Here there be pirates...
POSTED BY: deepgirl187
UPDATED: Monday, July 10, 2006 00:10
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Originally posted by deepgirl187:
I don't know if they'd be bosom buddies, at least not at first. Jack has a little problem with a thing I like to call conscience. He does have one, but he prefers to ignore it. Mal is ruled more by a code of honor, than Jack is. That might cause them to have some differences of opinion on certain topics.
Pirates have code...well, they're more like guidelines...lol...
"Well next time you be the bait!"~Andy Hurley
"Okay! Everybody not talking about sex, in here. Everybody else, elsewhere."~Wash
Browncoats are the coolest fans I've ever seen.
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I agree with you Deepgirl, they might not be bosom buddies, but I don't think Jack Sparrow would ever be Alliance, either. Mal doesn't mind dealing with unsavory sorts if he has a motive to do so.
And they are both likable rogues.
ShinyYukari, good point on the "guidelines!"
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." -- Mohandas Gandhi
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Arrrrh, Anonymous1, and thanks for the correct
quote from Mal in OoG.
What a lot of fine posts here since last night. No way to address all of them, though I'm such a
blabberer I'd like to.
I heard one reviewer give DMC "a B-minus, but a
solid B-minus" and then go on to rave about Johnny D. and to declare the film worth going to. I guess there are some big holes in the writing (might be editing problems), and a lot of the FX are of the same "because we can" variety I noticed in the first film -- kinda overdone and too lengthy -- but that's not what I am going for. It's the acting.
The target demo is apparently judged by Disney
to be going for the FX and the swashbuckling. Well, shiny. *We* get a film out of it, too.
For a formula: Disney + Bruckheimer + megabucks
= dumb summer blockbuster you might just love if
the cast and director have been properly chosen.
Middle film? Depends on the box office, of course. Depp said in an interview after the first one that he loves the character and he'd do nine if they'd let him. I assume that, over time, that attitude would depend heavily on cooperation from writers and director.
As I reported elsewhere, my spy on the scene (due
back in the Virgin Islands in late August) said that at one point they were filming 2 and 3, and writing 4 and 5, all at once. No way I can identify browncoats on the project, gorammit, but I think we may have heard a shout-out. Shiny!!
Our Captains fight? Oy, I'd love to write that one.
Neither is worth a rat's backside with a sword, so we could demonstrate that.
Johnny D. is positively elfin compared to Nathan, so hand-to-hand would have to employ all manner of dirty fighting and weapons of opportunity, because Nathan could sit on him and that would be the end.
At last, all that's left are pistols, and Mal's is a repeater. Not fair! ("Pirate!") They realize this and also that somebody could die, so they make up and go off together for a pint or six while they negotiate whatever it was that set off the dispute in the first place.
(Note also that each character has some cool
scars on his chest which could be displayed, if
only briefly)
Arrrrrh! Holdin' me breath!
bun
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