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The History of Pirates of The Caribbean & Experience At Disneyland

June 1, 2017 by Momstart 1 Comment

I’m reminded how amazing Walt Disney was every time I get to visit the Disney Archives. The things he accomplished in life and the legacy he left behind still lives today. The things he did inspired so many things that now exist and that includes the ride Pirates of the Caribbean.

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The photos above are from the Disney Archives where we learned the history of Pirates of the Caribbean the ride that eventually led to the movies.

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Photo credit Disneyland

 

The original version of the ride at Disneyland, which opened in 1967, was the last attraction whose construction was overseen by Walt Disney; sadly he died before it opened.

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The location of the ride is interesting to me because it’s underground. The ride starts level with the restaurant in the bayou. Then it quickly plunges you down into Dead Man’s Cove. There you find pirates, treasure and a curse.

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It’s a fun ride and while you are on it you should count how many times you can find Captain Jack Sparrow. image

 

Also at Disneyland now is a Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Men Tell No Tales 4D experience. Starting with a preview of the costumes in the movie.

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The 4D experience included some fresh ocean scents and rocking special effects while it included the first few minutes of Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Men Tell No Tales. Pirates of the Caribbean is now in theaters.

Filed Under: movie, Movie review, travel Tagged With: Disneland, Pirates of the Caribbean

Kaya Scodelario A Strong Female Character In Pirates Of The Caribbean

May 30, 2017 by Momstart Leave a Comment

Kaya Scodelario has often played a strong female character on the big screen and there isn’t an exception in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. In Dead Men Tell No Tales she plays “Carina Smyth” an intelligent scientist confused as a witch, because of course females shouldn’t be educated. We sat down with Kaya Scodelario and she shared her thoughts on a few things.

Kaya Scodelario

Kaya Scodelario Shares All Things Pirates Of The Caribbean

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Describing her character:

She’s a young woman who doesn’t have any family. She’s an orphan, but she’s really tried to carve out a life for herself. She doesn’t let that define her. She wants to study at university. That’s her main goal. She wants to be an astronomer. She wants to study  time and space and stars and the universe.”

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On Being one of the only females on the set:

Yeah I mean I’ve been, I shouldn’t say lucky because it should be like that- but the guys have never made me feel like the only woman, especially on Maze Runner. And with this one too, they always treat me exactly the same. I’ve never felt like, you know, I’ll walk on the set and they’re like the girl is here, we have to stop farting (laughing). They continue to do that anyway. I’ve grown up with guys; I love them. My best friends are guys, and I like that energy. I think once they get over you being a woman, it can be kind of bonding and nice and but yeah it was interesting. And the last two movies have been very male dominated.

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photo credit Disney

On Playing a strong female character:

It’s always important for me. Every role I look for a woman that I would have liked to have seen at thirteen on the big screen. And it’s a huge responsibility because people forget in blockbusters that we’re not simple, there are multilayers, and a lot is going on, she has a lot of that. I mean, she’s an orphan, she’s a survivor. She’s also stubborn and argumentative, but also funny and flirty.

There’s so much to her. And I’m grateful that they wrote her this way. Because usually with a film this size, unfortunately, there isn’t time to layer out a character too much. I made a real effort to her to try and hit all those beats; it’s something that I hope my son grows up watching and understands in women, that we aren’t just the Disney princess or the love interest or the damsel in distress and she’s certainly not any of those things.

Her character also wants to find herself and make her father proud even though she doesn’t know who he is. All she was left with was a book she thinks was from her father.

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SPOILER ALERT: Barbossa is her father.

The scene where Carina realizes that Barbossa is her father when she sees the tattoo, that was a very emotional scene.

On bringing those emotions forward?

Well, I have a real personal connection with all that. My father lived far away from me, and he’d always say if you look up at Orion’s Belt, we’re both looking at the same star. (She gets a little emotional). Sorry, I know. And he passed away.

So it was very easy for me to tap into that moment and also to get to work with an actor like Geoffrey. He’s, well you look in his eyes, he’s wonderful. He’s just a giving actor. A film like Pirates, you don’t expect to have that really strong emotional beat, especially as an actor, to get a chance to in the middle of all this craziness just kind of go quiet. And really focus on that relationship, it was an honor. I think we both really thought it was important and we wanted to treat it with as much respect as possible.

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On Doing Stunts:

I love to do all that stuff. Because it’s not things, you do every day in life. And to get the opportunity to do it, when you have a great crew that you know it’s going to be safe and it’s going to be done the proper way. But I injured my shoulder. I didn’t break, but I popped out something in there on the Black Pearl of all places. And so afterward it was kind of tough we had about four weeks of filming still so I had to wear a sling in between takes and I had to go quite easy on it.

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On working with Johnny Depp:

It’s wonderful. I mean when you watch the movie, you get to see the one take that’s selected, we get to see the fifty-five other ones that he’s come up with on the spot. And it’s he’s just a genius, he really is, there’s a reason why he’s so successful. And he’s good at what he does. My first day on set with him, I had to be really serious in a scene, and I just laughed and laughed and laughed and I was like ‘I’m going to get fired, there’s no way they’re going to put up with me,’ he just brings it every single time.

