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question: How fun  is the story?, context: There have been a lot of half-crazed movie characters in film history, you know the one; the kind of vaguely insane person that the movie truly revolves around, with the other characters only there to provide stark contrast with their recognizably sane posture.  They're also there to wonder aloud to themselves and each other, &quot;What's the matter with him?&quot;  To which someone usually responds, &quot;I don't know, but there's something about him that I like.&quot;  The thing about those movies (a lot of them came out of the 80's and early 90's, I know because in school we all imitated them), was the the core of those movies was the zany character exploration, and that was just about it.  See what kind of situations we can cook up and then throw this crazed, witty personae in there and see what happens.What's different about Pirates of the Caribbean, and Jack Sparrow in particular, is that the world he inhabits gave birth to him.  In the crazed personae movie--the nut-job seems to come out of nowhere, completely unexpected, which is half the fun but also half the shortcoming.  In Pirates of the Carribean, we expect Jack Sparrow to come sailing out of the horizon and to suddenly arrive in that world, and what a world!I think what lends Sparrow such credibility is his mixture of characterization.  Yes, he's wild and I suppose &quot;free,&quot; but there are moments where he gets serious (saluting the dead pirates), moments when he has to act and can pull through (like jumping in to save Elizabeth), moments where he has to educate (telling Will Turner the truth about his father).  When this happens, we give the character Sparrow something we don't give the hollow, crazed personae; respect.  Give Johnny Depp all the credit for being able to switch between these modes as well; being serious and respectable while maintaining the aura of Jack Sparrow; that he'll stick his tongue out at us and run off with the gold at any moment, but not without his effects.The world of &quot;Black Pearl&quot; is lush and surprising.  I didn't expect to believe the world of pirates, where all the exsists is ocean and the few ports that you can sail to.  Come to think of it, we only really see three locales during the whole movie, and the rest of it is on water.  How'd they pull that off?  My favorite scene is in the pirate pub where the bar-fight is perpetual; Jack Sparrow and his cohort (can't remember his name) sit and talk about ports, treasures, old pirates, schemes, boats, etc. all in the warm glow of candles and wood as they chug ale.  A pirate's life for me!Geoffery Rush, brilliant as ever.  When he says, &quot;Too long have I been without the taste of food or the comfort of a woman&quot; I believe him.  The man is a pirate outright, but in his eyes you can see the years of torment on a man from the curse piling up on him slowly.  Notice too how he rolls his eyes perfectly when he's at the moment of breaking the curse, and somehow Jack Sparrow convinces him not to.  How?  Maybe &quot;Curse of the Black Pearl&quot; is really how Jack Sparrow has dogged Barbossa his whole career.The supporting cast is good, even Orlando Bloom who is still in Legolas mode.  Even though he played up Will Turner nicely as a bright-eyed, talented, somewhat intense young man (who has serious anxieties about his lineage, but why not?  It would bar him from his chances of Elizabeth), I did keep expecting him to jump up and go, &quot;He is Aragorn, son of Arathorn!&quot;  He does have a great moment where he jumps onto a ship with Sparrow and goes, &quot;Aye, avast!&quot; to which he's promptly laughed at. 
How fun  is the story?
There have been a lot of half- crazed movie characters in film history, you know the one; the kind of vaguely insane person that the movie truly revolves around, with the other characters only there to provide stark contrast with their recognizably sane posture.
