Captain Jack Sparrow - A Legend in His Own Mind

[the_stowaway]

Title: Captain Jack Sparrow - A Legend in His Own Mind
Author: the_stowaway
Character: Captain Jack Sparrow
Fandom: Pirates of the Caribbean
Spoilers: All three movies
Beta: the lovely and talented jenna_thorn

Comments

[bimo]

Read and very much appreciated! :-)

[the_stowaway]

Thank you so much! I'm delighted you liked.

[artaxastra]

This is lovely! What a great summing up of Jack's character! And I just bet he did make you write that last line! *g*

[the_stowaway]

Thank you! I'm so pleased you liked it.

And yes, he did. He was hovering over me the whole time I was writing - kibitzing like mad. Sometimes he was preening absurdly, sometimes he was trying to edit my text to spin it better. It was very amusing. *g* I gave him that one line to shut him up, basically.

[kattahj]

*Adds this to my "amazing meta" memories.*

[the_stowaway]

Oh, thank you so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed it.

[jenna_thorn]

Since you wouldn’t let me push you into writing it for me, 8-) here’s the comment I promised for my theory of Jack Sparrow being a trickster god

[the_summoning_d]

*bows down before you*

Also:
his relationship with his wife is, shall we say, poisonous (sorry, I couldn’t resist.)
BRB LOLING FOREVER
/geek

blush and grin

[jenna_thorn]

I'm just tickled that someone caught it. I love fandom.

Re: blush and grin

[the_summoning_d]

The best thing about fandom is that there's always someone every bit as geeky as you ;)

[compassrose7577]

Outstanding!

So many things our dear Jack is, and yet so many things that he is not. It makes him such an intricate and often overwhelming character to write.

It would behoove us all to make cue cards from the wonderful analysis to be used as refreshers and reminders before we sit down to write him. It's so easy to fall into the trap of focusing on one aspect, at the expense of the others. He is a complete package, and it's a daunting task.

From what I understand, the unsung hero is Bruckheimer (gotta plug our Detroit boy). It was his stroke of genius to call in JD in the first place. Bravo!!

Good stuff!

The loveable jerk. Ya gotta love him!

[the_stowaway]

YAY for Bruckheimer's vision! I am an admirer of his anyway, so this just adds another reason to like him. Although, I get the impression from some of the DVD extras that even he was made slightly nervous at first by what Johnny did with Jack. But he had the good sense not to pull the plug and for that I honor him. Rolling with it sure paid off.

And yes, Jack is complicated (and slippery) to write. You're so right that it's easy to pick a favorite aspect of him and write just that part - and it can make a good story - but how much more satisfying to struggle with the complete package.

Thank you! I'm really pleased you enjoyed this.