Arr! "Talk Like a Pirate" Lessons Direct from the Cap'n 

Yes !

Arrrrmen brethren.

like the guy from spongebob

how about the ones in Captain Phillips?

While that may be mostly true, that's doesn't preclude the possibility that Robert Newton's Piratin' was indeed an accurate portrayal of how the majority of pirates from England would have spoken. Let's not forget that the pirates heyday was from 1580 through to 1730 (roughly) so they're going to sound very different to what we traditionally think of, re: English.

Most pirates came from my city of Bristol; this is a Bristtolian accent. In fact, Blackbeard was born in Bristol

really trip it out and throw in Newtons "blackbeard" for a good measure of rum

Jack is too lucky Silver too sly But luck runs out by and by

I can t help but wonder what Robert Newton would have thought of Johnny Depp s performance. RN was permanently rolling drunk, wasn t sacked but the booze brought him an early death. It s all very Disney.

Thank you for that anecdote. I hadn't heard it before, but I am, of course, a huge fan of Geoffrey Rush and his semi-homage to Robert Newton in the role of Barbossa. For me, he's the main reason I enjoyed the first film and my primary reason for seeing the sequels. I could absolutely imagine him wanting to tie his leg back too--although I did hear that it was _not_ comfortable at all for Robert Newton and was therefore made more tolerable for him after he had a bit (or more) of alcohol in him. I would never want to see Geoffrey suffer the same fate as Robert Newton! Also, if you're watching the movies carefully, including the first Disney adaptation of _Treasure Island_ , it seems to me that his leg is only tied up when the lower half of his body is visible, which they were easily able to avoid using camera angles. . Also, considering his build, which would probably have made it much easier for Geoffrey than for 'Bobby' to do so, I'd hereby like to thank Geoffrey Rush's doctors! I personally have a medical condition called 'hypermobility,' a symptom of a larger (but rare) genetic disease syndrome called Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. It's more commonly referred to in laymen's terms to as being 'double-jointed,' which allows us--due to the underlying cause, which is a genetic defect to the protein that produces collagen, which is the 'glue' that holds your body together and makes up most of your digestive system, joints, and other connective tissue--to get into all sorts of abnormal positions without any pain by allowing the joints to extend well beyond the 'normal' range. Hypermobile kids usually can't resist using this perceived 'superpower' to perform 'party tricks' for friends and family, and many hypermobile people go into entertainment for that reason, as dancers, contortionists, even a few rare movie stuntpeople who can twist their torsos by 180 degrees and perform the 'human spider' maneuver, which is what you're seeing in some horror movies in which a character is supposedly possessed, and can have a truly chilling effect if shown only briefly in dark lighting conditions, and especially if you put a mask over their face to further make it appear that their head is also turned in the opposite direction. I've seen video of someone performing this trick in full lighting and no costuming, and, while it looks extremely terrifying to see him do it quickly, by rewinding and watching closely enough, I can see _exactly_ how he's doing this trick, and I sure hope he's saving all his income as a stuntman to help pay for his medical bills and pain relief later! . Oops, sorry for going off on such a long tangent and then accidentally hitting the 'SAVE' button before I'd finished; I'll finish up the medical portion of this reply in a reply to my reply that you don't have to read if you don't want to, but you've got me very curious: *may I ask where you heard that fun fact?* I find it quite interesting, especially because of my own medical issues ... that I've started to suspect I _may_ share with Geoffrey. (I've had the extreme privilege of meeting him, and he's an absolutely wonderful, generous, thoughtful, and down-to-earth gentleman. It's not my intention to be rude or unduly forward by calling him by his first name, but I met him twice a few years apart, and he actually recognized me the second time, and signs everything to his known fans, after the first, collectible one, as just 'Geoffrey.' I'm not claiming to be close personal friends with him, or bragging since I know other fans he's struck up casual conversations with with no ulterior motive and read in 'No Quarter' fanzine back when the first POTC movie came out one of the extras remarking that he was the only member of the main cast who actually came and hung out with them after the day's filming. I know other people who've met him, and he doesn't put on any airs; he actually talks to -everyone_ like he's just a regular person and takes an interest in people, not surrounding himself solely with celebrities or any kind of 'posse.' Also, I know from my husband, who's from Australia, that there's almost nobody in Australia who doesn't call even their _doctors_ by their first names ... which was one of the many surprising cultural differences I fell down on the job in explaining to him before we finally tied the knot and he moved to the US. Equality and dispensing with the English class system after Australia was originally claimed by England as a penal colony and having been famously established (for the white settlers, at least) by convicts are important values in Australia, as I'm told. And a RU-vid video by an American who moved to Australia giving his advice to other Americans wanting to do the same explained how important it is not to be 'the tall poppy.' He said Australians get annoyed by Americans who move there expecting to get special treatment because of their 'status.' So it would just feel stilted and weird to me suddenly to start calling him Mr. Rush! Or I could just avoid all awkwardness and confusion by using his initials and call him 'GRR'!😼 (☺️)

