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And most wickedly I did as I sailed
Just got back from seeing Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest with my family. I realize that I am building up a positive backlog of posts that must be made about this, that, or the other, but I must here take a moment to say:
DAVY JONES' SAILORS.
DUDE.
Whatever the flaws of the overall film, that entire thread just made me smile. Stellan Skarsgård's Bootstrap Bill plays right into one of my favorite character obsessions, and if someone was going to fuse the legends of Davy Jones and the Flying Dutchman (not to mention Koschei the Deathless), this was actually quite a good way. It's the combination of metamorphosis—so long under sea that the sea has changed them into itself, like something out of Patricia McKillip or Caitlín R. Kiernan—and moral compromise, tarnish and sea-change. As![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
matociquala might say: kicked me right in the squid.
Er. So to speak.
DAVY JONES' SAILORS.
DUDE.
Whatever the flaws of the overall film, that entire thread just made me smile. Stellan Skarsgård's Bootstrap Bill plays right into one of my favorite character obsessions, and if someone was going to fuse the legends of Davy Jones and the Flying Dutchman (not to mention Koschei the Deathless), this was actually quite a good way. It's the combination of metamorphosis—so long under sea that the sea has changed them into itself, like something out of Patricia McKillip or Caitlín R. Kiernan—and moral compromise, tarnish and sea-change. As
matociquala might say: kicked me right in the squid.Er. So to speak.
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I am really stupidly in love with that Davey Jones.
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(I need a paid account so I can have more icons. This is all the fault of movies and television. Since I picked up Black Books, I've wanted an icon with Bernard Black; and I want one with Bootstrap, now. It's the starfish and the barnacles and the stranded seaweed hair, and all the compromises. To pick up a relationship with your son after more than ten years, and him thinking all this time that you'd died after abandoning your family to run off to sea, by giving him five lashes so that someone else won't have to—that is deeply fucked up, and exactly the sort of thing that catches my interest in a character. But the starfish and the barnacles might have done it, too.)
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Yes. When Dalma says that all the stories are true, I nearly applauded.
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And I have my suspicions about her involvement in them.
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Maybe one day I'll get a deep one story that doesn't end tragically. Fish need love too.
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If you write it first, it's not thinly-disguised slashfic!
Oh, and icon love.
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:D
I did like the sailors, and I'd managed to bury that....
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Glad to be of service. : )
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The movie definitely made me want to do some research on Davy Jones. You have a lot of the sea in your poems and stories--has any of this folklore appeared in them?
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I love this version of Davy Jones. That said, for a number of reasons (upon which I will not expound unless you wish spoilers; or have you seen the film?), it's Bootstrap who's taken my heart.
You have a lot of the sea in your poems and stories--has any of this folklore appeared in them?
I've never done any work with Davy Jones. To be honest, I'm not sure how much folklore the character has to himself beyond casual references—Davy Jones' Locker, down to Davy Jones. Here he's been fused with the Flying Dutchman, and impressively well. But the idea of transformation under sea, pearls for eyes, coral for bone, kelp where there was hair and an anemone beating for a heart, those images have always fascinated me. I'm not sure how much it shows up in my published work, but some of the earliest fiction I ever tried to write (so very badly) contains sea-change.
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Don't you hear your lover moan?
Eyes of glass and feet of stone
Shells for teeth and weeds for tongue
Deep, deep down in the river's bed
He's looking for the ring
Eyes wide open, never asleep
He's looking for the ring, looking for the ring . . .
The song terrified me the first time I heard it; and now it's my standard audition aria. I love it.
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I was definately reminiscing about Something Rich and Strange while watching the film...I kept wanting to turn to someone and point this out but no one with me had read the book. Most of my friends were more interested in pointing out possible ships (yes the puns) in a pirate film. So I am glad you brought it up.
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She is very good with the sea—you've also read The Changeling Sea (1988), yes? But Something Rich and Strange has the sunken ship where figures whose hands are kelp leaves and whose faces are moon shells drift in the bubbles and drowned light behind the bar, and that clicked.
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Yes, she is a siren for the sea. I want to drown in the sea she creates, no matter how dangerous and sinister its beauty. I find myself like Peri longing for the Sea Prince, although as an adult I can love the magician more than I did as a young girl first reading the tale.
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I love Lyo. His first entrance is marvelous.