Hard to believe it's ranked higher in my brain right now that HP! Heyhey, that's like, HP is my Will and PotC is my Jack xD. *stops*
Here's the quote I was referencing yesterday-
Box Office Mojo: What is the meaning of the series?
Ted Elliott: It's a study of what is a pirate. How free can you really be? What are those trade-offs? Jack kind of represents the ultimate free man—he really has no obligations to anybody, and, obviously, if you make an obligation to somebody, you're limiting your own freedom. But, if you're not willing to limit your own freedom, you can't have those relationships. If you look at Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest from that point of view, you kind of see what really leads to Jack's ultimate fate and why Elizabeth does what she does.
This is a far more interesting quote-
Julia wrote: but i still don't get, (and this may be a lil bit off topic, but since we're talking about the compass....) In the begginin of the movie jack is confused and doesn't know what he wants so he can't use the compass, but why is that??
Ted Elliot: The reason we included the "Why is the rum always gone?" line was not just as a callback to the first movie; it was intended to remind audiences of the specific circumstances that it referenced, and so act as a cue to what Jack had on his mind: the woman who he was first attracted to and then infuriated with (or: the woman who Jack never would have been infuriated with if he had not been attracted to).
So, the deal with the compass: Jack simultaneously wanted Elizabeth and wanted to be as far from Elizabeth as possible. Whichever of those he wanted most would cause him to immediately want the other more ... so the compass would not settle, swinging between "Port Royal" and "antipode of Port Royal" (which is sort-of-but-not-quite Singapore, btw). (There was much debate about whether, in the first scene aboard the Pearl, to show the compass pointing in a specific direction and have Jack set course in the opposite direction, or to show it as it is in the movie. I think the first would have made it more clear to the audience that something weird was going on with Jack ("he's not going where the compass points? What's up with that?"), but the second is actually more demonstrative of his emotional state)(at least, that was the theory).
And, as long as I'm breaking silence on the compass, let me just say: there's no transference. If it points to a waffle, it's not pointing to the waffle because you're hungry or because you really want to be Belgian or something; it points to the waffle 'cause what you want most is that waffle. Of course, if you've been hungry for a while, anticipating the most delicious meal you could ever imagine, and for some reason you couldn't partake of that meal, and then you found yourself in the presence of a very interesting waffle ... well, that doesn't mean that you suddenly think the aforementioned meal would not be delicious. It just means that, right then, that waffle seems pretty tempting. Does that make you a terrible person?
What? Jack is the waffle? D: wtfno. On another note, this goes with my theory that Jack is more attracted to Elizabeth than she is to him (though it's still mutual). The whole "hungry/wuffle" way of glossing over "HORNYELIZABETH" also cracks me up. And another thing: so Elizabeth's been on Jack's mind a lot according to this, and when he sees her in Tortuga his brain should be experiencing all sorts of panic, yet he's so calm and in control on the outside. Impressive.
Finally, is it sad that this makes me (giggle and) think of college admissions?
*snort*
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