa 1850, disembarks in a desert Atlantic island, and discovers a woman who had survived for many years her father and brother, dead while searching for mysterious valuables. The young couple discover paradise, and its end.
Novel
En 1797, durante las guerras napoleónicas, un buque de guerra inglés recluta a la fuerza a un inocente joven que se irá ganando la simpatía del resto de la tripulación. Pero eso no podrá soportarlo el suboficial de armas.
Author
Two 19th-century sailors jump ship only to discover their tropical paradise is a cannibal stronghold.
Author
Nueva adaptación de la novela homónima de Herman Melville. Ahab, el capitán del Pequod, un barco ballenero, vive obsesionado por dar caza a Moby Dick, la gran ballena blanca que le arrancó una pierna y lo llenó de odio y sed de venganza. Por esta razón, consagra su vida a navegar incansablemente por los siete mares con el fin de capturar a su presa.
Novel
Una obra dentro de una obra de Moby Dick de Orson Welles.
Novel
The demented, ruthless Captain Ahab pursues the white whale which took off his leg years before.
Novel
The curse of a shark god follows a group of people who have violated a sacred jungle idol.
Novel
Ahab pursues a whale that chewed off a leg when his brother, vying with him for the hand of a minister's daughter, pushed him overboard. When he has caught the monstrous whale he will then deal with his brother.
Novel
Herman Melville's mad Capt. Ahab (John Barrymore) spends years hunting the white whale that got his leg.
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Based on Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick."
