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There are no pirates, why are they on the poster?

posted 17 years ago by abbeyabbeyabbey
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There are no pirates in Nim's Island. There are commercial developers from Australia who arrive on a ship called "The Buccaneer", but there are no pirates and no pirate ship which are on the movie poster.
Are the pictures with the blue/white background meant to be Nim's imagination? That's the only explanation I can think of for the pirates part, but then there's the ship with the skull and crossbones flag, which never appeared in the movie.
Can anyone help?

[–] aaxander 17 years ago

It sounds like you saw the movie? If you did, then your guess is as good as ours.

[–] robeekay 17 years ago

Yes the pirates are in her imagination. They are really the developers but she sees them as pirates so that's how we see them also.

[–] LaSorella 17 years ago

I saw pirates in the preview.

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[–] CuddlesMacombs 17 years ago

"Nim had some imaginary friends that lived in her imagination, [including] Huck Finn and Alice in Wonderland from the books, who kind of brought to life the idea of a girl who lived on an island and what her imagination must be like," said Levin, who co-directed the film with his wife, Jennifer Flackett. "But when we made the movie and then we shot them and saw them in the context of the movie, we realized that the girl alone, and her aloneness, made her situation much more poignant, and it just drove the story better."

Good God, Mister. The fact that the girl had to live so much in her imagination is what makes her aloneness so "poignant"!
Congratulations on making a really dull lifeless forgetable film that promised so much and delivered squat. Making trailers that depict a film one way and then producing the film in entirely another should be considered a form of fraud. I plunked my money down to see what was depicted in the trailer, not what was left on the cutting room floor afterwards.

KatieJ

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[–] mmka1 17 years ago

A pirate flag is planted on the beach where The Buccaneer's passengers are having the party. It is only quickly shown as the camera pans the sceen.

[–] Campdmg 17 years ago

In the beginning of the film there is a narrated story about whyt we won't be meeting the girl's mother. I assumed that ship was a pirate ship. After reading this thread, I'm not so sure of myself!

The movie was good...not great. Smiled alot.

[–] heartbeat-4 17 years ago

I think the directors screwed up when they left out the pirate scenes and Nim's imaginary friends, Huck Finn and Alice in Wonderland. It would have brought more sense to some decisions that Nim makes. It also would have made the scene with the Aussi boy more understandable. She has only had relationships with book characters; that's why she touches him and realizes he's a real boy, not a character from the Buccaneer story.

I enjoyed the movie; I give it 3/4 stars, but it could have been so much better.
There should have been more interaction between Nim and her dad in the beginning too.

Oh well. It is what it is.

hb

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[–] smcallis 16 years ago

I could not believe how badly the director missed the mark. The idea that Nim had imaginary friends was a great deal more interesting than much of what actually ended up in the movie. Furthermore, Nim’s potential confusion over the cruise ship for a pirate ship was another missed opportunity, when you consider the potential; the lively scene of Nim lying in bed while reading the Alex Rover book, the adventure takes place all around her. These fantasies also provide a further juxtaposition between Alexandra Rover's imaginations of Alex rover the hero. The encounter with the Aussie boy could have been more poignant, Nim pokes him to see if he's real, but again, the director/writers drop the ball and fail to pursue this plotline without any meaningful conclusion. Instead, the Edmund/Nim encounter is wasted reduced to the farce of Edmund’s two clueless parents.

The whole point of the story was skewed. What Nim should have learned was that real heroes in real life are ordinary people just like Alexandra Rover, and that Alex Rover, Huck Finn, and even a the scalawag of Long John Silver exist only in books. I know I’m re-writing the movie, I just think there was so much missed potential.

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[–] nemidwest 16 years ago

After watching the deleted DVD scenes with the pirate,Huck Finn and Alice in Wonderland, I totally agree with you. It made the scene with the boy from the cruise ship understandable. It made more sense when she touched him to see if he was real if the audience could relate to her imaginary friends.

[–] robeekay 16 years ago

Clearly they had to make a decision about the length of the movie because it was for a children's audience, so they had to opt for moving the story plotline forward.