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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[nic]

(anyone know when that's coming out?)

I heard May 2007.

And I am with you on the Will love. He is the Hero. :D

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[spoke.livejournal.com]

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So much love for Will. It's like, he's learned how to be crafty when he needs to be, but it hasn't changed him. ^_^

Elizabeth creeped me out slightly? Because a few hours after the movie, it occured to me that there's a hole in her logic - she saw Jack rowing away. She saw that, and that the Kraken wasn't immediately going after him, so she had to have known that they could take Jack and get to land. But she did anyway.

And I have this horrible feeling that what happened is exactly what Jack warned her about when they were having their flirty song and dance earlier - she did what she wanted to do, which in this case was get rid of the temptation to be unfaithful to Will. Remember when she was holding the Compass-What-Leads-To-What-You-Want on the island, and it pointed right to Jack? After which she tried to say it was broken?

Erm, not broken. So not broken. So telling her something she didn't want to here, and then she did the immoral piratey selfish thing, and got rid of her problem. And I am so horrified about how Will's going to react, if and when he finds out.

Jack... I'm not sure what to think of what's going on with Jack, because normally it's a hero who behaves like this, in the midst of a moral crisis. It is so utterly wierd to see someone so decisive floundering on the question of what he wants. I guess it was easy when it was just the Pearl, and now they've sailed into deeper waters, so to speak - the religious touches and the Compass, and the East India Trading Company moving in. It's just... strange, and Jack is the Compass in this, I suspect. Whenever they find him, and whatever he chooses when he makes up his mind, that's going to be the direction for everything else?

...okay, and trying to figure out Jack is potentially headache making. We need more background to even figure out what he wants, anyway.

Norrington actually didn't surprise me? It's just.. here is a man who believes in The System, who is a steady and hard worker under the rules, as long as he feels they're legimete. He can't square with being a pirate, because his own self-identification is too Upstanding Citizen.

So, what do you when you're determined to excel within the acceptable moral standards - and they change on you? Change with them.

[gildedmuse.livejournal.com]

Will gave me a bit of a headache. Every time he did something, I winced and slipped further down into my seat. He was sweet, though, and I liked him more than I did in the first one where he just annoyed me, espeically towards the end of the movie. I think he's growing up some, or simply growing on me. I liked him enough, anyway, that Elizabeth is my new least favorite character.

She had it going at first; independent, firey, innovative. The second she finds Jack, though, she started annoying me. I mean, I know most of her flirting was to prove a point, but certainly not all of it was, and I feel cheated (for Will). I mean, he's out there dying and she's flirting a Jack who is even more drunken than usual.

She hurts my head, too, because I like that they did that with her character (instead of just being the perfect, lovely female lead) but I hate her character. If I read her in a book I'd call her "interesting and well done". If I meant her in real life I'd call her a "bitch".

[calicokat.livejournal.com]

Elizabeth. @_@ So much love!!