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In the Heart of the Sea

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In the Heart of the Sea	comment	Innkeeper Thomas Nickerson is the last survivor of the whaleship Essex and agrees to tell the secret details of the experience to novelist Herman Melville, who seeks inspiration for a novel he intends to call "Moby Dick".In the Heart of the Sea is a 2015 biographical adventure film based on Nathaniel Philbrick's 2000 non-fiction book of the same name. The film was directed by Ron Howard and stars Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker, Cillian Murphy, Tom Holland, Ben Whishaw, Frank Dillane, and Brendan Gleeson.
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In the Heart of the Sea / int_1501e2dd	type	Hero Antagonist
In the Heart of the Sea / int_1501e2dd	comment	Hero Antagonist: The White Whale, given that he protects a female and her calf as well as an entire pod.
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In the Heart of the Sea / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
In the Heart of the Sea / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License â€“ Biology: 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 / int_1e1afc1b	type	Framing Device
In the Heart of the Sea / int_1e1afc1b	comment	Framing Device: The main story is told by the elderly Thomas Nickerson to Herman Melville.
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In the Heart of the Sea / int_1fe9e22	type	Childhood Friends
In the Heart of the Sea / int_1fe9e22	comment	Childhood Friends: First Officer Owen Chase and Second Officer Matthew Joy. Thomas also has an older friend whom he sees as a brother.
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In the Heart of the Sea / int_228cb20	type	Adaptational Mundanity
In the Heart of the Sea / int_228cb20	comment	Adaptational Mundanity: 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, an albino sperm whale was sighted near Jamaica.
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In the Heart of the Sea / int_22a60f6a	type	Nepotism
In the Heart of the Sea / int_22a60f6a	comment	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 / int_23781532	type	Ironic Name
In the Heart of the Sea / int_23781532	comment	Ironic Name: Matthew Joy suffers terribly, along with the rest of the crew, before Dying Alone of a head injury and starvation.
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In the Heart of the Sea / int_272232f7	type	Moby Schtick
In the Heart of the Sea / int_272232f7	comment	Moby Schtick: Naturally, since the events inspired the novel, but subverted in that this is the first contact with the leviathan and the Essex is unable to put up a fight. The ending narrates that Pollard went out again looking for the white whale but he never found it.
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In the Heart of the Sea / int_2854b56d	type	Uncertain Doom
In the Heart of the Sea / int_2854b56d	comment	Uncertain Doom: 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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In the Heart of the Sea / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
In the Heart of the Sea / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: The white whale vs the Essex. The whale wins in less than a minute.
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In the Heart of the Sea / int_3e8d9cd3	type	Historical Hero Upgrade
In the Heart of the Sea / int_3e8d9cd3	comment	Lastly, in the film Pollard is implied to have wrecked his second ship pursuing a personal vendetta against the whale, when by all evidence it was Chase who carried on a vendetta (unlike in the film where Chase has an epiphany and gives up whaling) and just about everyone who served under Pollard had only praise for him and felt it unfair he was forced to retire from the sea after the luckless loss of his second ship.
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In the Heart of the Sea / int_43b154c9	type	Not Even Bothering with the Accent
In the Heart of the Sea / int_43b154c9	comment	Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Chris Hemsworth uses his natural Australian accent for Owen Chase, a character born and raised in the United States.
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In the Heart of the Sea / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
In the Heart of the Sea / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Owen Coffin acts like a dick to pretty much everyone. However, near the end, he sacrifices himself to save his cousin Pollard. And once again, in real life, it was actually the other way around; 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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In the Heart of the Sea / int_4bc2095b	type	One Head Taller
In the Heart of the Sea / int_4bc2095b	comment	One Head Taller: Non-romantic example; Chase is a head taller than his childhood friend Joy.
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In the Heart of the Sea / int_4e52a624	type	Screw the Money, I Have Rules!
In the Heart of the Sea / int_4e52a624	comment	Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: Owen Chase refuses to lie about the Essex's fate even after his employers offer him a bribe. Pollard eventually also decides the truth is more important than his family's good name.
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In the Heart of the Sea / int_53407671	type	Action Survivor
In the Heart of the Sea / int_53407671	comment	Action Survivor: Thomas Nickerson, who survives the ordeal to tell the tale (obviously).
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In the Heart of the Sea / int_730d3664	type	Adaptational Angst Upgrade
In the Heart of the Sea / int_730d3664	comment	Adaptational Angst Upgrade: The Essex crew resorting to No Party Like a Donner Party is treated like a supreme taboo that must be jealously concealed, when in fact it was an acceptable possibility of seafaring life with no particular social stigma in a community as tied to the sea as Nantucket. 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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In the Heart of the Sea / int_73f8d546	type	Working-Class Hero
In the Heart of the Sea / int_73f8d546	comment	Working-Class Hero: Moral implications notwithstanding, traditional whaling is realistically depicted as hard, dangerous, filthy work that could potentially earn a man a decent living or just as easily kill him.
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In the Heart of the Sea / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
In the Heart of the Sea / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: William Bond went missing at sea and was presumed dead; in the film, he makes it back to shore.
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In the Heart of the Sea / int_7e74d66f	type	Politically Correct History
In the Heart of the Sea / int_7e74d66f	comment	Ultimately, he has an epiphany that whaling is immoral and decides to settle down with his family. This cannot be further from the truth of the man who went on to have a long and successful career as a whaling captain while going through four marriages in his lifetime, and was said by some who served under him to have carried a personal vendetta against the whale that stove the Essex before spending his later years in a mental institution.
