30 CURIOSIDADES FLIPANTES DE PIRATAS DEL CARIBE: LA MALDICIÓN DE LA PERLA NEGRA

Year 2003: you’re about 8 years old and you’re playing in the schoolyard with your friends pretending to be Legolas, Aragon, and Gimly, blasting orcs in Lord of the Rings. But suddenly your friend arrives and says he’s [Jack] Captain Jack Sparrow. Obviously, you really don’t give a damn and shoot him with an arrow because you’re fucking Legolas. You don’t give a damn about pirates, but you find out your friend was referring to a movie that also features the actor who plays Legolas, and he’s also a pirate. So the next day you go to the cinema with your parents, see the greatest movie in history and when you get to school on Monday, you smash your best friend’s head in with a glass bottle, because the only Captain Jack Sparrow here is you. That’s how powerful this movie was. I even had a Jack Sparrow poster in my room, but it wasn’t based on any book or comic. [goblin] Blow out my candle Not even in any video game, it was based on a damn Disneyland attraction. [you] What?! And it was a huge success. And you also know what’s going to be a success? The epic God of War 1 video that I’ll release next Sunday, August 3rd on my secondary channel, telling the story of the first game. So… [Captain Sparrow] And you, cabin boy? Hey, where did this one come from? [Captain Sparrow] Give it a like if you want JWulen to also make the video for the second Pirates of the Caribbean movie [Captain Sparrow] and subscribe to join my crew. [JWulen] Well, my crew [Captain Sparrow] is asking you, Captain Jack Sparrow himself. [Captain Sparrow] We’re already leaving for Tortuga, ready to find… [JWulen] Hey, that’s my line! [Captain Sparrow] 30 Amazing Details about Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. A ship emerges from the fog… and on the prow of the ship, the figurehead is made up of a lion and a unicorn surrounding a shield. This was the coat of arms of the British Navy. The lion represented England and the unicorn represented Scotland, since this is a ship of the English Navy and its name is “Dauntless.” [Elisabeth] Yo-ho yo-ho, a pirate’s life for me… What Elisabeth sings is the song that plays in the Disneyland Pirates of the Caribbean attraction on which this movie is based. [Mr. Obvious] That’s so obvious I’m not even going to say it’s obvious. It also embodies Elizabeth’s childhood fascination with the pirate life, unaware that she would one day become king of the pirates in the third movie. [Elisabeth] Hoist the flags! And this is the song that Elizabeth and Will’s son sings at the end of the trilogy. And Mr. Gibbs appears, but younger, of course. He was once a sailor in the service of the English Navy. In fact, on one occasion, Jack’s father, Edward Dick, and Jack himself as a teenager, were captured by the English Navy, and it was Mr. Gibbs who helped them escape when he was still a British sailor. But at some point in his life, he deserted the British Navy and decided to take up the pirate life. He is always Jack Sparrow’s first mate and his most trusted man. But it is true that while the other pirates in the saga are more chaotic and rough, it is clear that Mr. Gibbs still possesses some of that military discipline over the other pirates, as he sometimes speaks like a petty officer and not like a buccaneer. Commodore Norrington appears as a young man alongside Elizabeth’s father, Weatherby Swann, in the background. They are heading for Port Royal, as Elizabeth’s father has been appointed governor. The girl here is only 12, but Norrington is 20. [Teenager] You look like a potential *censor*. Gibbs makes no secret of his fondness for drink, as he carries his hip flask in his pocket. [Mr. Gibbs] It’s bad luck to have a woman on board This is an old sailor’s saying. In the past, it was believed that women on board a ship would distract the crew with their beauty (something really inappropriate), causing errors in navigation and ship duties. In addition, it was believed that they angered the sea, who, jealous, would cause storms and tempests upon seeing a woman on board the ship, since a sailor’s only wife was the sea. Well, hanging. In the age of piracy, most pirates were sentenced to hanging. They were executed near the sea or on docks so people would know they were pirates and their bodies were left hanging in cages, sometimes for years, to remind other pirates of the fate that awaited them. The boy floating away on the plank is William Turner and the ship he was traveling on is the one little Will stowed away on to find his father, Bill “Boots,” who abandoned him and his mother to become a pirate. Will’s mother died in England from an