Pirates 1: The Curse of the Black Pearl

I was going to do all of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies in one post, but then I watched the first movie, The Curse of the Black Pearl, and decided that it would be too long of a blog and I would end up boring people. The main characters are: Will Turner (Orlando Bloom),  Elizabeth Swann (Kira Knightley), Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp), and Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush). 

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Will... Turner.

The story starts out with a young Miss Swann singing a pirate song and looking out at sea. She spots a boy in the water, floating on some wood. William Turner, son of Bootstrap Bill Turner, a pirate. Elizabeth finds a medallion on young Will that marks him as a pirate, so she takes it and keeps it a secret for years. Fast forward a few years and these two are adults. Will is a blacksmith and Elizabeth is still the governor's daughter. Big surprise there. Anyway, Elizabeth still has the medallion and Will has no idea. She wears it to a "party" announcing the new commodore. After the party, the new commodore proposes to her on the edge of a cliff. Too bad her corset is too tight and she falls off the cliff before she can say yes or no and lands in the water. Luckily, Jack Sparrow saw her fall and dives to her rescue. Then he turns around and uses her as a human body shield so people won't shoot him. He pulls an amazing escape and hides. Unfortunately for him he hides in the blacksmith shop and Will finds him. They have an epic sword fight. blah blah blah.
Later on the pirates on the Black Pearl (Jack's ship), pillage Port Royal and take Elizabeth. Jack and Will join forces.... blah blah blah. 
Barbossa now has Elizabeth and she finds out what the curse really is: 
"The moonlight shows us what we really are, we are not among the living, so we cannot die, but neither are we dead.... We cannot feel, we have a thirst that cannot be quenched and a hunger that will not go away." -Barbossa. 

Best be believing in ghost stories Miss Turner.  you're in one.

Well, okay, so maybe that's not exactly what it said, but it was close enough. Point being that when they go into the moonlight, they become creepy skeleton like things. Oh, did I forget to mention that in an attempt to save William, Elizabeth, foolishly, told Barbossa and crew that her last name was Turner? 
So the whole movie is epic fights, creepy guys, and an awesomely terrifying adventure. Not gonna ruin the end because not everyone has seen the movie, but really? How have you not seen this???? It's awesome!! But then again, I'm a sucker for pirates:)

Wonderland or Acid Trip?

I woke up this morning and couldn't decide if I wanted to get out of bed or not.. I had lots of dreams last night, mainly random things that I can't remember. What I don't get, is that if dreams are so important, why can't I remember most of the ones I have? I've spent a long time thinking about that. And I still don't have a good answer. Most of the people in the world use dreams to get away from reality. I can understand that. Having such a crappy life to have to invent an imaginary world to get away from the suckiness that is your reality. I'm guilty of it. But when I come back to the world, I completely forget the world I created. As weird as it is, it makes me think of Alice in Wonderland . 

Wonderland

Alice, as a child, falls into a rabbit hole, and tumbles into this wonderful, terrifying world of adventure. Sadly, when she leaves the world that she affectionately called Wonderland, she forgets about it, except in her dreams. Eventually making her believe that it was all a dream to begin with.  Then, when she's at her "engagement party", she sees a rabbit with a pocket watch and follows him. She falls down yet another rabbit hole, and believes she's having a dream. She's back in Wonderland, but she doesn't remember it. She believes it all to be a dream, or a really bad acid trip. In the end, she finds out her adventures there were all too real. Who would've thought?

Alice's Acid Trip?

Anyway, for some strange reason, I associate the dreams I can't remember with Alice's bad acid trip in Wonderland. Lots of color and funny adventures. But enough of me, back to Alice. Her father was a great man of idea that died sometime between trips to Wonderland. Her mother was a conformist who, unfortunately, was still alive and expected Alice to conform too. (She even flipped her lid that Alice wasn't wearing a corset to a party. Imagine!) Her sister was married to a cheating dirt bag. Alice was like her father who was known to believe six, SIX, unbelievable things before breakfast.

pictured: terrifying dragon-like thing

Alice meets all kinds of new people who look crazy, defeats the Jabberwocky, a terrifying dragon-like thing, then goes home and proceeds to tell everyone just where they can stick their conformist ideas. Ain't it great? So she saves the day and comes home and tells the loser who just proposed to find someone else. This time, she remembers Wonderland, or so we assume.