In which Hunter Harris attempts to exorcise the movie quotes haunting her brain.
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Unless we time-travel back to me being 17 and breaking curfew, Im not an actor.
I cant look at a script and devise a perfect line reading.
I have written previously on one such line that I cant get out of my head,fromMarriage Story.
ThatMarriage Storyline is obtuse and vexing and hilarious, the most unrealistic moment of a hyperrealistic romance.
I have returned with another line that twerks around this noggin of mine.
You best start believin in ghost stories, Miss Turner, Geoffrey Rush snarls.
I am brave enough to admit that we dont give this line enough credit.
Add this line to our Constitution, stitch it onto a pillow, go as this line for Halloween!
InBlack Pearl,Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) plays Port Royal, Jamaicas first daughter.
Like many a Disney ingenue, she is wealthy and privileged and ahabitual line-stepper.
A decade after Wills arrival, in what seems like a total coincidence, pirates raid Port Royal.
(Because Elizabeth stole the medallion from Will Turner, she uses his surname as her own.)
Blood money paid to stem the slaughter he wreaked upon them with his armies.
But the greed of Cortes was insatiable.
So the heathen gods placed upon the gold a terrible curse.
Any mortal that removes but a single piece from that stone chest shall be punished for eternity.
Elizabeth almost guffaws in disbelief.
Of course she does!
I hardly believe in ghost stories anymore, Captain Barbossa, she says.
To this, his pockmarked skin grins.
Aye, he begins.
Thats exactly what I thought when we were first told the tale.
The pirates aboard the Pearl found the island, found the chest, and found the gold.
Like the Bling Ring, they robbed it of every gold piece.
We are cursed men, Miss Turner!
You best start believing in ghost stories, Miss Turner, he tells her.
Was it unwise to pit two powerful women aPiratesline and aHarry Potterline against one another?
But I did it, and I was right to do it.
Believin in ghost stories, Miss Turner!
The Renegade dance is too hard for my brittle bones.Jokerearned more Oscar nominations thanThe Farewell.
Victoria never gota Jellicle name.
Olive Garden haschanged its mottofrom When youre here, youre family to Were all family here.
Who will answer for all theraw chicken in the streetsof Boerum Hill that one time?
Whyhasit felt like Halloweensince Christmas 2017?
A ghost story this might be!
I can only hope that somewhere, Rooney Mara is placing an orderfor pie.
