It was only because of the release of a certain fantasy film that Peter Weir’s “Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World” failed to win the Academy Award for Best Picture in early 2004.
Based on a series of novels by Patrick O’Brian, “Master and Commander” depicted a several weeks aboard the Hms Surprise, an English warship during the Napoleonic wars.
The Surprise was commanded by Capt.
Jack Aubrey (Russell Crowe), and whose medical responsibilities were led by Dr.
Stephen Maturin (Paul Bettany).
The relationship between the rough-hewn, professional Aubrey and the meticulous and scientific Maturin, served at the film’s emotional core amid…The post Master And Commander Borrowed an Important Piece of Tech From Titanic appeared first on /Film.
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