Yea! A review! *dances in a circle hugging her review*
I know you described it as a PWP, but I really don't think it was. It started that way, though. I was a good 500/1000 words into it before I decided to have Barbossa poison the captain.
Bootstrap was a challenge, since I didn't want to make him too much like Will, so I'm glad you liked him. Barbossa was a little easier (since you actually get more than just his name in the movie, unlike Bill). I had fun doing him, since I liked him in the movie (look, I even gave him a pet, though not an undead one!). I tried to keep the same calm, condescending sort of attitude he seemed to have through most of the film.
As for Jack idolising Barbossa--have you noticed how alike they are in the movie (well, outside of the "one-is-a-fairly-decent-guy, one-is-a-undead-villain" thing)? They dress similarly, though Jack's much more colourful/gaudy (I think the costume people may have done that on purpose, so they could be foils for each other), are both given to melodrama (look at Barbossa's grand speeches to his crew), both seem fairly well educated for pirates, and semed pretty evenly matched in that sword fight (my bet is that Barbossa's the one who taught Jack to fence).
And Jack did know just the selling point to win Barbossa over to his plan ("I'll buy you a hat. A really big hat...").
Actually, yellow fever isn't the most disgusting tropical/epidemic type people used to get in the 18th/19th centuries. That would probably be cholera, which is way grosser, plus a lot more virulent.
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Date: 2003-12-11 03:35 pm (UTC)I know you described it as a PWP, but I really don't think it was.
It started that way, though. I was a good 500/1000 words into it before I decided to have Barbossa poison the captain.
Bootstrap was a challenge, since I didn't want to make him too much like Will, so I'm glad you liked him. Barbossa was a little easier (since you actually get more than just his name in the movie, unlike Bill). I had fun doing him, since I liked him in the movie (look, I even gave him a pet, though not an undead one!). I tried to keep the same calm, condescending sort of attitude he seemed to have through most of the film.
As for Jack idolising Barbossa--have you noticed how alike they are in the movie (well, outside of the "one-is-a-fairly-decent-guy, one-is-a-undead-villain" thing)? They dress similarly, though Jack's much more colourful/gaudy (I think the costume people may have done that on purpose, so they could be foils for each other), are both given to melodrama (look at Barbossa's grand speeches to his crew), both seem fairly well educated for pirates, and semed pretty evenly matched in that sword fight (my bet is that Barbossa's the one who taught Jack to fence).
And Jack did know just the selling point to win Barbossa over to his plan ("I'll buy you a hat. A really big hat...").
Actually, yellow fever isn't the most disgusting tropical/epidemic type people used to get in the 18th/19th centuries. That would probably be cholera, which is way grosser, plus a lot more virulent.