illness, so the boy goes looking for him now Bill “The Boots”, his father, sent a piece of the Aztec gold of Cortés to the boy to keep it, which is the one that the neck now wears and that Elizabeth takes from him, thus condemning Barbossa and the rest of the crew to remain cursed forever in search of that piece, because Bill never wanted to betray his friend Jack Sparrow in the mutiny that Barbossa made to snatch him in the Black Pearl And this was his revenge, Barbossa found out and tied Bill to a cannon so that he would drown And at the bottom of the sea, Bill made a deal with Davy Jones to save him from dying in exchange for serving for 100 years in the Flying Dutchman. Ah! damn kid, what a scare damit The Atec gold coin of Cortés has this design to try to emulate an Olmec calendar, specifically that of the Sun Stone. It was said to be a gladiatorial stone to which a prisoner was tied and had to fight against other Mexica warriors until they surrendered or died as a sacrifice. That’s why this coin is shaped like a calendar and they must make a sacrifice to break the curse. But they look nothing like real Olmec or Aztec coins. Elizabeth kept the Aztec gold piece to protect Will and so he wouldn’t be considered a pirate, because back then even children could be hanged, at least in this universe. Elizabeth watches as the Black Pearl disappears into the fog that always surrounds it. But originally the Black Pearl was going to be called “The Wicked Wench,” which is the name of the pirate ship in the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction at Disneyland. In the movies, it’s the name the pearl had before it was the Black Pearl. This was the ship that Jack Sparrow captained when he worked for the East India Company. To him, it symbolized freedom, but Jack refused to participate in the slave trade. So, on the orders of Lord Becket, the villain of the following films, the East India Company burned and sank Jack’s ship to the bottom of the sea forever. Jack made a deal with David Jones to retrieve his ship from the ocean floor, thus becoming the Black Pearl, so named for the ship’s distinctive black color, caused by the fire that consumed it. That’s why it looks like a ghost ship with torn sails, and the fog surrounding it is the smoke it emitted that day when they burned it because they sank it to the bottom of the sea. It’s a cursed ship, but one that Jack hasn’t been able to captain in these past 10 years because of mutiny. Although DavyJones will also reclaim his soul in the second film. Elizabeth wakes up and the small bell we see on her bedside table was used to extinguish candles like this one, collects under the false bottom of the drawer the piece of Aztec gold that judging by the dust that surrounds it, she hadn’t noticed it for years, until today. This is Port Royal, which was the seat of the British government in Jamaica. [man] Oh, I almost forgot.
[woman] Are you making me viceroy? Although half the city sank into the sea because of the tsunamis. [Elisabeth] Women in London must have learned not to breathe Wearing a corset could be very dangerous in this era if it was as tight as these maids are putting it on Elizabeth It caused breathing problems and fainting spells like the one she will have later. It also displaced internal organs and caused bone deformities, back problems, chest amorphisms, a real instrument of torture. I love the humor in these movies. [Governor Swann] Commodore Norrington os gonna be very pleased with this The sword is a present for Norrington’s promotion to Commodore. A Commodore in the Navy is someone who is in charge of more than three warships, yet he flatters Norrington to marry his daughter Elisabeth. At that time, love wasn’t important; parents married their daughters to those who could bring the most prestige and fortune to their family. That’s why it’s so significant that at the end of the film, the father accepts the relationship between Will, a blacksmith, and Elizabeth. This same sword that Will presents to him now is the same one that Davy Jones will use at the end of the trilogy to kill Will. [Governor] My compliments on to your master. Will makes that face because his master is an old drunk who does nothing. But the master blacksmith is Will. Elizabeth and Will obviously love each other, but Will doesn’t even try because she’s out of his reach. He’s a blacksmith and she’s the daughter of the island’s governor. [Goku] You look so pretty, daughter of a… And God appears, Captain Jack Sparrow, perched on the mast like a sparrow and the first thing he sees in the distance is his target, Commodore Norrington’s ship, with which they plan to escape later, since he urgently