In the movie, they changed the wording some, but this is a great scene with Gregory Peck as Captain Ahab. It's when you first see that Ahab is a bit crazed and that the white whale Moby Dick has driven Ahab quite literally mad; he's one brick shy of a load, the elevator no longer goes to the top floor, the lights are on but nobodys home.

Tomorrow, my third favorite passage from Moby Dick, then the Epilogue.

"Captain Ahab," said Starbuck, I have heard of Moby Dick - but it was not Moby Dick that took off thy leg?"

"Who told thee that?" cried Ahab; then pausing, "Aye, Starbuck; aye, my hearties all round; it was Moby Dick that dismasted me; Moby Dick that brought me to this dead stump I stand on now. Aye, aye," he shouted with a terrific, loud, animal sob, like that of a heart-stricken moose; "Aye, aye! it was that accursed white whale that razeed me; made a poor pegging lubber of me for ever and a day!" Then tossing both arms, with measureless imprecations he shouted out: "Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the horn, and round the norway maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up. And this is what ye have shipped for, men! to chase that white whale on both sides of land, and over all sides of earth, till he spouts black blood and rolls fin out. What say ye, men, will ye splice hands on it, now? I think ye do look brave."

Herman Melville