Originally posted by a-k-a-amber
well yeah but they cut out davy jones line "sparrow might this be a lady you are interestied yourself?and Becketts "but what of you and Jack?"
almost all the lines they cut dealt with the love triangle. every single one i can see, anyway. you've got those two, plus Will's convo with Davy (a woman need not make you desperate...) plus Norri's line (you want elizabeth for yourself) and Jack's reply (pot. kettle. black.)
waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! it's so unfair, www.wordplayer.com never never never ever ever ever works for me! it's so mean lol! Please, with a cherry on top and chocolate topping, would please email it to me! I would be eternally grateful! thankyou if anyone can!
If anyone needs the script I can e-mail the unzipped version to them. Just PM me. 😄
And no, the script did not lean toward J/E, but it directed attention more toward Jack being attracted to Elizabeth; but I notice, not the other way around. 😄
Oh, but I have to say, I was squeeing in delight over the Norribeth moments *hugs her ship tightly to protect it from sinking*, and James was going to stab the heart! I knew he would, but I was so thrilled to see the actual words on paper!
OK I WAS ON WORDPLAY AND READING ALL ABOUT JACK AND LIZ AND I GET TO THIS
http://www.wordplayer.com/forums/moviesarc07/index.cgi?read=92663
"No, they also cut out Will kissing Lizzie's fingers in the jail and a lot of James and Norribeth."------ericadawn
Why on earth would they cut Will kissing Liz's fingers? That would take a matter of seconds, would be completely appropriate (as opposed to let's say, Liz sucking on Will's fingers and referencing, uh, use your imagination), and would be a nice, tender moment between the two. They are engaged. So why cut it? I smell a rat. The way I see it, cutting something so harmless out might mean they want Liz to shift towards someone else.
I don't think that the kissing of Elizabeth's fingers was cut; I think that the take that they chose to use in the film, it simply doesn't happen. There's plenty of other physical contact in that scene that makes up for the kiss.
In fact, Will and Elizabeth have a lot of small, very natural moments of physical intimacy, which I think is important. In every scene Will and Elizabeth share in DMC, they have some sort of contact with each other, so I don't find the lack of a kiss of the fingers means that they are shifting Elizabeth's attention from Will. 😄
the kissing of the fingers sort of happens, the way i see it. but it looks like a faux paus on the part of the actors rather than a definate decision to cut something. of course i dont know. but her fingers stroke his mouth and sort of stay there awkwardly as he is trying to say a line, as though she was waiting for him to kiss them and it just didn't happen because of timing or whatever. its actually a moment that has bothered me all along. it looks like he OUGHT to kiss her fingers (and her lips, for that matter, a few seconds later) but he is just not responding to her initiation. that's what i get out of it anyways.
hahaha same here. that scene is always wierd to me. Elizabeth seems too sedate, Will seems too brusque, and I could never figure out why Gov. Swann could grant Will clemency at the end of COTBP but couldn't get his own daughter out of that gross prison. I mean, Will sprung a man from jail, stole and got destroyed a royal navy ship, all sorts of things. Why couldn't gov swann interfere?
His power is on the wan. That's why you see him being questioned by the soldier. Wigs like the one Swann wears were a symbol of power, so it's not a coincidence that the soldier calls him Mr. Swann, and that later in the film we see him without it. It's sort of a switch in power from the old aristocracy based on fealty to the king, to the new type of power which as Beckett states, is money.
His hands were tied because at the time period, the Bourgeouise merchants were gaining political power and the aristocracy were losing it. Beckett holds all the aces in other words.