Sometimes there is no figuring what trends are going to pop up again at random – indeed, 2003 seems to be give strong indication that the pirate genre was back with a full sail of wind, with Peter Weir’s more serious minded Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) and the live-action remake of Peter Pan (2003) also appearing on screens.Īt face value, Pirates of the Caribbean makes you scratch your head. One might be better of looking at the number of pirate movies that were flops over the last 30 years – think of The Light at the Edge of the World (1971), Swashbuckler (1976), The Island (1980), Savage Island/Nate and Hayes (1983), The Goonies (1985), The Pirate Movie (1982), Roman Polanski’s Pirates (1986), and the notorious CutThroat Island (1995), which have all given strong indication that the pirate genre had long departed for Davy Jones’s Locker, along with the Western. It is hard to think of how long it had been since there was a pirate movie that had been a success. It seemed the unlikeliest of hits in many ways. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl was one of the big surprise hits of the 2003 American summer season.
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