willofthewisp
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Grr! This is why I have such a problem with pre-premiere interviews. They try to be clever when they're just vague.
"Apart from getting tied up, there's not much at all. I don't end up getting sort of thrown overboard or anything like that, which is nice."
"She has quite a dramatic departure in 3."
I think Naomie Harris is great and all, but who ties her up and is this dramatic departure relating to Calypso somehow?
"Box Office Mojo: Does it concern you that Jack Sparrow will be perceived as less likable in this movie?
Ted Elliott: More interesting, not less likable. I can't say what everybody's going to feel, but, certainly the intent here was for people to be surprised by what Jack is doing. My argument against making him more likable is that he [ought to be] understandable. Everything he does is perfectly within character and, in a way, all we're doing is revealing greater character depth. His character in the first movie included things that were less than admirable, less than likable"
Hmmmm, they seem really against admitting Jack is a good guy even though we know he is.
"Box Office Mojo: What is the meaning of the series?
Ted Elliott: It's a study of what is a pirate. How free can you really be? What are those trade-offs? Jack kind of represents the ultimate free man—he really has no obligations to anybody, and, obviously, if you make an obligation to somebody, you're limiting your own freedom. But, if you're not willing to limit your own freedom, you can't have those relationships. If you look at Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest from that point of view, you kind of see what really leads to Jack's ultimate fate and why Elizabeth does what she does."
Auuuggghhh! What are they doing?! Explain further in depth! Oh, Ted. You're the more unclear of the two. How I hate you.
"Ted Elliott: In the very first meeting we had on Pirates 2 and possibly Pirates 3, we kind of pitched to Gore, [and producers] Jerry Bruckheimer, Mike Stenson and Chad Oman how the movie ends—I don't want to spoil it—with Jack, Will and Elizabeth. We said 'this is what we want and then in Pirates 3, this happens.' They were like, 'nyahh.' But we've learned an important lesson, which is that the right idea at the wrong time is a wrong idea."
BIGGER SCREAM! I hope they aren't saying that before it might have been a good idea to put J/E together, but now it isn't. Is that what they mean. How can they do this kind of thing to us?