Entertainment Weekly's sneak peek at PotC3
Anyone who knows me knows that I am OBSESSED with "Pirates of the Caribbean". The first film, "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" was so fun and wonderful and Johnny Depp was awesome in his Oscar-nominated performance as the delicious Captain Jack Sparrow.
The second film, "Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest" was good, but its somewhat confusing storyline was disappointing for me. But then again, the first movie was so awesome, I naturally had high expectations for its sequel.
Now that the debut of the third film, "Pirates of the Caribbean 3: At World's End" is nearing, I had high hopes for what might be the final installment of PotC. Perhaps the director and screenwriters had learned from what I thought were mistakes of PotC 2 and produce a swashbuckling finale to the series. However, after picking up this week's issue of Entertainment Weekly (Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow on the cover--I HAD to pick it up :P), I learned that this was not the case.
The director, Gore Verbinski, and the screenwriters, Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, acknowledged the complexity of previous film and why critics had slammed it. But they didn't change anything for the 3rd film. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer even attempts to explain the story, but ends up with a "It's a little confus--".
Bad sign. Not what I wanted to hear.
Orlando Bloom: "'Someone asked me, 'So tell us about your character's arc in the third movie.' I said, 'Dude, the writers can't even explain the third movie.'''
Uh oh.
Verbinski tries to justify the apparent complexity of the film: ''I don't mind if people find it confusing. I don't want to dumb it down to where it's just processed cheese and you're not thinking about it afterwards.'' He and the screenwriters insist nothing was done to take the criticisms of Dead Man's Chest into account when production resumed on At World's End. The films had been ''designed for multiple viewings,'' says Rossio. ''You couldn't do a course correction. That presumes that the course was off.''
Why oh why would you do this? It's not just the critics--I didn't like the second film as much as the first because I thought it was confusing too. And not just me--many of my friends agreed with me. Even my dad, of all people, didn't like it as much because it was too dark and not as entertaining.
Anyhow, the rest of the article is here.
The second film, "Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest" was good, but its somewhat confusing storyline was disappointing for me. But then again, the first movie was so awesome, I naturally had high expectations for its sequel.
Now that the debut of the third film, "Pirates of the Caribbean 3: At World's End" is nearing, I had high hopes for what might be the final installment of PotC. Perhaps the director and screenwriters had learned from what I thought were mistakes of PotC 2 and produce a swashbuckling finale to the series. However, after picking up this week's issue of Entertainment Weekly (Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow on the cover--I HAD to pick it up :P), I learned that this was not the case.
The director, Gore Verbinski, and the screenwriters, Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, acknowledged the complexity of previous film and why critics had slammed it. But they didn't change anything for the 3rd film. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer even attempts to explain the story, but ends up with a "It's a little confus--".
Bad sign. Not what I wanted to hear.
Orlando Bloom: "'Someone asked me, 'So tell us about your character's arc in the third movie.' I said, 'Dude, the writers can't even explain the third movie.'''
Uh oh.
Verbinski tries to justify the apparent complexity of the film: ''I don't mind if people find it confusing. I don't want to dumb it down to where it's just processed cheese and you're not thinking about it afterwards.'' He and the screenwriters insist nothing was done to take the criticisms of Dead Man's Chest into account when production resumed on At World's End. The films had been ''designed for multiple viewings,'' says Rossio. ''You couldn't do a course correction. That presumes that the course was off.''
Why oh why would you do this? It's not just the critics--I didn't like the second film as much as the first because I thought it was confusing too. And not just me--many of my friends agreed with me. Even my dad, of all people, didn't like it as much because it was too dark and not as entertaining.
Anyhow, the rest of the article is here.
1 Comments:
Hey, you might want to leave off judgment until you actually see the film. I'd gladly take a lil' complexity over some of the recent "blockbusters" coming our way. (*Cough* Spiderman 3 *cough*!)
Of course, I agree that the last film was a little opaque. Complex might just be another word for the writers trying to justify being able to keep their favorite characters around. I.e. Barbarossa. ;)
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