'We're not one nation under God, we're one nation under this Geoffrey Rush quote,' writes hunteryharris Introducing our new vulture series, Hunter's Line Readings, in which Hunter Harris attempts to exorcise the movie quotes haunting her brain
Photo-Illustration: Vulture and Walt Disney Unless we time-travel back to me being 17 and breaking curfew, I’m not an actor. I can’t look at a script and devise a perfect line reading. But I have another gift: I can watch a movie and get a certain line-reading stuck in my head for all of eternity, in this life and the next. I have written previously on one such line that I can’t get out of my head, from Marriage Story.
In Black Pearl, Elizabeth Swann plays Port Royal, Jamaica’s first daughter. Like many a Disney ingenue, she is wealthy and privileged and a habitual line-stepper. At ten years old, she’s onboard a ship that picks up Will Turner , at which point she pockets a pirate medallion around his neck, worried that her father will arrest her new crush for his criminal associations.
“Aye,” he begins. “That’s exactly what I thought when we were first told the tale.” The pirates aboard the Pearl found the island, found the chest, and found the gold. Like the Bling Ring, they robbed it of every gold piece. “The more we gave ’em away, the more we came to realize the drink would not satisfy, food turned to ash in our mouths, and all the pleasurable company in the world could not slake our lust.
What’s nutty is that Pirates of the Carribean has many quotable lines: The way Captain Jack Sparrow twists his braided beard and whines, “But why is the rum gone?!” The way an amber-eyed pirate peers into a hiding spot and says, “Hello, puppet,” the words twisted and mangled so that they come out: “Ehlow, Pop-ette!” Barbossa declines Elizabeth’s plea to return her to Port Royal, sneering, “I’m disinclined to acquiesce to your request.
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