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* TheBlackGuyDiesFirst: In the book it's noted that this is unfortunately TruthInTelevsion; all the survivors of the ''Essex'' were white, and all six of the black crew perished. Philbrick notes that because because of the racism they faced back home, they were generally a lot poorer and so less likely to have fat or muscle reserves than their white crewmates.
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* SparedByTheAdaptation: William Bond went missing at sea and was presumed dead; in the film, he makes it back to shore.
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* UncertainDoom: In the book, Obed Hendricks' whaleboat separates from Pollard's during the night, leaving him and his two crew without any navigation equipment. They're never seen again- although months later a whaleboat manned only by skeletons washed ashore, theorized to be what remained of them.
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* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Chris Hemsworth uses his natural Australian accent for Owen Chase, a character born and raised in the United States.
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* IronicName: Matthew ''Joy'' suffers terribly, along with the rest of the crew, before DyingAlone of a head injury and starvation.
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* OneHeadTaller: Non-romantic example; Chase is a head taller than his childhood friend Joy.
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* AdaptationalMundanity: The "white whale" is instead portrayed as a heavily-scarred individual whose whiteness comes from extensive scarring, as opposed to the traditional portrayal of Moby Dick as an albino. While rare, albino sperm whales have been documented, and the inspiration of the tale, ''Mocha Dick'' was historically known to indeed be an albino sperm whale. In 2021, [[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/30/white-sperm-whale-rarest-animals-captured-on-film-jamaica an albino sperm whale was sighted near Jamaica]].
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* ArtisticLiscenceBiology: The sperm whale attacking the ship is indicated to be male, and is presented as the leader of a pod, protecting his family. Male sperm whales are actually solitary, and only converge with others during the mating season.
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* ArtisticLiscenceBiology: ArtisticLicenseBiology: The sperm whale attacking the ship is indicated to be male, and is presented as the leader of a pod, protecting his family. Male sperm whales are actually solitary, and only converge with others during the mating season.
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* ArtisticLiscenceBiology: The sperm whale attacking the ship is indicated to be male, and is presented as the leader of a pod, protecting his family. Male sperm whales are actually solitary, and only converge with others during the mating season.
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''In the Heart of the Sea'' is a [[TheFilmOfTheBook 2015 biographical adventure film based on Nathaniel Philbrick's 2000 non-fiction book of the same name]]. The film was directed by Creator/RonHoward and stars Creator/ChrisHemsworth, Creator/BenjaminWalker, Creator/CillianMurphy, Creator/TomHolland, Creator/BenWhishaw and Creator/BrendanGleeson.
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''In the Heart of the Sea'' is a [[TheFilmOfTheBook 2015 biographical adventure film based on Nathaniel Philbrick's 2000 non-fiction book of the same name]]. The film was directed by Creator/RonHoward and stars Creator/ChrisHemsworth, Creator/BenjaminWalker, Creator/CillianMurphy, Creator/TomHolland, Creator/BenWhishaw Creator/BenWhishaw, Creator/FrankDillane, and Creator/BrendanGleeson.
Creator/BrendanGleeson.
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** the story of the ''Essex'' was not some secret mystery that Melville had to pry out of Nickerson, it was an (in)famous sea tale well known to the men of the whaling trade and captured in popular imagination, if not spoken of too openly by the austere Quaker community of Nantucket. Pollard would speak openly of the story from the very moment he was rescued, and Chase and Nickerson would both write down accounts. Chase became a minor celebrity off the back of the publication of his book.
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** the The story of the ''Essex'' was not some secret mystery that Melville had to pry out of Nickerson, it was an (in)famous sea tale well known to the men of the whaling trade and captured in popular imagination, if not spoken of too openly by the austere Quaker community of Nantucket. Pollard would speak openly of the story from the very moment he was rescued, and Chase and Nickerson would both write down accounts. Chase became a minor celebrity off the back of the publication of his book.
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Inkeeper Thomas Nickerson is the last survivor of the whaleship ''Essex'' and agrees to tell the secret details of the experience to novelist Creator/HermanMelville, who seeks inspiration for a novel he intends to call [[Literature/MobyDick "Moby Dick"]].
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* TragicKeepsake: Benjamin Lawrence winded a small piece of twine every day while adrift; the resulting rope he kept with him for the rest of his life as a memento of the incident.
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* NeverMyFault: The ship survives a storm, thanks to Owen's efforts. Pollard instructs him to tell the crew they'll be heading back to Nantucket for repairs, where Owen would resign in public for decisions that nearly sunk the ''Essex''. Owen points out that it was Pollard's decision to not take down the sails that nearly got the ship sunk until it was too late to do so and Pollard won't have any of it.
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** The ship survives a storm, thanks to Owen's efforts. Pollard instructs him to tell the crew they'll be heading back to Nantucket for repairs, where Owen would resign in public for decisions that nearly sunk the ''Essex''. Owen points out that it was Pollard's decision to not take down the sails that nearly got the ship sunk until it was too late to do so and Pollard won't have any of it. Notably, none of this happened in real life, it was a simple error that saw the ship running into an unfortunate storm, Chase didn't save the day and Pollard didn't threaten to blame him for the incident.
** The ship survives a storm, thanks to Owen's efforts. Pollard instructs him to tell the crew they'll be heading back to Nantucket for repairs, where Owen would resign in public for decisions that nearly sunk the ''Essex''. Owen points out that it was Pollard's decision to not take down the sails that nearly got the ship sunk until it was too late to do so and Pollard won't have any of it. Notably, none of this happened in real life, it was a simple error that saw the ship running into an unfortunate storm, Chase didn't save the day and Pollard didn't threaten to blame him for the incident.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Owen Coffin acts like a dick to pretty much everyone. However, near the end, he [[spoiler:sacrifices himself to save his cousin Pollard]].
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Owen Coffin acts like a dick to pretty much everyone. However, near the end, he [[spoiler:sacrifices himself to save his cousin Pollard]]. And once again, in real life, it was actually the other way around; [[spoiler: When Coffin drew a lot that would see him being eaten, Pollard swore to protect the boy and even offered to take his place. Coffin gently refused and accepted his fate.]]
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* {{Nepotism}}: George Pollard, Jr. is chosen as Captain of the ''Essex'' -- over the more-experienced Owen Chase -- because Pollard comes from a well-established family and his father is one of the investors.
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* {{Nepotism}}: George Pollard, Jr. is chosen as Captain of the ''Essex'' -- over the more-experienced Owen Chase -- because Pollard comes from a well-established family and his father is one of the investors. In real life, Pollard was much more experienced than Chase and fully deserved his position as Captain.
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''In the Heart of the Sea'' is a [[TheFilmOfTheBook 2015 biographical adventure film based on Nathaniel Philbrick's 2000 non-fiction [[TheFilmOfTheBook book of the same name]]. The film was directed by Creator/RonHoward and stars Creator/ChrisHemsworth, Creator/BenjaminWalker, Creator/CillianMurphy, Creator/TomHolland, Creator/BenWhishaw and Creator/BrendanGleeson.
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* AdaptationalNameChange: Understandably to avoid the audience [[OneSteveLimit confusing him with main character Owen Chase]], Owen Coffin is renamed to Henry Coffin.
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* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: Chase is altered from a Nantucketer to an off-islander son of a farmer (what would be known to the Nantucketers by the slur "coof") to add drama and fuel the conflict between him and the film version of Pollard. In reality, the bond between the Nantucketers, Chase among them, is theorized to have been a source of strength and brotherhood that allowed them to survive whereas the coofs were ostracized along with the African-American crewmen and the majority of them assigned to the ill-fated boat led by second mate Joy.
