At World’s End

26May07

Just a few comments about the movie based on the ride that was more a ride than a movie (that is, forgettable, but exciting).

No, I’m not going to talk about its empty promises of an fleet-wide battle between the East India Company and the United Pirate Nations, or the utter waste of time that was Calypso, or convoluted plot that made it very confusing to follow who betrayed whom and why.

Spoiler warning for those of you who didn’t see the epilogue after the credits.

For the last three movies, Keira Knightley’s been yammering on and on about how it’s the pirate’s life for her, endangering the lives of her friends and subsequently leading to the deaths of her then-fiance and her father…

…and in the end she becomes a housewife to an OCW?

Don’t get me wrong. As Arroyo, Estrada, and Ramos all consistently say, ‘Ang OCW ang bayani ng bagong milenyo’ There’s nothing wrong with Orlando Bloom becoming a ‘bagong bayani’ so to speak, only getting to come home every ten years with balikbayan boxes probably in tow. But for Keira Knightley, all this… for that?

And one more thing. Since Keira Knightley was voted Pirate King, does that make Orlando Bloom (by marriage) the Pirate Queen?


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  1. 1 Evette on May 28, 2007 said:

    Will Turner was only a one-time OCW, apparently.

    But to clarify one point: Davy Jones, as Captain of the Flying Dutchman, is cursed to set foot on land only once every ten years … unless he finds a love that is true to him. Hopefully that rule will be made more clear in the third film.

    If the person Jones had been in love with had been true, and waited for him, and stayed in love with him for ten years, upon his return to land his curse would have been lifted. That’s a big part of the reason why Jones is so bitter and cruel. He had a chance to lead a normal life … but his lover was fickle.

    This was said May 18 in a forum somewhere, I’m still trying to get the correct URL. In short, backtracking.

  2. 2 Evette on May 28, 2007 said:

    http://www.wordplayer.com/forums/moviesarc08/index.cgi?read=98135 Check this if it works for you. It can’t with me, but apparently it does work.

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