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Subject: Re: Favourite Scene

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Susan

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Date Posted: 21:28:25 09/11/07 Tue
In reply to: Elizabeth 's message, "Favourite Scene" on 15:53:23 08/29/07 Wed

"Stow yer tongue, or I'll broil 'ye fer dinner!"

OMG ... maybe that *is* what happened to the poor little guy (or girl, actually!) ... lol Hey, I'm gonna have start saying that to my cockatiel when he gets a little carried away with his squawking! (Alas, I've been working on him for a year now, and I *still* can't get him to say "Pieces of eight" ... forget about "Sons of a double Dutchman"! All he ever says is "pretty bird" ... when *he* feels like it.)

"I hate it when in books they have little babbies or children die."

Me too ... much too sad. In fact, it almost seems to be a taboo/rarity in the movies/TV, more so than for animals to die, or at least it's treated more seriously when it happens ... Usually, if there's an animal in a movie, it's treated as a plot device, and you pretty much know it's a goner from the beginning because animals are deemed expendable. In fact, it seems the cuter it is, the more likely it is to die! (I'm thinking of movies like "Fatal Attraction" and "Single White Female.") Oh well, we were supposed to be talking about *favorite* scenes, I think! ;-)

"Didn't they give Capt. Flint to the owner of the pub?"

I think you're talking about the real parrot, not the fictional Captain Flint, whereas I was wondering why the character was only in one episode. (The sequel and the series were filmed in Australia, and the pub was in England, wasn't it? I wonder if that was even the same parrot--would they actually have flown a parrot halfway around the world and back when they totally recast all the human actors (except the star, of course)? Seems more likely they'd just hire another parrot when they got to Australia--just like they changed monkeys between the first and subsequent "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies because the trainer of the first monkey wanted to raise his salary! It's not like anyone would really notice the difference anyway ... And the obviously human voice saying "Liar liar" sounds much different from the one who squawked "pieces of eight" in TI to me!)

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Author: Elizabeth [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 06:54:27 09/12/07 Wed Yeah, whenever I talk about Capt. Flint I'm talking about the parrot in real life and in LJS and TI. I know the monkey that played in POTC is sooo cute, 3 movies and she's not out yet! Her name is Tara, I have the 2-disc set to POTC and it talks about the monkeys, there are two but I can't remember the other one's name. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]