
Moby Dick
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- 1956
- 116 min
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Call me Ishmael.
Some years ago,
having little or no money...
and see the oceans of the world.
Whenever I get grim and spleenful...
whenever I feel like
knocking people 's hats off in the street...
whenever it's a damp,
drizzly November in my soul...
I know that it's high time
to get to sea again.
Choose any path you please...
and ten to one,
it carries you down to water.
There 's a magic in water
that draws all men away from the land...
Leads them over the hills down creeks,
and streams, and rivers to the sea.
The sea...
where each man, as in a mirror,
finds himself.
And so it was
I duly arrived at the town of New Bedford...
on a stormy Saturday late in the year 184 1.
-Rum.
-Rum it is. What mark?
To this a penny, to that another penny,
and so on to the top of the glass.
The Cape Horn measure, which
you may drink down for a full shilling.
The penny mark. Nay, the full shilling.
You'll be wanting a room tonight.
You ain't no objections to sharing
a harpooneer's bed with him, have you?
-You going whaling?
-That is my intention.
You need permission. You weren't born
and bred in New Bedford, were you?
No, I'm a stranger here.
-Then you'll have to have permission.
-Permission?
Aye. From us, the men of New Bedford.
The sea is ours.
Other seamen only have
And the whale is ours. Ours alone.
No one else may hunt it down and kill it,
unless we say so.
Do you dispute that?
-I do not.
-Good.
Then you have our permission
to sail our sea.
Drink to this boy, mates?
Big whales to you, mate!
Can whales do that?
Why, bless me, whales can do anything!
A whale can jump up like an earthquake...
and come down on you like
a mountain that's somehow put to sea.
of the biggest ships...
swallow whole crews,
pick its teeth with the oars.
Mind, lad, if God ever wanted to be a fish,
he'd be a whale.
Believe that, he'd be a whale.
Ahab.
Who's Ahab?
Captain Ahab to you.
-Who's Captain Ahab?
-Aye.
Ahab's Ahab.
Music.
In Amsterdam there lived a maid
And she was mistress of her trade
I'll go no more a-roving with you, fair maid
A-roving, a-roving
Sing!
Since roving's been my ruin
I'll go no more a-roving with you, fair maid
Her cheeks were red, her eyes were brown
Mark well what I do say
Her cheeks were red, her eyes were brown
Her curly hair was hanging down
I'll go no more a-roving with you, fair maid
A-roving, a-roving
Since roving's been my ruin
I'll go no more a-roving with you, fair maid
Landlord, which is the harpooneer
I'm to sleep with tonight?
He ain't among them.
He's what you might call
a dark-complexioned chap.
He'll be along
as soon as he finishes selling his head.
-His what?
-Selling his head.
Though he may have some difficulty
in getting rid of it.
New Bedford's overstocked.
-With what?
-Heads, of course!
Come on, lad.
Mark well what I do say
I kissed her once, I kissed her twice
And found she was as cold as ice
I'll go no more a-roving with you, fair maid
A-roving, a-roving
Since roving's been my ruin
I'll go no more a-roving with you, fair maid
Now, the young maid was fancy-free
Mark well what I do say
The young maid was fancy-free
If I could take her home with me
I'll go no more a-roving with you, fair maid
A-roving, a-roving
Since roving's been my ruin
I'll go no more a-roving with you, fair maid
-Wait. Hold on.
-Who the devil are you?
Who no speak? I kill you!
Landlord!
Peter Coffin! Coffin, save me!
Now, now, now.
What is all this about?
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