Pop Culture References of Wizard101: Azteca – Mr. Bligh

Mr. Bligh – Captain William Bligh
https://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Mr.Bligh
https://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/Quest:Mutiny_on_the_Bounty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutiny_on_the_Bounty(1962_film)

Mr. Bligh

Mr. Bligh is one of Ponce de Gibbon’s men, he is angry at Lt. Fletcher for losing his golden Golden Quadrant. He wants to leave Azteca and return to Monquista.

Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1962 American Technicolor epic historical drama film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, and Richard Harris. The screenplay was written by Charles Lederer (with uncredited input from Eric Ambler, William L. Driscoll, Borden Chase, John Gay, and Ben Hecht), based on the novel Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall.

The film tells a heavily fictionalized story of the real-life mutiny led by Fletcher Christian against William Bligh, captain of HMAV Bounty, in 1789. It is the second American film to be based on the novel, the first being Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), also produced by MGM.

Captain William Bligh (Trevor Howard)

Mutiny on the Bounty was the first motion picture filmed in the Ultra Panavision 70 widescreen process. It was partly shot on location in the South Pacific. Panned by critics, the film was a box office flop, losing more than $6 million (equivalent to $54 million in 2021).

Mutiny on the Bounty 1962 movie poster

In the year 1787, the Bounty sets sail from Britain for Tahiti under the command of Captain William Bligh (Trevor Howard). His mission is to collect a shipload of breadfruit saplings and transport them to Jamaica. The government hopes the plants will thrive and provide a cheap source of food for the slaves.

The current list of all the (known) Azteca references are located here.

Although I am well versed in Pop Culture references but I do not claim to have caught them all. Let me know your favorites in the comments and if I’ve missed one you caught, let me know so I can add it to the list.

Text for this article is excerpted from the linked wiki pages

Mr Bligh image is from Wizard101, and is copyright of KingsIsle Entertainment.

Captain Bligh image and Mutiny on the Boutny movie poster are (c)1962 MGM

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