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Mutiny on the Bounty
1935 · Film · 132 min
Directed by Frank Lloyd
Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent on revenge.
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From the Wikipedia article posted in one of the comments:
Although archaeologists believe that Polynesians were living on Pitcairn as late as the 15th century, the islands were uninhabited when they were rediscovered by Europeans.
In 1790, nine of the mutineers from the Bounty, along with the native Tahitian men and women who were with them (six men, eleven women, and a baby girl), settled on Pitcairn Island and set fire to the Bounty.
So that's likely why you've heard of them, though I don't think I've ever read Mutiny on the Bounty nor seen it retold in film or similar.
I currently have an image of Midway on my laptop and I've been thinking about how remote islands end up with life. They typically emerge from the ocean as a barren outcropping of rock. Birds stop and rest there, leaving behind poo and sometimes seeds in the poo sprout.
Coconuts can float in salt water for long periods and are typically the first trees found on remote islands. Sometimes insects get carried there on the winds of powerful storms and then diversify into a separate species because they can't fly far enough to leave again on their own steam.
I wonder what we might learn from small islands that might help humans resolve their problems and survive climate change.
Amazingly a lot of those movies listed resonate for gen-x, in our youth those were on UHF channels late at night.
So if you were up late or couldn't sleep for whatever reason during the summer break, you'd turn on the old TV you inherited from the parents. plug in headphones so as to not wake the rest of the family, adjust the antenna a little, and watch mutiny on the bounty at 11pm or a charlie chan movie at 2am. The other-worldliness of the experience was enhanced by sleep deprivation. Of course a decade or so later youthful experiments in chemical enhancement made the same middle of the night movies even weirder.