So back to my long tangent--apologies to anyone who's not interested; you can just skip this, but it does end up being related to Geoffrey Rush, who is definitely a fan of Robert Newton! . Because it doesn't hurt us _at the time_ we're doing it, we're unwittingly doing permanent harm to our joints, and children diagnosed with any kind of hypermobility syndrome are _supposed_ to be warned _not to do such party tricks_ and, as awareness of hypermobility as a serious medical condition, increases, albeit all too slowly, in the medical community so that we _can_ be warned, have our joints taped up and braced, even given wheelchairs for part-time use (it's considered to be an 'invisible illness,' and a lot of people will see one of us in a wheelchair to prevent inadvertent hyperextension of our joints and even sudden, seemingly spontaneous/mysterious falls that start occurring later in life as our joints begin to deteriorate since every time we've done one of those hyperextensions beyond the unknown-to-us 'normal' range of motion (as in, when I was a kid seeing people struggling in gym class to put the soles of their feet together and 'stretch' their knees in an attempt to push them to the floor, having mine just FLOP to the floor, and looking around wondering what was 'wrong' with everyone _else_ that they were struggling to do something so _easy_ and, to this day, find myself sitting on my bed at the laptop, as I am right now, in the full 'Lotus Position' without any awareness that I'm doing it until I notice, as I did just now, and remind myself I'm _not_ supposed to be sitting like this since I'm causing myself even more harm, and, being only ~9 years younger than Geoffrey, I can't help wondering whether he has this condition too and whether, with my being in my so-called 'Ehlers-Danlos Years,' when all those accumulated injuries catch up to you, he may be experiencing the same type of chronic pain that I'm in from head to toe. . Except that I was never diagnosed until a chiropractor told me I was hypermobile back in 2011, I looked it up online, and found out it's a symptom of a whole genetic syndrome, usually either EDS or Marfan Syndrome ... and I also should have been warned--had I ever seen a knowledgeable doctor (they're taught in med school not to go looking for rare diseases when a simpler explanation can be found, like your patient is a hypochondriac, with many of us being permanently harmed, both physically and psychologically by the latter 'diagnosis,' when, especially in younger patients, the hypermobility is pretty hard to miss. (It tends to decrease as you get older and the damage you've done to the connective tissue makes it deteriorate; my mother had both knees replaced and 'grew' over an inch when she reached the stage where she was walking 'bone on bone.' The axiom is worded, 'When you hear hoofbeats, think of horses, _not_ zebras,' which is why the zebra is our 'mascot' and, when we finally find each other in online support groups, we call each other zebras. In addition, _because_ it's causing us even further micro-injuries every time we do it, nearly _all_ of the support groups absolutely _forbid_ the posting of photos of ourselves intentionally putting ourselves in such a pose for the purpose of said photo; it can even be triggering for some 'zebras' to see those images! Yoga is also forbidden if you're hypermobile. (I used to be really _good_ at yoga, unfortunately, as well as dancing), and 'when' (more like 'if' in the rare case it actually happens before the damage is done) young people are diagnosed, they also should be warned _not_ to embark on careers/take jobs involving repetitive motions. Well, my _entire_ career as a secretary, typist, and sign language interpreter has involved repetitive motions, and I've been on full, permanent disability, in large part due to my 'work-related' RMI and permanent, partial loss of use of my hands/arms, degenerative disk disease combined with 'advanced for my age' arthritis in my neck). It took me SIX more years of seeking 'second' opinions after everyone agreed with the geneticist and a rheumatologist that it 'can't be ruled out'--but also couldn't be ruled _in_, and I might actually have the beginnings of fibromyalgia (I DON'T!), causing my primary-care doctor to rule EDS _out_ because she already _had_ a patient with EDS, so the statistics were very clear that it was 'impossible' for her to have TWO ... until I found an out-of-town geneticist specializing in rare diseases who could make a 'clinical' diagnosis of hEDS based on symptoms, family history, and an exam and got on his year-long waiting list to get a _definitive_ diagnosis. The LONG journey to a diagnosis and not being taken seriously is an all-too-common story, and I'm sure my mother had hEDS as well but was _never_ diagnosed, with the excessive amount of time it takes to get a diagnosis, if ever, causing current researchers to believe that it's not as rare as previously believed but, rather, underdiagnosed! _Especially_ in the case of hEDS, which is actually the most common type. Anyone who has the Hypermobile Type of EDS has a 50% chance of passing it on to each child they have. . So I was never diagnosed until my long-time chiropractor, who didn't know anything about EDS himself, gave me what turned out to be the clue that led to my finding the one SINGLE cause of at least 90% of my two-pages of medical ailments that make me look to all the doctors around here and be treated like, given that there are _no_ local experts, despite our having a vaunted teaching hospital/university _named_ for this city, a hypochondriac (and even to friends and family members, one of whom has my sister and daughters convinced and _tried_ and failed to convince my husband since he _lives_ with me that I'm FAKING being disabled). Being accused of as 'malingering,' being a hypochondriac, and/or faking a other common problems for people with hEDS whose lifespan is _usually_ unaffected, although my mother nearly died of a rupture in her digestive system in 2012 that members of the support group I asked said most _definitely_ can be caused by hEDS and were appalled to hear that a doctor had called _any_ form of hEDS 'benign' and had told me not to worry about it, as in there's no point in getting a diagnosis! But thanks to recent research by the University of Baltimore and the awareness campaigns and global coordinating efforts of the Ehlers-Danlos Society, who have a channel right here on RU-vid, it's gradually gaining slightly more recognition in the medical community--but not enough to help me. Also, for anyone interested in learning more about it, spreading awareness, helping to raise money for treatment, figuring out whether you yourself may have it and, if so, 'hyper'-connecting😉with the zebra community (the word for a herd of zebras is a 'dazzle'!🦓🦓🦓✨), seeking EDS-qualified practitioners (who are even rarer per capita of doctors than zebras!), do check out www.ehlers-danlos.com. . I personally figured out I _had_ to have it based on how many of the list of symptoms of hEDS (then referred to as 'Type 3') fit and explained _so much_ that's been 'wrong' with me since I was a child and how many symptoms developed as I aged and shared with my mother, _her_ mother, and her mother's father in 2011 and fought to be diagnosed since it's all too easy to give up, and the Ehlers-Danlos Society actually started up _while_ I was seeking a diagnosis. They even have a support hotline, although it's run by people with EDS, which also causes poor, non-refreshing sleep quality and ever-increasing chronic fatigue due to the lifelong accumulation of a 'sleep deficit,' even insomnia and anxiety! So, being disabled, they may not be able to get back to you right away. . The main reason it took me so long to get an official diagnosis so that I am _finally_ being taken _seriously_ by my doctors, is that, of the 13 different types of EDS alone that have now been identified using DNA sequencing (with Marfan Syndrome also having a high probability of causing a fatal aortic rupture), I have what the first geneticist I was pointlessly referred to, who'd only heard of FOUR types at the time, told me--which is true: that a genetic test to _confirm_ the Hypermobile Type of EDS, now abbreviated 'hEDS,' doesn't yet exist since the specific genes or combination thereof have yet to be identified--not to 'worry' about it because it's 'benign.' The latter part of that meaning, to a doctor/scientist who doesn't take quality of life into consideration, it won't kill you, much as you wish it would. To them, it's 'benign' compared to all the other types, particularly the vascular type, which can cause a spontaneous aortic rupture (another part of the body containing and/or made up of connective tissue) and needs to be closely monitored by your doctors if you have it. In fact, I've found _no_ mention of EDS anywhere in regard to comic actor John Ritter, who was known for his pratfalls and physical comedy, and _did_ suffer a spontaneous aortic rupture on the set of his TV series '[some number I've forgotten off-hand] Rules for Dating My Daughter,' which appeared to be and he was being mistakenly treated for a heart attack--until he got to the hospital and bled to death. Only _then_ did they notice he had a congenital condition of his aorta. (If health-care practitioners knew about and took EDS seriously, he might still be alive.)

