Wednesday, October 05, 2005

Pirate

I am fairly certain all communication philosophy can be derived from two movies...

  1. Army of Darkness
  2. Pirates of the Caribbean

From the latter movie, an example....

When Capt. Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) is fighting William Turner (Orlando Bloom) early in the movie, he takes a shortcut to gain advantage. Bloom calls him out and accuses him of unfair play. Sparrow looks back at him and simply says "pirate".

With one world and some mild body English, Capt. Jack conveys the concept...

"Well of COURSE I cheated you dolt. Duh. Did you expect a person in the profession I have chosen to play fair? Shoot straight? Your concern is ill placed and of no concern to me."

Thus illustrating the power of concise language. A noble communication concept to say the least.

Well, this was probably a long way around talking about a clever movie scene - and not particularly useful, but...

Pirate.

(See, it works)

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