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who's the good guy? (wolf larsen or the crew throwing cooky offboard?)

posted 15 years ago by PeterBlues
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i mean really, here you got the whole crew on the ship chasing around cooky on the deck and then throws him overboard, where a shark later appears.

i didn't mean to hurt you,
you misunderstood,
and took it wrong,
it didn't mean anything at all,
if i could turn back a day,
and realise you'd take it that way,
i'd do it diffrently, now i hope you understand,
that it was all a big misunderstand,
wrong way it took,
something i'd never do,
look at it this way,
and lets be friends again.

[–] xylonian-1 14 years ago

Hummm....with regard to the the officers and the crew of The Ghost the list of 'good guys' would be very, very short....:)

In this particular case, I believe 'sea law' would lean towards the crew however.

Oh, No!!!! Am I an Epsilon in an Alpha and Beta world????

[–] vinidici 12 years ago

The only people on THIS ship who were even CLOSE to being "good guys" were the Knox, Garfield and Lupino characters, and after them MAYBE the doctor (played by Gene Lockhart). The rest of them--no "honor among thieves, they!--were the original "motley crew" and a miserable bunch of dog-eat-dog cutthroats; not a one of them would refrain from stabbing his own mother in the back if money could be gained from it. Truly, Captain Larson and his low-life, "skurvy dogs" all deserved each other!

That being said, I actually think Wolf Larson, as cruel, sadistic and treacherous as he was, was a far better man than any of the sea-going scumbags who served under him. He had strengths that could have served both him and his fellow man well, had he chosen a better path in life.

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[–] joeparkson 11 years ago

The crew were the good guys. They really cared about feeding animals, by feeding the most worthless man on board to some hungry sharks.

Absurdity: A Statement or belief inconsistent with my opinion.

[–] rudeboy_murray 8 years ago

Early in the film, Larsen warned Knox's character that after his voyage on the Ghost he would be just like everybody else on the crew. I think the point is that months or years serving under a tyrant as merciless and brutal as Larsen can siphon away the good in anyone.

To give the crew their due, they did haul Cookie back on board once the shark appeared- albeit too late to save his leg.