Pirates of the Caribbean and Lost

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Pirates of the Caribbean and Lost

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In the summer of 2003 ‘Pirates of the Caribbean the Legend of the Black Pearl’ was released and it kept the world captive. With the all-star cast of Johnny Depp (Captain jack sparrow), Orlando Bloom (William Turner), Kiera Knightly (Elizabeth Turner) and Geoffrey Rush (Captain Barbosa) there was no doubt that the world would love this film. It was based on the Walt Disney ride Pirates of the Caribbean. The film also made a colossus profit of $653 million. Because of the success of the film a sequel has been made called ‘Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Mans Chest’ and there is also a 3rd to film to come. Another lucrative programme which came out in August of 2005 was ‘Lost’, the hit TV show. The producers of this show are Buena Vista, they spent approximately $10 million just on the first series, and Buena Vista had on all-star cast staring people such as Mathew Foxx (Jack Sheppard) and Dominic Monaghan (Charlie Pace), the show kept the world captive (drew in over 25million viewers) and the next series is eagerly awaited.

When jack sparrow is first introduced in the second scene he appears to be a majestic character, but when the camera angle changes form a low angled medium close up which made Jack look empowering to a high angle long shot which changed the empowering idea to a sympathetic view of him because his ship is sinking into the depth of the sea, although the audience are sympathetic for Jack the audience also think this as being humorous, because he is hopelessly trying to remove water from his sinking vessel. The way he talks to the Dock Master after he arrives in port on the mast of the ship that we saw before is sly because he pay him to forget his name and when he is leaving the pier he steal the Dock Masters pouch of coins that is on a pedestal with some note books, the audience likes jack at this point because he is a sly character with a lot of charisma and still feel sympathetic for Captain Jack Sparrow.

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Jack Sheppard’s entrance is completely different to Captain Jack Sparrows because the first thing we see is and extreme close-up of Jack Sheppard’s eye. This is significant because the eye is said to be the window to the soul so straight from the beginning we should be able to tell what Jack hopes, fears, dreams and what type of character he will be from those few seconds that we see of the eye, jack has also been put into an enclosed environment which shows that he is trapped and the cuts that he has are significant because they show ...

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