Well, to answer your cut question: You're putting spoilers for the trailer behind the cut, because there are some crazy poor souls who prefer not even to watch the trailer--and you're nice that way.
I think there's going to be four levels of morality happening in AWE:
1. The evil pirates, represented by Sao and Barbossa (who you *totally* know is just using Will and Liz and going to turn on them as soon as he can); 2. The good pirates (Jack/Will/Liz) who, although outside of the law, are still generally ethical, well-intentioned people; 3. The good law-abidders, which is what Norrington (and to a lesser extent Governor Swann) represented in the first film and, I'm guessing, will come to represent in AWE. Norrington doesn't have the same information at the end of DMC about Beckett that the audience has had throughout the film. I think, once James gets a clue as to just how immoral Beckett and his Company are (and how much they are just like everything James hated about pirates from the get-go), he's going to turn on Beckett, *without* necessarily going pirate. (I think Swann will, too, if he doesn't first fall to Disney Parent Syndrome.) 4. Beckett, Mercer, and the EITC, who, while working within the law, are completely amoral and just as evil as the worst of the pirates.
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Date: 2007-03-23 02:46 pm (UTC)crazypoor souls who prefer not even to watch the trailer--and you're nice that way.I think there's going to be four levels of morality happening in AWE:
1. The evil pirates, represented by Sao and Barbossa (who you *totally* know is just using Will and Liz and going to turn on them as soon as he can);
2. The good pirates (Jack/Will/Liz) who, although outside of the law, are still generally ethical, well-intentioned people;
3. The good law-abidders, which is what Norrington (and to a lesser extent Governor Swann) represented in the first film and, I'm guessing, will come to represent in AWE. Norrington doesn't have the same information at the end of DMC about Beckett that the audience has had throughout the film. I think, once James gets a clue as to just how immoral Beckett and his Company are (and how much they are just like everything James hated about pirates from the get-go), he's going to turn on Beckett, *without* necessarily going pirate. (I think Swann will, too, if he doesn't first fall to Disney Parent Syndrome.)
4. Beckett, Mercer, and the EITC, who, while working within the law, are completely amoral and just as evil as the worst of the pirates.
Gosh, my hand is tired from all that fanwanking.