Pitcairn Islands - Dark Legacy

If they were to make a sequel to The Bounty, I am thinking the plot would have to go along the lines of Clint Eastwood's Oscar-winning movie Unforgiven. Same kind of situation. A group of women who's main occupation and purpose is sex. A population of men who at one point one or several begin to abuse said women and sides get drawn, men protecting other men by either joining in or turning a blind eye to what is happening and women left with a choice of being defenseless or protecting themselves and one another. Pretty much sums up what happened to the so-called paradise the ending of The Bounty would have you fantasizing it to be.

If a movie were made, one that was true to the real life happenings of the people on Pitcairn Island from the day they landed upon the fertile volcanic rock until now, I'm thinking it also could win an Oscar and in my opinion be a far more shocking and thought provoking tale than Unforgiven ever could have inspired to be.

If you take the time to read the main wiki page on Mutiny of The Bounty, as I did, you will see what took place was a very historic and unusual (in my opinion) battle of the sexes, Women vs. Men and in the end you would see the tally was women 9, men 1. Woman wins. Like Unforgiven you would wonder what extremes the women found themselves having to go to in order to protect themselves. It even has me wondering if the mystery behind Fletcher Christian's death could have very well been hidden by the islanders because the fact was he wasn't killed by the men or natural causes or suicide and he didn't leave the island and go back to England, but actually killed by one or several women instead.

Though the women did have their victory, which by all means should have lasted, especially after John Adams, the only man left, repented and found God, years later another battle began and unlike the battle past, which was probably fought with the only weapons women would have on an isolated island in the late 1700's early 1800's, this one was fought via police officers, lawyers, judges and video links.

Instead of two sides, as it was in the past, 3 sides emerged from this modern battle, the men, the women, and Great Britain's legislature and unlike the past that went on hidden from the world's view, this one, unhidden, had the world taking sides. There were those that were on the side of the men, claiming that they were either falsely accused and or living the ways of a culture not understood by Britain's modern day culture, a culture that had different society rules and had lived in these ways for years. There were those who took sides with the women along with author's/journalists such as Kathy Marks and Dea Birkett, claiming in any other country the men would be seen as pedophiles and rapist and under harsh penalty, where these men seem to have the power of their isolation to get away with more and suffer less penalty and finally, you have those who did not necessarily take Great Britain's side, but actually blamed the legislation instead for unjustly and even coercing and causing the trials to happen and the convictions to take place.

Which ever side you pick in October of 2004 the trials took place, verdicts were handed out and the battle between men and women on Pitcairn Island very much came out to the favor of the women again.

Of all the information on this I looked at including watching a two hour long lecture given by Kathy Marks I found on Truveo, an article by Dea Birkett, writer of Serpent in Paradise, bantered comments made by supporters of the island and haters of he island on almost every YouTube video of the island there is, this one obscure report, I felt was not only the most fair, but most objective account of what happened before and during those trials October 2004.