Charlotte Doyle

http://www.anydesktopthemes.com/cgi-bin/vi...iew.pl?id=27259 It's a right lovely desktop theme -- though I prefer, meself, using the skeletal hand as the writing icon and using the writing-icon dagger as the regular pointer (much easier to see what yer pointing at). I couldn't get all the desktops to work for me, unfortunately . . . but the mouse icons and the desktop icons (I love clicking on Jack Sparrow to check me mail) more than make up for that! Enjoy. :)

Aye -- in case any of ye hadn't guessed, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle be a favorite o' mine. *grins* I first read it probably a decade ago, and still reread it when the fancy strikes. I loved the character transformation of Charlotte -- she's a character I can really relate to. And while it was Jack Sparrow that gave me my fascination with pirates (CAPTAIN Jack, of course ), Charlotte was the character that first kindled my interest in the old sailing life. SUCH an amazing book. Captain Jaggery is positively wretched . . . and I always got a kick out of Ewing and Fisk. Hmm, wonder if they ever considered making it into a film? If done properly, it would be quite good.

THAT, we are most definitely in agreement about. *grins* Yeah -- PotC is pretty much my idea of the perfect film flick -- but it occured to me that they went to the Caribbean itself for filming . . . and the audience never really gets to appreciate it! I hate a movie that places a whole lot of emphasis on the beautiful scenery in its background, 'cause sometimes that can take you out of the film itself and have you just concentrating on the scenery . . . but PotC could have stood those few more moments of the "outside world". I dunno -- maybe they decided to whittle 'em out because of time constraints? It really wouldn't have added more than five minutes to the entire movie, though . . . maybe Verbinski and Co. decided they _liked_ the idea of having the focus just on this handful of characters, and not on the world they actually inhabit. Hmm . . . It's late and I'm beat -- if I'm not making sense, somebody let me know.

The "No truth at all" deleted scene is a great one that adds a whole bunch to Jack's character -- but there's NO way it could have been kept in the actual film. Never would have worked. PotC is such a delightful, full-blown *fun* adventure film . . . suddenly jarring the audiences out of that mood with such a graphic scene probably wouldn't have done PotC any favors. It just doesn't fit the tone of the overall movie. I _do_ appreciate the scene -- it's become my favorite of all the deleted scenes -- but it works best as that, an added bit to Jack's character after you've already seen the movie a few times. I think Verbinski made a wise decision to leave it out. ...But that's just me. *grins* Adore the mayonnaise bit. As for humiliated grapes -- that's straight outta "Benny & Joon" (another great Depp flick, if pirate-less), which I really appreciated. :)

I, too, be too new at this t' really have a pirate-in-public story to share (Nigel, I loved yer post -- that is just so bloody NEAT! *grins*) . . . but I did have a fun time o' it at uni when I came onto the college campus on Halloween in my pirate garb. I wasn't the only one dressed up that day, but I was one of the few, so I got a few heads turning towards me -- which was fun. Best moment of th' day was at lunch, when I walked into the college cafe and was confronted by an older gent, I think a college alumnus, who was on campus for the day. He looks at me for a moment, in my Johnny-Depp-inspired costume, then says, "You're a hippie, right?" Suddenly my history professor, sitting at one of the cafe tables, turns around and half-yells, "No, she's a PIRATE!" Most heads in the cafe swivel to look at me, while I beam at my history prof. Obviously, she'd seen PotC.

And I thought I'd read a positive review by Ebert on "Peter Pan" . . . ah well. Gonna go see it regardless -- and SOON! Hmm, maybe I could hit a matinee tomorrow . . .

Almost forgot: I have a question about this. I keep seeing the singles available on other sites, like you said -- WHY!?!? When are the singles _ever_ seen in the actual film?? From what I can tell, every single piece we ever see is double-sided; certainly, the piece Elizabeth wears as her medallion is double-sided, we see that this is the case when it flips around and around after Barbossa drops it into the chest. Yet I keep seeing singles at all the websites. I mean, I adore the Aztec coin at the Indyprops site; but what's with the random design on the back? I'm not criticizing -- I'm just curious. Are the singles being made 'cause it's cheaper than making them double-sided (which is certainly fair enough)? Or is it something else?

Captain Jack, I be _very_ interested in acquiring a double-sided coin from ye, most especially if ye be willin' t' take a money order (I don't use Pay Pal) . . . please, keep us posted about when these pirate wares will be able to be acquired! :) Heh . . . this must be _killing_ Disney. All these copies of the coins being sold on eBay and sites like this . . . if Disney had gotten on the ball and made these Aztec coins themselves, for necklaces 'n' so on, they'd be makin' a _killing_. (More of a killing than they're making with the DVD sales, that is.) Has t' be driving them mad.

Actually, from what I've read in Production Notes, and so on, that was because that scene in PotC was went to be a direct tribute to the scene in the film "Crimson Pirate" . . . Serendipity, I'm not sure which I love more -- yer sig quote or yer avatar icon! Awesome. :)

And I STILL haven't been able to go see this -- and it's got mermaids AND pirates! It has BOTH!!! It's not fair!

Nope. You're not the only one. Me and my family were in deep thought the minute we left the theater after our first viewing . . . and I've been pondering the finer film points ever since! 'Cause it really _is_ a rather complex plot (one reason we like it so much, I think) -- it requires multiple viewings and a lot of thinking on it to keep everything straight.

Given how I get motion-sickness from EVERYthing, including water beds if I move around too much, I am glad to hear that I needed feel bad if/when I toss my cookies over the side of the ship on future sailing voyages. I intend to _get_ on sailling vessels sometime in the near future -- and I know that when I do, it'll either be Dramamine or Death By Sea-Sickness. However, this makes me feel much less alone! :)

Oy, I really want a tattoo . . . but I can think of no design that I'd want to have on my body somewhere for the next sixty or seventy years -- so I have a feeling I'll remain tattoo-less. Sigh. No piercings, either, though that is another story . . .

Aye, the photos be quite good 'uns . . . but I must agree, the eyes give 'im away!

Actually, I think Elizabeth wasn't cursed when she stole the medallion from Will ('cause she really did _steal_ it) because she stole it from Will and not from the chest itself. Listen to what Barbossa tells her -- "Any mortal that removes but a single piece from that stone chest shall be punished for eternity." So it's not enough to steal one of the pieces from someone -- ya gotta snatch it from the chest itself. (...I figured this out because me and me mother were having an argument about it awhile back; she insisted that Elizabeth should have been cursed because she did technically _steal_ a piece, and so there was a plot hole; I insisted there must be an explanation. When I caught Barbossa's line there, I was ecstatic. I spent the rest of the film that time leaning over to my mother to whisper, "FROM that stone chest! FROM the chest!" For some reason, she didn't think I was as amusing as I thought myself. *wink*)