Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Pirates of the Caribbean : the "Connor Cut"

Connor first saw Pirates of the Caribbean a couple of years ago, but he was really too young for the skeletons and some other scariness.  To solve the problem, we've edited the movie by chopping it into the following bits (hh:mm:ss):

00:00:00-00:30:16
00:35:34-00:50:44
00:51:06-00:58:30
01:01:00-01:25:18
01:29:51-01:50:44
01:51:45-01:54:00
01:55:07-01:56:12
01:56:43-01:58:34
01:59:43-02:02:03
02:02:27-02:15:20

and then reassembling it.  Basically, we get the first half-hour of film, remove the part where the pirates attack the town and chase Elizabeth around the manor, remove the worst excesses of Tortuga, remove the pirate skeletons at work on the ship, and then remove the parts of the final battle where the British soldiers are getting slaughtered (all those cuts between 01:50:00 and 02:00:00).  What remains is an Errol Flynn-style swashbuckling adventure (and Flynn's adventures of Robin Hood is another Connor favorite) with great lines and superb acting.  The musical cuts are barely noticeable.

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