#stranger tides

I just found out (from Nostalgia critic of all things) that "Nunnery" was Elizabethan Slang for a brothel.  So that means when Hamlet told Ophelia "Get thee to a nunnery!" he's calling her a slut in two possible ways. 1.  In that she needs to cloister herself up with nuns because she's impure or... 2. Because she's so slutty she might as well go to a brothel. This is almost as interesting as the obvious Bottom = ass joke with the donkey ears in A Midsummer Night's dream.   Also Jack Sparrow mistaking a convent for a brothel in Pirates of the Caribbean Stranger Tides isn't just a throw away joke now. Based on the language of the era, he misunderstood being told the place was a nunnery.

I never got around to seeing Dead Men Tell No Tales so I’ve been gearing up for it by marathoning the PotC movies and, let me tell you, the steep decline in quality that comes with Stranger Tides is so much more jarring and disappointing when you watch it immediately after At World’s End that I’m starting to reconsider even watching DMTNT altogether to avoid exposing myself further to this depressing downward spiral of a beloved franchise