There have been a lot of half-crazed movie characters in film history, you know the one; the kind of vaguely insane person that the movie truly revolves around, with the other characters only there to provide stark contrast with their recognizably sane posture.  They're also there to wonder aloud to themselves and each other, &quot;What's the matter with him?&quot;  To which someone usually responds, &quot;I don't know, but there's something about him that I like.&quot;  The thing about those movies (a lot of them came out of the 80's and early 90's, I know because in school we all imitated them), was the the core of those movies was the zany character exploration, and that was just about it.  See what kind of situations we can cook up and then throw this crazed, witty personae in there and see what happens.What's different about Pirates of the Caribbean, and Jack Sparrow in particular, is that the world he inhabits gave birth to him.  In the crazed personae movie--the nut-job seems to come out of nowhere, completely unexpected, which is half the fun but also half the shortcoming.  In Pirates of the Carribean, we expect Jack Sparrow to come sailing out of the horizon and to suddenly arrive in that world, and what a world!I think what lends Sparrow such credibility is his mixture of characterization.  Yes, he's wild and I suppose &quot;free,&quot; but there are moments where he gets serious (saluting the dead pirates), moments when he has to act and can pull through (like jumping in to save Elizabeth), moments where he has to educate (telling Will Turner the truth about his father).  When this happens, we give the character Sparrow something we don't give the hollow, crazed personae; respect.  Give Johnny Depp all the credit for being able to switch between these modes as well; being serious and respectable while maintaining the aura of Jack Sparrow; that he'll stick his tongue out at us and run off with the gold at any moment, but not without his effects.The world of &quot;Black Pearl&quot; is lush and surprising.  I didn't expect to believe the world of pirates, where all the exsists is ocean and the few ports that you can sail to.  Come to think of it, we only really see three locales during the whole movie, and the rest of it is on water.  How'd they pull that off?  My favorite scene is in the pirate pub where the bar-fight is perpetual; Jack Sparrow and his cohort (can't remember his name) sit and talk about ports, treasures, old pirates, schemes, boats, etc. all in the warm glow of candles and wood as they chug ale.  A pirate's life for me!Geoffery Rush, brilliant as ever.  When he says, &quot;Too long have I been without the taste of food or the comfort of a woman&quot; I believe him.  The man is a pirate outright, but in his eyes you can see the years of torment on a man from the curse piling up on him slowly.  Notice too how he rolls his eyes perfectly when he's at the moment of breaking the curse, and somehow Jack Sparrow convinces him not to.  How?  Maybe &quot;Curse of the Black Pearl&quot; is really how Jack Sparrow has dogged Barbossa his whole career.The supporting cast is good, even Orlando Bloom who is still in Legolas mode.  Even though he played up Will Turner nicely as a bright-eyed, talented, somewhat intense young man (who has serious anxieties about his lineage, but why not?  It would bar him from his chances of Elizabeth), I did keep expecting him to jump up and go, &quot;He is Aragorn, son of Arathorn!&quot;  He does have a great moment where he jumps onto a ship with Sparrow and goes, &quot;Aye, avast!&quot; to which he's promptly laughed at. 
There have been a lot of half- <hl> crazed movie <hl> characters in film history, you know the one; the kind of vaguely insane person that the movie truly revolves around, with the other characters only there to provide stark contrast with their recognizably sane posture.
There have been a lot of half-<hl> crazed movie <hl> characters in film history, you know the one; the kind of vaguely insane person that the movie truly revolves around, with the other characters only there to provide stark contrast with their recognizably sane posture. They're also there to wonder aloud to themselves and each other, &quot;What's the matter with him?&quot; To which someone usually responds, &quot;I don't know, but there's something about him that I like.&quot; The thing about those movies (a lot of them came out of the 80's and early 90's, I know because in school we all imitated them), was the the core of those movies was the zany character exploration, and that was just about it. See what kind of situations we can cook up and then throw this crazed, witty personae in there and see what happens.What's different about Pirates of the Caribbean, and Jack Sparrow in particular, is that the world he inhabits gave birth to him. In the crazed personae movie--the nut-job seems to come out of nowhere, completely unexpected, which is half the fun but also half the shortcoming. In Pirates of the Carribean, we expect Jack Sparrow to come sailing out of the horizon and to suddenly arrive in that world, and what a world!I think what lends Sparrow such credibility is his mixture of characterization. Yes, he's wild and I suppose &quot;free,&quot; but there are moments where he gets serious (saluting the dead pirates), moments when he has to act and can pull through (like jumping in to save Elizabeth), moments where he has to educate (telling Will Turner the truth about his father). When this happens, we give the character Sparrow something we don't give the hollow, crazed personae; respect. Give Johnny Depp all the credit for being able to switch between these modes as well; being serious and respectable while maintaining the aura of Jack Sparrow; that he'll stick his tongue out at us and run off with the gold at any moment, but not without his effects.The world of &quot;Black Pearl&quot; is lush and surprising. I didn't expect to believe the world of pirates, where all the exsists is ocean and the few ports that you can sail to. Come to think of it, we only really see three locales during the whole movie, and the rest of it is on water. How'd they pull that off? My favorite scene is in the pirate pub where the bar-fight is perpetual; Jack Sparrow and his cohort (can't remember his name) sit and talk about ports, treasures, old pirates, schemes, boats, etc. all in the warm glow of candles and wood as they chug ale. A pirate's life for me!Geoffery Rush, brilliant as ever. When he says, &quot;Too long have I been without the taste of food or the comfort of a woman&quot; I believe him. The man is a pirate outright, but in his eyes you can see the years of torment on a man from the curse piling up on him slowly. Notice too how he rolls his eyes perfectly when he's at the moment of breaking the curse, and somehow Jack Sparrow convinces him not to. How? Maybe &quot;Curse of the Black Pearl&quot; is really how Jack Sparrow has dogged Barbossa his whole career.The supporting cast is good, even Orlando Bloom who is still in Legolas mode. Even though he played up Will Turner nicely as a bright-eyed, talented, somewhat intense young man (who has serious anxieties about his lineage, but why not? It would bar him from his chances of Elizabeth), I did keep expecting him to jump up and go, &quot;He is Aragorn, son of Arathorn!&quot; He does have a great moment where he jumps onto a ship with Sparrow and goes, &quot;Aye, avast!&quot; to which he's promptly laughed at. 
