The original scene was very easy to read. Pirates rounded up the town's women to sell as brides to the pirates. Although the larger woman was up for sale first, the redhead was generating all the attention and she owned it. If you study the scene further, you can find even more details such as a lot of these women were older and seemed to be happy to be finding a husband as they never found one on the island. You'll also see, with the exception of the redhead, wearing nightgowns because they've been awoken in the middle of the night. Because she is not wearing a night gown and is instead dressed up with makeup, it's a detail that lends itself to the overall gag of her wanting and taking all the attention. Personally, I've always seen the redhead as a middle aged woman who's trying to make herself seem younger but the portrait in the caverns could easily refute this idea.
The new scene isn't difficult to read per se, but it's clunky. Pirates have rounded up the French nobles in this Spanish colonial town and are having the nobles bring the pirates their possessions to auction off. That alone, you can already start to see the cracks. For one, why are there French nobles in a Spanish colonial town? We know they're French because of their fancy attire, but why are they wearing such fancy attire if they were just pulled out of their beds in the middle of the night? You also have to ask yourself, why are the nobles even present? Logically, the pirates should have plundered their homes and then sold off what they took. The nobles should not be bringing these items to them. Also, the items they are bringing are illogical such as a chandelier and a grandfather clock. I understand their attempt at comedy, but it falls flat.
There is one aspect of this scene that seems to be overlooked and that's that the Auctioneer and Redd are holding two separate auctions right next to each other (Auctioneer selling hens and Redd selling rum). However, this makes the nobles' placement even more odd. If these two are holding separate auctions and are competing against each other, who are the nobles giving their goods to? Also why are some nobles giving them rum and hens while others are giving them busts and paintings?
The new scene simply raises so many questions that it can only answer by saying "nobody pays attention to the details, it's only a 15 second scene" which is the exact opposite of how Disney became the juggernaut it is today. With so many inconsistencies, a complete lack of humor, the removal of Paul Frees, and the disrespect shown to those who worked on this project in the 1960's, I can say nothing about this scene except that it's a disgrace. Unfortunately, I must confess, it's not enough for me to abandon Disneyland all together (only the complete removal of Pirates of the Caribbean could really ever make me do that, I think).
