Pirates of the Caribbean

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Posted 07 January 2004 - 12:10 AM

I just watched Pirates of the Caribbean with Jen last night. It was the first time I'd seen the movie after being told by everyone on planet Earth that I should see it. I thought the movie was fabulous (save for one or two lines that could have been omitted from the script).

One thing that people are quick to alert you of, after they bring up Pirates of the Caribbean, is to say: "Do you know who Johnny Depp based his character on ... ?" Then they pause, a smug smirk hanging on their proud faces. "Keith Richards," they quickly announce with the same level of pride and exuberance of a doctor finding the cure for cancer or a scientist discovering the secrets of time travel.

This was fine the FIRST time someone brought it up. However, every single person that has ever brought up the movie to me in the past six months has made this point to me and I'm getting sick of hearing it. Every interview I've seen with Johnny Depp, every behind the scenes documentary on the movie, every damn fool kid who's seen the movie ... you can't escape the knowledge of Johnny Depp's Keith Richards impersonation.

I know. We get it. Now stop.

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Posted 07 January 2004 - 12:41 AM

News to me!

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Posted 07 January 2004 - 07:57 AM

Ahh one part Kieth Richards... one part Peppy Le'Pew!
(At least thats what I heard the first time I heard anything about it)

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Posted 07 January 2004 - 08:04 AM

I was somewhat disappointed in the movie. It was good, don't get me wrong, I just expected something more....better.

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Posted 07 January 2004 - 09:43 AM

The movie would have been just okay if not for Johnny Depp's amazing performance. If you took him out it would have just been another Cutthroat Island.

I'm not saying that's a bad thing at all!

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Posted 07 January 2004 - 06:16 PM

I also thought it was fantastic. Usually I don't watch movies more than once. Even the best of them. But a movie as purely entertaining as that one caused me to see it three times. Plus it's pirates, and I just like pirates a lot.

But what I meant to get to eventually was that in one of the deleted scenes Depp says a line directly from one of his earlier movies, "Benny and June", which happens to be my favorite movie of all time. The referance had me excited enough to scare those I was watching it with.

Have any of you seen that movie? ("Benny and June" I mean)

Well anyway, that little deleted scene made the movie for me... again.

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Posted 08 January 2004 - 02:48 PM

Johnny Depp was super-fantastic in it. I'll give you that.

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Posted 08 January 2004 - 04:16 PM

QUOTE (Chefelf @ Jan 7 2004, 12:10 AM)

One thing that people are quick to alert you of, after they bring up Pirates of the Caribbean, is to say: "Do you know who Johnny Depp based his character on ... ?" Then they pause, a smug smirk hanging on their proud faces. "Keith Richards," they quickly announce with the same level of pride and exuberance of a doctor finding the cure for cancer or a scientist discovering the secrets of time travel.

Yeah; this has been bugging me, too. But it's the problem of something becoming an open secret. Like, noone would have figured that out on their own (there's no way, so don't tell me you did.) It came out of some dumb Access Hollywood interview with the star. And some dumbass who saw it wanted to be all clever and tell everyone he knew it, like the first guy did who learned how they animated King Kong. I'm sure that was pretty annoying back in 1933 ("ok, I heard you; now let me check my stocks, will you?") And yeah, it's become infectious.

I'm curious to know when will be the last time I hear that trivia, like when will be the last time I hear FARGO was *not* based on a true story (well, duh), or that Donald Kaufman, co-nominated for best adapted screenplay for ADAPTATION, does not, in fact, exist (again, duh). I suspect those little "I'm so smart" tidbits will float around as long as the films retain any semblance of popularity, but they won't detract from my love of all three films.

Incidentally, and I'm sure I'm not the first to bring this up either, but if you liked Depp's antics, you should read the real-life history of Tom Blood. If Sparrow was not based on Blood, then I don't know what.

"I had a lot of different ideas. At one point, Luke, Leia and Ben were all going to be little people, and we did screen tests to see if we could do that." -George Lucas, in STAR WARS: the Annotated Screenplays (p197).