Big Trouble in Little China vs. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Did you know that Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl is a ripoff of John Carpenter's Big Trouble in Little China? Let me tell you why.
After his love (Miao Yin; Elizabeth Swann) is abducted by an evil immortal (David Lo Pan; Captain Hector Barbossa), a young man (Wang Chi; Will Turner) teams up with a man named Jack (Jack Burton; Jack Sparrow) to rescue her. The two main characters compete against each other when they first meet (Burton and Wang play fan-tan, a Chinese gambling game; Will and Sparrow engage in a swordfight). Jack's mind is set on reclaiming his vehicle (Porkchop Express; Black Pearl) after it is stolen by a legendary villain (Lo Pan steals the Porkchop Express after Jack accidentally runs him over; Sparrow's crew mutinied against him and marooned him on an island). During a confrontation with antagonists, the two main characters get trapped in close quarters while underwater (Burton and Wang get trapped in a flooding elevator; Sparrow and Will get trapped in an overturned boat). With the help of an older man (Egg Shen; Joshamee Gibbs) with knowledge on the lore surrounding the film, the two main characters go on a quest to rescue the female lead. On the outside, the villain looks fine, but he is a cursed old man (long ago, the Emperor of China cursed Lo Pan with incorporeality; Barbossa's crew stole some cursed gold, causing them to turn into skeletons at night), and needs to sacrifice the female lead in order to regain his mortality (Lo Pan needs to marry and/or sacrifice a green-eyed woman; Barbossa needs the blood of the legendary pirate Bootstrap Bill Turner, but since he is [supposedly] dead, he turns his attention to his descendant). At the climax, the heroes interrupt the villain's ceremony in an underground cavern (Burton, Wang, and the Chang Sing attack Lo Pan's wedding, leading to a battle; Sparrow parleys with Barbossa in order to win back the Pearl, leading to a battle), and Jack defeats the villain with a blow to the chest (Burton throws his boot knife into Lo Pan's chest; Sparrow shoots Barbossa with the bullet he was given when he was marooned), just as the villain's immortality is lifted (Lo Pan regains his body; Will returns the last of the cursed gold). In the end, there is one last surprise (an orangutan-like monster from earlier stows away on Jack's newly-reclaimed Porkchop Express as he drives off; Barbossa's pet monkey picks up a piece of the gold, cursing itself once again).


It's the same story!



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