Master and Commander (film)/Nightmare Fuel

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  • The scene when Midshipman Hollom commits suicide by jumping off the side of the ship while holding a cannonball. The sight of his upturned face slowly fading out of sight as he sank downwards into the water haunted her for years.
  • Also another scene, during a huge storm where the Surprise looses a mast, and the sailors have to cut it loose fast or the ship will turn sideways to the waves and be rolled over. And there's one man still clinging to the ropes, watching his shipmates cut him loose, screaming for them to just wait for him...


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