Why Moby Dick Is Impossible to Adapt to the Big Screen
The story of Captain Ahab’s incessant hunt for the white whale known as Moby Dick is well known all over the world, but no movie adaptation has ever managed to do justice to Herman Melville’s brilliant novel. The book is half a detailed account ofCaptain Ahab’s descent into madnessas told by the sole survivor of his ship’s sinking, and half a meticulous and highly philosophical essay about the magnitude of the Whale in the face of humankind....