Pirates of the Caribbean -- Dead Man's Chest

[butterfly]

I love Will. I love the others, too, I do, but my heart (in these movies) completely belongs to Will. He's just... *waves hands* he's romantic and brave, yet skeptical and questioning. He does horribly stupid things out of loyalty and love. And he just wears it all out there, doesn't try to hide any of it.

Elizabeth was thoroughly Elizabeth. She's a ruthless one, that one is, when she's decided what she needs to do. I was not surprised she used Jack's attraction to her to chain him to the ship (though I think that Will will be, if he finds out).

Jack's interesting -- the Jack in the first movie knew exactly what he wanted and where he was going. This one... quite literally didn't know where he was trying to go. His compass was spinning in useless circles. Very interesting and I really look forward to seeing how it all resolves in the third movie (anyone know when that's coming out?).

I was very intrigued by the way they decided to go with Norrington. If someone had told me what had been planned, I would have been questioning, but I think that it worked, in context. Hmm.

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[butterfly.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow. I had not thought of that, but it makes sense. Which means Will would be likely to say something about it to her in that context - thereby triggering the inevitable confession and oh, no. Yikes.

I really am very curious about where they're planning to go with Elizabeth in the third movie. Because, based on these two movies, I do think that she has a curiosity-based attraction to Jack, but that she truly loves and is attracted to Will. And she wouldn't be happy if Will tried to 'step aside' for her happiness with Jack, but how could she possibly explain that without saying something that might (in her opinion) hopelessly tarnish her in Will's eyes?

That. Is so utterly perfect. omg, it explains everything if he's in love with this shiny idea of being a Pirate Captain and has no clue how it's supposed to work! XD

It really would fit perfectly with the way he behaves.

Suddenly it makes sense that the Pearl's first crew would follow Barbossa into mutiny, too. He is much more piratey, in a way, which they'd probably associate with competency compared with Jack. Poor Jack.

I know! Barbossa really is a proper pirate in a way that Jack isn't. Jack is in it primarily for the freedom. Doesn't mean that he turns down treasure, but it does not seem to be his priority.

...it's like Disney's take on hardcore has this hyper quality so that you're getting swept along even as you realize that yes, they did go there.

Hah, that's a perfect way of describing it.