Master and Commander

[sirhugs]

Just watched this powerful movie and thought al it lacked was some sex.

Some possible angles:

~ I know in the novels, Jack Aubrey is a ladies' man ashore. Why not a nice indigenous lass ( or lonely whalers wife) on Galapogos?

~ I don't go for the gay male, but an obvious possibility

~ freeing a female prisoner off the French privateer?

~ if nothing else, sailing is such a fantasy thrill for us landlubbers that a sailing setting is a nice start, even if not specific to the movie/genre/ British Navy.

 

[nushu2]

One of my stories is about Captain Cook's first voyage to Tahiti. Actually, he was a lieutenant at the time. Unfortunately, there were some big holes in the research. One of the holes was the way I wrote Joseph Banks, the biologist. He was one of the most interesting people on that voyage, I found out later. There's a story about Banks and the Tahitian queen in a canoe....

http://www.plantexplorers.com/Explorers/Biographies/Banks/

 

[DayLate]

If you liked the movie you will love the books, but start at the beginning and read them in order. However, you won't find any sex in them either.

 

[sirhugs]

If you liked the movie you will love the books, but start at the beginning and read them in order. However, you won't find any sex in them either.

I read the first book, but found O'Brian's style demanding, more because he gives too littke context than how he writes. I prefer Hornblower as novels.

Though the sex in the novel was off screen, it was clearly there. My dirty mind was able to fil in the blanks just fine.