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[pauraque_bk]

We rented PotC this holiday. I'd already seen it in the theater, but I think I liked it better on second viewing (perhaps because I wasn't seeing it as part of an awkward social occasion).

Liked it so much better, in fact, that the result is several hundred words of pirate slash. It's one of those stories that just hit my brain fully-formed (while we were watching a different movie, in fact), and had to get out *right then*. Once it's all written out, it may not turn out to be suitable for public consumption, but I'm having a good time with it. Talk about your fun character voices....

In any case, I have a plot question. I realize that trying to make perfect sense of a summer movie may be a fool's errand, but humor me. When Bill Turner Sr. took a piece of the gold, he must have incurred the curse too, and must still have been cursed when the crew sent him to sleep with the fishes. In which case, shouldn't he still have been down there when they realized they needed his blood to lift the curse? Wouldn't the logical thing be to go back and find him? Or am I missing something?

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[pauraque]

And that the "blood repaid" meant the blood of anyone who fell victim to the greed of the pirates when it came to the gold.

Or, hey-- the movie's called Curse of the Black Pearl, so maybe they needed the blood of anyone who was on the crew at the time of the theft.

I'd much rather look at pretty Johnny. Oooh, pretty.

Hee. Yes indeed.

[aretina.livejournal.com]

Jack Sparrow only becomes cursed after he "accepts" a position on the Black Pearl and takes the gold-- so clever. By being cast off the ship, Bootstrap may have been "fired" in a rather spectacular way, before the curse had made itself known, and thus was no longer part of the Black Pearl's crew and no longer part of the curse.

I'm thinking that Barbossa never expelled nor released any of the rest of the crew, leaving them cursed as he was.

[pauraque]

Hm, now that's interesting. If that's the case, then Barbosa comes off even nastier -- though of course he wouldn't have been motivated by sadism, but by the fact that he needed everyone he could get to help him find all the coins. Adds a little something to the mutiny scene in the film, I think.