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Pirates of the Caribbean Developed Swinging Masts!
Matt convinced me to go see the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean" the other day, even though I knew it wouldn't really be a sailing movie. It was pretty good, and I was impressed with some of the scenes. I looked up Zoe Saldana on imdb.com because I'm kind of a fan of hers. (If there were a KIASU International Organization, she would probably be a key member.) And I found this quote. |
Will Turner: In a fair fight, I would've killed you!
[After Turner gets hit with the swinging mast and is dangling over the ocean]
Jack Sparrow: That's hardly an incentive for me to fight fair, now, is it?
from http://us.imdb.com/Quotes?0325980
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It was obviously posted by someone who doesn't sail. . . ., but it makes for amusing imagery. (If you don't see what's wrong with that quote, you shouldn't call yourself a sailor.)
from http://www.boattalk.com/sailboatparts.htm
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The best sailing scenes in any movie I've seen have got to be from the movie "Wind". Unfortunately, the love story in this movie is pretty cheeeezy. It does have a very nice scene where Will Parker (Matthew Modine) explains to someone how to win a sailboat race. And Jennifer Grey (pre-nosejob, i.e. when she was cuter, altho Matt disagrees) does a great job cooking soup as Kate Bass. |
| The second best sailing scenes from a movie I've seen is an early one directed by Roman Polanski (who also did "Chinatown"). "Knife in the Water" is always touted as a psychological thriller, but I really didn't find anything scary about it. It is just a (black and white) movie about a couple who sails together, and a hitchhiker who tags along for the ride. |
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It just kills me when people talk about sailing movies and mention "Dead Calm". Nicole Kidman does a great job, but that movie has hardly any sailing scenes in it. It did however give a very good impression of what it's like to sail our club boats.
I did give in and see "Finding Nemo", and was pleasantly surprised to see animated sailboats. Yeah, that's all I look for in movies. If I say "movies" and "sailboats" enough times, perhaps a webcrawler will notice it and relay feedback to advertising agencies that there is a market for them. Movies with sailing! Movies with sailboats! Movies with sailors! Movies with Zoe Saldana!
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