Pirates and blacksmiths
Jan. 1st, 2007 06:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lauradi7dw"Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" was on TV last week. Close to the end, Will asks Elizabeth if she'll be happy with a blacksmith (an artisan at that). She whispers to him "You're a pirate." I am aware that there has already been a sequel featuring Bill Nighy as a squid and that there will be another, but the one I'd like to see is an art movie of their disintegrating marriage. He's not a pirate. He's the son of a pirate, and has spent most of his life moping over a woman who feels stifled in regular society and wants him to be a pirate. They've been infatuated long enough and are pretty enough that sex will probably sustain them for a while, but deep down she wants him to be something he's not, and it will be a disaster.
I know they are fictional characters. They're also a pretty good archetype for lots of doomed relationships.
I'd like to remind people that an English woman in the 18th century was not wearing a corset. The underpinnings were called stays and did not cinch in the waist. They did give torso shape and lift the bust, but mostly provided back support (or enforced rigid posture, depending on one's point of reference). The kind of corset that took one's breath away was from Victorian times. sheesh.
I know they are fictional characters. They're also a pretty good archetype for lots of doomed relationships.
I'd like to remind people that an English woman in the 18th century was not wearing a corset. The underpinnings were called stays and did not cinch in the waist. They did give torso shape and lift the bust, but mostly provided back support (or enforced rigid posture, depending on one's point of reference). The kind of corset that took one's breath away was from Victorian times. sheesh.
