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".)

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[swisstone.livejournal.com]

it "proved impossible to explain the 1812 war satisfactorily"

Presumably it's too hard to explain that the Americans got their arses kicked ...