Brokaw tweet:

[applegrove]

Link to tweet

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. president Queeg

[fierywoman]

2. The beauty of this is that Spanky-boy won't understand the Captain Queeg reference.

[applegrove]

4. I had to look it up.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

6. Bogart was masterful

Treat yourself -- watch the movie.

[applegrove]

7. I will. Loved Bogart in African Queen.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

8. he's better in The Caine Mutiny

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046816/

[Honeycombe8]

11. I've seen other versions. Did they change the names of the captain and others?

It's Captain Bligh in the one with Marlon Brando, who plays Christian. But it's Captain Queeg in the one w/Bogart. ???

I did like the African Queen, too. That was one of Bogie's best films, IMO. There were others too, tho.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

13. you're mixing two different movies

Captain Bligh is a character in Mutiny on the Bounty.
Captain Queeg is a character in The Caine Mutiny.

[Honeycombe8]

17. Ohhh...different mutiny? I never saw the Bogie one. I thought it was the same.

Both about a cruel, unstable captain....a mutiny...etc. I see.

Guess I need to watch it. There's a free streaming app on Roku with nothing but Bogart movies. I'll see if it's there. Thanks.

[applegrove]

19. I assumed they were the same movie from the title too. I always have.

But i looked up captain quegg just in case and saw they were different films.

[whopis01]

34. Mutiny on the Bounty is a true story. The Caine mutiny is fiction. n/t

[Honeycombe8]

36. Thanks. I knew Mutiny on the Bounty was based on a true story. A fascinating story.

I never saw Caine, so didn't know. I read about it just now in Wikipedia and saw it's fiction. I'll have to watch the movie. Can't believe I never saw it.

[cannabis_flower]

49. I read Mutiny on the Bounty

in high school, it was good but the next book in the series Men Against the Sea was truly impressive

Men Against the Sea follows the journey of Lieutenant William Bligh and the eighteen men set adrift in an open boat by the mutineers of the Bounty. The story is told from the perspective of Thomas Ledward, the Bounty's acting surgeon, who went into the ship's launch with Bligh. It begins after the main events described in the novel and then moves into a flashback, finishing at the starting point.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_Against_the_Sea

After five months on Tahiti, master’s mate Fletcher Christian led a mutiny on board the Bounty on 28 April 1789. Eighteen mutineers set Bligh and 18 of his loyal crewmen adrift in a small boat. Bligh, however, was a skilled navigator and managed to sail them nearly 4000 miles to Timor, in the Dutch East Indies. From there, he brought his men back to England to report the mutiny, arriving 14 March 1790.


https://www.rmg.co.uk/discover/explore/william-bligh

OTOH, I couldn't finish Pitcairn's Island, the story of what happened to Fletcher Christian and the other mutaniers.

[Honeycombe8]

52. I'll have to check out Men Against the Sea. I saw a documentary.

I like documentaries, so I saw one (or more) documentaries on the Mutiny on the Bounty saga. Never read the book. Saw the movie, as I said, which lead to my watching documentaries about it.

Thanks. Those were harsh times, and a harsh way to live. But a gripping story, that to me, did not end up well for the ones I saw as the good guys.

[applegrove]

15. You are confusing Mutiny On The Bounty.

[Honeycombe8]

18. He told me. Oops. I never saw it. I'll have to rectify that. Thanks. n

[grantcart]

29. The Caine Mutiny is 100 times better than the African Queen which I loved IMO

As you will see Queeg is redeemed in the film in a way that Trump cannot be but any further hints will ruin a very subtle story with an astonishing ending.

[applegrove]

30. I will get the DVD for my dad and I to watch.

[grantcart]

38. You should have a nice big bowl of strawberries to share

(Preferably with ice cream) during the movie

[applegrove]

40. I will do that. I'm guessing strawberries play some sort of role.

[Lochloosa]

44. Oh yeah.

[trev]

31. The book is better.

[bigtree]

46. +1

[cannabis_flower]

50. I thought

Men Against the Sea was better than Mutiny on the Bounty. It was an incredible feat of skill and luck that Bligh and the men who went with him were able to travel 4000 miles across the Pacific in an open boat. I'm sure Christian thought he wouldn't survive.

[Honeycombe8]

9. Me, too. nt

[Raine]

27. I had to ask someone

I didn't know either.

[ProudLib72]

3. Time for Jill Wine Banks to wear a strawberry pin

[deminks]

5. Strawberries

[George II]

16. Ah, you beat me to it. I posted the scene of him on the witness stand below.

[smb]

24. Geometric Logic!

[AndJusticeForSome]

41. Flawed methodology

Had they repeated that experiment with a can of actual strawberries rather than sand, the result would have been much different.

I'm surprised nobody mentioned it.

[MoonchildCA]

48. I thought the same. n/t

[House of Roberts]

10. I wasn't all that impressed

until I got to the part with 'captain queeg'

[Demovictory9]

12. K&r

[George II]

14. I've compared trump to Capt. Queeg dozens of times, love this scene, especially with trump in mind..

...being interviewed by Mueller.

Short version:

Longer version (well worth the extra couple of minutes):

[Cha]

21. Nice to see former gop water carrier Brokaw doing it, too!

Link to tweet

[Cha]

20. Wow.. Brokaw called trump Captain Queeg!

Link to tweet

[applegrove]

22. Yup. People have to decide what side they are on. Mattises or Russia's.

[panfluteman]

23. If Mueller's and Other Investigations Are Finally Closing in on Trump,

Then he seems determined to take the whole country down with him. I believe that that's how those with narcissistic personality disorder think...

[Poiuyt]

25. This is fairly a significant tweet

Tom Brokaw is not prone to unkind or snarky remarks

[salin]

26. This struck me the same way. He doesn't tend towards snark - or political/partisan comments.

And given his decades long front seat at the news - these events are really disturbing per how off the rails Trump how now thrown American government - stability - and standing in the world.

[applegrove]

28. Yes. It struck me as uncharacteristic of him.

[SunSeeker]

32. K & R & Retweeted!

[Nitram]

33. I hope someone is keeping an eye on The Button.

[James48]

35. That used to be John Kelly's job.

Now nobody is watching the red button.

[adVance democracy]

37. More like Captain Quisling

Co-starring Vlad Putin as Hitler.

[Liberty Belle]

39. OH my, quite a strong opinion from a respect news anchorman.

[calimary]

42. Never expected him to speak out.

[Strelnikov_]

43. When Brokaw is calling a GOPer 'Captain Queeg' . . . n/t

[BlueJac]

45. Kind of surprising coming from Tom Brokaw...

time for everyone to speak up and be Americans

[UpInArms]

47. Let me know when

Snokie Blobbers (Cokie Roberts) lets out a peep ...

I watched her weep when GHW Bush was defeated by Clinton ...

Sigh

[Initech]

51. Iceberg straight ahead!!!!!!