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The Pirates are minor antagonists in the 2016 3D animated Belgian adventure comedy film, Robinson Crusoe (known in the United States as The Wild Life). They are a band of cutthroat pirates who serve under Long John Silver. There are a total 9 pirates: one of them serving as the bosun, another as the helmsman, and another as the night watch.
Long John Silver was voiced by Dennis O'Connor, Bosun was voiced by Ron Allen, one of the pirates serving as a night watch was voiced by George Babbit, and the others' voice actors remain unknown.
Personality[]
Like all pirates, they are very intimidating, threatening, violent, cruel, mean, aggressive, stubborn, selfish, careless, remorseless, arrogant, ruthless, somewhat merciless, and temperamental. However, they can prove to be very incompetent and gullible when they fail to kill Crusoe properly and when they are easily tricked by Tuesday mimicking their captain's voice to cease fire on him.
Biography[]
One night, while sailing aboard their own pirate ship, the pirates are sleeping after a few drinks until one of them serving as the night watch is inadvertently awakened by their own ratter while chasing and trying to catch a pair of mice named Cecil and Rufus. After the night watch violently kicks the feline off the main mast, he suddenly notices and alerts everyone about a signal fire off the starboard bow on a small, uncharted island.
The Bosun enters their captain, Long John Silver's cabin to wake and inform him on the matter despite a temporary violent wake. Through his telescope, the Captain notices a house on fire and an unconscious young man hanging for life and supposedly being attacked by "wild beasts". So, the pirates are ordered by Silver to "rescue" the stranger by firing cannons to drive the "wild beasts" away and bring him and anything of possibly great value on the island back onboard, unaware that the "beasts" are actually the latter's own animal friends.
Having reached the island in the morning, 2 pirates violently wake the stranger up introducing himself as Robinson Crusoe. After one of the pirates reveals how they "rescued" Crusoe from the "beasts", another one tries to check for a possible gold tooth within his mouth before the latter can explain the situation, but to no avail. Then, the pirates take Crusoe back to their captain aboard ship.
In the Captain's cabin, bosun, Silver, and Crusoe are joined up by one of the latter's animal friends, Tuesday (formerly Mac) the scarlet macaw. At first, Bosun and Silver try to do away with Tuesday until Crusoe reassures them that he's with him. Amused yet impressed by the bird's ability to speak and imitate people, Silver spares him then asks Crusoe to tell him if there is anything of great value found on the island, but to no avail. Then, Silver and his men are treated to a fictitious version of Crusoe's story of how he ended up and survived during the past few months on the island including his last battle with a couple of ratters led by Mal and May while Tuesday recounts what really happened to Rufus and Cecil after Crusoe puts him outside for privacy.
After Crusoe finishes his story, the pirates are ordered to set sail and Crusoe and his bird are allowed to bunk down below even after their captain is amused by the latter's fantastical yarn. However, when Crusoe states how happy he will be to return and see England again after so long, the pirates and their captain laugh at the very idea of it under fear of the gallows as the Captain reveals that he intends to recruit Crusoe as one of his own against the latter's own free will. Despite Crusoe's pleas and protests, the pirates are ordered by the Captain to take Crusoe on deck to carry his weight under threat of death by walking the plank or worse.
Later, the pirates are enjoying some rum while singing, dancing, and throwing weapons at a tied up chicken until one of them notices and alerts the others about Crusoe trying to steal one of their rowboats and jump ship. Then, Bosun shoots the lock off a chest containing weapons, which the pirates use to try in vain to attack and kill Crusoe with. After Crusoe barely escapes from the pirate ship with his life even without Tuesday's help and starts paddling back to the island on a makeshift raft, Bosun and the pirates arm themselves with guns, pistols, and rifles and begin shooting at Crusoe in vain, but just as they are about to deliver the final shot after being reprimanded by Bosun for their incompetence to shoot straight, they are suddenly interrupted by the Captain and Bosun is ordered to enter his cabin immediately, which he does without hesitation while the rest are threatened with 10 lashes from his whip unless they get back to work, unaware that it's actually Tuesday mimicking him in order to trick them into ceasing fire on Crusoe. However, when the real Captain comes out on deck, the deception is discovered, but luckily, Tuesday barely manages to escape the Captain's wrath, leaving him in frustration with a single tail feather instead. Then, one of the pirates informs the Captain of Crusoe's escape and asks if they should send some men after him, but the Captain simply denies it and allows Crusoe to leave alive and in one piece despite one of his men wanting to blow the latter to smithereens with a cannon shot, thinking that Crusoe probably hasn't got a chance of surviving the remainder of his life on that long, forgotten island, whether the "wild beasts" devour him first or not.
Eventually, the pirates and their captain discover what's left of the ratters including Mal and May eating inside the former's cabin and decide to adopt them as their new pets/ratters next to the one they already have instead whereas Crusoe happily returns and reunites with the rest of his animal friends on the island including the mice, Rufus and Cecil from the pirate ship rescued by Tuesday from the ratters earlier and proceed to repair their home together.
Trivia[]
- Despite their captain's name being Long John Silver, they are hardly the same characters from the novel, Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.