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mollyringwraith

Pirates of the Caribbean 2: a parody

Dec 26, 2006 20:48

Just last week I was commenting to naill_renfro that I didn't feel much inspired to this (which he was claiming he didn't either), but then I did it anyway. Ah well. Don't expect much.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Booteh!
(A condensed version of Dead Man's ChestBy Molly J. Ringwraith ( Read more... )

pirates of the caribbean, parody by me

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gardnerhill December 27 2006, 05:55:33 UTC

Don't forget the uglier aspects of the Action Checklist POTC2 was so happy to dish out:

AUDIENCE: Black pirates killed off first for no reason, check. ...Ignorant brown 'ooga booga' cannibal savages, check. Magical Negro, check.

whapnoggin December 27 2006, 06:57:53 UTC

Yeah, I noticed that the cannibals seemed to have conveniently placed all of the lighter (if less clean) pirates in one ball....

umetnica December 27 2006, 07:56:04 UTC

If you go back and look, there was a black pirate in the main character ball. He disappears after they get to Tia Dalma's shack, but he's there.

whapnoggin December 27 2006, 08:33:28 UTC

I'll check once I have my hands on a DVD--thanks!

gardnerhill December 27 2006, 17:02:51 UTC

So the film managed to not-kill ONE black character with no speaking role by the end. I guess DMC wasn't a racist pile of shite after all.

kali_kali December 27 2006, 19:06:32 UTC

That was the weird thing though - if you look carefully, initially it was an Asian pirate in the main character ball, but at some point when the ball starts rolling off, and eventually breaks apart, the black guy mysteriously appears and we never see the Asian guy again.

Nor do we see the black guy again in an important capacity, but he may be on the ship somewhere (when they went to Tia Dalma's it is possible that he stayed on the ship instead of going with them, because they wouldn't have left the ship unsupervised).

umetnica December 27 2006, 21:15:48 UTC

You're right, there was an Asian pirate while they were swinging, but the black pirate is there too. There's six people in the MCB: Asian pirate, black pirate, Will, Gibbs, Marty and Cotton. Maybe the Asian pirate was done in by the arrows shot at them in the gorge, because that's the last time I see him anywhere. The black pirate was in a boat on the way to Tia's, but we don't see him after. Maybe he decided it was safer to stay there than go along with Jack.

kali_kali December 27 2006, 23:51:05 UTC

I'm gonna have to rewatch the ball part again, on slow-motion when I get home... it is possible that they were both in there, but I don't recall seeing them in the same shot.

I just showed the movie to my grandmother, and I saw the black pirate on the deck of the ship before they got to Tia Dalma's (they hadn't picked up a new crew yet, so it had to be the same guy), kept a close eye as to what he was wearing, and he does appear at least twice more - as you said, in the boat to Tia Dalma's, and then he gets taken away by a Kraken tentacle near the end.

umetnica December 28 2006, 02:37:03 UTC

Aw, poor guy. I liked believing that he got away.

kali_kali December 28 2006, 04:34:56 UTC

I don't think the boat that they got away on had any room for non-speaking characters, so everyone besides Will, Elizabeth, Gibbs, Marty, Cotton, Pintel and Ragetti were out of luck :(

Meatball? dreymar January 2 2007, 20:07:09 UTC

It's just a matter of putting the white meat and the dark meat in different Tupperware boxes, as it were. :)

- What, are you eating oats you filthy Scotsman?! In England we give the oats to our horses!
- Aye, an' that's why ye hav' the best horsies in the werld, an' we hav' the best men in the werld!

mollyringwraith December 29 2006, 01:39:20 UTC

True, but at least they were mostly innocent (cannibals, well, they're no dumber than the pirates really...). The evil people were all rich white guys; where's the outrage about that? ;)

gardnerhill December 30 2006, 08:52:38 UTC

BTW, what is the *East* India Company doing in the Caribbean? This bothered me every time it came up; perhaps there's some historical basis for it that I just don't know about, and it really does make sense, like the dice game.

And I'm a bit alarmed at what the people who cast the cannibals, etc. might do with Chow Yun Fat in POTC III; will he end up like Sessue Hayakawa (as Kuala the pirate captain) in Swiss Family Robinson?

Ah, well. In a sane world Davy Squidface would yield 98% of his screen time to Barbossa...

East is West and West is East, and halfway the twain shall meet. dreymar January 2 2007, 20:01:36 UTC

Indeed, the reasons are historical. The Honourable IEC (that was its name, not necessarily its reality) started out in the year 1600, getting British monopoly on trade with the East Indies. They made a fortune of course, on ventures like tea trade with India itself.

When the West Indies (the Caribbean) got some wind in its sails from a non-Spanish perspective (and as something considerably more lucrative than a place to send your madmen and religious dissidents) a few years later, the HEIC was poised to grab its share of the action. It had competition from others, such as the Dutch West India Company, and was plagued by piracy and enemy acts of privateering (aka piracy-in-the-crown's-name) - but did well.

I've heard that they hired the infamous Capt. Kidd to hunt (other) pirates for them, but later down the road he fell to plundering English ships and the EIC had him declared a pirate.

Play Sid Meier's Pirates! Shiver me timbers, me hearties!

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