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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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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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