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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is a 2003 American epic period war-drama film co-written, produced and directed by Peter Weir, set during the Napoleonic Wars. The film's plot and characters are adapted from three novels in author Patrick O'Brian 's Aubrey–Maturin series , which includes 20 completed novels of Jack Aubrey 's ...
Best Foreign Film – English Language Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World: Nominated Golden Globe Awards [40] [41] 25 January 2004: Best Motion Picture – Drama: Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World: Nominated Best Director: Peter Weir Nominated Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama: Russell Crowe Nominated Golden Reel ...
The 2003 film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World uses the main violin theme from Musica notturna delle strade di Madrid extensively. Russell Crowe as captain of the Surprise, and Paul Bettany as his ship's surgeon, play violin and cello in the captain's quarters for their own entertainment. [7]
Those novels inspired the 2003 epic “Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World,” which nabbed 10 Oscar nominations and a boatload of great reviews when it opened in theaters. Peter Weir ...
WONG, Cary: Score: reviews of CDs Film Score Monthly v.8 n.10 , December 2003, p.30, English, illus KAY, Jeremy; GOODRIDGE, Mike: Awards countdown: oscar players Screen International (0307-4617) n.1430 , 21 November 2003, p.22, English, illus Director Peter Weir comments on the difficulties of filming the period epic film MASTER AND COMMANDER.
Master and Commander is a nautical historical novel by the English author Patrick O'Brian, first published in 1969 in the US and 1970 in the UK.The book proved to be the start of the 20-novel Aubrey–Maturin series, set largely in the era of the Napoleonic Wars, on which O'Brian continued working until his death in 2000.
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The novel provided part of the title and some of the plot-structure for the 2003 Peter Weir film, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. The fictional USS Norfolk morphed into the fictional American-built French privateer Acheron, and episodes also migrated from other books in the series, including Master and Commander and HMS Surprise.