exactly... like i just said, i LIKE that vulnerability.
you see it in the "peas in a pod" deleted scene in film 1, and just before the kiss of death in film 2, and for a few moments in film 3 (when Sao Feng is sending him to see Beckett, when he sees Teague,) and those are inevitably my favorite moments of Jack Sparrow. it just adds depth and dimension. it makes him more human and less of a cartoon character or stock figure.
Originally posted by IheartPocky
Maybe they killed james and the Governer cause they really had no purpose. If they didn't then they'd have to make them do stuff throughout the movie and make it even longer. Just like Terry said, they made the parrot fly away before the battle so they wouldn't have to fit it into the battle.
Ooh, I have a question back to the hat. Are all of Jack's vulnerable moments without his hat/coat? Not to sound like a fan girl (cough) but is he vulnerable when he has the least amount of items/clothes on? Because if that's true, I think we've discovered another symbol, ladies! I love streams of consciousness.
Originally posted by willofthewisp
Ooh, I have a question back to the hat. Are all of Jack's vulnerable moments without his hat/coat? Not to sound like a fan girl (cough) but is he vulnerable when he has the least amount of items/clothes on? Because if that's true, I think we've discovered another symbol, ladies! I love streams of consciousness.
I have been watching a lot of Pirates mvids today and I have to say the Will and Elizabeth love story had a lot of potential but the writers really botched it up towards the end of Pirates 2 and never resolved it in Pirates 3 enough. Such a shame it could have been much better,
Originally posted by willofthewisp
Ooh, I have a question back to the hat. Are all of Jack's vulnerable moments without his hat/coat? Not to sound like a fan girl (cough) but is he vulnerable when he has the least amount of items/clothes on? Because if that's true, I think we've discovered another symbol, ladies! I love streams of consciousness.
i think i would agree with this. I LOVE Jack's coat, and he DOES manage to look so vulnerable he makes everyone tear up during the kiss of death, with the coat on...
but think about just after he's rescued Elizabeth in film 1, and Norrington and the guards are pushing him around, he looks very small and vulnerable. or in the peas in a pod scene. or the scene where he shows Lizzie his scars.
I mean, I love Jack with his bravado and his effects, but it's the contrast you get between that and those moments of vulnerability that really makes the character.
The beautiful thing about DMC was that we got to see the part of Jack that was more than the legend, not Captain Jack Sparrow, but just Jack. Those were some of the loveliest moments, because Jack has been almost always portrayed as a comic character, who cares about nothing but rum and freedom, which is often not taken seriously but is one of his most profound and honest desires. Don't get me wrong, I love the rum-loving, joke-making part of Jack but I think that's only part of him. The reason I'm attracted to him and Lizzie being together is that when they are together, we see another side to Jack. The other side to him that shows that there is a man beneath the legend. Scenes like the island scene in the first movie; in the second movie when he has talks with Lizzie, and when Will is dying in the third. These are my favorite moments. Jack is a great comic character, but there is much more to him. A problem I had with AWE is that that side of him we caught glimpses of just seemed to disappear. It was replaced by a bitter, self-motivated Jack. I can understand some of the bitterness, Lizzie killed him after all. But save that one lovely vunerable scene when Will is about to die, that side of him seemed to disappear, which was a huge disappointment, when I was expecting even more of it then the last two movies, or atleast some affirmation that I wasn't just making it up. Jack is one of my favorites, and one of the most truly complex characters I've seen out of Disney, but he could have been so much more.
I never liked Captain Jack with Elizabeth at all but I did like his moments with Will and I liked bitter self motivated Jack in part 3. He's a pirate I know he is a man underneath that but business is business is business and Captain Jack Sparrow over all isn't a good person that's why people identified so much with him because he was bad, but not evil in a way and still got to be a anti hero of sorts. It was appealing. I personally overall was quite pleased with Captain Jack's portrayal throughout the trilogy. He is the only one I truly have no complaints about. He did what was necessary at all times and he saved Will and Elizabeth (who he owed nothing to after she killed him) and went on his merry way back to pirating. I think of all the characters in the series he was the least damaged by the story. By the end Elizabeth was disgusting to me. Will seemed a lot stronger and even more noble and had attained his goals and kept his word and Captain Jack proved he could give up his ultimate treasure if he had to and that was immortality for Will.
That's all I need to see from Captain Jack. I don't see how Elizabeth showed any side of him really with her flirting and then chaining him to a ship...