#this entire scene is a fucking masterpieceĀ #the building tension in Barbossaās cabinĀ #the strings in the score rising ominouslyĀ #and then the entire movie turns on a /dime/Ā #āoh okayāĀ #I remember thinkingĀ #āfucking GHOST PIRATESāĀ #it drops from historical swashbuckler to fantasy swashbuckler in one set pieceĀ #in which the rules for how the crew work are given to you purely in visualsĀ #and you get to see that sharp difference between horror-horror and fun horrorĀ #because this scene genuinely terrifies ElizabethĀ #and delights /you/Ā #instead of being awful for both of youĀ #god
itās just so neatly done and raises the stakes for the film and puts
everything into context and adds depth to the charactersĀ #and comes as a complete surpriseĀ #this is all the things you want in a set pieceĀ #we should all aspire to storytelling so economicalĀ #(incidentally so should THE SEQUELSĀ #christ)Ā (via wizzard890)