Pardon my tangent and 'Public-Service Announcement' about hypermobility as not being the 'superpower' most kids who have it think it is, but rather a sign of a medical condition and that hypermobile 'party tricks' are to be avoided. I don't mean to say that Geoffrey Rush _has_ a form of hypermobility syndrome and hope he doesn't, but things like his eagerness to have his leg tied up behind his back add to my existing suspicion he may have hEDS too, as did a statement he made in a book about the first hit POTC movie that I now wish I'd bought when I saw it at B&N. Two symptoms of hEDS that I have that I suspect he _may_ share ... well, I already mentioned the first one, which is that it makes you prone to getting repetitive-motion injuries (RMIs) and poor upper-body strength. I'd read and believe it that he has to be padded out via his wardrobe to make him seem more imposing as a 'villain.' *Barbossa 100% **_is_** the rightful captain of the Black Pearl* as long as more than 1/2 the crew elect him to be, and back then, captains were elected and could be 'deposed'--as Long John Silver was, temporarily, in the 'Black Spot' scene--at any time (except during battle, which was the _only_ time a _real_ pirate captain had complete power to give orders; most of the time, it was the quartermaster who dealt with the crew and was the captain's right-hand man in doing so; first mates were not deemed a necessary position in a pirate crew); i.e., *_there was NO SUCH THING as a MUTINY among pirates!_* . But the thing he said that made me feel kind of a bond with him at the time was that all the (arrr-some) swordfighting between him and Johnny Depp (which, if you have the DVD with all the extras, you can see them rehearsing in their regular clothes on an unfinished--or to-be-CGI'd--set of the treasure cave ... and a montage of the cast members saying 'Arrr!' since Geoffrey was the only actor who got to say it in the movie!) was that he developed a case of 'cutlass elbow' as a result. He said it in a joking way, of course, probably making a play on the term 'tennis elbow,' but that _is_ a repetitive-motion injury! And he did a masterful job at it, of course. But, relatively speaking, having poor upper-body strength and hypermobility would predispose him to such an injury. I can't even do ONE pushup, and a 5-year-old can--and has--beat me at arm wrestling and _not_ because I 'let her win,' so it's a good thing I never took that fencing class at college as I wanted to, and a bad thing--though I'm glad I didn't know at the time I shouldn't have been dancing because I loved it so much, but traditional German and Irish dancing completely wrecked my feet, and I have written orders from my podiatrist that I'm to do 'no barefoot walking.' If I do, even briefly _in_ the house on the carpet, my heel spur starts to flare up, and I could never do soft-shoe Irish dancing well _at all_ because of what started out as mere 'flat feet' but had developed into a noticeable bunion by the time I was 8--all of which are caused by hEDS/hypermobility--yet I never realized until much later that feet weren't meant to be shaped like that; but after years of my wearing pointy high heels because they were 'cool' and my favorite 'hobby' being waking/hiking, not starting dancing seriously and performing till I was in my 30s, after the German dancing that requires the women to wear a 1.5-inch heel--relatively low for 'normal' people--and to be up on the balls of your feet so your heels don't touch the floor, the soft Irish 'gillies' slippers had no support whatsoever. And I'd reached the point where my bunion cause my big toe to roll under the others when I put weight on it and providing _no_ support whatsoever. Now there's a barefoot 'party trick' you _don't_ want to see unless you enjoy being grossed out! So I focused far more on hardshoe dancing, which gave you support all right, except not only do you have the 1.5-inch heel in the back, but the 'taps' in the front are made of wood and force your toes upwards, while you're also supposed to be up on the balls of your feet with your heels off the floor until it's a stamp or part of a tricky move. But I love the sound of it and think I'm a frustrated drummer--something _else_ that would subluxate my neck and cause a flare-up of my crippling, disabling, headaches and shooting nerve pain!--since to do it right, you need to have rhythm and keep in time with the music. (Shh, don't tell anyone, but the part of Irish dancing that gets the most applause is actually, _usually_ the easiest steps being repeated a lot, which is when you've got a whole line of dancers all doing the same step sequence. They use the easiest ones in order to make sure everyone is perfectly in sync! The hardest dances are the solos, which obviously aren't as loud, although I never managed to get the heel clicks down since I usually ended up bashing my ankle with my heel instead, which is _extremely_ painful! I had to give it up when I started developing hip pain from doing a simple side-step ... in a big circle of dancers going the same direction over and over and over just to _learn_ and _practice_ for what would probably a grand total of _one_ performance!) . But then I'm a 'girl,' which is why I say 'relatively speaking! Being male, he would certainly have more upper-body strength than me, and, fortunately, his career as an actor isn't dependent on repetitive motions, although IMO that turned out to be one of The Greatest Movie Swordfights of All Time, nor am I aware of his doing a lot of dancing in high heels😉, although he did a _little_ in 'Quills'! ... but hypermobility would definitely make one susceptible to 'cutlass elbow,' tennis elbow, carpal tunnel syndrome, ulnar-nerve deviation ... PLUS dislocations and subluxations, particularly of the spine, which is what causes my chronic headaches and led to my developing degenerative disk disease, even explains my one-inch loss in height so far and the 'bulging and herniated disks' on my last MRI--with my atlas (C1 vertebra) popping out of place (subluxating, which is a _partial_ dislocation with certain/MOST arm movements). . It's not my place to diagnose celebrities, although there are speculations about some famous people based on photos, e.g., Elizabeth Taylor, but I really _do_ wish we had a famous advocate and/or something like what the 'ice-Bucket Challenge' did for ALS to help us spread awareness about this potentially life-ruining disease, especially when it's not diagnosed EARLY in life and whether you get diagnosed depends on where you live. But I am 100% certain that Freddie Mercury had hEDS just by the visual symptoms of his elbows and knees bending slightly backwards, as well as his 'dental crowding' (which I had corrected with the removal of four molars and braces in high school, and it didn't affect my singing voice at all; people STILL tell me to stop singing along with the radio because I'm ruining the song and, if they have perfect pitch, it's physically _hurting_ them as well!). In fact, I'm very disappointed in the makers of 'Bohemian Rhapsody' for failing to mention it at all, hiring a non-hypermobile actor who looks absolutely NOTHING like Freddie to me, especially when he straightens out his conspicuously 'normal' knees and elbows and they couldn't be bothered to have him wear brown contacts instead of highlighting Rami Malek's fluorescent BLUE eyes, making him look, in _one_ obvious wig, like Mick Jagger! Yet the entire movie--for which he won a Best Actor Oscar, when the film should NOT have been nominated at all--and Rami Malek's extended impression of Freddie Mercury consisted of wearing the most enormous overbite they could possibly fit in his mouth while still enabling him to speak--there's a whole segment on the fake teeth in the behind-the-scenes stuff on the DVD or Blu-Ray--yet didn't seem to notice how _crooked_ Freddie's natural teeth were--and then his upper lip doing most of the 'acting' by constantly trying to cover up his upper teeth. I saw an interview with Freddie on PBS not long before the movie came out, and not only were his teeth on full, un-self-conscious view while he talked, but I have pictures of myself looking like he did with his lips together, and that's just how they look when you close your lips over an overbite; there's absolutely _nothing_ self-conscious about it, there's no effort involved like Rami Malek was making ... or, in my case, looking back on those old photos, just as with my bunion, any awareness at all that it was anything to be self-conscious about, nor did it feel like an 'effort' to close my lips. But they automatically stuck out when I smiled. . I'll find out for sure whether Geoffrey is hypermobile the next time I watch 'Quills,' but he _did_ start out as a mime, which uses a lot of physicality that he still incorporates into his work! And from something he said to me the second time I met him, I suspect he's also a fan of Dick Van Dyke, who was also known for his pratfalls/physical comedy, as well as his dancing. (We won't mention his 'Cockney' accent in 'Mary Poppins,' except to say he's aware of the reviews and explained _why_ it was so bad in an interview with Craig Ferguson. Of course, as a kid, I had no idea it was bad and enjoyed his performance in the movie even more than I loved the Dick Van Dyke Show, which I think I have in its entirety ... on VHS tape! In fact, it's probably the first or second movie I ever saw on the 'big screen.' I remember our being stuck in a traffic jam in NYC and my parents deciding to turn off just as we came up to the exit for the drive-in theatre that was showing it!)