needs another ship. This small boat that Jack sinks is Ana María’s, who later breaks his face for this. and it sinks because when they fled Tortuga with it, one of the two ladies-in-waiting who slapped him upon arriving on the island, Scarlet, removed four nails from the boat in case he ran away when they got married. And so it was, since he deceived both ladies by saying that he would marry them, but in reality he sold them at auction and fled with this ship. [Goku] And that’s why I admire you. Both the auction and the ladies-in-waiting are a nod to those that also appear in the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction. The dock manager makes sure that every ship docked here is registered in exchange for money and the child who accompanies him is a slave, since child exploitation was rife, especially if it was ne… these are three shillings minted in 1711, the very time in which the film takes place. [corrupt] Welcome to Port Royal, Mr. Smith But Jack takes all the takings. The soldiers in red are redcoats from 18th-century British infantry regiments. Elizabeth faints, and Jack rescues her. As she falls, Jack says, ” [Jack] …and then they made me their chief.” In episode two, a tribe of cannibals makes Jack their chief as well, then tries to eat him. So, Jack already had experience with this indigenous thing. But upon coming into contact with the sea, the piece of Aztec gold pulsates in the cursed crew of the Black Pearl who are still searching for it. That’s why they hadn’t found it yet, because Elizabeth had hidden it in a drawer. It’s the sea that activates the gold piece and the coin’s GPS locator. The weather changes completely, because they’re coming. In fact, the clouds that appear over Jack and Elizabeth when he takes her out of the water form an enormous hand with fingers looming over them. And now we’re beginning to see the same fog that was there when Elizabeth met Will, the one with the Black Pearl. [Jack] Clearly you’ve never been to Singapore. Singapore is where the third film begins, in the domain of the pirate lord Shao Feng, but Jack says that because it was back then one of the busiest ports in Asia. Prostitution was legal there. [Slut] Oh, wow, that interests me, huh? And these English corsets were the main garment these escorts wore to make them more attractive, because they lifted their bustlines. And Jack has a lot of experience with escorts, so he knows how to remove Elizabeth’s corset and what was wrong with her. Jack recognizes the piece of Aztec gold from Cortez, since he was the one who found Isla de Muerta and the treasure that started the mutiny that lost him his ship. The P he has engraved on his arm is the brand that the East India Company left to brand pirates with a hot iron. And Jack’s tattoo above is of a sparrow flying over the sea at sunset, since Sparrow means sparrow. But this symbol also testifies that Jack has sailed across all the world’s oceans several times. The gun only has one bullet because it’s the one Jack saved for Barbossa after he was abandoned with that same gun and a bullet to take his own life. His compass points only to what you most desire, That’s why now when the Commodore opens it we can see how the needle spins and points directly at Jack. Well, for Norrington, capturing this infamous pirate would mean a new promotion or more prestige. If he truly loved Elizabeth that much, the needle would point in her direction. But Norrington always cared more about his reputation and the Navy. Jack’s pistol in this film is the only real pistol there is, a 1765 flintlock, although they only used the real pistol in the scenes where he had to fire it; this one here now is the replica. What Jack wears hanging from his headscarf is a marlin pick made from deer shin bone. Sailors used it to mend or repair sails, to separate the ship’s cables and rigging, to undo knots… And the red stain on Jack’s cheek is a little inside joke between Johnny Depp and the saga’s makeup team, since they invented it for Jack’s character. It’s a syphilis sore, a sexually transmitted disease that Jack contracted from always being around so many escorts. [Jack] You’ll always remember this day as the day you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow [director] Wow, now this is cinema. Jack on the run is using his circus skills and while he’s running away, we can see that he’s running and moving very strangely, right? A lot of people think he’s always drunk, but he’s not always. What happens to him is that Jack has sea legs syndrome, like a lot of other sailors. Whenever we see him walking on land, he walks like a drunk, but if we see him walking on the deck of a ship, oh, he walks