Comments | zotz: The evening.

zotz

The evening.

Jun 23, 2005 10:31

I was quite disappointed the other night that when the police drove down the seafront they didn't stop to tell us to put the fire out and go home. How are we to maintain the illusion that we're still young and wild if even The Man thinks we're beneath his attention?

A nice old couple dropped round last night to be introduced to the cat. They seemed ( Read more... )

the cat, solstice, cinema

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serpentstar June 23 2005, 09:48:52 UTC

The timescale of PotC is completely screwed, but I don't think that matters too much -- it's not really supposed to be historically accurate. :)

zotz June 23 2005, 09:52:12 UTC

Very true, but it was the geography that got me. Almost up there with the infamous dragons from the mountains of Norfolk.

serpentstar June 23 2005, 10:35:40 UTC

Yeah, the geographical and historical errors are interlinked though. There were two Port Royals; the first one fell in the sea in... 1697, I think? Around then. If we go by the presence of Redcoat soldiers and Marines in the Caribbee, I think that places the movie around 50 years after that date (again, I could be wrong). So we're talking the second Port Royal -- which seems even less likely to have hundred-foot basalt cliffs all round it than the first one did. I could almost believe it of the first one, it's a somewhat mythic place these days... although of course it was a hive of scum and villainy then, more like the movie's portrayal of Tortuga.

zotz June 23 2005, 10:46:41 UTC

There are no cliffs anywhere near it. It's on a sandy spit formed by wave action, so it's as flat as a pancake and always was. There was a certain amount of rebuilding done ater the first quake, and it was cleaned up a lot, but it never really recovered and Kingston became the major port and then eventually the capital (which had been Spanish Town). There's a Wikipedia article, amazingly enough. The links at the bottom are worth following - one of them has an aerial photo of the area.

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ex_lark_asc June 23 2005, 14:09:26 UTC

Those photos are absolutely stunning - who took them?

zotz June 23 2005, 14:12:46 UTC

Indeed.

The first link is to occular's photos, and the second is to anonymous_seth's.

They both had a pretty good piece of reality to work from, of course.

scy11a June 23 2005, 20:29:26 UTC

So were you indeed the Sneaky Widdler?

zotz June 24 2005, 08:45:23 UTC

scy11a June 24 2005, 09:13:54 UTC

So you didn't look at the photos (and their captions) then?!

zotz June 24 2005, 09:22:18 UTC

Ah. I didn't read the captions, no, but I think I remember what you mean. No, that wasn't me.