On dealing with Dyslexia:

Well the biggest thing for me was just knowing that I wasn’t the only one. I remember when I was twelve and diagnosed, I was freaked out by it because I didn’t understand what it was. For me, it meant I’m dumb, that’s like all I knew. I thought well this just means that I can’t ever achieve what other people can. And then they had a poster up in my school saying Tom Cruise has dyslexia.

And that instantly to me was like, oh okay, well he’s doing all right. Maybe I’ll be fine, and it’s just about having an open conversation about it. There are great resources out there, and my school was wonderful. They gave me extra time in exams. I had a one to one teacher in classes for my reading because that’s where I struggled, and just have an open conversation about it and then to find support groups and to make sure that the school also understand what it is. Because it’s kind of a taboo subject, we don’t really know much about it. So the more we can discuss and the more resources we can bring into schools, I think the better.

Kaya did a fantastic job playing a strong character and held her own with all those men. She’s an amazing actress overcoming a learning disability and we will see her in many things to come I’m sure. For now see her in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No tales as it is now in theaters.

 

Filed Under: movie, Movie review Tagged With: interview, movie, Pirates of the Caribbean

Get to Know Captain Barbossa’s Sensitive Side: Geoffrey Rush

May 25, 2017 by Momstart Leave a Comment

Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Men Tell No Tales keeps to the code of all the movies in the genre. The captains are looking for something and find something unexpected along the way. This time, instead of it being Captain Jack that finds something unexpected it’s Barbossa. This could possibly be considered a spoiler, but I’m going to say it anyway.

Pirates of the Caribbean comes to theaters tomorrow May 26th. Oh wait, everyone knows that.

 

We had the opportunity to delve into Barbossa’s sensitive side during our interview with the actor Geoffrey Rush.

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How did it feel to take on a different Barbossa?

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First What was Barbossa like in the beginning?

Well, it’s sort of something that happened over the first four films, you know. I think in the first one he — before I actually entered into the story, he was described rather fearfully by the two pirates that are now my assistants. [CHUCKLES] He’s spat out from the mouth of hell.

Which is, to me that was the key line, I thought, well, whenever I enter into this story, if I didn’t — if you don’t see that then he’s a liar [CHUCKLES], you know. So, he was pretty much the dark villain of the piece. And, you know, he had to break the curse. I think it was a great twist of the story that we were actually having to put all of the treasure back to reverse the curse, which I think I then enjoyed having all my senses back for about 30 seconds. Then I got shot.

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Barbossa Compared to Black Beard

You know, the real black beard used to have fuse wire burning in his beard that when people saw him they thought he was the devil, you know. So, that would go from ship to ship from port to port. So, you’d send out, you know — and I said, yeah, but, well, with Barbossa I wanna make him very arrogant and very pompous and very superior and maybe a bit slightly self-diluted about how bright he actually is.

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Influence of a costume

Penny Rose, the Costume Designer, gave me this great kind of flamboyant outfit like a glam rock star

About Coming Back To Life in Pirates 2

Tia Dalma needs you to get all the global pirates together to break the curse of the cheese hunter. It’ll become a big part of the story. So, I sort of became like a politician. I was the guy getting the global pirate G20 meeting. And that was fun to play, because he loves — he’s a control freak and he loves thinking he’s the most powerful person on the planet. And then I worked for the king. I liked that in Pirates 4. And I said, you know, I really insist that I have a very elaborate wig [CHUCKLES] and lovely makeup and a beauty spot.

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A New Costume, A Wooden Leg and did he know the secret?

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And Penny Rose offered me a costume, and I said this is great. He wouldn’t care if he mixed checks with strikes. [CHUCKLES] And what else does he spent his money on, you know. I love the fact that the wooden leg — I said this is a great way to show how ridiculously wealthy he is. It’s a bit like Saddam Hussein having gold everywhere on the bathroom taps and probably shaped like fish or something [CHUCKLES], you know, ridiculous. And then the extra bit where they brought in a sort of deep secret from even before the first film started that there was something that Jack and Barbossa knew about.

 

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And I don’t know. I probably needed to go through therapy to un-repress that memory but he had obviously blocked it out, but I looked back at all the other films and just looked at it in the light of if that secret had been there, it’ll all still make sense, you know. The obsession for, you know, the grandeur of his own persona is someone masking this guilty secret that he has. And I think — ’cause you can’t talk about this. This is all a surprise —

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I went down that path and talked to a prosthetician who specializes with amputees. You know what I mean. And the engineering they do now — if you see people that have a leg from the knee down, it’s molded beautifully in titanium or whatever. And I saw something the other day with — they’ve now got a machine where the feet kind of ripple [SOUNDS LIKE: Jeremy].