as straight as an arrow. That’s because Jack has spent so much time at sea that he doesn’t get seasick on any ship or lose his balance because his brain, inner ear, and body have already adapted to the rocking of the ship on the sea, but he’s not used to walking on land, which doesn’t move. That’s why he looks like a drunk, because his body unconsciously moves to compensate for the swaying of the waves and they shoot at Jack as he runs, even though there are civilians in between. Jack hides in the smithy and the sign reads “J. Brown” John Brown is Will’s drunken master blacksmith. Jack breaks his annoying handcuffs with some physics and a donkey to now meet Will. [Jack] You look familiar… have I threatened you before? Will looks familiar to Jack because he resembles his father, Bill “Boots”, when he was young, when he was still Jack’s adventure partner. In the background we see some strange masks, these are Inquisition torture masks for pirates and criminals. Those punished were often made to walk around in these masks to shame them in front of the whole town. So yes, Will also forged instruments of torture for the British, because for him pirates are the worst. Will is good with a sword, after all, he spends hours practicing with the ones he forges, but… [Jack] How’s your footwork? Jack tells him this about footwork so Will doesn’t notice how Jack doesn’t want to fight, just to throw him off, he deliberately switches sides and spins around him to have the door behind him and be able to reach it to escape. Here Will throws the sword at Jack to prevent him from escaping and hand him over to justice, but at the end of this film it is Will who throws a sword again, but this time to save Jack from the hanging and allow him to escape. The donkey reacts to the red-hot iron, due to the damage Jack had done to it earlier to make it move. Right here you can see on the wrist the tattoo that Orlando Bloom got after filming The Lord of the Rings, since he played Legolas. Legolas means “nine” in Elvish, in honor of the nine members that made up the Fellowship of the Ring. And Pirates of the Caribbean is from 2003, the same year The Return of the King came out, so he’s the pirate Legolas. That’s what I love about these movies: the swordplay, the fights, the action, and how they used ingenuity and the environment to create a circus-like spectacle. Nowadays, it’s all CGI, a green background, no interaction with anything, everything is fake. They don’t make movies like that anymore, but even though Will is good, you can tell he’s too innocent. Jack plays dirty and has more experience; he’s a pirate, and Will will be his disciple in that. [Jack] This shot is not meant for you. Exactly. He’s saving that last bullet for Barbossa, and he won’t use it until the end of the movie. [Commodore] Excellent work, Mr. Brown And once again, the blacksmith takes credit for everything. This gag of the prisoners trying to attract the dog with the keys is one of the most iconic scenes depicted in the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction at Disneyland. What warms the maid is a bed warmer, which she puts on her feet to keep it from getting cold when Elizabeth gets in. [Elisabeth] Yes, it was terrifying. What happened today with Jack is surely the most exciting thing Elizabeth has experienced since she met Will. This life of nobility and rules doesn’t suit her. It’s not what she wants, which is why she’s so attracted to pirates. But the Black Pearl arrives. [pirate] For almost ten years Exactly, 10 years ago, Barbossa kicked Jack off his ship, and ever since then, he’s been trying to get it back. The pirates ravage Port Royal, like in the Disney attraction and reach the governor’s mansion where Elizabeth is. [Elisabeth] According to the Brethren’s pirate code the Brethren’s court is the pirate council convened in the third film. At the first meeting, it was decided to imprison the goddess Calypso in human form, whom we meet in the third film. And Elizabeth knows so much about pirates because they’ve always been her hidden fascination since she was a child. She probably secretly read about it in books, or Mr. Gibbs himself told her about it. More sabotage, looting, and pure comedy. [Jack] So there’s a curse. Jack didn’t experience the curse because he was abandoned on an island shortly after discovering the island and the treasure. Then, Bill “Boots” stole the gold piece he sent to Will, condemning only them. So his bad luck spared him from suffering this curse. A punishment for those who mutinied and followed Barbossa. The moon sets again, a clue that this reveals the true nature of the Black Pearl Pirates, because the moon was just entering