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PostPosted: June 21st, 2007, 9:06 pm 
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:blink: Yeah, I can't believe nudity and such would ever be G-rated, but as you said, standards are different in America.

I agree that the scene in Pirates wasn't a true 'scene', but as it was implied, it was pretty close. So some squirminess was to be expected from viewers expecting the PG13 rating to come from action and language alone.

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I completely agree with you. :-)

I never actually once mentioned the word immoral or anything like that. My only problem with the scene is how unlike Will and Elizabeth it appeared to me.

That's all.


the same with me....it wasn't so much i had a problem with it. it was just weird to see it. i mean like others have said. look at the characters. the characters we are use to are these nice, some what inocent people ( not inocent in terms of pirating)...but inocent in a way you would never imagin them being so openly intamate with each other. ( if any of that made sence)

to me that scene was just un will/elizabeth. it was just unexpected.

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Taurquende: Which sex scene are you referring to? I don't recall seeing one at all. I understand certain things may seem distasteful to you and I truly do respect that. I don't look at the scene as Elizabeth being Will's wench. From my pov..she was as much into what was happening as he was. In fact, she instigated it as much.


Sorry if I was unclear! :( When I said "sex scene" as I also said "as close as they could get" because it seemed to me that they really wanted to put one in there, but were worried about it getting rated R. And I don't think of Elizabeth as Will's wench either, but when I saw that my immediate thought was of Jack's scene. And then, to top it all off, they get in a scene of Jack and the ladies from Tortuga right after that. :blink: It's just... unnerving, I suppose.

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Will and Elizabeths relationship has evolved into something very deep, very passionate and overall very loving. That's what keeps relationships going, growing with one another.


First of all, very well said. :) But like I said before, it's an aspect of that love that I think we as an audience didn't really need to see. I didn't prove to me that their love was any deeper than I thought it was, and I don't think it would prove it to the other middle school-to-college aged kids at which this movie is primarily aimed at. I can't say I can speak for adults.

And thank you for being respectful. :) I too am trying to be open-minded, and I like how this thread's sort of been taken to another level of thinking.

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But, I realize that America has different standards for ratings than Sweden ;)

Very different! That's unbelievable! :-o In America, if a movie has any nudity or blood at all it's sure to be rated PG-13. In fact, once I watched an extra on a PG rated movie of an interview with the director, and he was told he couldn't use the words "death" and "kill" so much, or it would get rated PG-13. That's a little extreme, but it shows our standards. I think the philosophy here is "Better safe than sorry."

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You can phrase these things so much better than me. :P Once again, I have to agree with you. Especially about tha part where we the audience didn't really need any more proof of their deep love (or at least that type of proof). They had both sacraficed their way of life, and done various things they would rather not have done in order to help or save the other. For me, no more proof is needed.

In the UK, that ratings system is also not used. Some things are a bit silly and sometimes go to far, but some people may think letting a 8 year old watch a full blown sex scene may also be going to far. It's all a matter of opinion but I think our ratings are useful.

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^Thanks for pointing to me to this discussion JF.. :)

Personally, I didn't have a problem with the scene I'm assuming we're speaking of. It showed enough without showing too much. Yes, their was a bit of squirminess on my part, but it was a touching scene and I actually enjoyed it a lot.

Will and Liz don't have to kiss to show they love eachother. In many stories I've read where two lovers have been kept apart for so long, the fact that they can just touch eachother in a loving way is enough for them. Of course it did imply rather a lot, but not in a very untactful way. :)


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Thank you, JF! :) I spent about an hour on those two posts each trying to think of the best way to phrase things so they'd come across right. :teehee:

I've been trying to think this through some more, and another factor that bothered me was how happy Elizabeth was. I mean, I wasn't expecting so suggestive a scene when I saw Will putting his boots on, but it didn't really weigh very heavily on me. (After all, it was quite tame, even for a PG-13 movie.) Then Elizabeth turns up all playful and flirty. Why? That bothered me. If it was sunset and I was about to be seperated from my true love for ten years, I'd be positively depressed. :( They did show her crying out for him and kissing him that last time, but they didn't really follow through with that at all. Maybe I just like tragedies and tear-jerkers, but it was tragic and they didn't treat it that way at all.

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I don't know if you'd be positively depressed after spending the day alone on a beach with your true love, though ;) I don't think I would. I think she sounded pretty torn up about it when he's walking away and she says "Will!" and runs to him to kiss him before he goes. Besides, I don't know if I would quite grasp it if I were her - all in one day, she married, saw her husband die, found out he was the captain of the Flying Dutchman and was undead, and she could have one day with him. When my RP character had a day like that she was pretty insanely confused and what would have been a shock didn't shock her as much because she was already dealing with so much (actually, she ended up bursting into tears :P).

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I agree about the final kiss, I was adding the last two sentences when you posted. :P I guess because I'm such a worrier, if I were her I'd always be thinking about the fact I wasn't going to see him again for ten years. That's what would make me depressed.

