Just a Thought....

[sinanju]

...prompted by someone on my friends list commenting that in her current mood, seeing Pirates 3 would not be a good idea, what with people getting killed or cursed to sail the Flying Dutchman's ship forever despite it being a Disney movie.

Could be worse. Let's hope the Turner family don't appear in Pirates IV, if it gets made.

Why? It's a DISNEY FILM. And what do we know about families in Disney films?

That's right--Elizabeth is a DEAD WOMAN WALKING. She'll expire abruptly be dead before she hits the ground, leaving Will to raise their child alone in classic Disney fashion.

ETA: So, in this vein let's consider the Pirates films, shall we?

Will Turner: first seen as a young child, the sole survivor of a shipwreck. Later we learn that his father is still alive. His mother? Not so much.

Elizabeth Swann: traveling to America with her father. No mother evident; we can safely assume she's deceased. Standard Disney family situation.

Jack Sparrow: POTC 3 demonstrates that his mother, too, is deceased. (Or at least, let's HOPE she's deceased....), though Jack being an adult at this point, the matter is largely moot.

Comments

[sophiedb.livejournal.com]

There's even a dog. You can't have a Disney family movie without a dog.

[mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com]

Or else the scrappy kid, newly orphaned, will join up with Our Favorite Pirates to seek out his father across the oceans, and wackiness will ensue.

Oh, Disney. At least their formula will never change.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Yep! Mothers don't fare too well. Or parents in general. Finding Nemo, Lilo & Stitch, Cinderella, Snow White, Escape to Witch Mountain. Not Disney, but Wizard of Oz comes to mind.

My mum's adopted, and somehow I got it into my head that one of my paternal grandparents was a step parent. So in child logic, I thought that meant that one of my parents would die. And I used to get very upset, wondering when it was going to happen. I'm not sure at what point I realized it wasn't true, but I do remember thinking it even now! Maybe all the Disney movies I saw influenced me.

[beccadg.livejournal.com]

Could be worse. Let's hope the Turner family don't appear in Pirates IV, if it gets made.

*Snorts.* The same person that told me it could be worse Will could just be dead, they also told me the editing out of the scene that explained how the curse could and would be broken was done to put Will and Elizabeth out of the picture for Pirates 4 since Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley aren't as keen as Johnny Depp on the idea of doing a 4th. What they didn't think of, or didn't think to mention, was with the Turners having spawned in 3 the adults can be entirely replace by their scrappy son. I have thought about where it might all be heading. ;) Oh, and if I've heard the spoiler rightly Elizabeth's father was killed making her a complete orphan, so disposing of Will and Elizabeth leaving only their scrappy child to go on without them would fit just fine.