i do agree that though this story by melville just might be unfilmable and this isn not even a credible try . to move the story into the 20th century just outrage the original story intent and nature while possibly you might have be able to move it over to england and but it must be a period piece . even our story narrator the proprietor tell it in a flashback and go back even far and somewhere around 1800. towards the end of the 19th century and a strangely disobedient worker would be discard without a thought . and the 20th century . come on . give me an expletive deleted break . even around 1800 and such behavior do not work very well and in view of the end . and the movie end . i do not know what it be and because i do not watch the entire travesty i have to stop . this be like set streetcar name desire in elizabethan england .