But, back to the original comment: I'm kind of pleasantly surprised to find out he wanted to do that little homage to Robert Newton. I'd probably want to do the same ... except I _now_ know the 'loose connection' between my chronic, excruciating headaches and the idea of using crutches. That poor upper-body strength thing and the unfortunate 'ease' with which my atlas vertebra goes out and causes me such excruciating pain, with leaning on crutches, walkers, and canes that tend to subluxate or dislocate bones due to loose joints being another strict 'no-no' according to EDS-aware doctors! Hence the recommendation for a part-time wheelchair. (It's all the accoutrements required for me to actually _use_ a wheelchair, like ramps to get it in and out of my house and a tricked-out vehicle to enable me to take it with me and _use_ it since I'm also not allowed to lift more than 10 pounds, per doctor's orders, plus it'd have to be motorized because the arm motion for pushing the wheels is another one that'll put my atlas out on the first try ... or a servant to do all that _for_ me😉 that make a wheelchair prohibitive.) . In fact ... here's a trailer for an award-winning documentary on EDS by a young woman originally from Germany who has it too, and right from the beginning, there's an Australian woman with EDS who talks about the wheelchair thing and the hurtful assumptions people make and things they say when you have an 'invisible' chronic illness! It's already come and gone on the big screen and elsewhere and is now housed on ... another popular-but-paid video-sharing site that starts with a V that I don't know if RU-vid will allow me to post, but her website tells you where you can watch it, if interested. (Even the supposed 'specialist'/orthopedist my primary-care doctor sent me to for 'treating' my EDS doesn't get it and says I'm too young for a wheelchair and doesn't want me to become dependent on it, so I told my PCP and _she_ prescribed a 'light-weight,' foldable one. Which does me no good without a motor and neck support since the last neck brace I bought for $167 that _finally_ fit right BROKE after 10 uses because of what I consider a serious design flaw combined with its being made out of PLASTIC; you can't _get_ a custom one made anymore, but the more expensive ones are customize-able. And I had to pay for it out of pocket since my HMO will only pay for ONE every three years, and they'd already paid for two, one of which gives me hot flashes and the other of which made my pain WORSE/GAVE me a headache. The professional orthotist I saw on my own, who had the huge selection of pre-fab neck braces, was appalled by the one I got in the orthotics department of the hospital/health-care system that's part of the vaunted medical University named after the city I live in, saying it was WAY too big. Also, I need support for the BACK of my neck since resting my chin on anything flares up my TMJ headaches--AND subluxates my atlas, leading to excruciating headaches ... so I essentially _live_ in my bed now. (The idea of people developing mental-health issues from being in lockdown for a mere YEAR baffles me. At first, I thought, yay, all my friends are home too! Now I have someone to talk to on the phone! But do they ever call me just to talk? No, they're too busy staring at their miniature computers, a.k.a. smart 'phones' that nobody actually uses as a PHONE anymore but stay connected to the Internet 24/7 so they don't miss a Facebook 'like' and then yell at me for waking them up with an e-mail I wrote at 3 a.m. because of my insomnia!) Hunched over my laptop in the forbidden 'Lotus' position.😢 (Which is the main reason I stopped updating the RN website; I simply can't. In fact, I'm already regretting this long post as the opioid wears off & I have to wait a few days to take more or else it stops working unless you take higher and higher doses. But it's the _only_ relief I get, other than lying in bed dong _nothing_.) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lSI8VRISvtg.html

