Muse says, "I am the captain now." And Hanks' Phillips relinquishes his post. The camera steadies, and we see Abdi take the reins of his breakout performance. "Look at me." Greengrass' lens seems to be taking orders too. Muse (Abdi) looks over at Captain Phillips (Hanks) and cuts through the panic.
The increased heart rate, the ocean's movement – it's almost unbearable. Frantic looks to the armed pirates that have invaded his bridge, enhanced by the boat's natural rock – Greengrass' cutting like a cardiogram. We've adopted Captain Phillips (Hanks) panicked gaze in this mutiny scene.
Greengrass is a director whose "shaky cam" action aesthetic influenced a flood of lesser imitators and leant on the technique that he crafted to disguise imperfect action, rather than give a visual language to thrilling action moments. I am the captain now." The line, the delivery, and scene’s staging are electrifying, enlivening the audiences and actors alike with Greengrass focusing attention on the words of Billy Ray’s script. There's a literal and figurative mutiny, and the incredible breakthrough performance of Barkhad Abdi's Muse shines with the endlessly quotable, trailer and awards showreel fodder, "Look at me. So, who is the captain of this famous line from the film? Is it captain Greengrass? Or is it perhaps the two-time Oscar-winner Tom Hanks as the eponymous captain in the line? No. It’s the perfect blend of material and filmmaker. One of those films is Captain Phillips (2013) , an adaptation of Richard Phillip’s A Captain’s Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALS, and Dangerous Days at Sea, starring Tom Hanks as the eponymous Captain Richard Phillips. From the dramatisation of Irish-protest-turned-British massacre in Bloody Sunday (2002) to the deeply affecting and near 'un-rewatchable' 9/11 terrorist infiltrated flight film United 93 (2006), Greengrass creates unfathomably tense films that allow pure and authentic human emotions to shine through. Director Paul Greengrass isn't merely the frenetic gaze behind the spy-genre blockbusters The Bourne Supremacy (2004), The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) and Jason Bourne (2016), he's also a filmmaker with an affinity for scintillating docudrama.
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