PotC3 question

[lederhosen]

quizzicalsphinx just reminded me of something that puzzled me in PotC 3...

Calypso is bound in human form because Davey Jones, who is pissed at her, teaches the pirates how to do it.

Jones is pissed at her because, after ten years at sea, he showed up for his one-day-in-ten-years on dry land, and she didn't meet her.

So, for the previous ten years... she was a sea goddess and he was a sailor doomed to spend all his time at sea. It seems to me that this should not have been as much of a strain on their relationship as it was made out to be.

(And yes, I realise that this is not a film to watch for its plot, but these things niggle.)

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[culfinriel.livejournal.com]

Maybe with all those other sailors around, it was tough to find time alone?

Queries for PotC3

[tamahori]

My own guess is that it's all symbolic, and what they mean is 'you're on the job all the time except for one day every 10 years'.

My own questions are a) why did they bother tyeing up Calypso while trying to break the binding, one would expect that's exactly where she would want to be.

B) Why have all the buildup for her, and then not have anything happen (I'm sorry, after that kind of buildup, getting big, turning into crabs, and creating a whirlpool are not dramatic, they are 'well, a ship fight in a whirlpool would be cool, let's find an excuse'). Having her go on a pissed off rampage and blow away half of both fleets would have at least given more of an excuse why the armada broke off after loosing just the flagship.

Yes, I know they were also facing down the Flying Dutchman now, but still, they had just seen proof it could loose fights.

C) I'm curious if Elizabeth Swan is aging? It's almost a given that Will won't be, the curse doesn't let people go that easily, so I'm curious if she will grow old while he doesn't, or she is also bound up in the curse now (in part because she's his 'love' (which a chunk of this curse is bound up in) and secondly because she has his heart) and won't age either, which will suck in a different way due to the 'outliving your children by old-age seems a very un-fun thing to have happen' factor.

The later is why I've always though that being the elven parent of a half-elf must have a lack of fun, given that under most situations, even if things go perfectly, you'll be burying your own child.


Still, fun movie, though IMO, not as good at the first. In part because they just haven't had as good a bad guy as Barbosa.

-- Brett

Re: Queries for PotC3

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

Why have all the buildup for her, and then not have anything happen

Yeah, for a goddess who's been imprisoned for hundreds of years the consequences were pretty lame.

I'm curious if she will grow old while he doesn't

Apparently a deleted scene explains that if the captain's lover stays faithful to him until he comes back after the first ten years, the curse is broken, which is part of why Jones was so angry, so the post-credits scene implies that Will only has to do the first ten years. But certainly she didn't look to have aged much in the first ten...

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[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

I thought the idea was that she was ABOUT to go all nuclear on the pirates, and then Sparrow (I think?) revealed that it was really Davy Jones that betrayed her and not the brethren, so her revenge was mostly averted.

Re: Queries for PotC3

[tamahori]

Well, that makes more sense, even if it does take a chunk of the 'bite' out of things in some way. And does explain more about Jones's unhappiness with the situation.

Of course, that does raise the question of 'who is going to do The Job' next, though from the sound of it, Davy Jones himself hadn't been going it for a while either.

-- Brett