Robert Newton however dies a pirate's death from alcoholism, generally held (by pirates) to be preferable to being hanged or chopped up on your own quarter deck

newton played blackbeard too

@@whitetroutchannel It would be a tragedy if he hadn't.

Yarrp

Ooo err

It often seems an amalgam between West Country/Scots/Irish - generalised Atlantic seaboard. But maybe that is just a cheap American knock-off.

​@@WORKERS.DREADNOUGHT it was a deliberate exaggeration of a west country, English accent which Robert Newton created having been born in Dorset and spending much of his childhood in Cornwall. He, himself was from a quite posh background, so didn't use anything like that accent in real life. There is also some historical evidence for a substantial proportion of pirates originating from the west country.

@@TheEulerID Right! Edward Teach was from Bristol - although his name may not have been "Teacxh". He may have been called trhat by his shipmates on account of being able to read. He kept a ships log, which is actually written in pirate-speak, which is awesome! " Two weeks out and the rum was running dry. then we fell in with a Dutch merchantman and the boys were hot for it - aye, Hot for it!"

Of course, the nowadays Disney is a crap!

Arr, matey, I agree 💯!!!😊

Glad Geoffrey Rush spoke in such away as like Robert Newton’s character Long John Silver… it added the nostalgia of what and how ‘Hollywood pirates’ are, and always will be. ☠️😎

Also the actor who plays Gibbs.

"many's a night a dreamed of a piece of cheese, toasted mostly"

Sounds legitimate to my ears. Wouldn't have it any other way.

The Greatest Long John Silver ever!

"And fall on!" >;D Actually, not meaning to go all technical on you here, but Treasure Island is one of my all-time favorite books, and that prelude to the TV-series episodes recited by Robert Newton is actually a bit more than half of the poem that forms a sort of preface to the novel. The title is "To the Hesitating Purchaser," and here's the part he quotes: "If sailor tales to sailor tunes, Storm and adventure, heat and cold, If schooners, islands, and maroons, And buccaneers, and buried gold, And all the old romance, retold Exactly in the ancient way, Can please, as me they pleased of old, The wiser youngsters of today: "- So be it, and fall on!" (Haharrhahahaharrharrharrr!) Here be the entire book, poem, map, text, illustrations, an' all! ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/stevenson/robert_louis/s848tr/preface.html

@@mooncove arr, thankee, squire!

ARR-ROFL, thankee right kindly, matey!

This is absolutely the only timestamp list i ever truly enjoyed. Thankee much matey

Cool! Are they available for use on Twitter or Facebook?

he gets shot in the hut in the island, a highlight for me 2 at 7 years old

Lol 😂

Very interesting to hear that, i recall from old photos and tales I've heard that Moon loved dressing up and pretending to be various characters etc, would have loved to have seen more of this side of him preserved before his passing

Oliver Reed and Keith Moon both cited Robert Newton as an influence, which explains a lot about their lifestyles. Also, Oliver Reed was to play Bill Sykes on film, just as Robert Newton did in 1948.

Arr! That's what I thought the first time I saw Treasure Island. (Actually, Keith Moon was a huge fan of Robert Newton, and he intentionally imitated him! Tony Fletcher talks about what a huge influence Treasure Island had on Keith in his bio.)

+mooncove Yes I read that too, see also Keith Moon in "Sextette" where he plays a dressmaker "Aar,pure gold,pure Spanish Gold!!

Arr! Well shiver me timbers. You're right, It's Keith Moon! He was the best pirate ever!

Aarrgghhh Jim Lad !

@@steveking6663 ..'Belay that Swivel tongue Miss Purity' Today you'd get lock up for that kind of speech ! Who wrote the script, it's brilliant.

There have been episodes released on Region 1 DVDs - they aren't the best prints in the world but what the heck. Try Amazon.

Or rather vice versa...

@@peterward2275 Geoffrey Rush would be honored to hear ye say that! (I have it on good authority he's a Robert Newton fan.)

60 years later the French triangular Smallsword came into being.

I thought Owen Teale was really good in the Audible audio drama of Treasure Island.

the best Bill Sykes

Any news?

