Pirates of the Caribbean 2

[aussiewench 9]

Johnny Depp in eye liner. I won't miss that.

He makes you drool too hu rch

[Anyta Holland 1]

Just came back from the Cinema. It was GREAT to say the least.... Absolutely loved it!

[daisy16 0]

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

Aye matey!

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Looking forward to this - even though they did 'borrow' the characters and story from a certain well known PC adventure game.

Never played that game, but I thought it was "borrowed" from the Disneyland ride; there are several scenes that come directly from the ride

The name comes from that - but certain of the characters are derived exactly from the Secret of Monkey Island - zombie pirates? Hmmmmm...

Through my last job I had some experience with Disney's 'story' department to know a little about how they operate.

Believe me, its not the case that someone goes away and comes up with a 100% original script - they have entire libraries of old movies, books, video games and the like for the plundering of plot devices and the like.

That line from the original about "lashing together sea turtles to make a raft" is right out of SMI.

Well, in all fairness, I think I remember reading that Monkey Island borrowed from the Pirates of the Carribean ride. So it's Disney borrowing from Lucas borrowing from diseny.

There's nothing better than an original MI quote though.

You fight like a dairy farmer.

How appropriate. You fight like a cow.

I wouldn't say SMI borrowed from the Pirates ride. There is such a thing as parallel development of ideas (two people working independently come up with the same idea) - Regardless, a themepark ride is not a fictional narrative. There's no story there - there's certainly ideas for scenes. Therein lies the problem - you can't copyright ideas, only the specifics (e.g. characters and text), and in a genre that is dominated by well-known cliches (ask anyone to draw a pirate and you'll end up with something looking not unlike Long John Silver) the waters become extremely murky.

Its hard to say how directly influenced Lucasarts was by the ride - but certainly the story they came up with, and the characters were all original and would be theoretically copyrighted to them.

Paraphrasing is a form of plagiarism -

SMI features a zombie pirate called LeChuck. Simply renaming him as Captain Barbossa, doesn't escape from the fact that it's still fundamentally the same character.

In any case, I don't think many people really care about this - as both products SMI are the property of large corporations (Lucasarts and Disney respectively), there probably isn't much of a copyright issue there (knowing how jealously those guys guard their Intellectual Property), but for your average hack writer, such plundering of your creative material is a source of constant irritation.

Edited July 6, 2006 by Fishdude

[keltic 1]

Yay, but, quite frankly, I'd be happy just watching him iron a sock!

mmmm.... as hot as ironing a grilled cheese sandwich... *swoons

we will be off for the midnight screening tonight!!!!!

[nayalamb 0]

Pirates 2! Woot!

this sequel holds a special place in my because chunks of it were filmed on the island where i'm from.

to my deep and utter regret, i didn't see johnny or orlando around, and then i moved up here before filming was done...

couldn't do the 12am screening... hubby's gotta be up at 5:30am for that lovely commute. so we'll see it on the weekend.

[*Robert* 2]

Im off to see it asap....Have been impatiently waiting for this for ever so long. Anything to do with pirates is at the top of my list but add Johnny Depp into it and I drool

Now why doesn't that surprise me AT ALL!!!

[chri'stina 190]

We're seeing it Saturday night not tonight. Not all of our friends can go tonight so we're waiting and also it will be easier for all of us to go buy tickets earlier in the day tomorrow for the night showing, and we'll actually get seats then.

[Not Available 0]

Yeah we're hoping to go on Sunday as thats my hubby's day off

[gwenneh 7]

A: Monkey Island rocked. My parents bought it for me because I could play it in German and thereby practice my language skills.

B: I'm going to see POTC2 TONIGHT! *squee!*

To paraphrase my ex, who was going to see the first movie with me for a third time (and being heckled by his co-workers at the tattoo shop): "Johnny Depp in eyeliner gets her hot. I just want to be there when it happens."

Edited July 7, 2006 by Gwen666

[Bootylicious!! 2]

We're going tonight. I can't wait. We live in such a small town they only have two showtimes. I hope we get there before they are sold out.

[Octa 0]

Just came back from the Cinema. It was GREAT to say the least.... Absolutely loved it!

I'm happy to hear that.. we really need to go see it tooo

[PalestineMyHeart 1,897]

My husband and I plan to see it this weekend. (It's my turn to pick the film as last week he wanted to see Superman.)

I'm excited it's finally out.... I've been looking forward to this since last year. Hope I won't be disappointed. I love Johnny Depp, too !

[keltic 1]

it was AWESOME!!!!!!

there are times when everyone collectively nearly jumped out of their seats... laughed so hard thought they would pee (yes, i could hear others saying it)...

oh, and stay seated until the very end of the credits

[Not Available 0]

it was AWESOME!!!!!!

there are times when everyone collectively nearly jumped out of their seats... laughed so hard thought they would pee (yes, i could hear others saying it)...

oh, and stay seated until the very end of the credits

Thanks for the tip