Swash Swash, Buckle Buckle

[salmon_pink]

So, saw Dead Man's Chest. Am now officially torn between signing up at ot3_100 for Jack/Will/Elizabeth or Jack/Will/Norrington. Of course, you're all required to stop me from doing either.

But, anyway, on to spoiler-packed thoughts, all safely behind the cut, and all wonderfully chaotic. I write as memories come back to me.

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Re: He cut out him heart

[salmon_pink]

Really? Awesome! I'd been avoiding all potential spoilers, so I hadn't read any interviews with the cast before I saw it, and I've only just started going back through last month's movie magazines to read the articles, so I had no idea about the special effects. If it was a Gollum effort, well, I'm desperately impressed. And Nighy must be used to contacts after Underworld, weren't his eyes white or an incredibly pale blue in that film?

You've hit the nail on the head as to why I love Jones, and why he's special kind of villain. There's a motivation for his actions, rather than him just prancing around being evil for the sake of it. There's so much mystery there, such potential, and I do want him to have some sense of redemption, or at least a sense of emotional closure. I don't just want him defeated in the way I was rooting for the good guys against Barbossa. And, yeah, Barbossa meeting Jones is going to be amazing.

And I hadn't noticed the tentacles clutching the hat! That has me squeeing like crazy. Damn, I'm not going to see it again until next week, but I'll have to look out for it. :D

because I'm geeky that way

[serizawa3000]

Actually I found out (thanks to Wikipedia... OH NOES!) most of Nighy's mo-cap work was on the set. No blue screen, or green screen or whatever. So he was in the gray pjs on set... And he had dots all over his face, too (which would explain Jones's surprising expressiveness)...

What was also interesting was that they decided to combine Davy Jones (possibly sailor-speak for "Devil Jonah") with the legend of The Flying Dutchman. The story goes that the captain of the ship in question found himself in a becalmed sea, and dared to ask the Devil for a wind... so now he sails the sea forever... Added to that were bits about how the captain is allowed to go on land every ten years, a lost love, etc. Wagner did an opera about the whole thing.

Methinks it might have been asking too much for The Flying Dutchman to actually fly... :)

And I must admit that the bit where Pintel and Ragetti argue about the pronunciation of "Kraken" was for real geek types like me... the screenwriters did their homework...