Keef the Pirate II

From: iDRMRSR <idrmrsr@subgenius.com>
Date: Mon, Jul 14, 2003

In this movie, the writers made a considerable boo boo. Yet at the same
time, they created a scenario that opens up a great abstract query.

Johnny Depp the pirate and Geoffrey Rush the pirate end up both being
accursed walking dead. By stealing certain coins, they become hideously
deformed rotting skeletons when viewed in the moonlight. Though they
walk around and out of the moonlight the APPEAR quite alive, they have
been cursed to an eternal life where they cannot slake their human
lusts, yet must live forever.

The boo boo that they made in the movie, which is rather thought
provoking, is that at one point, these immortal and already dead
characters get into a SWORD FIGHT! Yes, there's absolutely no way they
can KILL each other any more, as they are both dead, yet animated. And
yet, they are engaged in this swashbuckling fucking pointless SWORD
FIGHT!

It got me to thinking about how warfare would be fruitless if everybody
was, in fact, immortal or already DEAD. I wondered then, if a conflict
arose between two immortals, how would they resolve it? They'd have all
eternity to figure that out, but they couldn't KILL each other, ever.
So indeed, what negotiating techniques could they possibly use to
resolve a significant conflict?

OK, perhaps I should take back my earlier glowing review of this movie.
Clearly, if I have time to think about such things in depth DURING the
movie, the movie must be far too long, at the very least.

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From: ridetheory@yahoo.com (ignatz topolino)

iDRMRSR <idrmrsr@subgenius.com> wrote:
> The boo boo that they made in the movie, which is rather thought
> provoking, is that at one point, these immortal and already dead
> characters get into a SWORD FIGHT!

That ain't the half of it. The moonlight shows them as skeletons, but
only moonBEAMS. If they're in the shadow of moonlight, they look like
regular old pirates. So two of 'em dress in drag, row a dinghy out as
a diversion, and when they drop their umbrella, the moonbeams reveal
them. But there is no other light out there but REFLECTED moonlight!

The only reason this occured to me is because the finale goes on too
long.

Oh, by the way, Depp says he based his character on Keef and... Pepe
LePew.

iggy topo

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From: iDRMRSR <idrmrsr@subgenius.com>

>>The only reason this occured to me is because the finale goes on too
long.<<

Don't that be true. I took my kid with me. He fell asleep about an
hour in, and then started grabbing at his crotch and dying from need to
pee right at the FIRST time they put the cursed coins back in the
chest. I thought I was going to miss the whole fucking climax when I
had to take him out for that pee stop.

Little did I know the damn flick would go on for another hour. If it
was five minutes longer, the penalty would have been I'd have had to
spend another sawbuck on stale popcorn or my kid would have had me
arrested for kidnapping.

PS...see my other post GENDER DYSPHORIA AND DISNEY.

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