#anyway it is a action adventure musical comedy with slapstick tapdancing and swordfighting

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#Double Crossbones #Donald O'Connor #I don't know how to make gifs so making these was v. time consuming but I persevered bc I have to talk about this #a) this movie is amazing and has the most movie of movie pirates ever committed to celluloid #(except that they don't have West Country accents- that's the only lack- they throw in some old timey lingo but it's real weaksauce) #anyway it is a action adventure musical comedy with slapstick tapdancing and swordfighting #the plot is ludicrous and everything is very silly except the corrupt official bad guy who is kinda legit threatening #our hapless unlikely golden hearted-hero accidentally becomes a pirate lord through a series of shenanigans #eventually he enjoys it but he's gotta rescue his girlfriend from the evil governor #he fucks it up and she ends up rescuing him instead and then there's a happy ending and even more shenanigans #the jokes are cheeseball the costumes are over the top and all the pirates are hamming it up #the swordfights involve the most EGREGIOUS flynning and dance-fighting #there is straight up cartoon logic involved #so in conclusion: FLAWLESS. NO NOTES. #b) this disguise is one of the few main character disguises in cinema history that is actually convincing- he is unrecognisable #if I hadn't been spoiled by someone's blog post b4 watching this I would no joke not have known it was him until he gives it away #I fully buy even his girlfriend wouldn't clock him on sight #making it all the more funny that he gets caught almost immediately #anyway he's being hilariously ott posh and dandyish #my point was: maybe I'm seeing what I want to see but I feel like he based this on Leslie Howard in the Scarlet Pimpernel #he sounds so much like him! he does some of the same business! I want this to be true so bad #I chose to believe this is a reference/tribute