Anybody else want a full backstory on Hector Barbossa? We know some about his life from the extended written series, but a movie focused on him would be amazing. Also, I want more of an explanation of what happened between Barbossa and Margaret Smyth. She seems like she must’ve been a special woman to attract the eye of the notorious Pirate Lord.
Y’all know the one scene in At World’s End where Tia Dalma threatens Barbossa by withering his hand away and delivering a vague threat right?? Bc I’ve always interpreted that as her threatening to re-curse him because that feels like something she’d be able to do, but what I’ve heard from everyone else discussing it is that the intention was that she was just threatening to kill him. Which, yeah, is a fine threat, but I feel like the notion of him being cursed again (only this time without a way to really break it unless he were to somehow beg her long enough to earn himself pity points or something) would be arguably worse? Maybe I’m alone in this but I’ve always imagined that the curse would’ve left him with a considerable amount of psychological damage and the idea of having it return hanging over his head feels worse than a “do what I want or I’ll kill you” because after years of pirating that sort of threat has gotta feel kinda hollow, especially to someone like Barbossa who’s probably killed a whole lotta adversaries over the course of his life. I dunno maybe I’m the weird one but I like to think that Calypso would have the power to curse a mortal person, especially considering that the Aztec gold was cursed by “heathen gods” and Calypso is later referred to as a “heathen god” by Davy Jones. Just food for thought I guess
look potc5 is objectively a very bad movie however there are very few lines of prose in this world that make me go as buckwild fucking feral as “who am i to you? / treasure” followed closely by “i’m a captain / i know which stars to follow home”
currently thinking abt how Geoffrey Rush said that he interpreted Barbossa as seeing himself as the hero of his own story and how he ultimately thought that he’d prevail and break the curse and get his happy ending. he’s such an interesting and tragic character, my god
So, ignorant as I am about stars, astronomy and astrology, I did a little Google on ‘Carina’ and found out that the constellation Carina is part of what used to be the constellation Ship Argo, together with the other constellations Puppis (the poop deck of a ship) and Vela (the sails of a ship)
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Hector Barbossa you ultimate nerd
How could they put in the movie such a nice detail and then bungle up the whole series’s chronology like it was nothing sob
