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Influence:Piracy

davidsteinmoss
Dec 10, 2015
2 min read

With the skull and the sea being a key feature of the film, the link with the devon and cornwall coast with piracy is a long one and i also took influence for the period series Black Sails. The intro in particular is particularly memorable due to it’s hurdy gurdy music provided by Bear Mcree which blends in so well with the visuals.. These visuals are provided by the most fantastically detailed sculptures of Kris Kuksi will. The scenes picture death as black skeletons and in a Baroque motifs, Gothic architecture, and Rococo style.

The link between Piracy and memento mori is also evident in the famous pirate flag, this skull and crossbones and it’s variants were meant to have been influenced by grave stones at the time

Five has been lost predates back the plain black flag ship would fly to warn another surrender at once, or else it would be replaced by the red flag or the 'jolie rouge', meaning no quarter given (no mercy). This French name may be where the term Jolly Roger originated. The possibility comes from the word Roger in late 17th-century England the word ‘Rouge’ with in association with the word rogue and the very, limiting vagrancy England Roger sprang from this user's language for vagabond, beggar or vagrant, also another possibility comes from the fact that the devil was sometimes referred to as old Roger, so the flag suggested the rest of the devil

Most pirate flags installed across bones and skeletons, meant to warn death if the victim did not surrender maybe symbols were probably borrowed from gravestones at the time.

Pirate flag: Flags depicted memento mori scenes with skulls and hearts taken from graves to encourage quick surrender by conveying the message that no mercy would be given.