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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })An obscure film but beloved within its cult following, Pirates of the Great Salt Lake is the heart-warming tale of two modern would be pirates... wandering around the Great Salt Lake.A 2006 Mollywood comedy, we follow two out-of-luck smoes as they sail row across the Lake, attempting to plunder and ravage modern Utah, only to find that they're not very successful. When they just so happen to find a genuine Treasure Map, their luck changes ...From Bad to Worse. |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? |
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: Kirk's mother walks in on him rubbing his wooden sword while watching a video of two pirates in swordplay. |
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Gratuitous Spanish |
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Gratuitous Spanish: When Drake meets the mapmaker he tries to talk to him in broken Spanish for no readily apparent reason. The mapmaker replies that he doesn't speak Spanish (in Spanish). |
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Artistic License – Geology |
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Artistic License – Geology: Subverted, much to everyone's surprise. It turns out the banks of the Great Salt Lake have shifted quite a bit in the centuries since the treasure was lost. |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners: Flint and Kirk are joined at the hip through most of the movie, even after Flint dies. Although if it weren't for all the Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today? moments they both throw in when it gets too blatant you could easily assume they're romantically involved. Especially since Flint hooked up with the first man who'd take him after Ruby turned him down (that's verbatim how they met) and Kirk's becoming a pirate is treated like coming out. |
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Chekhov's Gun |
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Chekhov's Gun: The hole the narrator digs in the first scene. Also doubles as a Chekhov's Gag |
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A Pirate 400 Years Too Late |
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A Pirate 400 Years Too Late: The film centres are two wanna-be pirates in modern Utah. |
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Obstructive Code of Conduct |
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Obstructive Code of Conduct: Kirk refuses to eat anything he didn't steal. He is not amused when people try to use Loophole Abuse to offer him lunch. |
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Inexplicably Awesome |
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Inexplicably Awesome: The mapmaker who is: either hundreds of years old or a series of Identical Grandsons, has the power to cast and remove curses, can see ghosts, and has been seen to recover from death several times. |
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"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot |
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"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: The entire plot would have been avoided if somebody had paid a bill for the equivalent of 5 2006 dollars, as pointed out several times. |
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Honor Before Reason |
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Honor Before Reason: When the pair fails to successfully rob some picnickers but the would-be victims offer them some lunch as thanks for the entertainment Kirk refuses to accept it and stomps off in a huff. |
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Angel Unaware possibly the narrator. |
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Magical Native American |
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Magical Native American: The Narrator. Played for laughs, although the ending hints he might be an angel. Or maybe just nuts. |
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Butt-Monkey |
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Butt-Monkey: Drake, but only after he kills Kirk, so it's well deserved. |
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Fishing for Sole |
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Fishing for Sole: Flint is doing this when we first see him. The boot he catches happens to half of a treasure map inside, jumpstarting the plot. What he expected to catch in a lake with no fish remains a mystery. |
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Coming-Out Story |
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Coming-Out Story The scene where Kirk tells his mother he's a pirate is played out like this one for laughs. |
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Talk Like a Pirate |
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Talk Like a Pirate: Drake does this when he's dressed up, where it conflicts amusingly with his bored drawl. Kirk makes a vague attempt at a more upper class British accent to fit his role as officer, and Flint just speaks normally with pirate slang mixed in. |
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Mood Whiplash |
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Mood Whiplash The movies makes a fast turn to the dramatic when Drake murders Kirk and then swings back when Kirk reappears as a ghost two minutes later. |
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Freudian Excuse |
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Freudian Excuse: Kirk's mom developed her loathing of pirates in childhood by being annoyed by a waiter dressed a pirate, mugged for her Halloween candy by a pack of bullies dressed as pirates, and walking in on her father dressed up as a pirate and suggestively wittling a wooden sword to old pirate movies in one traumatic night. |
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Audience? What Audience? |
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Audience? What Audience?: after Kirk dies, he can see the narrator but not the audience the narrator is talking to. |
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All Girls Want Bad Boys |
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All Girls Want Bad Boys The reason Ruby isn't interested in Flint, and why she is interested after he shows up as a pirate. When she finds out the police are after him she gets really interested, and when he mentions he'd killed a man she throws herself at him. |
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Insistent Terminology |
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Insistent Terminology: Kirk and Flint keep insisting the Great Salt Lake is a sea. |
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Barred from the Afterlife |
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Barred from the Afterlife: Pirates can't get into heaven. That's what Pirate Heaven is for. Dying from the curse, or even loosely associated with the curse, will cause you to hang around as a ghost. |
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Identical Stranger |
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Identical Stranger: Many of the actors play multiple parts, not just as a money-saving technique but for definite laughs. The mapmaker actually recognizes Flint as the captain from 200 years ago (from a photo that explicitly predates cameras) and tries to collect on an unpaid bill. |
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