It was mastered by the late great William Wallace in Braveheart. A moving cinematic achievement few have done as well: the lets-go-kick-their-fucking-asses-and-win-our-freedom speech. Back when Mel Gibson was a good filmmaker, he really pulled it off in a poignant moment on screen. One that I can still quote word for word!
But for perhaps the first time ever in mainstream cinema, a woman gave voice to the lets-go-kick-their-fucking-asses-and-win-our-freedom speech! I just saw Pirate of the Caribbean: At Worlds End and there it was. I was shocked and awed. Now, she didn't quite produce the emotional impact of Wallace, nor the more overt feminist overtones of Peter Jackson's crowd-cheering "I am no man", but I think the moment in Pirates worthy enough of mention, if perhaps for its own seeming mundanity.
That's all for now, I have to leave for work at an ungodly hour (you mean there's a 7:20 A.M.???)
But here's my favorite line from Pirates that I still cherish:
"You add an agreeable dose of the macabre to any delusion."
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