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A pirate must indulge a little pardonable swagger
I saw my pirate movie last night. Sigh...
It was lovely. There are movies that make me laugh, but my face returns to a neutral movie-watching face after that. This is one of the few that makes me grin. Tho' I'm sure Legolas had something to do with that. Mmmmm.
Pirates are wonderful. If I can be very nerdy for a moment, I think I like them because they have such interesting language. They have muddled, strange accents from being on boats with a mix of people, and they have a vocabulary all their own. I am so going to start saying things like, "I can't bring this ship into Tortuga all by me onesies, savvy?" Johnny Depp's Jack Sparrow reminded me a bit of Ozzy Osbourne, if Ozzy were a pirate. According to IMDb, he based the character on Keith Richards.
You couldn't make a movie with the dastardly pirates fighting with the heroic navy. It wouldn't work, because they audience will always side with the pirates. As bad as real-life pirates were, literary/cinematic pirates are lovable, if only because they're usually not very good at piracy. I even liked the bad pirates.
I have found a career path after all. Two years at the School of Information, then it's the pirate's life for me.
srah - Sunday, 27 July 2003 - 10:37 AM
Tags: gilbert and sullivan, movies, pirates, pirates of the caribbean, pirates of the caribbean: the curse of the black pearl, the pirates of penzance
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› Oi be a cinematically sated poirate from SoJoyful! - July 28, 2003 12:42 AM
- I shan't repost, but if you're interested in my reactions to the pirate movie, they're in my own blog. Exit the Pirate Queen.... [Read More]
Comments (15)
Lisa - July 28, 2003 - 1:01 AM - ℓ
And a word or two of compliment my vanity will flatter...
With you on the pirate thing. Love them. Adore them. I have ever since, I'm ashamed to say, I saw "The Pirate Movie" at a young and impressionable age--although "The Pirates of Penzance" may have come first, I can't remember. :)
Steven - April 14, 2004 - 9:52 AM - ℓ
Real Pirates are way cool. Jack Sparrow is not real stupidhead
Steven - April 14, 2004 - 9:56 AM - ℓ
Pirate movies are stupid and stop being obsessed with fake pirates you dumbheads.Grow up and stop acting like 12 year old lesbians.ARRRGGGG!!!
Steven - April 14, 2004 - 9:57 AM - ℓ
Pirate movies are stupid and stop being obsessed with fake pirates you dumbheads.Grow up and stop acting like 12 year old lesbians.ARRRGGGG!!!Fags
Steven - April 14, 2004 - 9:57 AM - ℓ
Pirate movies are stupid and stop being obsessed with fake pirates you dumbheads.Grow up and stop acting like 12 year old lesbians.ARRRGGGG!!!Fags
Tim - April 14, 2004 - 9:58 AM - ℓ
GAYHEAD PIRATE F**KERS
srah - April 14, 2004 - 12:17 PM - ℓ
This person is very sexually confused... it thinks that I am a lesbian for liking Orlando Bloom and pirates and later calls me a "gayhead pirate f**ker." If I were f**king these pirates, I wouldn't be gay, would I?
This is what happens when you cut sex education in schools! All of our middle schoolers become ignorant commenting delinquents!
I love Jack Sparrow and Will Turner. I love pirates. Pirates, glargggggggggggggggggh. Yum! Orlando and Johnny, so cute.