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Jack Sparrow Sexual Innuendos & Compliance Tactics
At the end of Pirates of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides: Captain Jack Sparrow dispatches scheming Angelica on to a desert island, not before she unleashes a tyranny of Sexual Games and Compliance Tactics!
- While Jack is playing around with his innuendos; Angelica is upping the social pressure with every sentence. She is, after all, fighting for her survival, and Jack is the one with the boat.
- Jack adapts to each sentence with shit-test passes (or methods of Frame Dominance as it is called here in TPM) and looks superior and confident. He is also very calm plus straightforward while Angelica becomes loud and Mercurial.
- My favourite part has to be when Angelica says:
Angelica: I love you
Jack: As do I (Meaning he admires himself as well)(a textbook inneundo)
Now for the terms and concepts:
1. Angelica uses the "Shiny. Jewel" Game, putting herself on the pedestal.
Angelica: Admit it Jack, you still love me.
Jack: If you had a sister and a dog, I'd choose the dog.
2. This is Your Kid-Invest in Him! I'm sure he is!
Quote Dating Power Dynamics, in Invest in Him (Conflict Over Resource Allocation)
Women want men to allocate more resources on them and their children,
Which is why when Angelica says this she is trying (again) to change Jack's mind and focus his attention and power on providing for her. The paranoia of becoming a father (and also having to provide for the child) only helps her manipulation/frame.
Angelica: Wait! I am with child... Yours!
Jack: I don't recall that we ever had...
Angelica: You were drunk!
Jack: I've actually never been that drunk!
3. High Emotions- The Female emotional slip knot.
Angelica: Wait - there is something I want to say to you. Something I've wanted to say from the moment we first met
Jack: Go on then
Angelica: I love you.
Jack: As do I! Always have, always will.
I gotta go.
What are your thoughts on this?
Hey Oli,
Yeah, many of your points are generally correct.
Keep in mind it's a movie though, and in this scene, it's not super realistic in my opinion. As a general rule of thumb, most Hollywood movies are designed with the goal in mind to entertain, move people, or generally sell, and that seldom overlaps with realism.
