The Bounty reaches Tahiti in 1788 and is welcomed by the natives with open arms. During the course of the voyage everything is generally fine and dandy on-board, all shipshape and Bristol fashion. The mission to collect breadfruit pods for transplantation in the Caribbean. History tells us that in 1787 the HMS Bounty set sail from England, destination Tahiti, with Bligh in command.
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The movie is actually told in flashbacks from the perspective of William Bligh (Anthony Hopkins), the Commanding Lieutenant of the ship, during his court martial in England. The Bounty is now a tourist attraction, used for charter and excursions, based in Discovery Bay, on Lantau Island in Hong Kong.So for those who might be unaware, this movie recounts the actual events of the HMS Bounty and its crew in the year 1789. Here, and further south at Gisbourne, seagoing scenes and some of the Pitcairn Island scenes were filmed.įor many years after filming, the full-sized replica was used as a tourist cruise ship at Darling Harbour, Sydney, Australia. The Bounty itself was built at Whangarei on the North Island of New Zealand. You can reach the island by ferry from Pape'ete, the Tahitian capital, a journey of about ten miles. Four sets, the landing site, the Polynesian village where Bligh meets the King, the Dutch port of Coupand in 'Timor' and the breadfruit gardens, were built here.
The South Seas location is the island of Mo'orea, one of the islands of Tahiti. Now a National Trust property, Wilton is a veteran of many movies, including Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon The Madness of King George two Jane Austen adaptations – the 2005 film of Pride And Prejudice and Ang Lee’s Sense And Sensibility The Young Victoria and Ken Russell's The Music Lovers. The huge group portrait dominating one wall is of the Earl of Pembroke (owner of Wilton) and his family, claimed to be the largest Van Dyck painting in the country. Originally a Tudor manor house, it was remodelled in the 17th century by Inigo Jones. The grand interior, where Admiral Hood ( Laurence Olivier) presides, is the spectacular white and gold Double Cube Room of Wilton House, Wilton, two and a half miles west of Salisbury on the A30 in Wiltshire. The Bounty location: the court martial: Wilton House, Wilton, Wiltshire It's Chapel House, 15 Montpelier Row, south of Richmond Road to the southwest of Richmond Bridge (t ube: Richmond, rail: St Margaret’s). Built in 1721, it was once home to poet Alfred Lord Tennyson and, much later, to The Who's Pete Townsend. It’s one of the elegant terraced houses running along the western edge of Marble Hill Park. You can find the building used for Lieutenant Bligh’s home in Twickenham, Southwest London.
When the ambitious plan for a vast, two-part epic failed to get finance, the project fell to Roger Donaldson, who has since directed the likes of Species and Dante’s Peak.
This revisiting of the old Mutiny on the Bounty warhorse, told in flashback from from the court martial of Captain Bligh ( Anthony Hopkins) court martial, was developed by David Lean from a script by playwright Robert Bolt (writer of A Man For All Seasons).
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