ext_6536 ([identity profile] sharpest_rose.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] mimesere 2004-02-07 11:33 pm (UTC)

Wow. I've loved that version of the song since the first time I heard it, and I never would have expected it to work as a Norrington song but holy crap do you make it perfect. This is such a clever and intelligent and sensitive video, which highlights all the tragic, violent, horrifying, lonely, and melancholy things lurking inside this "blockbuster action movie about pirates". And it's obvious how much you adore Norrington with every frame of the vid, and even if I didn't already love him that much myself this would make me do so anyway because it's just that good at showing what this character is.

It all haunts, there are so many clever choices with the cutting and the juxtaposition. I especially like the ending, because the attack on the Dauntless really really is horrible and inside the cave there's the big swashbuckling revenge-fight with the wisecracking and the one-liners and the sassiness and meanwhile pirates are slaughtering the navy. And so Jack gets his moment of triumph, but that same moment is something else up on the ship and Norrington's sword is all bloody and there's no gloating or victory in his eyes, just fear and sadness, and it's such a little moment but your brought it to the fore here really well and I'm babbling but this video is wonderfulperfectGREAT and you deserve a whole bucket of strawberries and mulberries and raspberries and other yummy things.

And you showed what a marvellous leader he is, too, which is something the movie treats as the wind-up to the joke of Sparrow's constant escapes. So, yay for badass Norrington!

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