Once and for all proving that Gregory Peck never rode a 60-foot rubber white whale behemoth on the open sea, photos shows Peck being "strapped into" what looks more like an unpainted convex billboard than aquatic creature.
http://www.lessing-photo.com/search.asp?a=1&kc=202020207085&kw =MOVIE%3AMOBY+DICK&p=1&ipp=
Thanks so much for these cool photos :)
shareSadly enough the website doesn't seem to work anymore.
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shareAwesome! Just watched the 1998 version but it doesn't hold a candle to this one.The cast was awesome in this newest edition but c'mon,...Gregory Peck as Ahab? Can't do better than that!
shareMy God, did that 1998 version blow! As fine an actor as Patrick Stewart is, could have been any more boring as Ahab? It was directed by some hack who shoots dialogue and action scenes with the same dull intensity.
shareDang! I thought Moby Dick was real... thanks for the Photos just looking at them now. How about that performance by Royal Dano as Elijah? I just noticed that Joan Plowright was in this as Starbucks wife. Have to check that out.
shareAfter looking at these photos again, that story about the whale that floated away and became a "menace to navigation" looks like a gross overstatement if the whales in these photos are any indication.
shareDoes anybody really think that Peck rode a big white whale? I have some land in Alaska I'd be glad to sell you.
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Not only do viewers think it, John Huston and Gregory Peck, among others have encouraged the notion that the production built one to three 60 foot (mechanized rubber) whales. The whale in the film was built in sections, while the studio work was done with miniatures. Even the first whale killed in the film was partially filmed in a studio tank.
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