black sails show is nutz -- urca de lima *

[ivan salis]

geez I hate it when tv folks totally screw up history just to make a tv show seem more interesting --- in the show pirate capt flint is said to be after a lone sailing massively loaded 5 million pieces of 8 loaded vessel --"urca de lima" ---a well known 1715 fleet vessel that was sunk by a hurricane ---they show it as being washed up ion a beach and with a salvage camp no less ...

 

[Blak bart]

Ya....that show had me liking it at one moment and then equally disgusted at the history being butchered. All in all it was enjoyable......just had to grit my teeth through a lot of its historical fails.

 

[ivan salis]

well the eye candy helps ...

 

[gunsil]

It was TV for cripes sakes!! It wasn't meant to be truly historically correct but I thought it was dang fine swashbuckler of a show. Much better than "Captain Blood" and all those Errol Flynn movies.

Speaking of "Captain Blood", Olivia De Havilland, the female star of the movie passed away today (Sunday) at 104. She was also "Melanie" in "Gone With the Wind"

 

[Kato Danzo]

I watched every episode of Black Sails like five times. It wasn't 100% historically accurate but nothing ever is. Still really cool to imagine what Nassau and the rest of that region would have been like back in those days. And to see what it was like to sail those ships in to battle. Fascinating stuff.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

It was TV for cripes sakes!! It wasn't meant to be truly historically correct but I thought it was dang fine swashbuckler of a show. Much better than "Captain Blood" and all those Errol Flynn movies.

Speaking of "Captain Blood", Olivia De Havilland, the female star of the movie passed away today (Sunday) at 104. She was also "Melanie" in "Gone With the Wind"

I didn't realize Olivia De Havilland passed away. I have an autographed picture of her from Gone With the Wind.

 

[gunsil]

I watched every episode of Black Sails like five times. It wasn't 100% historically accurate but nothing ever is. Still really cool to imagine what Nassau and the rest of that region would have been like back in those days. And to see what it was like to sail those ships in to battle. Fascinating stuff.

Show was filmed in South Africa, even that wasn't "real carribean". I enjoyed it too, had to upgrade my cable subscription and pay more just to see it.
"Master and Commander" with Russel Crowe had great naval battle scenes too.

TH, what a nice memento of the illustrious Olivia you have!! She was wonderful! I don't think I ever saw her in a movie I didn't like.

 

[Salvor6]

"Master And Commander" was the closest depiction of what life was really like aboard a warship in the 16th century. Unfortunately it came out the same time that the "Pirates of the Caribbean" was released and you know who won. I have the CD and I play the battle scene over and over.

We lost Kirk Douglas last Feb. at 103 years old and now Olivia de Havilland.

 

[gunsil]

"Master And Commander" was the closest depiction of what life was really like aboard a warship in the 16th century. Unfortunately it came out the same time that the "Pirates of the Caribbean" was released and you know who won. I have the CD and I play the battle scene over and over.

We lost Kirk Douglas last Feb. at 103 years old and now Olivia de Havilland.

Couldn't possibly have been 16th century, no flintlocks then. Typo I think?? I believe it was supposed to be 1700s, Cook had already been around the world, and the collecting of flora and fauna and carrying a scientist to collect, study and draw them was more in the mid 1700s-1800s.

 

[whydahdiver]

Gunsil is right, Master and Commander is 18th century. Black Sails is one of the best depictions of early 18th century pirate life I've ever seen. Most of the daily life objects were accurate, they came to the Whydah lab and museum for some advice which of course was so cool. Bellamy was inspired to turn pirate by the 1715 fleet wrecks so there is a great deal of interest for me in 1715 stuff and in QAR wreck a year later, Blackbeard's ship in NC. I just got a great book about QAR: "Blackbeard's Sunken Prize" by Mark Wilde-Ramsing and Linda F. Carnes-McNaughton, University of North Carolina Press.2018. Highly recommended.