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have you ever considered that Peter Jackson would be the ideal director for Moby Dick, because it's a theoretically straightforwards story with a huge monster, which is ridiculously long and huge chunks of it are random gunk which doesn't further the plot but Melville thought it was cool
"At this point, Ahab meets a captain who carries similar physical scars but no emotional ones. Boooring! How about; a pod of bowhead whales jostles the Pequod! Ishmael's flung from the crow's nest, but Tashtego leaps from yardarm to yardarm as the ship sways, carrying him to safety!"
Adding; the Peter Jackson/Peter Chung crossover
"Long, spindly arms and legs brace his spidery landing! At this point Ahab - recognizable by his massive pecs and the huge A on his stovepipe hat - comes on deck..."