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<blockquote data-quote="Snapdragyn" data-source="post: 3550025" data-attributes="member: 12432"><p>Too many points scattered throughout to use spoiler tags, so skip this if you haven't seen it.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I actually liked AWE better than DMC... possibly even better than CotBP, though it's really too close to call there. I fully enjoyed the fantasy nature (I kept thinking 'oooh, that'd be cool in a game! and that! and THAT!), something I actually disliked in DMC (it just didn't sit as well with me there for reasons I can only put down as personal taste). I felt that the thematic elements were wonderfully poetic (Will stabbed with the sword made by his own hand, Calypso (goddess of the unpredictable sea) not being there for Jones after 10 years because 'it was her nature', the final tragedy of Will & Elizabeth).</p><p></p><p>There were pieces that I didn't like. Will's heart being cut out was an absolute plot error. It is revealed earlier in the film that this did not happen w/ Jones because he became the captain of the Dutchman, but was something he did to himself after Calypso's betrayal of him (or his betrayal of her; that point is intentionally unclear, but that it is unconnected to his role as ferryman isn't). Will's heart being cut out, then, is pointless at best, & at worst sets up the possibility of him being corrupted from his duty by a lack of emotion (as they've alluded to the mythical 'emotional' role of the heart before). Also, although I loved the poetic beauty of the tragic ending, I also hated it for being a tragedy -- as someone else mentioned, Will & Elizabeth's 'happily ever after' has been central to the films since the beginning, & now that is destroyed (although the Wikipedia spoiler someone linked is very interesting in that regard, & if that is actually what was intended then I can think of no other editting room cut in film history which has so drastically altered the emotional impact of a film).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Snapdragyn, post: 3550025, member: 12432"] Too many points scattered throughout to use spoiler tags, so skip this if you haven't seen it. I actually liked AWE better than DMC... possibly even better than CotBP, though it's really too close to call there. I fully enjoyed the fantasy nature (I kept thinking 'oooh, that'd be cool in a game! and that! and THAT!), something I actually disliked in DMC (it just didn't sit as well with me there for reasons I can only put down as personal taste). I felt that the thematic elements were wonderfully poetic (Will stabbed with the sword made by his own hand, Calypso (goddess of the unpredictable sea) not being there for Jones after 10 years because 'it was her nature', the final tragedy of Will & Elizabeth). There were pieces that I didn't like. Will's heart being cut out was an absolute plot error. It is revealed earlier in the film that this did not happen w/ Jones because he became the captain of the Dutchman, but was something he did to himself after Calypso's betrayal of him (or his betrayal of her; that point is intentionally unclear, but that it is unconnected to his role as ferryman isn't). Will's heart being cut out, then, is pointless at best, & at worst sets up the possibility of him being corrupted from his duty by a lack of emotion (as they've alluded to the mythical 'emotional' role of the heart before). Also, although I loved the poetic beauty of the tragic ending, I also hated it for being a tragedy -- as someone else mentioned, Will & Elizabeth's 'happily ever after' has been central to the films since the beginning, & now that is destroyed (although the Wikipedia spoiler someone linked is very interesting in that regard, & if that is actually what was intended then I can think of no other editting room cut in film history which has so drastically altered the emotional impact of a film). [/QUOTE]
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