# ID help: pirates, and cheese = "heaven" ? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 28, 2018, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-help-pirates-and-cheese-heaven/825214 "2018-11-28T16:31:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2018, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-help-pirates-and-cheese-heaven/825214/1 "2018-11-28T16:31:09Z")
Vague description, but maybe one of you will know what the hell I’m after. It was a movie, or maybe a made-for-TV miniseries, and I really want to say that Elijah Wood was in it, playing the character of someone stranded alone on an island. The other main character - who wore a lot of eyeliner but definitely was not Jonny Depp - looks like Eddie Izzard in my recollection. The only key detail I remember is that the stranded young man had tasted cheese once in his life before, and equated it in a very literal sense with heaven. Cheese. Heaven. Pirates. Have I lost my marbles or was this something I actually watched. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2018, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-help-pirates-and-cheese-heaven/825214/2 "2018-11-28T16:32:40Z")
Meant to clarify that the possibly-Eddie-Izzard character was a pirate. I think he either rescued the other guy, or deliberately stranded him in the 1st place. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2018, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-help-pirates-and-cheese-heaven/825214/3 "2018-11-28T16:47:10Z")
“Many’s the long night I’ve dreamt of cheese…toasted, mainly.” — Ben Gunn, the marooned pirate in _Treasure Island_ ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2018, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-help-pirates-and-cheese-heaven/825214/4 "2018-11-28T16:52:25Z")
[Treasure Island starring Eddie Izzard and Elijah Wood, perhaps?](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1820723/?ref_=nv_sr_4) ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2018, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-help-pirates-and-cheese-heaven/825214/5 "2018-11-28T17:08:10Z")
And Elijah Wood plays Ben Gunn in that, with Izzard as Long John Silver. BOOM. 21 minutes. Not too shabby. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2018, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-help-pirates-and-cheese-heaven/825214/6 "2018-11-28T17:33:25Z")
I so hope he comes back and says “No, that’s not it” ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2018, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-help-pirates-and-cheese-heaven/825214/7 "2018-11-28T17:36:26Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > I so hope he comes back and says “No, that’s not it” It was [Citizen Kane](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbPcAEQAlF4) ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2018, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-help-pirates-and-cheese-heaven/825214/8 "2018-11-28T18:40:51Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > I so hope he comes back and says “No, that’s not it” It’s Lupus ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2018, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-help-pirates-and-cheese-heaven/825214/9 "2018-11-28T18:57:10Z")
It’s never Lupus. ---
**Author:** ![duality72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duality72/32/3910_2.png) [@duality72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duality72)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2018, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-help-pirates-and-cheese-heaven/825214/10 "2018-11-28T19:06:41Z")
“Rio”, by Duran Duran. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2018, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-help-pirates-and-cheese-heaven/825214/11 "2018-11-28T19:14:17Z")
My vote goes to _ **Treasure Island** _. I remember Mr Gunn and his cheese from the parody of it in an old _ **Dennis the Menace** _ comic: “Mmmmmph! No mustard!” :mad: