Wednesday

I have a quibble with Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. At the climax of the film, Jack Sparrow, played by Johnny Depp, takes a coin from the chest. The curse is thus placed upon him. Why, however, when he later steps into the moonlight does he appear as a skeleton, like the rest of the crew? We've been told earlier by Barbossa, played by Geoffrey Rush, that the moonlight shows them for who they truly are, but why does that apply to Sparrow? The crew of the Black Pearl have been under the curse for ten years, but Sparrow has only just taken it upon himself. Moreover, when two of them put on new women's clothes to fool the English, these clothes then appear rotten and decayed in the moonlight. Why is that? Of course, this is a Disney film adapted from a theme park ride, so I shouldn't look for too much sense, but I do think a movie should be consistent within itself, no matter how unreal its universe. Tomorrow, I might say a few words on how much the Pirates films owe to Star Wars.