2006-07-11

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2006-07-11 10:48 am

Caribbean Wars: The Pirates Strike Back

In keeping with the piratical theme of the last few days, thanks to the pasting I took at Ninja High last night I'm now walking with a limp and I've got a black eye so it looks like I'm wearing an eyepatch. All I need now is an injury which looks like a parrot and the illusion will be complete.

Many people – not least myself – have noted the uncanny structural plot similarities between Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest and Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. Even the writers of the film acknowledge their debt to Lucas & Kerstner’s opus. However, it was only in final drafts of the script that the serial numbers of Empire were properly filed off and a distinguishable film produced.
Thanks to Hollywood insiders I have managed to get my hands on an earlier copy of the script in which the differences are perhaps not so marked…

Arrr! If you ain’t seen Dead Man’s Chest, ‘ee don’t want to be clickin’ ‘ere, that ‘ee don’t. Arr. Thar be spoilers to the gunnells in 'ere, matey. )