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But she has to gather that from the environment. She is a vessel, a vulnerable vessel that can be filled with female assets. She is not inventive like Johnny and Geoffrey. But I have to say that no one knew how to leverage Penelope the way Pedro can. I liked the appropriation of Almodovarian values.

And at the end two Peter Pan like affirmations of the (pirate's) life of adventure. There is a nice little revenge story that references Moby Dick. In actual life, they were the ones who invented the notions of supernatural evil, the first continental faith-based genocide and New World slavery. The extreme irony is that the Spaniards are the token of the faith.

There is something of an overarching battle between Christianity and the supernatural. There are at least three love stories, one of them tender and conventional, all of them centered on Catalonian women. There's even an excess of story and excess within story with the excess being a character itself.

Images are pasted onto the story rather than the other way around. But now we have something story- centric. Sure, it has busy sequences and characters from the same universe. Some of the cinematic stretch was significant, and I still remember the Shackleford reference fondly. It was quite literally a ride, allowing Depp room to creatively be silly. The 'first trilogy' was visually-centered.