Mythic archetypes
Aug. 18th, 2006 08:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
malsperanzaIn case you haven't had enough wibbling about Pirates of the Caribbean,
here's what one of the screenwriters has to say about its archetypes:
"The archetypes are fundamentally Jungian -- The Trickster, the Superman, the Hero, the Shadow, Anima/Animus, etc. One of the decisions we made was to avoid the Manichean dualism typical of most fantasy-adventures, in favor of an existentialist point of view. We're equal opportunity when it comes to re-inventing mythology -- what Gibbs says about the Pelagostas believing Jack is a god trapped in human form
who they will release by killing him? It's a variation on the beliefs of, I think it is, a Japanese bear-worshipping tribe. Calypso plays a role in the next movie, and ours has some things in common with the
Calyspo in The Odyssey. Davy Jones' backstory was inspired in part by a Russian folk character who kept his heart in an iron chest, and in part by Wagner's The Flying Dutchman. The Black Frieighter that Pirate Jenny
sings about in The Threepenny Opera was in my mind when we were creating The Black Pearl. You know what Tia Dalma says: Same story,
different versions, and all are true."
From here.
here's what one of the screenwriters has to say about its archetypes:
"The archetypes are fundamentally Jungian -- The Trickster, the Superman, the Hero, the Shadow, Anima/Animus, etc. One of the decisions we made was to avoid the Manichean dualism typical of most fantasy-adventures, in favor of an existentialist point of view. We're equal opportunity when it comes to re-inventing mythology -- what Gibbs says about the Pelagostas believing Jack is a god trapped in human form
who they will release by killing him? It's a variation on the beliefs of, I think it is, a Japanese bear-worshipping tribe. Calypso plays a role in the next movie, and ours has some things in common with the
Calyspo in The Odyssey. Davy Jones' backstory was inspired in part by a Russian folk character who kept his heart in an iron chest, and in part by Wagner's The Flying Dutchman. The Black Frieighter that Pirate Jenny
sings about in The Threepenny Opera was in my mind when we were creating The Black Pearl. You know what Tia Dalma says: Same story,
different versions, and all are true."
From here.
