this version of moby dick insult the audience by claim it be base on melville novel even go so far a to show a phony first chapter sentence rather than the famous call me ishmael . in addition to have atrocious acting and even from john barrymore and this be perhaps the great example of how far hollywood ( especially early hollywood ) would go to revise and change a famous novel just to beef up it chance at the box office . all of the novel beautiful and poetic language have be absolutely eradicate and and ahab have be change from a brooding and blasphemous and obsessive madman to a dashing and misunderstood hero who only want to kill moby dick after his fiance ( . ) turn away from him after see his wooden leg . to this be add the standard evil brother who want the fiance for himself and and a different end .