<hl> There have been a lot of half- crazed movie characters in film history, you know the one; the kind of vaguely insane person that the movie truly revolves around, with the other characters only there to provide stark contrast with their recognizably sane posture. <hl> They're also there to wonder aloud to themselves and each other, &quot;What's the matter with him?&quot; To which someone usually responds, &quot;I don't know, but there's something about him that I like.&quot; The thing about those movies (a lot of them came out of the 80's and early 90's, I know because in school we all imitated them), was the the core of those movies was the zany character exploration, and that was just about it. See what kind of situations we can cook up and then throw this crazed, witty personae in there and see what happens. What's different about Pirates of the Caribbean, and Jack Sparrow in particular, is that the world he inhabits gave birth to him. In the crazed personae movie--the nut-job seems to come out of nowhere, completely unexpected, which is half the fun but also half the shortcoming. In Pirates of the Carribean, we expect Jack Sparrow to come sailing out of the horizon and to suddenly arrive in that world, and what a world!I think what lends Sparrow such credibility is his mixture of characterization. Yes, he's wild and I suppose &quot;free,&quot; but there are moments where he gets serious (saluting the dead pirates), moments when he has to act and can pull through (like jumping in to save Elizabeth), moments where he has to educate (telling Will Turner the truth about his father). When this happens, we give the character Sparrow something we don't give the hollow, crazed personae; respect. Give Johnny Depp all the credit for being able to switch between these modes as well; being serious and respectable while maintaining the aura of Jack Sparrow; that he'll stick his tongue out at us and run off with the gold at any moment, but not without his effects. The world of &quot;Black Pearl&quot; is lush and surprising. I didn't expect to believe the world of pirates, where all the exsists is ocean and the few ports that you can sail to. Come to think of it, we only really see three locales during the whole movie, and the rest of it is on water. How'd they pull that off? My favorite scene is in the pirate pub where the bar-fight is perpetual; Jack Sparrow and his cohort (can't remember his name) sit and talk about ports, treasures, old pirates, schemes, boats, etc. all in the warm glow of candles and wood as they chug ale. A pirate's life for me!Geoffery Rush, brilliant as ever. When he says, &quot;Too long have I been without the taste of food or the comfort of a woman&quot; I believe him. The man is a pirate outright, but in his eyes you can see the years of torment on a man from the curse piling up on him slowly. Notice too how he rolls his eyes perfectly when he's at the moment of breaking the curse, and somehow Jack Sparrow convinces him not to. How? Maybe &quot;Curse of the Black Pearl&quot; is really how Jack Sparrow has dogged Barbossa his whole career. The supporting cast is good, even Orlando Bloom who is still in Legolas mode. Even though he played up Will Turner nicely as a bright-eyed, talented, somewhat intense young man (who has serious anxieties about his lineage, but why not? It would bar him from his chances of Elizabeth), I did keep expecting him to jump up and go, &quot;He is Aragorn, son of Arathorn!&quot; He does have a great moment where he jumps onto a ship with Sparrow and goes, &quot;Aye, avast!&quot; to which he's promptly laughed at.