Higgledy-Piggledy Whale Statements Appendix 2: The Whale God (1962)
Update: 2021-11-16
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This week, we watched The Whale God (1962), a gothic, black and white kaiju drama adaptation of a novel by the same name that adapted Moby Dick to the world of Japanese whaling in (we think) the later 19th century. It's an intense story of a village's reigning madness of revenge after generations of terror at the hands of a monstrous and unstoppable whale - the majority of the cast are Ahabs, which makes for a wild and sometimes harrowing ride. It's an adaptation that goes a lot further from Moby Dick than the 1956 movie, which means there's a lot to talk about!
Next episode: We piece together a bunch of fragments from Orson Welles' long, frustrated effort to produce his own adaptation of Moby Dick.
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