Pirates Of The Caribbean Film Analysis
"Are you the pirate I’ve read about or not?" exclaims Miss Elizabeth Swann to Captain Jack Sparrow, in hopes that he will live up to her fantastic expectations. Miss Swan has a fascination with pirate tales like many of the film's viewers. In some ways, the characters in the Pirates of the Caribbean perpetuate romanticized pirates tales, but in other ways they fall short. Pirates of the Caribbean is a series of blockbuster films inspired by a Disney attraction and many classic pirate stories. "The Curse of the Black Pearl" is the first movie in the series and it is set in the Golden Age of piracy. The filmmakers clearly made an effort to reproduce the Englishmen's way of life in the Caribbean when piracy was booming. Subtly, the dialogue introduces real cities such as Port Royal and Tortuga. The East India Trading Company is mentioned in passing and left to be explained in the rest of the series. Still, certain details are strategically excluded such as slave trade, likely to make the movie more appealing to wide audiences. Pirates of the Caribbean is an action/adventure film but also notably a light-hearted comedy. It draws inspiration from historical figures of piracy such as Captain Kidd, Bartholomew Roberts, and Sir Henry
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Despite the violence, pirate ships are shown to be places of joy and escape for Jack. Piracy is depicted as a grand adventure, with more of the film's action occurring at sea than on land. Jack sums it up when he says, "It’s not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails that's what a ship needs but what a ship is…what the Black Pearl really is…is freedom." In "Masterless People: Maroons, Pirates, and Commoners", historian Isaac Curtis argues that piracy was ultimately the result of a struggle for freedom by "masterless" people. Pirates of the Caribbean takes pirates who were abandoned by society or who left on their own accord, and highlights their bravery and
Despite the violence, pirate ships are shown to be places of joy and escape for Jack. Piracy is depicted as a grand adventure, with more of the film's action occurring at sea than on land. Jack sums it up when he says, "It’s not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails that's what a ship needs but what a ship is…what the Black Pearl really is…is freedom." In "Masterless People: Maroons, Pirates, and Commoners", historian Isaac Curtis argues that piracy was ultimately the result of a struggle for freedom by "masterless" people. Pirates of the Caribbean takes pirates who were abandoned by society or who left on their own accord, and highlights their bravery and