[ SECRET POST #158 ]

[shahni.livejournal.com]

⌈ Secret Post #158 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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This is a magic post and I'm not really here. :D

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 58 secrets from Secret Submission Post #023.
Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, 0 not!secrets, 0 not!fandom.
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Comments

Re: (spoiler warning, before anyone clicks on this collapsed thread by accident)

[i-am-the-apeman.livejournal.com]

Granted, this information came from wikapedia, but, and I quote, "According to writers Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, Elizabeth is the protagonist of the trilogy."

I believe it, i just thinks it's odd. Keep in mind, I'm technically disagreeing with the writers about *their* character. Basically, I'm saying, regardless of their intention, that's really not how I feel it came across. So take that for whatever that's worth.

Elizabeth was *not* a cliched damsel-in-distress in PotC 1.

This is tricky because I agree and disagree. She had pluck and initiative and took plenty of her own action. More and more I'm beginning to see the other side. It's especially tricky since the movie didn't really follow one character's perspective. It was very 3rd person omniscient in that way. It spent significant time developing Will's character and adventures as well as Elizabeth's.

I guess that would imply that it would be equally both of their story. So why did I have a strong impression it was Will's story rather than Elizabeth's? I guess in the end I keep coming back to the character arc. I really don't know how Elizabeth changed, learned, grew throughout the movie. She started out with a desire for adventure and she got it. I guess that could be an arc? Part of my problem is she seemed just as capable of the adventure at the start as she was at the end. It was Will that started the movie very differently than how he ended it. His potential at the start was totally buried. So when he broke out, it was powerful. His arc is so clear to me, it upstages Elizabeth's "breaking out of her corset" arc. It never really seemed like she was in the corset to begin with.