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In the Heart of the Sea / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
In the Heart of the Sea / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: Joy used to be one, and he managed to stay sober throughout the entire movie.
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In the Heart of the Sea / int_93520e35	type	Plucky Middie
In the Heart of the Sea / int_93520e35	comment	Plucky Middie: Thomas. He's a teenager on his first sail and the youngest of the crew by a margin. The plucky part has to be coaxed into him by Chase, and he ends up traumatized for life due to the horrors they lived through.
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In the Heart of the Sea / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
In the Heart of the Sea / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: 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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In the Heart of the Sea / int_97d54bb0	type	Tragic Keepsake
In the Heart of the Sea / int_97d54bb0	comment	Tragic Keepsake: 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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In the Heart of the Sea / int_abe4d7b	type	Blue Blood
In the Heart of the Sea / int_abe4d7b	comment	Pollard is portrayed as a haughty and inexperienced Blue Blood who owes his captaincy to nepotism when in reality Pollard had already served as a Mate on the Essex itself for several years and was justly deserving of his promotion.
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In the Heart of the Sea / int_ad982e04	type	Super-Persistent Predator
In the Heart of the Sea / int_ad982e04	comment	Super-Persistent Predator: The white sperm whale pursues the survivors of the ''Essex'' shipwreck with no reason given. Given the aforementioned attack, it probably acknowledged their dangerousness very quickly however given to the fact that sperm whales are very aggressive creatures by nature and have been known to attack ships without reason it seems unlikely that the monster was attacking out of any feeling for its mate and offspring and only because it needed something to unleash its natural aggression on until it finally became bored.
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In the Heart of the Sea / int_b1c7f430	type	Sea Monster
In the Heart of the Sea / int_b1c7f430	comment	Sea Monster: The white whale, inspiration to Moby Dick itself.
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In the Heart of the Sea / int_ba46585b	type	Adaptational Backstory Change
In the Heart of the Sea / int_ba46585b	comment	Adaptational Backstory Change: 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.
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In the Heart of the Sea / int_c12f0c4	type	Outrun the Fireball
In the Heart of the Sea / int_c12f0c4	comment	He heroically dives into the sinking Essex to retrieve valuable navigation equipment, complete with Outrun the Fireball, a feat actually committed by the ship's steward in real life.
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In the Heart of the Sea / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
In the Heart of the Sea / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: At the end, Melville assures the Nickersons that he's going to write a novel Very Loosely Based on a True Story, and doesn't intend to include the goriest parts of the crew's ordeal. Nor does he. ... Instead, his crew is killed when Moby Dick sinks the ship — save the narrator, who is immediately rescued.
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In the Heart of the Sea / int_d0c9634e	type	Animals Not to Scale
In the Heart of the Sea / int_d0c9634e	comment	Animals Not to Scale: The titular sperm whale turns out to be a 100 ft (30 meters) bull. That is, it is almost as long as your average blue whale. The largest known sperm whales measured up to 65.5 ft (20 meters). Accounts of 100-ft sperm whales were not unheard of, but no such beast has ever been scientifically verified. The real whale was estimated by eyewitnesses to be roughly 85 feet long, as he surfaced immediately after ramming Essex the first time and was observed to be comparable in length to the 88-foot ship. This is still 20 feet longer than the largest confirmed sperm whale. Whether the white whale really was that big or exaggerated as "the one that got away" often is is uncertain.
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In the Heart of the Sea / int_e0904aa4	type	No Party Like a Donner Party
In the Heart of the Sea / int_e0904aa4	comment	No Party Like a Donner Party: The Essex's survivors eventually have to resort to cannibalism, which haunts Thomas for decades.
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In the Heart of the Sea / int_e16217f8	type	Historical Villain Upgrade
In the Heart of the Sea / int_e16217f8	comment	Historical Villain Upgrade: Captain George Pollard, which is rather ironic since the Philbrick's book takes pains to portray Pollard sympathetically. Pollard is portrayed as a haughty and inexperienced Blue Blood who owes his captaincy to nepotism when in reality Pollard had already served as a Mate on the Essex itself for several years and was justly deserving of his promotion. He holds his officers in contempt and steers the Essex recklessly into a storm. In reality, the Essex did get caught in a storm four days out of Nantucket, but it was due to the officers' collective miscalculation not Pollard's arrogance, and there were no Never My Fault recriminations afterward. In fact, Pollard was if anything too willing to heed the advice of Chase and Joy, who didn't always make the best decisions, particularly in heading south in search of variable breezes after the sinking instead of making for the Society Islands (ironically because they probably feared being Captured by Cannibals). Pollard did indeed reprimand his young cousin for trying to invoke familial privilege, but the film turns an understandable and somewhat comical moment into a sinister one since historically the boy was hoping to be excused from duty due to seasickness (which many other young sailors were also suffering), not standing up to Pollard on behalf of the whole crew. Lastly, in the film Pollard is implied to have wrecked his second ship pursuing a personal vendetta against the whale, when by all evidence it was Chase who carried on a vendetta (unlike in the film where Chase has an epiphany and gives up whaling) and just about everyone who served under Pollard had only praise for him and felt it unfair he was forced to retire from the sea after the luckless loss of his second ship.
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In the Heart of the Sea / int_ed68bcc9	type	Dwindling Party
In the Heart of the Sea / int_ed68bcc9	comment	Dwindling Party: The Essex's survivors.
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