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JF, Thank you very much. :-D Actualy there have been several who still question his paternity. In fact this one girl that I know (she is a teenager as well...so it is not like she is eight or something) asked how the child could be Will's when he is "dead". :blink: My mouth fell open. It might have been a bit mean but I could not help it. Then when I pointed the scene out, I think that she got it though. I think that without that scene few people would have let William III's paternity go without question...many, many questions. lol
You are absolutely not alone in that.

Phoenix, Okay thank you for answering my question. :-D

Tauruende, Though I do not agree with you on everything, I do agree with you on Elizabeth's behavior throughout the movies and her not being upset at the end of At world's end. If I had been Elizabeth I would have been a nervous wreck. I mean just crying a river of tears. You knew that this was the last day that you were going to have to spend with your husband for the next ten years. Dude, that is a really long time. Personaly I would not have been so flirty at that point. I would have been upset and just wanting to sit down and let him hold me as we watched the waves crash upon the shore. Maybe I am an unpassionate romantic but that is how I would have felt. In honesty scenes like that were a big reason why I am not a major fan of Elizabeth's. At times she just seems so unrealistic...so inhuman. Her lack tears throughout At world's end Really bothered me. She did not shed a tear when her father died (the anchor in her life), when Norrington (one who had lost everything because of her and still loved her with his entire heart and died protecting her) died, when Will "died" (once again protecting her), and only shed two or three when Will (the love of her life, that she had given up so much to be with) had to depart for ten years. It was as if she was disconnected from the entire world around her...and that bothered me...alot.

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Or maybe Keira Knightley is just bad at crying. Actually, I can't exactly remember her crying like, at all during the other two.

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And thats what we must remember you guys, is where everyone of us was raised, and brought up, and the standards set for movies in our countries. Everyone is going to have different opinions, and thoughts, because of how they were raised.

I'm sorry, but Keria is bad at crying, i dont ever remember seeing her crying... in any of the three movies. ever.


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But... she cried when she saw her dad passing by in the boat, didn't she? Or was it more like mournful outbursts?

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Now that you mention it I have never seen her cry in any movies before either. :confused: I did not mind not seeing her cry in the first two Pirates of the Caribbean movies though. To me they seemed less emtional (from Elizabeth's point of view). However there was a serious need for tears and the lack there of really bothered me. (no offence to her fans.) I would never change Elizabeth's actress (as I have said before) but I would really appreciate it if she would work on the tears. Just my opinion. (shrugs)
Okay this is a bit off topic...but I was wondering if you had to describe each of the three main characters and Norrington each in one sentence what would that sentence be?

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@ Tarquende - Your welcome. :-)

Yes, she was being pretty flirty wasn't she? It's all a matter of opinion based on how each one of use would react, some may be sad, some may be trying to put on a brave face, but I think you would be pretty strange to be flirting at a time like that. I'm glad she looked upset at the end.... but she was just about to let him go off without kissing her goodbye.... unless you count the kiss on the leg her goodbye kiss. :eyeroll: That seemed strange to me.

@ DD - Well addmitedly Elizabeth is a strong character, but not so strong that she could see so many things happen around her that should never have happened, see her dad and her one time fiance die and her soon to be husband without getting a litte upset surely? :blink:

The scene after her father's death was mainly her screaming and looking distraught. The actualy crying took place on Will's shoulder so we never actually saw the tears. If that had been me, I would have looked wretched and been screaming and clawing my way through, trying to get off the boat until someone slapped me silly!

@ Dark - That is very true. But the main reason I started off this whole disccussion was not to discuss that immoral side of it (if any) but who actually thought it was a wrong thing to show Will and Elizabeth doing, not because of the age group watching AWE, but because it seemed so out of character for the two of them. We seemed to have gotten lightly side trackd with this a while ago, but we're back om course now (I think!).

@ DD - Yes, there were not that many ocassions ion the first two films that called for tears, but certainly in this film. Norrie. *sniffs*

Erm.... well actually you are not off topic at all. ;) This is about AWE, not the sex life of Will and Elizabeth. :teehee:

Oooh... erm... Norrington I would describe as a brave and noble man, who was not afraid to do the right thing even if it meant sacraficing his own ambitions, and who knew the value of honour and he was someone who you could trust to be fair and just.

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Everyone handles and reacts to things differently. No one way of showing grief and loss is better than the other. Saying "if it was me" carries very little weight, because she was written that way for a reason. You don't have to like her, or any of her actions. But the fact is, what you see is what you get.

Perhaps also the lack of tears were written that way on purpose.

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Besides for all we know she could have been "cried out". As Melda said, Elizabeth has just been through the most terrifying and trying time of her life. After all that she must have been absolutely emotionally drained. Sometimes even if you want to cry, you can't, because you've gone through so much already. I also think that besides the emotional drain she went through, Elizabeth has also accepted the fact that she won't see Will for 10 years. She doesn't cry because she knows it won't be the end and that they'll see eachother again. When you think of it that way, things tend to brighten up a bit. :)


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