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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Aug 20, 2017 2:46:14 GMT
Blackbeard, an old powerful white guy wants to find the Fountain of Youth, because like all old powerful white guys he wants to live forever (i.e. Dick Cheney).
SPOILERS
Barbossa offers some resistance, and Jack Sparrow defeats his ambition (possibly by a fluke). Contrast that with the Spanish ruler who arrives to announce that only God can give life, then destroys a bunch of things and leaves. Was there an intentional Obama vibe to this guy? Sure seemed like it. Then we have the white male who is a pacifist Christian. This may have been an interesting character except he was enfeebled for most of the movie. When we first see him he is tied to a mast. Then he does little of value until he helps the mermaid (read: the good foreigner). But then he gets seriously wounded, and what happens? She drags him into the ocean. Does she eat him? We really do not know-but the important thing from the Disney management POV is that the white Christian guy gets out of the picture and disappears into oblivion where he belongs.
So the moral of the story is--old white guys and young white guys should just drown or rot--but if you are a one legged or perpetually drunk scalawag who stabs people in the back you may get a supernatural ship, demon-possessed or bottled.
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Post by politicidal on Aug 20, 2017 20:47:15 GMT
I feel like there's a reel missing from that one. The missionary disappearing was just weird.
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