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Pirates
of the
Caribbean 3
- At
World's
End
The third film
of this Walt Disney trilogy, starring Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Keira
Knightly, Orlando Bloom and a host of other well known and entertaining
characters was released at the cinemas on Friday, May 25th 2007.
Despite
a plethora of negative reviews from pundits who are obviously out of
touch
with the general viewing public, it has, in just it's first 3 weeks,
proved
to be as massive a box office hit as the last one. I personally enjoyed
it as much if not more than the last one and my two teenage boys are
adamant
that this is by far the best of the three. It is packed with action,
has
plenty of plenty of good old British humour, and the special effects
were
impressively
well executed. I can't remember watching such a long film (almost 3
hours duration) and wondering how the time passed so quickly.
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The two 'Pirates
of the Caribbean' films that preceeded it were -
1...
The
Curse of the Black Pearl
&
2...
Dead
Man's Chest.
As for the second
film, "Dead Man's Chest", much of this was also shot at the same time,
on location on the small, English speaking, East Caribbean island
nation
of Dominica, an ex British colony which gained it's independence in
1978
and is now widely regarded as "The Nature Island of the Caribbean".
The
Plot, in brief
Will
Turner and Elizabeth Swann join forces with Captain Barbossa, forging
their
way to exotic Singapore to confront the cunning Chinese pirate Sao Fen.
A worldwide pirate alliance must be forged against the ruthless East
India
Trading Company. In the previous film, Dead
Man's Chest, Captain Jack Sparrow was killed and sent to Davy
Jones'
Locker. In the opening scenes, the viewer sees that death has not been
kind to Sparrow, though he has found endless ways to amuse himself,
cavorting
with dozens of hallucinated versions of himself on the deck of the
Black
Pearl. But Sparrow is needed in this world to complete the alliance and
there is a desperate quest to free him and bring him back. Keith
Richards'
of the Rolling Stones appears briefly as Jack's guitar strumming dad,
Captain
Teague. Navigating through treachery, betrayal, iceburgs and wild
waters
whipped up by a ferocious Caribbean weather goddess, they must reach
their
destination to do battle whilst navigating a gigantic whirlpool and
perform
some magical maneuvers to break their curse. The other pairate captains
provide an entertaining gathering, not least the overbearded turbanned
Indian whose underwear is apparently several sizes too small. They
inevitably
complete the gnarly voyage back from the world's end with their wit
very
much intact.
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The Guardian (U.K.) - Pirates sail clear of Ocean's to
keep top world
spot -
top of the worldwide box-office for a third week running.
http://film.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/Guardian/0,,2101027,00.html
The Times online - Pirates of the Caribbean III
Jack Sparrow waves farewell in a fitting end to the Pirates saga
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/film_reviews/article1830482.ece
reality
television
filmed in Dominica
in 2007
shown on CBS,
CTV, SKY3
& Australia's Network 10
January 2009 update:
now showing on New Zealand TVNZ
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The
galleon - Compton Castle, anchored off Dominica's tranquil west coast
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Yes, yet another
Big Brother style
reality TV show, but this time filmed
around the
beautiful nature island
of Dominica, in the east Caribbean.
Pirate Master is
the creation of
Mark Burnett, the man behind Survivor, The Apprentice & Are
You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? He wrote the show back in 2003 and
it
premiered on May 31st, 2007 on CBS. The 13-week buccaneer series,
hosted
by Australian actor/musician Cameron Daddo stars16 participants who all
agree to go back 250 years, and become "pirates".
It is set on the East
Caribbean
island of Dominica.
Contestants live on
a 179-foot-square
rigger for 33 days while they search for buried treasure (gold coins)
totaling
US$1 million. The game is based, says Burnett, on a story he has
devised
about a mythical pirate, Captain Steel, who had divided treasure
equally
among his crew and buried it on Dominica. Each man returned to the ship
with a map and these were all hidden in a chest with 14 compartments.
The
chest has now been recovered from the sea bed and the contestants, in
two
competing teams, sail to a different location each week around the
island
looking for the treasure. It's a mix of the mind games of Survivor and
the extreme physical challenges of Burnett's Eco-Challenge, under a
Jolly
Roger flag. The adventures include jumping off waterfalls, swimming up
canyon lakes, entering a snake pit and crossing swamps and jungle. The
show's appropriate motto? "Watch your back."
Pirates have their
own rules, and
while they need to work as a group on the expeditions, you never know
who's
going to stab you in the back. The wannabe brigands dress in period
costumes,
eat authentic food such as gruel (the officers get better rations) and
are ruled over by an elected captain who assigns roles to the crew
members
and can be overthrown if he doesn't treat his crew well. Mutiny,
anyone?
Each week at "Pirate's Court" which is apparently modeled after actual
tribunals, a player is cast off the ship and set adrift on a raft. The
pirate crew is made up of eight men and eight women. Everybody's a good
athlete, but what they've learned is that to be a great pirate, you
have
to be smart too. Half the loot, gold coins, is distributed to the
players
each week as they locate and bring back the hidden treasure. It's a lot
of fun "as fantasy meets reality," says Burnett.
Nature Island
Destinations is located
at Macoucherie, on Dominica's mid west coast, and for much of the two
months
that the series was being shot, we could see the galleon moored down
below
us in the sheltered waters of Macoucherie Bay. Though we occasionally
met
some of the lighting technicians, we never saw any of the participants,
even after they had been 'cast adrift' and expelled from the show. We
thought
that they might at least be treated to one decent meal at the nearby
Tamarind
Tree Restaurant before being sent home. It seems they were not that
fortunate.
Don't be fooled!
Early episodes of
Pirate Master
featured submerged crocodile heads with open mouths in the Indian River
and a pit full of supposedly deadly snakes at Cabrits. Please note that
in Dominica the are NO crocodiles and NONE of our
snakes
are poisonous or aggressive - visitors to our beautiful island have
nothing
to fear. Even mosquitos are less prevalent than in many neighbouring
islands
and you will find the locals generally very friendly and helpful to
holiday
makers. Tourist related crime is uncommon.
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River |
Cabrits
peninsular |
Today, the pirate
ships have been
replaced by a dirth of cruiseships, bringing hoards of low budget day
trippers
to our shores.
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Pirates in
Dominica's annual carnival
parade through the srteets of Roseau.
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