@@12000gp Sorry, no news. In fact, the company that pirated without bothering to check if it was copyrighted and Kim, as the actual legal copyright holder, didn't have the time or energy to fight them, has posted it right here on RU-vid ... and cleaned it up a bit too, I think. At least, the last time I heard from him. I've become too disabled in chronic pain to continue update or maintain the RN website--or _any_ website at this point. Also, ever since TWO different people self-published their own 'biographies' of Bob, one of which claimed to have been but was NOT authorized by his family, as in he rushed to publish it and didn't bother showing it to Nicholas, who'd written a brief chapter of his own making it APPEAR to be authorized though it wasn't, is full of false information and reads like a trashy tell-all gossip column--the kind of bio I did NOT want to write only WORSE--that they definitely do NOT approve of--and the other essentially paraphrased my article for 'Pirates' magazine that was based on my website bio with a lot more information added to it, added a bunch of photos she got into bidding wars with my friend over and did NOT own the rights to (money was no object for her in obtaining those photos; I think she thought she was bidding against ME because we have the same first name, and it was clear that she despised me for putting too much emphasis on his pirate roles and how he had a big movie career before 'all the appalling rubbish he was forced to accept in the 1950s' as she wrote on the forum that she and her sister spent 24 hours a day trolling and my then-husband and I spent 24/7 removing the spam after she started a big fight and killed off the community, and told me he was a BRITISH actor and that as an American, I'd had no right to make a website about him). And, to put the cherry on top, she didn't even give me a _credit_ in her booklet, naming 'Pirates' magazine as the author in her 'Bibliography.' But THAT one, they authorized! . So I've lost touch with his family since the two books came out and sent people scrambling to do damage control, and it's all a sore subject now, sadly, since I have a ton of information I'd collected about him for a print biography but hadn't been able to reach any of his former costars to ask for corresponding anecdotes about how 'nice' he was to balance out all the anecdotes saying how nice he, but then, without giving any examples of something nice he was (with the exception of Deborah Kerr's biography and Robert Stack's) immediately launching into some sordid story about his drunken escapades, too many of which weren't nice at all. In fact, I found out too late that the now-late Robert Stack had an ongoing correspondence with one of my friends who's conducted numerous celebrity interviews for his former fanzine as well as a book he recently published about the Rolling Stones, and I'm _sure_ he'd have been happy to contribute to such a book since he sounded fond of Bobby in his bio. They were roommates during the filming of 'The High and the Mighty.' The only person who _might_ still be alive to try to interview would be Kit Taylor, who played Jim Hawkins in the Australian sequel and TV series about Long John Silver, but he did a few movies up till the '70s and then seems to have fallen off the face of the earth. (I did find out that his real-life father was Grant Taylor, who played Patch on the show and in the movie, which was all done in Australia. Although if what the tell-all biographer said was true, I doubt he'd want to reminisce about Robert Newton. It said he was drunk throughout the shooting of the entire thing to the point of falling off his bar stool. And this info allegedly came from Bobby's 'friend,' the director Byron Haskin. Kim's wife was absolutely appalled and couldn't believe he would say such things about a friend.) I offered the giant file-box full of articles, info I'd made a special trip to the NYPL Performing Arts Library to photocopy (which I used in my 'Pirates magazine' article) and anecdotes people had sent me privately, as well as a few rare photos, one of which the original photographer gave me permission to use in my would-be bio, to Kim, but he wasn't interested. I suspect that all of this has something to do with why RN's eldest daughter didn't want a biography about him coming out during her lifetime and why his sons were discouraging me from writing one because I'd never find a publisher, which you don't need nowadays, although a writer I know who published full biographies of obscure silent-movie era actors told me _his_ publisher would probably be interested. . But you specifically asked about the _movie_, and I _do_ still love his personification of LJS that he did so well, he broke the mold, IMHO, even if he DID have an American wife AND an American son AND was seeking American citizenship, with all THREE of his children and at least one dog living with him in California, 'Tom Brown's School Days,' 'The Desert Rats,' and the Oscar-winning 'Around the World in 80 Days' (just off the top of my head) were far from 'rubbish,' not to mention he destroyed his _own_ career; America is _not_ at fault for 'all the appalling rubbish he was forced to accept [e.g., from Alfred Hitchcock on 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents'] in the 1950s'; his unreliability, his alcoholism, and even his being arrested and spending at least one night in jail--IN LONDON--were! (See what I mean? Sore subject. I probably shouldn't even be saying as much as I have because he'd have no fans left--thanks to the plagiarizing troll who literally gave me a nervous breakdown in 2006 yet got 'her' biography authorized.) . Kim had talked at one stage when my website and its forum had a loyal following of fans (with no trolls or flaming to deal with until the content thief mentioned above started doing _both_ and effectively killed off the forum) about getting his father a star on the Hollywood Walk-of-Fame, but it costs about $15,000 and didn't agree with me that the fans would probably gladly contribute to help pay for one. But after the biography fiasco and my finally telling Cherie that the troll they'd authorized to plagiarize a biography about him from me, I think he lost interest in pursuing the revamped LJS movie, and Cheri unfollowed me on Twitter/stopped answering my e-mails. If anybody _else_ hears about a cleaned-up version of the movie, please let me know! . In the meantime, I've been meaning to at least closed-caption this video ever since I found out you can (I was formerly a professional closed captionist), but the few short videos I did caption ended up severely flaring up my crippling chronic headaches. Although it's _by far_ the longest one I've done at 45 minutes, which took me over two weeks due to the lengthy breaks I needed to take to recover from the headaches! I started getting faster at it--after getting used to the very limited tools RU-vid has for professional-quality captioning and then having RU-vid end their policy of allowing other people to make a contribution by captioning and submitting to the owner OTHER RU-vidrs' captions. I really _should_ get around to doing this one, but after seeing how bad Google's autotranslator is, especially if the speakers have any accent at all--it couldn't even comprehend Noam Chomsky ... which is what motivated me to offer to caption the excellent interview for FREE!--I'm afraid to peek at what it's done to THIS video! If it can't understand Noam Chomsky, it's hard to imagine it can 'Talk--' I mean, 'Caption Like a Pirate'!😉] . Thanks for your interest! It's much appreciated.

@@mooncove sorry to hear about your health troubles and the other issues. Keep on fighting the good fight as and when you have the strength.

Good one, me heartie!

Belay that! 'Tis no robot ye be talkin' of.. 'Tis a droid!