 

Go see the movie because I have another interview with Geoffrey Rush where he dishes on Johnny Depp and it has more spoilers in it!

Filed Under: movie, Movie review Tagged With: Dead men tell no tales, Disney, ‌interview, Pirates of the Caribbean

Pirates of the Caribbean On Stranger Tides

May 20, 2011 by Momstart 1 Comment

The fourth chapter in Pirates of the Caribbean lived up to my standards. I went into watching Pirates of the Caribbean on Stranger Tides expecting an action packed film full of outstanding music and lots of suspense. The movie begins in Spain where two fishermen find a man who claims to have found De Leon’s expedition. The Spanish knew this meant they had finally found the Fountain of Youth. So off they go looking for it.

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Then we find the British about to put Gibbs to death, and who jumps in at the last minute with some hair brained half thought out plan to save him? Of course it’s Captain Jack Sparrow and might I mention he’s without a boat again, so why is he so keen on being called Captain? Of course that’s what I love about his character, he’s just so savvy, and just plain nuts. In his half thought out plan they are both captured by His Majesty’s Royal Navy and find that Hector Barbossa is going to lead the British on their expedition to find the Fountain of Youth before the Spanish do. Jack escapes just to be captured again by Angelica, a lost conquest of Jack’s and imprisoned on her father’s ship, Blackbeard.

Now all three ships are racing to the finish line to find the Fountain of Youth. The action in Pirates of the Caribbean on Stranger Tides kept my attention for almost the entire movie. I did find myself wishing it wasn’t in 3D after all. I mean, the scenery was beautiful, but things didn’t jump out at me as much I as I had expected it too. I really expected the swords to be coming at me quite a bit more than they did. Still, it was beautifully done. And the mermaids scared me. I can’t imagine taking any young kids to see this movie.

I found myself a little worried that the missionary and the mermaid’s romance was going to replace Will Turner and Elizabeth Swan but the storyline was wrapped up quite nicely, in fact, I found the ending, right down to the last line quite satisfying. As a very big fan of Jonny Depp and Pirates in general I recommend watching Pirates of the Caribbean on Stranger Tides.

 

Disclosure: I was invited to a prescreening of the movie.

Filed Under: Movie review, review Tagged With: Movie review, On Stranger Tides, Pirates of the Caribbean

So Excited about Pirates of Caribbean On Stranger Tides

April 3, 2011 by Momstart Leave a Comment

I love Pirates of the Caribbean, I have all three movies (not on blu-ray yet, that I’m just a tad bit sad about) and I used to watch them all the time. I didn’t always have to get up with kids ya know so I would go to sleep watching movies over and over again and Pirates of the Caribbean was one of my favorites. I actually thought they were going to hang up their hats so to speak with the last movie, but instead they did something even better.

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111310064EC003_Penelope_CruThey just wrote a story that didn’t need Keira Knightley or Orlando Bloom and I’m just fine with that decision. I’m even happier that they picked Penelope Cruz for the movie because she’s one of my favorite actresses; she’s just really cute. In anticipation of the release of her new film, “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” in theaters May 20, 2011, Penelope Cruz received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Friday, April 1, at 11:30 am. in front of the El Capitan Theatre, 6834 Hollywood Boulevard, joined by “On Stranger Tides” co-star Johnny Depp, producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Rob Marshall.  An Academy Award® winner Penelope Cruz has proven herself to be one of the most versatile actresses by playing a variety of compelling characters, and most recently, becoming the first actress from Spain to be nominated and to win an Oscar®.

111310064EC032_Penelope_CruOh and I have to say  yes, I do love Johnny Depp. Johnny Depp plays such a broad spectrum of characters and he’s so believable as all of them, and the stranger he is the better he is. When I was in LA in January as a guest to Disney, we had the opportunity to see the trailer in 3D, it was my very first experience enjoying 3D. Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean On Stranger Tides actually makes sense in 3D because the effects actually utilize the technology. The swords come at you as they fight. I can’t wait to go see this movie with my husband, and it will be a birthday present to myself as the movie comes out shortly after my birthday. Pirates of the Caribbean on Stranger Tides will be in theaters May 20th 2011.

Oh and I can’t forget to mention that we’re super excited about the video game release Lego Pirates of the Caribbean. We love playing all of the versions of the Lego Xbox 360 games, my husband loves them all so much that he’ll play them and earn all the points and then he’ll play them as me and earn all of the gamer points. We do enjoy playing these LEGO video games together too.

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LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean Video Game Description:

Captain Jack Sparrow and his misadventures from the second film in the blockbuster franchise, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. Confront the nefarious Davy Jones and dance with death amongst the blocky tentacles of the ferocious Kraken in LEGO-ized form for the first time.

Yep, we’ll be playing this game as soon as we finish playing LEGO Star Wars 3. We just received that one and we haven’t started playing it yet. We had to finish LEGO Indiana Jones 2.

Filed Under: Announcement Tagged With: LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean, On Stranger Tides, Pirates of the Caribbean

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