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Like three-quarters of the known world (or so it seems), I have pirates on the brain. So much so that it took three rewrites before I got all the piratical verbiage out of an email I nearly sent unedited; for a while there, I was doing a good imitation of the Young Crone in that episode of Blackadder where he falls for Bob (Blackadder: "Tell me, Young Crone, is this Putney?" Young Crone: "That it be, that it be." Blackadder: "'Yes it is', not 'that it be'. You don't have to talk in that stupid voice to me. I'm not a tourist."). Who knew my grasp of the English language was so tenuous?
I'm still on the hunt for screencaps of particular, non-Orlando elements of PotC for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
castalianspring and myself, and I'm still not having any luck. I've found lots of Orlando shots, though, and a somewhat lesser amount of Johnny and Keira. I've also collected a wide variety of articles on assorted topics concerning Pirates and related buckled swashes, so I might as well share them. Some might be new to you, and some you've probably read five times and are sick of by now. All of them are spoilery to some degree, so if you haven't seen the movie yet and you have spoiler-fear... what the heck are you doing online? There are spoilers on nine out of ten websites! Go, shoo!
Charles Taylor had an interesting, amusing article on swashbucklers on Salon last week, which I have to recommend if only because he agrees with me on the merits of certain films (he skips Captain Blood, but hits The Black Pirate, so I almost forgive him). It's a bit weird that I've recommended two Taylor articles in a week or so, since he's not one of my favorite reviewers. Maybe he should write about adventure movies more often.
Here's a contest to win a copy of the PotC soundtrack from Soundtrack.net. I always enter their contests, and I've never won, but you never know.
A couple of articles wondering why pirate movies have fallen on such hard times in recent years. This one is snide and superior, and the author disses Captain Blood, The Sea Hawk, and the Robert Newton Treasure Island, so obviously he's a philistine. This other article hits many of the same points, only with less sneering.
This is an interesting interview with ILM Animation Director Hal Hickel, about the very cool special effects. Some nice tidbits in that one. Also neat, though much less detailed, is this article on the swordplay in the movie- nothing terribly illuminating (there are statements like "Each sword-fighting move has a name...". Yeah, thanks), but a couple of good quotes.
Lots of production information, quotes from all the major players (cast and crew), interesting trivia and general good stuff in this somewhat longer article that covers the characters, ships, costumes, stunts, visual effects and so on.
A Q&A with the stars (and Bruckheimer, because he's a ham)- Keira's story about first meeting Johnny Depp is cute. Some interviews with Orlando, Keira, Johnny, Keira, Orlando, Johnny, and Keira and Johnny, talking about doing voice work for the PotC videogame. These interviews have usual amount of overlapping and repeated soundbites, so they may soon sound familiar.
A page from No Quarter Given, a little pirate magazine, which has the expected review and a report on the Disneyland premiere, but also has a short piece reprinted from Sailing magazine, focusing on the ships (middle of the page). Speaking of the ships, here's a pair of articles about the Lady Washington, the brig that "played" the Interceptor in PotC, and her crew (who got to be extras).
And lastly, a few links just because they're fun: pictures of Errol looking buccaneering in Captain Blood (yay!) and The Sea Hawk (slightly smaller yay!). Also, an article from 1940, about The Sea Hawk. Something that made me choke on my tea- a keyboard for pirates. The classic Talk Like a Pirate Day (which is every day for me, recently). Finally, Archie McPhee has pirate shower curtains, lunchboxes, umbrellas and more.
And, of course, a quiz. ( So what sword am I? )
Rather fitting, for a swashbuckler.
I'm still on the hunt for screencaps of particular, non-Orlando elements of PotC for
castalianspring and myself, and I'm still not having any luck. I've found lots of Orlando shots, though, and a somewhat lesser amount of Johnny and Keira. I've also collected a wide variety of articles on assorted topics concerning Pirates and related buckled swashes, so I might as well share them. Some might be new to you, and some you've probably read five times and are sick of by now. All of them are spoilery to some degree, so if you haven't seen the movie yet and you have spoiler-fear... what the heck are you doing online? There are spoilers on nine out of ten websites! Go, shoo!Charles Taylor had an interesting, amusing article on swashbucklers on Salon last week, which I have to recommend if only because he agrees with me on the merits of certain films (he skips Captain Blood, but hits The Black Pirate, so I almost forgive him). It's a bit weird that I've recommended two Taylor articles in a week or so, since he's not one of my favorite reviewers. Maybe he should write about adventure movies more often.
Here's a contest to win a copy of the PotC soundtrack from Soundtrack.net. I always enter their contests, and I've never won, but you never know.
A couple of articles wondering why pirate movies have fallen on such hard times in recent years. This one is snide and superior, and the author disses Captain Blood, The Sea Hawk, and the Robert Newton Treasure Island, so obviously he's a philistine. This other article hits many of the same points, only with less sneering.
This is an interesting interview with ILM Animation Director Hal Hickel, about the very cool special effects. Some nice tidbits in that one. Also neat, though much less detailed, is this article on the swordplay in the movie- nothing terribly illuminating (there are statements like "Each sword-fighting move has a name...". Yeah, thanks), but a couple of good quotes.
Lots of production information, quotes from all the major players (cast and crew), interesting trivia and general good stuff in this somewhat longer article that covers the characters, ships, costumes, stunts, visual effects and so on.
A Q&A with the stars (and Bruckheimer, because he's a ham)- Keira's story about first meeting Johnny Depp is cute. Some interviews with Orlando, Keira, Johnny, Keira, Orlando, Johnny, and Keira and Johnny, talking about doing voice work for the PotC videogame. These interviews have usual amount of overlapping and repeated soundbites, so they may soon sound familiar.
A page from No Quarter Given, a little pirate magazine, which has the expected review and a report on the Disneyland premiere, but also has a short piece reprinted from Sailing magazine, focusing on the ships (middle of the page). Speaking of the ships, here's a pair of articles about the Lady Washington, the brig that "played" the Interceptor in PotC, and her crew (who got to be extras).
And lastly, a few links just because they're fun: pictures of Errol looking buccaneering in Captain Blood (yay!) and The Sea Hawk (slightly smaller yay!). Also, an article from 1940, about The Sea Hawk. Something that made me choke on my tea- a keyboard for pirates. The classic Talk Like a Pirate Day (which is every day for me, recently). Finally, Archie McPhee has pirate shower curtains, lunchboxes, umbrellas and more.
And, of course, a quiz. ( So what sword am I? )
Rather fitting, for a swashbuckler.
