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Podcast: School of Movies
Episode: Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
Description: [School of Movies 2025]
An extremely long-awaited show on a game-changer of a blockbuster movie.
The first Pirates film, released in 2003 before Lord of the Rings had completed brought the world many things: A fantabulous extravaganza of practical effects, combined with a surprisingly light smattering of digital VFX that would be leaned into a lot harder later down the line, The notion that the swashbuckler could still do big business (the hidden caveat was that Johnny Depp being strange absolutely must be present) Keira Knightley as a leading lady, Gore Verbinski as a major director, the...