Alas, far more than any members of the audience.

Pussy, King of The Pirates is crying out for a feature-length movie.

I'll get right on that, as soon as I finish this Wonder Woman script.

I've always wanted to see a good movie made about Anne Bonny.

Wasn't there an awful pirate movie with Geena Davis in the captain's chair?

Yeah, it was awful. But it had a great opening pun. Watch through the pun, and if you want a few seconds past as she strolls off with a monkey on her shoulder. Don't be sucked into watching more, cause that will time in your life you will never get back. (Youtube link) [link]

Wasn't there an awful pirate movie with Geena Davis in the captain's chair?

Hey now, some of us find Cutthroat Island to be a fun, dumb movie. Sure, given my choice of recent pirate movies, I'll watch the PotC trilogy and Muppet Treasure Island instead, but Cutthroat Island isn't ALL bad.

Well, I wouldn't throw out the whole movie. Fast forward to the bits with Peter Boyle (or his equivalent), Geena's character's uncle. There's a fight scene that's fun in the middle.

Muppet Treasure Island rocks like granite. "This is my only number!"

Oh and a thought about why the men would accept Madame Blood as Captain Blood. She is the one who spots the pirate ship, and rouses them to take the chance. She is the best fighter and turns the battle for the Pirate ship so that they succeed in taking it. So by the time the question of who should be captain arise she has already demonstrated that she is by far the best person for the job. Desire to survive can overcome a lot of prejudices. In addition some of the men in the crew could have been transported for Sodomy. Does not automatically mean they have fewer prejudices about gender roles than average, but that could make someone more open to idea. Plus that means she leads a crew that consists in part of actual butt-pirates.

I'm not sure about making her an innkeeper. She could acquire medical skills from a folk-healer (probably less likely to kill the patients than a 17th century doctor). But where would she learn sword fighting if she were not a gentleman's daughter. Perhaps her father could a former gentleman, reduced to being an innkeeper. He teaches her swordfighting because he has no son to pass the skills on to, and she learns healing from a local midwife.

Lord, but Top Gun is just tragically bad.

But Lord, Tom Skerritt was prettttttttty

Just posed the "cast Captain Blood" problem to the DH. His opinion? "There's no Olivia de Havilland, so I'm not going to see it." (pause) "Hugh Jackman. Or Viggo Mortensen. Someone who could play the intelligent and abused side of Peter Blood as well as the action."