Jack’s cell through the window. And the figurehead of the Pearl is the wicked girl or the Wicked Wench, a nod to the ship that originally was and on which you can still see the marks of the fire that burned it. [king] Silence! [hero?] Haha, the patriarchy. The black man is Bosun, Barbossa’s right-hand man in this film, but who doesn’t appear again in the other films. [Captain Barbossa] Miss Turner Elizabeth is shocked because the pirates think she is Bill “Boots”‘s daughter, since Barbossa sent Bill to the bottom of the sea, and they take her. The next morning, behind Will, in the background, we see a daughter and her mother mourning the death of her husband. In the harbor, in the background, you can still see the English ships destroyed because of the Pearl In prison, Jack has broken the dog’s bone and is trying to use it as a lockpick to open the cell door. [Jack] And you want to turn a pirate yourself? [William] Never Never say never, Will ends up being the new Flying Dutchman at the end of this trilogy. Jack decides to help Will when he finds out his last name is Turner, because with him he will have the blood he needs to end the curse of the Black Pearl. What Will does when he uses the bench to pry open the cell, Jack will do again in the third film to escape from the Flying Dutchman’s cell, since he learns it from Will there. When they infiltrate underwater, Jack carries his beloved pistol on his shoulder, stuck to the ceiling, upside down. He does this to prevent the gunpowder from getting wet and spoiled, preventing him from firing that last bullet reserved for Barbossa. And the box Will steps on is for catching mollusks. Hey, it’s the boy we saw at the beginning in the harbor fishing. [Music] Black, black, black. And that same box he’s stepping on along with the rope is the one they’ll use now to climb onto the Dauntless, the ship from the beginning where Will met Elizabeth. [silly] This ship can not be crewed by two men. Of course not, Jack just wants to lure them in. The English think they’re nefarious pirates because they can see how Will and Jack can’t even lower the sails or steer the ship. They think they’re useless. But the ship Jack wants is the Interceptor, the only vessel capable of having any chance of catching up with the Black Pearl in speed. That’s why they change ships, because the English have already prepared it for them so they can sail alone, and they leave them the Dauntless, the unprepared ship so they can’t even follow them. [done] That’s got to be the best pirate I’ve ever seen Oh, yes, he is. They reach Tortuga, a Haitian island that once existed and was the pirate paradise portrayed in the film. But every corner of this sequence hides a nod to Puerto Dorado, the island that appears in the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction and where we can see the pirates firing their weapons, the woman who lets one look up her skirt. Scarlett, who is the redhead in the attraction, the one who drinks rum from a barrel full of holes and even Mr. Gibbs sleeping with the pigs is also on the attraction. The Black Pearl always carries with it that cursed fog, the same one that surrounds the island of Muerta. Not only does it make its prey unable to know where it’s coming from, but they also can’t see it flee. That’s why no ship has ever managed to hunt it down or confront it. [Barbossa] You must be hungry. They’re preparing a whole banquet for Elizabeth, because the ship’s hold is full, since they can’t eat or drink anything because it doesn’t feed them, they’re cursed. And Barbossa doesn’t touch a single bite of anything on the table. Just look at the way he watches Elizabeth eat, as if watching her eat feeds him. Because he longs to taste the food or the wine. And he’s a pro because watch how she pours the wineglass while the rocking of the ship makes the glass slide on the table. [Barbossa] And the apples… [Elisabeth] Poisoned? Snow White reference Barbossa tells Elizabeth the lore of Aztec gold. It turns out that during the conquest of America, the Aztecs offered Cortés an ark containing 882 pieces of gold so that Cortés and his armies would retreat and finally stop massacring the Aztec people. But Cortés knew that if they were capable of giving them all that gold, there was much more. And it is even believed that this gold came from the city of El Dorado, so the Spanish did what they always do: steal the gold. (And we would do it again.) [Barbossa] The pagan gods… The pagan gods are mentioned for the first time here in the saga. One of them is Calypso, the goddess of the seas, Aunt Dalma in chapter 2. They even made the food on the table, the plates, and everything move with the swaying