The Bounty: We will go around the Horn.

[faraway_lights]

Absolutely criminal that Hopkins didn't get an Oscar gong for this role. I still think it's by far his best performance - completely riveting from start to finish.

[stephenc]

The cast in this movie is one of the best I've ever seen, great movie

[jimbo.fife.]

Anthony Hopkin's portrayal of Bligh is outstanding - so believable. I watch this movie on a regular basis just to marvel at his acting talents. He's damn good also as Van Helsing in Francis Coppola's Dracula.

[tomasbiagioni]

For me this is the best scene in the whole movie. The power play between Bligh and Christian from the initial use of Blighs first name to the implication of cowardice to Christian at the end. Hopkins is an incredible actor and the smile at the end is just a perfect gesture to show Bligh knows what’s going on.

[robinrobyn]

Anthony Hopkins is one of my favorite actors. He's so talented, that even that slight smile he gave Fletcher Christian, during this exchange between them, was creepy. It said so much, without a word being said.

[JMUDoc]

A massively underrated film, this one.

[rgmeier]

Totally agree, Brilliant. A tyrant but one of the most accompilshed seaman to date. The story of Captain Bligh and his 18 supporters is one of the most well-known seafaring stories. The men traveled 4, 000 miles in a dangerously loaded 23-foot open boat. The ship in that era had to be run tight to survive. Big mistake landing in an Island with naked polyenisian girls after months at Who could handle that?

[enscroggs]

The Bounty voyage was ill-starred from the get-go. The whole project was the brainchild of Sir Joshua Banks, King George's favorite botanist. Banks selected the ship (a former collier called the Bethia), designed and supervised her modifications (Bounty was a floating greenhouse with a heating and irrigation system) and selected her commander, Lt. Wm Bligh, a man Banks knew from the Cook voyages and the perhaps best navigator in the RN. Unfortunately Banks didn't know the RN very well. The Bounty was a small ship, by tonnage rated as a cutter, which by navy rules meant several things: 1) Cutters were commander by lieutenants, not full captains. Consequently Bligh wasn't promoted. 2) Cutters didn't rate a commissioned officer as second-in-command, Consequently Bligh didn't have the back-up of a professional staff. 3) Cutters weren't assigned a marine contingent, so Bligh didn't have the force to resist a mutiny. 4) The Bounty was insanely overcrowded on the return trip due to her small size and nearly 400 potted breadfruit saplings.

[kimwblaze]

Anthony Hopkins gets it so perfectly right. His intensity is spellbinding. The Devon accent of Bligh is spot on as well.

[colinclarke]

That sneering smile gets me every time...brilliant actor ...the best captain bligh ever...although Trevor Howard was good too

[jodi]

Best version of Mutiny on the Bounty, best characterization, best acting PERIOD. Sir Tony is so seething mad and Mel is hanging by a thread 😁

[Jolar]

I saw this movie when it came out because I was a teenager and I loved the Mad Max films, but Anthony Hopkins just blew me away in this and then I tried to see everything he'd made that I could get my hands on! We didn't have Netflix back then but we had VHS and then, of course, eventually his career took off internationally with "Silence of the Lambs". Still, I love his "smaller roles" in "84 Charring Cross Road", "The Good Father", and this incredible turn as William Bligh in "The Bounty".

[chairmanmeow-ijwd]

Hopkins knows how to channel an alcoholic who hasnt had a drink for two days...

[kim-andresandnes]

Anthony Hopkins best role as captain William Bligh still is mesmerizing in 2024, and will be so in the far future. Acting on the highest level 🙏🏆

[mattbod]

A class performance from Hopkins. His most memorable for me. He makes Gibson look wooden.

[ricardocantoral]

Hopkins is about a hair away from completely becoming unglued.

[viperatech]

Surprised that ship didn't capsize due to the weight of that cast.

[corcoroli]

It is a film that everyone should put on their list to watch, it is underrated, has a wonderful cast of Hopkins, Gibson, Laurence Oliver, Edward Fox, Daniel Day-Lewis, Bernard Hill, Leam Neeson, Wi Kuki Kaa .... based on book written in 1972, by Richard Hough, and released in 1984, with the replica boat costing $25m, it is a great film, it does feel a little dated now, but I still love watching the superb acting and screenplay. This particular scene stuck in my mind since I watched it for the first time in the 90's. It is great, I wish there were more films like this made today. Proper script, proper screenplay, proper acting, and attention to the details of the story. The Shining 1980 also sticks in my mind as being just a phenomenal film. There are not many films as good as these.

[pedrodeeg]

Mad Max and Hannibal lector arguing about the horn

[valmarsiglia]

I'm from New Orleans. Whenever a hurricane's about to hit, I use Bligh's speech here as a pep talk. Great stuff, vintage Hopkins.