1. Hector Barbossa - Just love the way he talks: "Brace the yards, ye cat headed japes! Dying is a good day for living! More speed! Haul your wind and hold your water!" "Seems you has to be lost to find the place you're looking for! Let her run straight and true!"... Yes, the wicked, eloquent Barbossa is my favorite character in "P.O.T. C." movies. I admire his style. He's proved himself a true survivor. He's not young, but he's tough as they come. He survived the Aztec curse and being killed, shot by Jack Sparrow. He came back by the magic of Tia Dalma. He's a green apple eating nightmare to decent citizens and a great sailor too!... Besides, he's much like the Pirate Lord Of Singapore, Sao Fang, but, naturally, he has "a merciful nature, and sense of fair play." Um-HUM... REALLY???
2. Captain Peter Blood - Played by the athletic & gorgeous Errol Flynn, he was a former gentleman, a doctor; he strode the decks with power, looking like a sea panther. What damsel wouldn't want to be rescued, --- or ravished by him?
3. Jack Sparrow - Darling Jack, played by the incomparable Johnny Depp, is a fox, unpredictable, but still, a pirate-and-a-good-man. What's not to love??? But, fancy flashpackets, Scarlet and Giselle, from Port Royal, can NEVER resist slugging him.
4. Captain Hook - Yeah, I liked him in the animated Disney flick when he truly did look like he was patterned after King Charles II of England. BUT, I liked him even better in "Neverland", a mini series, when he was played by a very sexy Rhys Ifans.
5. Bonny - (from the mini series, "Neverland") She was evil-to-the-core. No one would be foolish enough to trust her. BUT, she was beautiful, seductive, strong and stunning, and, --- hmmm... She smoked a clay pipe! She got her just desserts. Too, too bad. She was a great villainess. :(
6. Long John Silver - He probably shouldn't be so far down the list... Oh, well. I liked him best played by Robert Newton, who was born in Dorset, England and died in the mid '50s. ARRGH!... He was great, crazed, popping eyes, growling, gravely voice and all. Charlton Heston also played wonderfully and very realistically as Long John.
7. Morgan Adams - Played by tall and spectacular Geena Davis in "Cutthroat Island". No doubt she did many of her own stunts. I loved some of the lines in this movie --- Morgan, after sleeping with an official of Port Royal:, when he points a pistol at her: "You are heartless, Lieutenant, but that won't work." She grins and tosses some musket balls in the air and catches them. "By the way, I took your balls!" She leaves quickly, as her monkey, King Charles, jumps on her shoulder. (Oh, kill me with sexual innuendo! :D ) And, more... "There's no water in Adam's blood!" "Say something Latin-ish!" "Bad Dawg!", --- when Morgan ingnites a cannon aimed at the dastardly villain and her uncle, Dawg Brown. "Down the throat to the belly of gold, guarded by those who never grown old", --- directions to the treasure; it's guarded by skeleton's skulls. "Cutthroat Island" also has one of the best movie scores ever created (by John Debney), featuring the thrilling "Morgan's ride", when Morgan, riding bareback on a beautiful horse, charges through the Jamaican sand and surf at sunset.
5. Blackbeard, in "Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides": Played with verve and style by Ian Mc Shane, he had some terrific lines, didn't he? ---"Gentlemen, I be placed in a bewilderment. There I were resting..." "The answer is much simpler. I'm a bad man." "All Latin blood, like her mother!" --- When Blackbeard aims and fires pistols at her, after there are 6 pistols, but only 2 of them are loaded --- Angelica: "You knew which pistols were loaded, right, Father?" Blackbeard: "Of course, of course, my dear..."
6. Ragetti & Pintel: These two deckhands of the "Pirates Of The Caribbean" movies are hilarious and - lovable. They have some great lines: "Hello, Poppet!"--- "Stupid fish!... Ragetti: It's a cephlopod, actually." (Have you noticed that Ragetti is quite intelligent?) --- "You know you can't read!... Ragetti: "It's the Bible. You get credit for trying!" --- "He must have seen a catfish!" --- When the terrier, who is really Jack Sparrow's dad's dog, jumps out of the boat to swim to shore. --- "Let's drop a cannonball on one of them!... Pintel: "Be disrespectful, it would."
7. Captain Jackson Edward Teague: Played by the vintage rocker of the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards who, I think, is probably one of those people, like Johnny Depp, who is just as entertaining in real life as he is on the screen. Yes, yes... :D We all know that Captain Teague is Jack Sparrow's dad and that he's the very strict keeper of the pirate's code written by Morgan (Captain Henry Morgan) & Bartholomew (Bartholomew Roberts, a.k.a "Black Bart"., You very well might be shot if you disagree with it!) Captain Teague is a bit of an aristocrat and he looks it. He is the Pirate Lord Of Madagascar. (I will be doing a post about Captain Teague's exciting life and adventures in the future.)
No comments:
Post a Comment