What's the Difference between Moby-Dick or The Whale the Book and Moby Dick the Movie?
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The final hunt for Moby Dick lasts three days. |
It happens in a single day. |
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The Pequod encounters several ships on the high seas, trading stories with them and asking for the whereabouts of the white whale. |
The Pequod only encounters the Samuel Enderby, whose captain lost his arm to Moby Dick, and the Rachel, whose captain lost a son to the whale.
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The sailors spot a giant squid, declaring its haunting white frame to be more impacting than that of the whale. |
No giant squid. |
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Moby Dick shatters all boats but Ahab's during the final day of the hunt. |
The boats are still afloat after Ahab's demise, and they decide to continue on after Moby Dick.
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Ahab is killed when the rope from his harpoon becomes entangled around his neck like a noose and pulls him underwater after Moby Dick. |
Ahab clings to the side of the whale, stabbing it several times before becoming entangled in the ropes hanging from its side, drowning afterwards. |