Death be a Spanish sexbot - and her weapon o choice be crabs of the Caribbean, Yar

This Happy Breed is one of my most favourite films.

@@WolfGratz Mine too! Absolute classic.

I don't think that's accurate. Almost NONE of the automatic captions are right! I started fixing the captions but never finished/published them because there were just a few words I couldn't catch, & I'm a bit of a perfectionist. (All the actors other than Robert Newton are Australian & everybody's speaking in nautical terminology! I'll move it up on my 'To Do' list if I can get my Aussie hubby to sit still long enough to help me with it! But I'll figure it out if it kills me, lol!)

I'm going through the captions now. The word was 'carrion,' like food for the vultures. (Or, as in Monty Python's dead-parrot sketch, just to be clear, 'Bereft of life, he rests in peace. He's climbed down the curtain & joined the choir invisible. If you hadn't nailed him to the [ahem] 'Perch,' he'd be pushing up daisies. THIS ... is an EX-PIRATE!') The reason I haven't published them yet was because there are some pretty hilarious versions of RU-vid's really BAD autocaptioned gobbledygook, and I want to save them somehow for posterity! For instance, where Long John says, 'One, ambush the first colonial trader what touches shore; two, board 'er in the dead o' night,' RU-vid thinks he's saying, 'or Texas or to order in the dead of night three head with a dress and.'🤦‍♀🤪 It's pretty amazing how bad autocaptions are--on every video where that hasn't been hand-edited, which is time-consuming, especially if you don't know how. (I used to be a professional captionist, so I find the lack of formatting features frustrating.) NOBODY should rely on autocaptions! They're seriously worse, accessibility-wise, than NO captions at all! Sorry I haven't been able to finish them sooner due to health reasons. They be a-settin' a course fer U-T00b now an' lookin' sharp about it, matey!

Wallace Beery's take on "pirate talk" was scripted as pirate talk but sounded nothing like Robert Newton's. He spoke with a plain, modern American accent. Robert Newton interpreted the character in a completely different way, adding "Arr" to the pirate lexicon and a British West Country accent, which would have been authentic to Robert Louis Stevenson's opening locale of the story, in addition to the classic "squint" and growl. Robert Newton was British and a sailor in real life, as well as a Shakespearean actor familiar with the language of the Golden Age of Piracy and before. His particular spin on the character of Long John Silver (as well as Blackbeard) has gone on (usually uncredited) to become the common conception of how to "Talk Like a Pirate" per the Talk Like a Pirate Day website.

mooncove Yeah, I've never considered Beery's voice as truly pirate like. And though Lionel Barrymore had one of the most wonderful, unique voices in creation, he too was not quite there. Same with John Carradine. It took Robert Newton to downright NAIL IT. And he did indeed.

Batten down the keelhaul!!!

someone’s great grandma was thicc

​@@Podzhagitel LOL. Actually, Purity is the tavern _owner_ with a crush on 'Lawng Jawn,' which is why she provides him with a home in the film (although, once the sequel became a series, the parrot, 'Captain Flint,' never appeared or was mentioned again, probably for budget reasons, although if you pay attention to the original 'Treasure Island,' you might catch a few scenes where the shoulder of Long John's coat bears a whitish mark of freshly wiped parrot droppings; at any rate, it probably wasn't the original parrot from 'Treasure Island,' which was filmed in England). The actress who plays Purity in the movie and the series, Connie Gilchrist, was from Brooklyn in NYC, and despite her appearing in number of Westerns, she always spoke with a 20th-century Brooklyn accent!

LOL, that's what I thought too the first time I saw Treasure Island! Of course, it was Keith Moon who intentionally cultivated his Long John Silver imitation since he was a kid, but his resemblance to Robert Newton certainly helped.

And as we all know Mr Depp is the greatest living authority on English Pirates

Brilliant! 😂

Likewise! I've asked around and, alas, thar be a dozen or thereabouts what can't be accounted for.

I thoroughly agree that LJS seemed to have undergone a personality transplant between the original 1950 film that was mostly faithful to the book and the "Long John Silver's Return to Treasure Island" sequel ... and was then completely "defanged" by they time they got to the TV seires! He was a conniving cutthroat in the original story. But Robert Louis Stevenson had written the book (in installments) for his young stepson, and so Long John was not 100% evil, and that, IMO, is the appeal of the character. He has a soft spot for the character of Jim and eventually betrays the other pirates for Jim's sake. Jim brought out the goodness in him. But he was never 100% redeemed in the original story either. I think that's what makes Silver such a fascinating character. Obviously, the sequels focused more on the relationship between Jim and Silver, which I don't think RLS ever intended to do, but it made for great children's entertainment, and I think that Robert Newton's charismatic performances were what made us drop our guard and fall in love with this unsavory yet unpredictable character throughout his inexplicable transformation. BTW, if you are as fascinated as I am by LJS, particularly by Robert Newton's portrayal, I highly recommend a novel by Bjorn Larsson called "Long John Silver: the True and Eventful History of My Life of Liberty and Adventure as a Gentleman of Fortune and Enemy to Mankind." It's told in the form of Long John's fictional autobiography,, and Larsson and the translator do an excellent job of delving into the character while remaining faithful to Stevenson's original, as well as true pirate history and puts Silver in the middle of it all. The subtitle is a great sample of the book's tone, and I could thoroughly hear Robert Newton's voice narrating as I read it! Arr!

