I love the open-mouthed look on movie Bush when he sees his new girl. <3
And that little smile when Hornblower is rolling off him on the deck does nothing to dissuade me of the rightest of the HH/WB love. XD
In Making of HH2 McGann says that he didn't read the books.
And yeah, they doff their bicornes as a ritual, although we all know it's a gentlemanly salute to the latest wooden lass 'o his heart, the Renown.
Overall the movie!Bush intro has small threads of the book!Bush -- ship love and the 'don't touch my uniform I hardly know you' moments with the brushing off, etc., because ya know -- the shame at being messed up and here comes your new Captain. But yeah, he is much more formal and so much more upper class in feel and not enough of the tough seagoing bastard of the books when he first shows up.
The suckup thing I didn't like at all in Mutiny because that just felt all wrong especially as you said, book Bush comes out of that 'hard school' and knows that it's always best to not expound when a good "Aye Aye Sir" fits every occasion.
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Date: 2006-02-14 07:13 pm (UTC)And that little smile when Hornblower is rolling off him on the deck does nothing to dissuade me of the rightest of the HH/WB love. XD
In Making of HH2 McGann says that he didn't read the books.
And yeah, they doff their bicornes as a ritual, although we all know it's a gentlemanly salute to the latest wooden lass 'o his heart, the Renown.
Overall the movie!Bush intro has small threads of the book!Bush -- ship love and the 'don't touch my uniform I hardly know you' moments with the brushing off, etc., because ya know -- the shame at being messed up and here comes your new Captain. But yeah, he is much more formal and so much more upper class in feel and not enough of the tough seagoing bastard of the books when he first shows up.
The suckup thing I didn't like at all in Mutiny because that just felt all wrong especially as you said, book Bush comes out of that 'hard school' and knows that it's always best to not expound when a good "Aye Aye Sir" fits every occasion.