At UWS and I have 5 minutes so I'm just going to comment on one thing and to the rest later when I have more time:
He has at last learned what it means to be called Captain, and to hold the responsibilities of the office. I feel he saves his crew because they're his (odd, jumbly) friends; but ultimately because they are his crew and that is his ship, goddamit.
This feels right to me. Certainly, when I first watched the film, my belief was that "Jack does not know what he wants" meant that Jack's subconscious was torn between wanting to save his own skin - getting the key and chest - and wanting to prove that he was "a good man", that he was a captain worth standing behind, that he was a good captain, full stop. He spends the film, and through the entire duration of his pursuit of the chest, without his captain's tricone - surely symbolic of something...
And I have 2 minutes to scurry to by MUN General Assembly so gotta run. :)
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Date: Thursday, July 13th, 2006 11:58 pm (UTC)He has at last learned what it means to be called Captain, and to hold the responsibilities of the office. I feel he saves his crew because they're his (odd, jumbly) friends; but ultimately because they are his crew and that is his ship, goddamit.
This feels right to me. Certainly, when I first watched the film, my belief was that "Jack does not know what he wants" meant that Jack's subconscious was torn between wanting to save his own skin - getting the key and chest - and wanting to prove that he was "a good man", that he was a captain worth standing behind, that he was a good captain, full stop. He spends the film, and through the entire duration of his pursuit of the chest, without his captain's tricone - surely symbolic of something...
And I have 2 minutes to scurry to by MUN General Assembly so gotta run. :)