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essayelI've been to the cinema and now know why all the rum has gone! I also have this awful urge to swing from the rigging - probably singing the unexpurgated version of "It was on the Good Ship Venus" as I do so!
I'm not sure if I can express sensibly just how much i love 'Pirates of the Caribbean'! There's no rhyme or reason to it. It's a silly story, some of the acting is very woolly and the heroine is a stick insect! And, frankly, I'm too old to just letch over personable young men so Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom, while utterly delectable each in his own way, can't be the attraction. No, to be honest, it's the violence. Wow, those fight scenes! When I was a gel I used to fence - foil and sabre, epee hurt too much - so I dearly love to watch the guys swinging the blades around. It's almost as much fun as doing it yourself! Some of the stunts were silly and impossible but what the heck the whole film was silly and impossible and you've got to love a set up that's so lavish with it's time periods - there were costumes from at least five different reigns in the final scene alone! Also my perception of the whole thing was terribly skewed by having read Interceptor by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fearlessdiva last night so I was involuntarily spotting slash signs! This is bad and good - good because it's a bloody entertaining story and bad because I now feel that I must add Sparrow and Turner to the cast of the Mattress.
Memo to self: updating Mattress now a priority!
I'm not sure if I can express sensibly just how much i love 'Pirates of the Caribbean'! There's no rhyme or reason to it. It's a silly story, some of the acting is very woolly and the heroine is a stick insect! And, frankly, I'm too old to just letch over personable young men so Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom, while utterly delectable each in his own way, can't be the attraction. No, to be honest, it's the violence. Wow, those fight scenes! When I was a gel I used to fence - foil and sabre, epee hurt too much - so I dearly love to watch the guys swinging the blades around. It's almost as much fun as doing it yourself! Some of the stunts were silly and impossible but what the heck the whole film was silly and impossible and you've got to love a set up that's so lavish with it's time periods - there were costumes from at least five different reigns in the final scene alone! Also my perception of the whole thing was terribly skewed by having read Interceptor by
fearlessdiva last night so I was involuntarily spotting slash signs! This is bad and good - good because it's a bloody entertaining story and bad because I now feel that I must add Sparrow and Turner to the cast of the Mattress. Memo to self: updating Mattress now a priority!
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Date: 2003-09-01 03:24 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-09-01 05:40 am (UTC)Certainly not me. Dorothy Dunnett wasted Jocky Thompson - in fact I feel another Lymond fic heaving over the horizon - How about Jocky and a young Francis being creative in the Mediterranean with a couple of Greek fishing boats and an Ottoman galley? I'm sure it could be done.
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Date: 2003-09-01 05:48 am (UTC)What is this "Matress" of which you speak? *is interested*
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Date: 2003-09-01 06:01 am (UTC)The Mattress itself (plus The Mattress - Resprung and The Mattress Recovered) is posted in Riddikulus on Fiction Alley. It is a WIP and I haven't used Lymond and Will yet - they will be there for the eeerrrrrmmm climax, so to speak.
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Date: 2003-09-01 11:02 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-09-01 11:04 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-09-02 01:34 am (UTC)(In fact, I just linked to some PotC art at the end of my latest post. Go peek, and let me know what you think :p)
-S