More thoughts about POTC - DMC: The symbolic meaning of Elizabeth's dress//Tia Dalma

Aug 02, 2006 11:35

I watched POTC II for a second time on Sunday. Rewatching it, also spawned a mini essay on the symbolism of Elizabeth's clothing ( Read more... )

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scrtkpr January 10 2008, 09:57:23 UTC
Hi! You left me such a lovely comment on my fic, I had to come check out your journal.

I'm mostly a Harry/Draco sort of girl, but even your posts on other fandoms look interesting, so am friending you. :)

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thalia_seawood January 11 2008, 20:19:22 UTC
How lovely to meet you here! Welcome to my livejournal; I hope you find some entries you find enjoyable. (Real life has kept me very busy for several months so there are no recent entries, but I wrote rather a lot in the past.)

I friended you back! :-)

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scrtkpr January 12 2008, 09:30:40 UTC
:D

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aletheiafelinea August 18 2010, 18:36:37 UTC
Hello! Some time ago, I've translated the most of this text into Polish, for this forum. Will you forgive me I've not asked before?

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thalia_seawood August 24 2010, 16:55:05 UTC
Hi there,

thanks for letting me know!
It's actually kind of cool that you liked my musing so much that you took the time to translate some of them. :-) So I've no problem with you posting this text in the Polish PotC forum as long as you give credit to my LJ name thalia_seawood. Thanks!

Take care!
Thalia

p.s. Would love to read new thoughts on this topic, but - alas - I don't speak Polish.

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aletheiafelinea August 24 2010, 18:41:17 UTC
In the translation's post is the link going directly here.
There wasn't rather particularly new thoughts after then, we mostly agreed it matched to our interpretations, (and I should say, I translated only parts regarding to Elizabeth, cause it was for 'her' topic). But while I understand very well the hunger for new voices in discussion :) at the moment I can say...

Norrington is wearing the jacket of his commodore uniform during the entire movie even it is nearly unrecognicable because it has been through a lot. :-)
It's fun to mull over what this might mean. could mean that he still has a strong sense of honour and duty underneath it all. Or it could foreshadow that he goes back to his old position....or that he is so attached to all what it stands for (and this is more than simply the rank and commandering, but all his vision of the world and life) that he can't abandon it even when it's in rags (as his life with values on which it was founded). In AWE he gets the crisp new uniform, but not exactly the same - as his life. It's ( ... )

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