Pirates of the Carribbean: At World's End
May. 27th, 2007 10:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grimorieAfter all my misgivings about that one line in the trailer regarding Piracy and freedom I was pleasantly surprised how they handled the whole thing. All in all the movie was wait for it... legendary!
I do wish they'd enunciate more, in the first and second movie I had no problem following what Tia Dalma or Barbossa said but here I kept going: 'huh?'
Oh and friendly reminder, just like the movies before don't leave until the very end, there's an easter egg there and a beautiful epilogue to the story.
But first, I have to get this out: They killed Norrington! They killed my beloved Norrington! And so early in the movie too! Oh, Norrington!
From a movie point of view I do get why they had to kill him, you can see from the way he carried his uniform that he's not fitting into it as he'd hope it would. It was ill fitting and he couldn't seem to get comfortable with it, not the way his old uniform used to fit him. It was that moment in the movie when he finally got his old sword back, like he was greeting it like an old friend. Like he was expecting everything to go back to how it was and he's willingly put blinders on.
He's so desperate to believe in the Navy's goodness that he's willing to cut out all the cynicism he's built during the year he'd become a pirate. Where he realized he was actually *good* at being a pirate and realized that sometimes pirates are people. The thing about James Norrington is that he hates pirates, in the first movie he swore to destroy all pirates and even managed to clean up his part of the Caribbean (before a certain pirate came swanning in) and to have spent a year with people he despised then return to the life he loved and discover it doesn't fit him anymore no matter how much he tried to look away... like Morpheus, it's change or die. And that's how it happened to him and he chose death over change, even above Davy Jones' offer.
Actually, some vague part of me wanted Norrington to take Davy Jones' place to have him die so early... oh, Norrington.
Wow, didn't mean to go on and on about Norrington but there you go.
So, did the writers watch Farscape: Peacekeeper Wars? 'Cause that scene there where Elizabeth was taking off all her weapons and the wedding amidst the battle? Yeah, that's so John and Aeryn!
I did love the movie because it was epic and it really was Elizabeth's story. In bullet points, things I liked since I'm way too sleepy now to elaborate:
- Tia Dalma as Calypso (sp?)
- Keith Richards as Jack's dad? AWESOME
- Elizabeth as Pirate KING!
- Barbossa! It's freaky to think I loved Barbossa in this movie more than I loved Jack
- The hundred and one Jacks! Jack so much better than your average Captain Jack! And, yes, I do mean the Harkness kind.
- Will, oh, Will! Will as the captain of the Flying Dutchman.
- Beckett as the Endeavour exploded around him, as he saw his whole world crumble before his eyes. Gorgeous.
- That scene at the very end... it's just so bittersweet and I was never that into Will and Elizabeth but that? With Elizabeth and her son waiting for Will to appear and the sun goes down and there's a flash of green light and then Will.. Oh, yes, that made my eyes go misty.
-Davy Jones voice! Yes, his accent and his voice! And the way he said 'Calypso' when it started to rain.
- Will dying by the sword he'd forged for Norrington
- The Black Pearl appearing over the sand dunes and Jack standing on the mast, yes, that boy does know how to make an entrance!
- Barbossa ending up with the ship ('cause he is the better captain as noted by others) and Jack in his little dinghy with his beloved ship once again lost to him but this time he has the freedom he's been wanting. That's the only thing he wants.
- Jack: How's mom?
Capt. Teague (Keith Richards): *lifts a green shrunken head*
Jack: *wide, uncomfortable grin* She's great!
will never not be funny.
- Did I mention Elizabeth as pirate KING?
It does seem like Elizabeth has the kiss of death curse, doesn't she? Every man she kissed died at least once: Jack, James Norrington who after years and years of pining gets to kiss the girl then he dies, Chow Yun Fat and of course, Will.
From a movie point of view I do get why they had to kill him, you can see from the way he carried his uniform that he's not fitting into it as he'd hope it would. It was ill fitting and he couldn't seem to get comfortable with it, not the way his old uniform used to fit him. It was that moment in the movie when he finally got his old sword back, like he was greeting it like an old friend. Like he was expecting everything to go back to how it was and he's willingly put blinders on.
He's so desperate to believe in the Navy's goodness that he's willing to cut out all the cynicism he's built during the year he'd become a pirate. Where he realized he was actually *good* at being a pirate and realized that sometimes pirates are people. The thing about James Norrington is that he hates pirates, in the first movie he swore to destroy all pirates and even managed to clean up his part of the Caribbean (before a certain pirate came swanning in) and to have spent a year with people he despised then return to the life he loved and discover it doesn't fit him anymore no matter how much he tried to look away... like Morpheus, it's change or die. And that's how it happened to him and he chose death over change, even above Davy Jones' offer.
Actually, some vague part of me wanted Norrington to take Davy Jones' place to have him die so early... oh, Norrington.
Wow, didn't mean to go on and on about Norrington but there you go.
So, did the writers watch Farscape: Peacekeeper Wars? 'Cause that scene there where Elizabeth was taking off all her weapons and the wedding amidst the battle? Yeah, that's so John and Aeryn!
I did love the movie because it was epic and it really was Elizabeth's story. In bullet points, things I liked since I'm way too sleepy now to elaborate:
- Tia Dalma as Calypso (sp?)
- Keith Richards as Jack's dad? AWESOME
- Elizabeth as Pirate KING!
- Barbossa! It's freaky to think I loved Barbossa in this movie more than I loved Jack
- The hundred and one Jacks! Jack so much better than your average Captain Jack! And, yes, I do mean the Harkness kind.
- Will, oh, Will! Will as the captain of the Flying Dutchman.
- Beckett as the Endeavour exploded around him, as he saw his whole world crumble before his eyes. Gorgeous.
- That scene at the very end... it's just so bittersweet and I was never that into Will and Elizabeth but that? With Elizabeth and her son waiting for Will to appear and the sun goes down and there's a flash of green light and then Will.. Oh, yes, that made my eyes go misty.
-Davy Jones voice! Yes, his accent and his voice! And the way he said 'Calypso' when it started to rain.
- Will dying by the sword he'd forged for Norrington
- The Black Pearl appearing over the sand dunes and Jack standing on the mast, yes, that boy does know how to make an entrance!
- Barbossa ending up with the ship ('cause he is the better captain as noted by others) and Jack in his little dinghy with his beloved ship once again lost to him but this time he has the freedom he's been wanting. That's the only thing he wants.
- Jack: How's mom?
Capt. Teague (Keith Richards): *lifts a green shrunken head*
Jack: *wide, uncomfortable grin* She's great!
will never not be funny.
- Did I mention Elizabeth as pirate KING?
It does seem like Elizabeth has the kiss of death curse, doesn't she? Every man she kissed died at least once: Jack, James Norrington who after years and years of pining gets to kiss the girl then he dies, Chow Yun Fat and of course, Will.
I do wish they'd enunciate more, in the first and second movie I had no problem following what Tia Dalma or Barbossa said but here I kept going: 'huh?'
Oh and friendly reminder, just like the movies before don't leave until the very end, there's an easter egg there and a beautiful epilogue to the story.
