Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
- kinetic
- intense
- inventive
- epic-stakes
Neutral, breathless, extreme adventure / action, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Thrust into an all-new adventure, a down-on-his-luck Capt. Jack Sparrow feels the winds of ill-fortune blowing even more strongly when deadly ghost sailors led by his old nemesis, the evil Capt. Salazar, escape from the Devil's Triangle. Jack's only hope of survival lies in seeking out the legendary Trident of Poseidon, but to find it, he must forge an uneasy alliance with a brilliant and beautiful astronomer and a headstrong young man in the British navy.
Our read · Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive adventure · action · fantasy entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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