Brindlestyle

"If it falls to our luck to be street-sweepers, sweep the streets, like Raphael painted pictures, like Michaelangelo carved marble, like Shakespeare wrote poetry, and like Beethoven composed music. Sweep the streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth would have to pause and say ... ...Here lived a great street sweeper" --  University of West Indies -Kingston, Jamaica : Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., June 20, 1965,   The Jamaican  Gleaner

Errol Flynn, the Tarzan of the sea, was a Hobart boy. Prolly pulled in the Barbary Coast, on the way to New Guinea. Tassie Falla's.  LOL!  Show biz fallas LOL!  The stuff movies are made of- pirate movies.

Maiia:  I'm not up on ya popular culture, the mainstream media seemed to say don't bothergoing, especially to the third one- AT World's End, the kids reckoned it was really good.  -I'm with the kids.  Pirates of the Carribean -a three part epic.   

Yun Fat Chow China's most popular dramatic actor, is in the movie.  It was interesting to read a report from the West Australian that Chinese censors had taken to exception to some aspects of portrayal of Chinese culture and history.  I had felt some unease at the portrayal of Indigenous people in the second movie.  Just a tad more historical accuracy/consultation.  Still if a little pirate show can influence politics it's gotta be a job well done.

Gags galore. I enjoyed seeing how other artists handle the subjects of colonial history and from within film-craft the recognition of the early filmking history.(oops- filmaking)  It's got Chaplin, Flynn, Monty Python allsorts.  Classic sight-gags like Geoffrey Rush pullin' his telescope out an' it's bigger than Depp's.  Lol-  and a cameo appearance from the archetypal pirate himself -Keith Richard.

Flynn    "I am not denying that westerns are wonderful entertainment. I love to look at them as well as anyone. I just wanted to act. To have a chance to play a character, to say good-bye to the swashbuckler roles, to get swords and horses to hell out of my life. I itched to turn in a prize winning job--but they held to make money; box office, box office ...."                                                           Finding a Quid in the Arts

The director of Pirates of the Carribean is Gore Verbinski, formerly a muso, video clip maker and eventually feature film-maker.