of the ship. [Barbossa] nor the comppany of a woman… They can’t even put it on or feel pleasure. It’s the virgin’s curse and Barbossa’s damn monkey bites the coin when she gives it to him to see if it’s real. What gypsy [Barbossa] An apple? Yeah, Barbossa loves apples. [crazy] Apple, really, apple? That’s why when he dies at the end of the movie we see him drop one. He always carried one with him because he wanted to try one when they broke the curse to finally taste something. That’s why at the end of the second movie, when he reappears, he’s eating the apple that Jack, when he killed him, didn’t let him taste. Elizabeth stabs Barbossa in the chest, but we don’t see any blood gushing out, nor do we see him complain of pain, because they can’t feel it either, they’re empty, dead in life for all eternity. [Dracula] I am empty, hollow. When I go outside, the Moon reveals its true form. And the CGI is from 2003, just cinema. And we see two pirates playing an accordion and a violin. The pirate Elizabeth is fighting with the helm is the same one Will thought he killed with the sign falling from the store in Port Royal. The brave crew of brave souls that Mr. Gibbs has assembled are either souls who no longer want to live or pirates desperate for some money so they can go on a suicide mission. [Ana María] You stole my boat! The boat from the beginning… and Jack’s compass points to what he desires most, the Black Pearl. That’s why he can always find Isla Muerta, he’s been there. We see that on the stern of the Black Pearl there are two statues of Triton, the son of Poseidon, the messenger of the seas and the one in charge of calming the waters or causing terrible storms. So many ships in the 18th century had his image so that the god would calm the turbulent waters during a storm. The ship graveyard we see is of all the ships that tried to reach the Isla de Muerta in search of Cortés’ gold and failed. [Mr. Cotton’s parrot] Dead men tell no tales An old pirate proverb that was used to justify the murder of a witness who had seen a crime committed by a pirate and the title of the fifth film in the saga [ghost] Jack Sparrow. Jack Sparrow Jack Sparrow. Mr. Gibbs tells Will about the mutiny, and yes, abandonment on a deserted island was a fairly common punishment among pirates, but the crew mutinied because Jack was very different from other pirate captains. While others sought gold, wealth, women, and wine, Jack embarked on adventures in search of legends and myths, intangible things or things they didn’t even know existed. He was overly eccentric and got the entire crew involved in his messes, which often left them empty-handed. This greatly diminished the crew’s morale and further undermined the others’ trust in Jack as captain, while Barbossa promised them all the gold, women, and booze they wanted. [Barbossa in political mode] We’ll be able to fly, the ladies will be cheaper, our *censored* will grow bigger… For Jack, his greatest treasure is the sea, freedom, and setting out in search of the unknown. Barbossa is a more traditional and greedy captain, but the greed they accumulated with Jack as captain was everyone’s downfall when they saw the Aztec gold. The treasure room on Isla de Muerta was inspired by the treasure room in the Disneyland Park attraction in Orlando. But Cortés’s stone ark has the god Huiracocha engraved on it, as he carries a staff in each hand. Huiracocha is one of the most powerful and important deities to the Incas, as he was the creator of all things, including the sun and the moon, which reveals the true form of those cursed by this gold. All the treasures we see here are those Barbossa and his crew have been accumulating and looting over the years, storing them here, waiting to be able to use and spend them when they finally break the curse. And the skeleton Will sees now in the cave with a crab and a sword stuck in its back is the same one also in the attraction. Imagine having to search for the 882 gold pieces you spent on girls and wine all over the Caribbean and parts of the world. It’s understandable that it took years to gather everything, but why do they only need the blood of Bill “Boots”? Because he was the first of the crew to steal a piece of Cortés’ treasure, thus cursing everyone without them knowing it before, of course, that’s why his blood, or that of his descendants, can break the curse, because he is the one who stole from the pagan gods. They don’t kill Elizabeth here because they only need a few drops, but besides, once the curse is broken, surely the entire crew would want to get even with her, who haven’t do it for more than 10 years. Barbossa’s karma returns, because his own crew is trying to mutiny against him now, just as they did with Jack. [Jack] Parley! The concept of parliament existed among pirates, yes, but there was no such thing as a pirate code as such, because after all, they were ruffians who often betrayed each other for a couple of coins. Now we see the row of oars that Will left in the sea when he stole them. In every crew we always see some Asian or some… [Music] Black, black… It makes sense that there is a variety of races, since many slaves who managed to escape from the Indian Company and the slave trade turned to piracy [Jack] Take what you can
