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* CreatorKiller: Melville was a pretty successful author between 1845 and 1850. Unfortunately, after ''Moby Dick'' tanked (yes, this classic of English literature was an abysmal failure both critically and commercially), he never truly recovered and his work during his last 30 years was largely ignored and unknown. Reportedly, this caused a CreatorBreakdown.
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* CreatorKiller: Melville was a pretty successful author between 1845 and 1850. Unfortunately, after ''Moby Dick'' ''Moby-Dick'' tanked (yes, this classic of English literature was an abysmal failure both critically and commercially), he never truly recovered and his work during his last 30 years was largely ignored and unknown. Reportedly, this caused a CreatorBreakdown.
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* DawsonCasting: Although Ishmael is supposed to be in his twenties, Creator/RichardBasehart was actually forty when the film was made - two years older than Creator/GregoryPeck.
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* DawsonCasting: Although Ishmael is supposed to be in his twenties, Creator/RichardBasehart was actually forty when the film was made - -- two years older than Creator/GregoryPeck.
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* OnSetInjury: Creator/GregoryPeck, who did not use a double, injured his kneecap, Richard Basehart broke his ankle while jumping into a longboat, and Leo Genn slipped a disk and caught pneumonia before shooting had finished
* OneForTheMoneyOneForTheArt: Creator/OrsonWelles later used the salary from his cameo to fund his own stage production of ''Moby Dick'', in which Rod Steiger played Captain Ahab.
* OneForTheMoneyOneForTheArt: Creator/OrsonWelles later used the salary from his cameo to fund his own stage production of ''Moby Dick'', in which Rod Steiger played Captain Ahab.
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* OnSetInjury: Creator/GregoryPeck, who did not use a double, injured his kneecap, Richard Basehart broke his ankle while jumping into a longboat, whaleboat, and Leo Genn slipped a disk and caught pneumonia before shooting had finished
* OneForTheMoneyOneForTheArt: Creator/OrsonWelles later used the salary from his cameo to fund his own stage production of''Moby Dick'', ''Moby-Dick'', in which Rod Steiger played Captain Ahab.
* OneForTheMoneyOneForTheArt: Creator/OrsonWelles later used the salary from his cameo to fund his own stage production of
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* TroubledProduction: Filming was delayed by cast injuries and bad weather which caused the budget to overrun. And then there was the white whale. A ninety-foot model was built for $30,000. A tug pulled it out into the Irish Sea and, after two shots were completed, the towline snapped and the whale quickly sank. A second whale was built on a barge but a storm also sank it without a trace. Finally a third whale was built and again the towline snapped. Creator/JohnHuston had had enough. He climbed into the whale and shouted, "Lose this whale and you lose me!" He stayed aboard as two crew members swam under the whale, grabbed the line, and reconnected it. In his autobiography, Huston called this, "The most difficult picture I ever made".
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* TroubledProduction: Filming was delayed by cast injuries and bad weather which caused the budget to overrun. And then there was the white whale. A ninety-foot 90-foot model was built for $30,000. A tug pulled it out into the Irish Sea and, after two shots were completed, the towline snapped and the whale quickly sank. A second whale was built on a barge but a storm also sank it without a trace. Finally a third whale was built and again the towline snapped. Creator/JohnHuston had had enough. He climbed into the whale and shouted, "Lose this whale and you lose me!" He stayed aboard as two crew members swam under the whale, grabbed the line, and reconnected it. In his autobiography, Huston called this, "The most difficult picture I ever made".
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* ScienceImitatesArt:
** Not surprisingly, Melville's work has been of inspiration for a few prehistoric whale names. ''Albicetus oxymycterus'' -- "sharp-nose white whale", named despite, obviously, only being known from fossil bones -- is a very early sperm whale named after the great cetacean himself. ''Livyatan melvillei'', a very large predatory sperm whale, was instead named in the author's honor.
** ''Voeltzkowia mobydick'' is a type of skink named due to a number of its traits, namely its absent hindlimbs, flipper-like forelimbs, reduced eyes, and pigment-less skin, putting its discovers in mind of the white whale.
** Not surprisingly, Melville's work has been of inspiration for a few prehistoric whale names. ''Albicetus oxymycterus'' -- "sharp-nose white whale", named despite, obviously, only being known from fossil bones -- is a very early sperm whale named after the great cetacean himself. ''Livyatan melvillei'', a very large predatory sperm whale, was instead named in the author's honor.
** ''Voeltzkowia mobydick'' is a type of skink named due to a number of its traits, namely its absent hindlimbs, flipper-like forelimbs, reduced eyes, and pigment-less skin, putting its discovers in mind of the white whale.
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* CaliforniaDoubling: Set in Massachusetts, shot in Ireland and Wales.
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* CaliforniaDoubling: Set The PortTown parts are set in Massachusetts, and were shot in Ireland and Wales.
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* CaliforniaDoubling: Set in Massachusetts, shot in Wales.
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* CaliforniaDoubling: Set in Massachusetts, shot in Ireland and Wales.
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* FakeAmerican:
** The various film versions cast British actors as the mostly-American crew of the ''Pequod''.
** Ahab is played by the British Creator/PatrickStewart in the 1998 miniseries.
** The various film versions cast British actors as the mostly-American crew of the ''Pequod''.
** Ahab is played by the British Creator/PatrickStewart in the 1998 miniseries.
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* CaliforniaDoubling: To date, none of the film versions have been shot in Massachusetts, in large part because the real New Bedford is far too developed and moder-looking to realistically pass for its 19th century self.
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* CaliforniaDoubling: To date, none of the film and TV versions have been shot in Massachusetts, in large part because the real New Bedford is far too developed and moder-looking to realistically pass for its 19th century self.
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* CreatorBacklash: Creator/GregoryPeck disliked his own performance as Ahab so much that he refused to allow footage from the film to be used in ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' for Quint's introduction.
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* OldShame: Creator/GregoryPeck disliked his own performance so much that he refused to allow footage from the film to be used in ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' for Quint's introduction.
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* BillingDisplacement: Creator/EthanHawke was billed over Creator/WilliamHurt for playing Starbuck.
!!2011 TV version
* BillingDisplacement: Creator/EthanHawke was billed over Creator/WilliamHurt for playing Starbuck.
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!!2011 TV version
* CaliforniaDoubling: To date, none of the film versions have been shot in Massachusetts, in large part because the real New Bedford is far too developed and moder-looking to realistically pass for its 19th century self.
* BillingDisplacement: Creator/EthanHawke was billed over Creator/WilliamHurt for playing
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* DawsonCasting: Although Ishmael is supposed to be in his twenties, Richard Basehart was actually forty when the film was made - two years older than Creator/GregoryPeck.
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* DawsonCasting: Although Ishmael is supposed to be in his twenties, Richard Basehart Creator/RichardBasehart was actually forty when the film was made - two years older than Creator/GregoryPeck.
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* BeamMeUpScotty: Ahab's last words are commonly believed to stop at the "For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee" part.
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* BeamMeUpScotty: Ahab's last words are commonly believed to stop at the "For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee" part. He also says it ''before'' harpooning Moby Dick rather than after he's tied to him.
