WEARE, N.H. – For Chris Christie, Nov. 13 marked a turning point – one that was reinforced Dec. 2 – to focus his presidential campaign on terrorism and fighting the Islamic State.
"Three week ago, everything changed," said the New Jersey governor and contender for the Republican presidential nomination, speaking to a couple of hundred people at a town meeting-style gathering on Saturday. He referred to the Nov. 13 terrorist attack in Paris and the Islamic State-inspired massacre in San Bernardino, California, on Dec. 2.
Herman Melville's classic "Moby-Dick" has long been considered as a tale of vengeance and a battle against the forces of nature. Like Melville's novel, director Ron Howard's film "In the Heart of the Sea" (rated PG-13) concludes that, when pushed to desperation, man will often reveal an inherently evil heart.
The movie, which will be released Thursday, Dec. 10, is based on Nathaniel Philbrick's non-fiction book of the same name, published in 2000. The book recounts the true story that inspired Melville. In fact, the film opens with Melville (Ben Whishaw) talking with the elderly survivor Thomas Nickerson (Brendon Gleeson). Melville tries to discover what really happened aboard the "Essex," a Nantucket, Mass. whaling ship that sank in 1820 from an attack by an aggressive sperm whale.
