In the Heart of the Sea [review] Ron Howard does it again.

100 foot long Moby Dick aka "The White Whale"

"Hast you seen the white whale?", bellows Captain Ahab from Herman Melville's "Moby Dick".
I re-read Moby Dick six months ago in preparation of Ron Howard's "In the Heart of the Sea".
Cleverly, a movie about Herman Melville obtaining the story from the last survivor of the Essex Whaling Ship, that inspired Melville to write Moby Dick. If you are a Herman Melville fan, if you read Moby Dick, if you saw the original movie with Gregory Peck, if your grade 12 English Teacher coerced you into writing a 10,000 word essay on Moby Dick, go, and see "In the Heart of the Sea".

Ron Howard, you're great. Love your work. You have done it again with this movie, but the title?
It sounds like Joseph Conrad's "In the Heart of Darkness" ? Why not just the "Essex" or "The White Whale" or "Melville's Dick". Ok, maybe not the last suggestion.

In the Heart of Sea is a 3D format, and once your local cinema photographer puts the correct version of the movie in the reel, the imagery is wonderful. Thanks to an individual who picked up on this several minutes before the rest of us and knocked on the door of the cinema photographer and said, "hey buddy, you got the wrong friggin format going and i'm pretty sure Ron wouldn't be too friggin happy". This isn't a direct quote but this what i believe the guy said. My wife turned to me about 45 seconds into the movie and said, "i don't think my 3D glasses are working".

There is several appropriate moments where symbolism takes place. When Moby Dick's eye makes visual contact with the First Mate. In Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" the tale is of conflict amongst Captain Ahab, Ismail, and the mighty White Whale. In the Heart of the Sea, the struggles are more between the Captain and the First Mate with the White Whale entering as an equalizer ore prevailing with truth.

"Hast you seen the White Whale?" Go see the movie.