It took the right lessons from Treasure Island in making the pirates incredibly likeable while still being all-around terrible people. Sparrow and Barbossa, plus their crew, absolutely stole the show from the actual leads. Combine that with surprisingly good writing and an amazing score and it ended up one of my favorite films despite being based on a theme park ride.
Also Disney:
Okay but… He wasn’t a good pirate.
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Honestly, this is potentially among the top five best film dialog moments of the past thirty years.
That movie was far far better than it had any right to be. An absolute classic from start to finish.
It took the right lessons from Treasure Island in making the pirates incredibly likeable while still being all-around terrible people. Sparrow and Barbossa, plus their crew, absolutely stole the show from the actual leads. Combine that with surprisingly good writing and an amazing score and it ended up one of my favorite films despite being based on a theme park ride.
In a world without global connectivity think how much this would mean? Mean he was probably harassing the British so maybe not as much as it could…
To me it means that so many have lived to tell the tale. And its consistently poor tale.