PS: Larsson's book is both a sequel and a prequel to "Treasure Island," but it dovetails perfectly with the novel and keeps Silver's fangs perfectly intact, but he is also the likable and beguiling character Jim first encounters; Larsson makes him a fully three-dimensional character. The story covers his entire life, managing to fit him in very convincingly with the authentic history of the time, with his "Treasure Island" adventure being only a small part of it, although it becomes clear that his encounter with Jim Hawkins left a lasting impression on this very cunning man who did what he had to do in order to survive in the circumstances in which he found himself. (Robert Newton's original performance of the character also seems to have been an influence as well--although Larsson seems to have mistaken his West Country accent, as many others have done, for Irish!) Nothing is whitewashed either; this book is intended for adults. I really can't recommend it highly enough! I think I like it as much as Stevenson's original novel (one of my all-time favorite books) and am pretty sure RLS would have approved most heartily!

qwadratix I have a vague memory of reading an article about Robert Newton years ago which stated that originally the character of Silver was much more in keeping with the Stevenson conception, but Newton was such a likable, charismatic, hammy rogue that they decided to go with a more sympathetic portrayal, and changed the screenplay accordingly. Arrrrr.

Jack Grattan The series spawned off a film 'Treasure Island' which was reasonably accurate to the original book and used the same actors. That's why the TV series was such a dislocation for me. Suddenly JLS was this 'nice guy' looking after poor orphan Jim. (Who seemed to forget he still had a mother) :D

Wasn't this a Disney film? If so, that explains EVERYTHING. They're turn anything "family friendly". Byron Haskin (who directed both movies) was a originally a great cameraman, later a competent director. He directed WAR OF THE WORLDS and some of the best OUTER LIMITS episodes. But hey, what kid WOULDN'T want Robert Newton as a friend and protector?

Or vice versa?

A few times, 2:46 , 3:15

@@nickc3053 Yes, he used it relatively sparingly in this film and in Treasure Island. In Blackbeard the Pirate, it was at least once per sentence as I recall and quite liberally in the TV series that followed this sequel too.

Aaarrrr...the scurvy dogs

It's "why *be* pirates called pirates?"

No, Joshamee Gibbs sounds like him!

david janson aye - flying the flag of Kernow as you do

Kiani Francis Arrrr, there be madness to the method, to be sure, matey.

Barbosa ; "Thankee Jack" Sparrow ; "You're welcome" Barbosa ; "Not you. We called the monkey Jaaack..."

(Draws cutlass)...Aharr! That be fightin' talk where I ships from, me bucko..."

Kiani Francis Arrrr, bite me crank, matey!

Take that, ye spawney eyed dog! (Swipe - misses with downswing of cutlass- struggles with belt to pull out sea service flintlock pistol)...

Not in the USA, where Tony Hancock was unknown. It's the USA where international talk like a pirate day was invented, with Robert Newton as their patron saint.

probably used it in staid of know then name, like mate or bud.

My guess is it came from Treasure Island, where the main character is named Jim Hawkins

@@violethill5781 This is correct. I watched Treasure Island because I had to confirm this for myself.

Hmm, ar, yeah, thanks for the cultural clarification! It's interesting to know that southwesterners intentionally savor their "r"s (in 1950's _Treasure Island_ , during the funeral service for a crew member who drowned, Newton memorably inserts an "r" into "Amen, pronouncing it "Arr-men"), and you're right, he's used it to stall for time in other, less strictly directed performances. However, English-language historian Bill Bryson wrote in one of his books that "ar" (without all the extra "r"s) was at least originally the equivalent of saying "yeah" in the West Country. (One can stall for time by saying "yeah" too, but that doesn't mean it's not a word.) If you really pay attention to when he says "ar" all by itself--and he did grow up in Cornwall in real life--it's always in the context of affirmation, as opposed to the way many people have the impression that throwing "arggghhhhh" into a sentence willy-nilly makes you sound like a pirate. I watched a number of pirate movies to confirm my theory but wasn't able to find a single instance of anyone playing a pirate on film using a West Country accent before Robert Newton did it in 1950. In fact, he was the only actor in that particular adaptation of _Treasure Island_ who did, but he dominated the film. As Long John Silver rightfully should; Robert Louis Stevenson's original title for the story, which was originally serialized, was _The Sea Cook_ . Nor was that the first time Newton used a Cornish accent in a movie role. (Busman's Holiday is one of them, but his interpretation of LJS made a much greater impact on international audiences.) In the previous major film adaptation in 1934, Wallace Beery almost sounds like he's from Brooklyn--certainly not anywhere near England and nary an "ar" to be heard in the entire film! And then there was the dashing Errol Flynn speaking in a more posh English accent in _Captain Blood_ and _The Sea Hawk_. Robert Newton used "ar" relatively sparingly in the first _Treasure Island_ movie, but people loved his LJS so much that he continued being cast--or casting himself--in subsequent pirate movies in the early '50s. Linda Darnell said in her bio that the making of _Blackbeard the Pirate_, which I think was his next pirate role, was a "drunken romp" for all the men on the set, including apparently the director (who, a reviewer once speculated, must "surely have been absent from the set"), so, unlike in other films in his later career where directors had to shoot around him due to his being drunk on the set, I have no doubt that Robert Newton was at least slightly inebriated during many if not all of his scenes that made it into the final cut, which would explain why he goes a bit "overboard" ;) with all the "arrrrr"-ing, sometimes more than once in the same sentence. He certainly is using it as a placeholder in many instances, but it's always a form of affirmation and not just inserted randomly without regard to its meaning. (If you can find an example where he does use it in a way that it could be construed as meaning something other than "yes" or "yeah," I'd be very interested to know where. Cuz I really did do quite a bit of research to confirm my hypothesis, me hearrrty, arrr!)

mooncove when I studied at the University of Bath in the 80s the locals would often say oh arr (not oo arr) to indicate an 'oh yes' response in general conversation. I can well believe that West Country pirates used arrr in the same way we would say 'oh yeah!' back in the day. As well as all right moi luvver!

That's a restored version actually. And it wasn't restored with the permission of the copyright holder, who is Robert Newton's son, either. So, alas, there's nothing I can do about that, although I am working on adding captions. I just need my husband to listen to it with me to see if he can pick up on a couple of words I'm not exactly sure of. (The automated Google captions ... can barely even be called captions! Human captioning jobs won't be going away for a long time, I'm pretty confident!)