What could be truer than the 'good guys' being in it for profit, just like the pirates. Greed was everything. All ethics and morals abandoned for treasure. I liked it that Jim fought back physically. He had, after all, been tending a bar in the middle of nowhere. How could Jim not have learned how to handle himself. And boy, does he in this movie. I liked the ending. It was the right ending, as the truest-of-the-true won. (That they could not possibly have sailed.a barque that minimally required a crew of 10, but I'm sure they eventually arrived - somewhere).
The casting was interesting. Actors who fit the time era more aptly cast in present-day ventures. But everything in this film is out of place, save foe the really good guys winning in the end. I admit it was a bit tough to see Jack Palance's Long John Silver portrayed as a down-on-his luck, defeated character, but this, too, was in keeping with the intent of this film.
The scene with the tart was the only "off" note, and not a little creepy, as she did seem to be offering her services to Jim, and served no purpose. Much of her character must have hit the cutting room floor.
The treasure itself, I won't elaborate on, even though this is marked as a Spoiler, but, yet again, the producers of this film illustrate that the 'good' guys, from whom the treasure was stolen, weren't so very 'good' after all.
This movie was not the 1934 film with Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone, and Nigel Bruce. But it didn't have to be, and couldn't be. Nor is it "the book." The book is the book. This is a movie.
PS the Muppet characterization of Smolett kept popping to mind.
The casting was interesting. Actors who fit the time era more aptly cast in present-day ventures. But everything in this film is out of place, save foe the really good guys winning in the end. I admit it was a bit tough to see Jack Palance's Long John Silver portrayed as a down-on-his luck, defeated character, but this, too, was in keeping with the intent of this film.
The scene with the tart was the only "off" note, and not a little creepy, as she did seem to be offering her services to Jim, and served no purpose. Much of her character must have hit the cutting room floor.
The treasure itself, I won't elaborate on, even though this is marked as a Spoiler, but, yet again, the producers of this film illustrate that the 'good' guys, from whom the treasure was stolen, weren't so very 'good' after all.
This movie was not the 1934 film with Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone, and Nigel Bruce. But it didn't have to be, and couldn't be. Nor is it "the book." The book is the book. This is a movie.
PS the Muppet characterization of Smolett kept popping to mind.