In the movie "Perfect Storm", there is a scene whereby the captain and one other crew managed to escape from the capsized boat. However, why did the captain choose to return to the boat to be with his boat?
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justanobserver
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I enjoyed the movie. It is a good one. PLUS it has Diane Lane in it. 
When it shows the boat going up the swell, flipping and then sinking, George Cloony was the captain of the boat and the only thing I can think of is the old sailor "tradition" of the captain goes down with his ship.
Plus, it was just a tad stormy on top and he knew he probably didnt stand a chance anyways.
just my take on it.
When it shows the boat going up the swell, flipping and then sinking, George Cloony was the captain of the boat and the only thing I can think of is the old sailor "tradition" of the captain goes down with his ship.
Plus, it was just a tad stormy on top and he knew he probably didnt stand a chance anyways.
just my take on it.
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Because there is a code that the captain goes down with his boat, but i didnt know that people still do that in this age
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I enjoyed the movie. It is a good one. PLUS it has Diane Lane in it.
When it shows the boat going up the swell, flipping and then sinking, George Cloony was the captain of the boat and the only thing I can think of is the old sailor "tradition" of the captain goes down with his ship.
Plus, it was just a tad stormy on top and he knew he probably didnt stand a chance anyways.
just my take on it.
But why did the captain choose to die with the boat? Could we come out with a reason? Psychologically? I am trying to understand this choice ...
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Same question as above.
But why did the captain choose to die with the boat? Could we come out with a reason? Psychologically? I am trying to understand this choice...
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pilgrimgal
Jeremiah 29:11 It's good!
It was my impression in the movie that no one escaped. The George Clooney character chose to stay with his boat instead of dying of exposure on the open sea as would the Mark Walberg character at the end. Out in those kinds of waters no one could last very long.
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Is there something to do with him being the leader who leads the team and his boat to this state?
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pilgrimgal
Jeremiah 29:11 It's good!
It's never clear...but it seems the more heroic thing to do. The story is based on a true happening. I do wonder what really happened; but suspose noone knows for sure.
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Any more opinions?
Did every crew members die in that movie? (I have forgotten) Is it that the captain went back to the boat to save the rest who are stuck there?
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Did every crew members die in that movie? (I have forgotten) Is it that the captain went back to the boat to save the rest who are stuck there?
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GrinningDwarf
Just a humble servant
I think he went back mainly because he felt guilty, like the deaths of his entire crew were on his hands because of decisions he, as captain, made.
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GrinningDwarf
Just a humble servant
... The story is based on a true happening. I do wonder what really happened; but suspose noone knows for sure.
When I saw the movie, I recall thinking "It's based on a true story...somebody has to make it to tell the tale!!" What a shocker!!
Then I read the book. I discovered that everything that happened on Clooney's boat actually happened on a sword boat at some time or other....sometimes even to the crewmembers on the doomed voyage, but on earlier voyages. For instance, take the guy that got snarled in the lines and dragged overboard. That actually happened to that guy, but on an earlier voyage. And when the 'wing anchor' broke loose and smashed the pilot house window; that actually happened on a different sword boat on a different voyage. All of these incidents were compressed onto this one voyage; it's the only way the excellent book could have been made into a coherent movie.
I highly recommend the book!!
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Everyone dies in the movie.
The captain going down with his ship is a romanticized notion of the connection that captains supposedly feel to their ship...as though they're each a part of the other. And it probably also has to do with the notion (also romanticized) that sailors are married to the sea...inseperable. Anyway, I don't think it happens very often in real life...especially in the modern age.
The captain in the movie, I think, went back because of his guilt and shame. It was basically suicide. Although they all died anyway, so I guess it didn't much matter in the end.
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