Master & Commander link on BBC

[tamaranth]

"If we'd have followed the descriptions in the book, you would have ended up with Laurel and Hardy at sea." (Russell Crowe on gaining and losing weight to play Jack Aubrey: plus Weir saying that it "proved impossible to explain the 1812 war satisfactorily".)

Comments

Re: Damn, it *is* harder than I thought....

[the-gardener.livejournal.com]

And the average Brit has probably never heard of the War of 1812 at all.

Re: Damn, it *is* harder than I thought....

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

... but they can hum along with the overture.