Elizabeth Swann Turner

Elizabeth's....Turn! That was a really bad pun. Excuse me. Anyway, yes, Elizabeth in AWE was actually the best Elizabeth out of all three movies. She had a wide range of emotions and she didn't do any pouting (heehee, Erin).

Also, she can fight while wearing VERY little. I was amused by her large arsenal of weapons upon entering to see Sao Feng, particularly the blunderbuss that she got from WHERE? That thing was as big as one of her legs! Though admittedly, that's not saying much. Anyway, she ended up going in dressed in something amounting to an undershirt, and still swordfought - and escaped without a scratch! That's talent for you.

Next bit with Elizabeth that I liked was on the journey home from World's End, where they sail through a whole bunch of dinghies bearing people who died at sea. Elizabeth's father is one of them, and I really liked how frantic she was and prepared to jump over the side in order to get to him, because it sorta showed that she still loves him despite how they fight for different sides. And then, of course, Will hugged her while she cried and I just melted, I thought it was so sweet. Will = love.

Elizabeth does a lot of being-in-charge this movie, being the captain of a ship and a Pirate Lord and eventually the Pirate King, and I don't know if it really quite works for her, but she made an awesome speech partway through. I can't remember where, but it was very inspirational. I used to have it on my desktop background.

There's a very...interesting...scene with Elizabeth and Sao Feng, where he thinks she's Calypso and she ad libs it very well once she realizes how he's misconstrued things. I mean, when you have Elizabeth and Tia Dalma, which one are YOU going to assume is Calypso? Exactly. Anyway, she's really only saved from being kissed by yet ANOTHER guy by an explosion, which I think is a blast of cannon from the Dutchman.

Then she and the Singaporean crew get thrown into the brig of the Dutchman, and Elizabeth comes across Norrington. She's sorta mad at him, I think because she blames him for having something to do with her father's death, and it has an impact on him because he helps them escape. And dies in the process. Someone on Arwen-Undomiel...I believe it was Ánië Súrion...pointed this out yesterday: Elizabeth kisses four guys in the course of end of DMC/AWE, and they all die almost immediately afterwards! She kisses Jack at the end of DMC - he dies. She comes very, VERY close to kissing Sao Feng (or did she actually kiss him?) - he dies. She kissed Norrington - he dies. And lastly, she kisses Will - and he died. Yeesh, by the end of the movie it's a lucky thing Will is immortal or he should have been verrrry concerned at their kiss on the beach!

It's amazing. The next scene that jumps out at me for Elizabeth is just after Will is stabbed - and this is because I covered a lot of the Elizabeth scenes with Will's post - and she's pretty much frantic. Now this is very interesting. Elizabeth's trying to keep Will alive and Jack is standing there with the heart, all ready to stab it - and next thing you know he's used Will's hand to stab it. So, as I'm sure the Sparrabethers have already decided, did he do it for Elizabeth? Did he do it for Will? I think Elizabeth's words from DMC came back to bite him. "There will come a time when you have the chance to do the right thing." And the chance came - and he did! I loved him right there. But what was with Jack and Elizabeth floating off on a weird air-balloon thing made out of one of the Dutchman's sails? Bit weird.

Anyway, I liked Elizabeth a lot better in this movie than in DMC - though the fact that she wasn't wavering romantically between Jack and Will may have had something to do with it. And it's a testament to her character that she was faithful for TEN YEARS with no husband. Though she did get her happy ending!

Okay, just to interject because I'm not sure everybody caught this, it IS A happy ending. See, Will has to captain the Dutchman for ten years. But if his true love on land is faithful for ten years, when he comes back the curse is broken and he passes on the captaincy of the Dutchman. So they waited ten years, but then Will could come back to be with Elizabeth and Will the 3rd.

~Sil

Will: "I told myself, 'Think like Jack.'"
Jack: "And this is what you arrived at? Lead Beckett to Shipwreck Cove so as to gain his trust, accomplish your own ends? It's like you don't know me at all, mate."