⚓🏴☠️🦜Muppet Treasure Island (1996)🦜🏴☠️⚓
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#when your ship sails #it’s all hands on deck
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Tim Curry as Long John Silver in Muppet Treasure Island, 1996.
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Music in Film: Muppet Treasure Island (1996) dir. Brian Henson
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Pages and Co: Tilly and the Bookwanderers, paperback edition, pages 93-94.
"Who's your favourite book character, Jack?" Tilly asked him as they worked.
"Tough question, Tils. And what do you mean by favourite? The character I like the most, or the character I think is the best written?"
"The character you'd most like to be able to have a real-life conversation with," Tilly replied.
"Oh well, that's a slightly different question," Jack said. "The character I'd most like to talk to..." He paused in though. 'I think I would be very tempted to go with Long John Silver, the pirate from Treasure Island - have you read that one?"
Tilly shook her head. "I've seen the Muppet film version, though," she offered.
Jack laughed, "Well, I think Robert Louis Stevenson's original version is even better. Think of all the stories Silver could tell of pirates and buried treasure. Imagine the debates you could have with him."
"He's a baddie, though, right?" Tilly asked.
"Well, yes, I suppose, technically, but the baddies are more interesting sometimes, don't you think? Or the heroes who aren't always very heroic. People who do the right thing for the wrong reasons or the wrong thing for the right reasons. People like Long John Silver. You should read the original."