Of stars and ships...

[i_autumnheart]

I just got back from seeing Pirates of the Carribean: At World's End with Jane Doe and Miss Maeve (after carefully dodging spoilers almost successfully for a couple of days) and had some thoughts about it I wanted to get down before they fade.

This is unfortunately not the big essay on it that I planned to write after seeing Dead Man's Chest last

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[tunxeh]

Multiple personality Jack Sparrow - I suspect I am not in the target audience that it was aimed at.

Maybe I am? Being John Malkevitch is much more my usual style of movie than this one is.

I can't help but wonder what would have happened had he still had the kraken available when he ran up against Beckett...

But he did. There's a line sometime before we see the dead Kraken, about Beckett having told Jones to kill his pet.

Norrington's death was a total waste.

It didn't come across that way to me - more of a chance for him to redeem himself before he died.

Anyway, thanks for the post! Obviously this is still fresh in all of our eyes and there's plenty of depth in it for lots of fun discussions.

[lyras]

I think Norrington was always doomed - he plays a very similar role in the trilogy to that represented by Duncan Heyward in Last of the Mohicans: the slightly stuffy (although of course much less stuffy as we move through the movies :)) adherent to traditional authority who, well, ultimately realises that his love/honour is more important than the traditional, old-fashioned establishment values to which he has dedicated his life.

That said, I was heartbroken when he died, and disappointed that there was no reference to him thereafter (unless I missed something). I was expecting him to reappear.

Also, yeah, I thought Rush was brilliant.