Why Pirates of the Caribbean Failed To Make You Love The Genre Again
While the Pirates of the Caribbean movies were massively successful, there is a reason that the series did not spur a subsequent revival of the swashbuckling adventure movie sub-genre. The pirate adventure sub-genre was once of cinema’s most thriving institutions. From the 1920s until the 1960s, swashbuckling movies like Sinbad the Sailer, Treasure Island, and The Crimson Pirate delighted audiences and proved huge box-office hits until the 60s saw the popularity of this brand of historical adventure story take a dip that the sub-genre never truly recovered from.
Since then, this sort of historical action-adventure has fallen in and out of popularity with audiences, with pirate movies specifically often proving to be major flops. However, there is one major exception to this general rule. As proven by Johnny Depp’s massive Pirates of the Caribbean 6 fee proves, the Disney behemoth is one of the most popular and profitable action franchises in cinema history.
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Ever since 2003’s The Curse of the Black Pearl became a huge hit, the Pirates of the Caribbean series has been one of the most lucrative franchises in cinema history. With even its most comparatively disappointing outing earning over $700 million, the franchise is a massive financial success. However, despite this, the success of thePirates of the Caribbean movies never prompted a revival of the pirate adventure sub-genre more broadly. The reasons for this are numerous and complicated and they are inextricably tied up in the history of pirate movies as a specific sub-genre, the historical action-adventure genre more broadly, and the difficulties involved in replicating the Pirates of
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