Nice post blessingx, I've only seen and enjoyed the Brando version, you got me interested in these different versions of the Mutiny on the Bounty.
Franz Kafka's "The Trial" (1993) with Kyle Maclachlan as Josef K.
I think the movie is faithful to the main themes in the book and the dystopia which Kafka depicts are applicable in today's world. I would give it a 7/10.
There is also an older filming of this book by Orson Welles.
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Originally Posted by blessingx  More than most films on a single subject/source material, I find the Bounty films (1935 with Clark Gable and Charles Laughton, 1962 with Marlon Brando and Trevor Howard, 1984 with Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins) interesting as they all vary in sympathy for Fletcher Christian and the mutiny or William Bligh based on the social conditions at the time of the filming. It's an interesting example where three great films speak either to purity, liberty, individualism, social structure or law and order. It's not always overt, but there definitely worthly of a triple feature weekend.
It should also be noted, you can probably safely skip '89s Mutant on the Bounty. 
Since Casablanca was mentioned earlier, another great triple feature is it, Sydney Pollack and Robert Redfords Havanna and Pamela Andersons action/sci-fi Barb Wire ( worlds greatest review) which all came from the Casablanca script. The Third Man can also be added as a film that could only be made after it, and is superior in my book. |