[Gibbs] Give nothing back On the Pearl Jack talks to Barbossa and eats one of his apples in his face, puts his feet on the table… he is saying with his body language that this ship is his and on top of that he enjoys the apple in his face like, “Mmm, how delicious.” That’s why Barbossa then throws it away in a rage. The monkey runs to his post as soon as the first mate arrives, as he’s just another cabin boy on the ship. And although the interceptor is dumping all its cargo to go faster and is the fastest ship in the entire English navy, the Pearl is already catching up. When they load the cannons, the bald dwarf puts Gibbs’s hip flask inside and when he fires it, it reaches Jack’s cell in the Pearl, but it’s empty. You can see them stuck by the black pearl, the cutlery and forks they used as shrapnel, the two cannonballs with a chain. It’s a special type of ammunition called chain shot; it was used to reach the mast or rigging of the opposing ship and fully utilize it. That’s why they now fire and break the interceptor’s mast. And the small cannon we see them using is a pedrero or swivel cannon; they were of smaller caliber and were only used during boardings, as they are now. And Jack chases Barbossa’s monkey with his medallion, moving like an ape too. [Barbossa] We named the monkey “Jack.” The punishment of making Elizabeth walk on the plank and fall into the sea was a very rare punishment to see among pirates. The victim was tied up and made to jump into the sea to die by drowning or being devoured by sharks. But pirates didn’t go for such psychological torture or walks, it was rare to see. They preferred to kill you and that’s it Jack asks for his pistol so they can return his belongings and with them the compass that points to what he wants. Jack says that the first time he escaped from this deserted island it was because some alcohol traffickers returned to this cache of rum they kept on the island that Jack found and they rescued him. But the cobwebs attest that they haven’t been around here for a long time. [Jack] They’ve long been out of business. The laws against piracy have become much tougher. The traffickers were probably executed by the English or are at the bottom of the sea. [Elisabeth] The Spanish men… Yes, it’s not just English, the Spanish were the first to arrive along with the Portuguese. [Jagger] Spain! When they toast, you can clearly see that Elizabeth is pretending to drink, because the alcohol doesn’t even reach her lips or touch the neck of the bottle. [Dross] What a dog! Elizabeth gets him drunk to burn all the rum and make a huge column of smoke so they can be found, but it almost burns down half the island. [Jack] Why is the rum gone? Pirates love rum so much because it was the cheapest drink in the Caribbean; it was a valuable commodity. It helped maintain the quality of drinking water on board on long voyages if mixed with it, thus also creating the famous Crock. So it’s normal that it hurts Jack so much to see the rum burn. But that’s how Norrington finds them, and Elizabeth promises that she will marry him if they help them rescue Will. [Elisabeth?] Please, friend, I’ll suck your *censored* In the Pearl’s cells we see Pintel and Ragetti scrubbing because they are still being punished for having made a mistake, having kidnapped Elizabeth instead of Will at the beginning of the film. They are the most mythical secondary pirates in the saga. [pirate] In Davy Jones’s locker In the second film we will meet Bill “The Boots” and how he made a deal with Davy Jones to survive. But for any pirate, Davy Jones’s chest was the underworld at the bottom of the sea, the eternal hell where the damned souls who died on the high seas went. Well, Davy Jones was in charge of taking those souls to the other world. Something like Charon, the boatman of the Styx in Greek mythology, but with pirates. Barbossa agrees not to lift the curse yet in order to kill the English and take over the other ship, the Interceptor. Once again, greed is his downfall. Will notices that Jack is hiding a Cortés gold piece in his hand and decides to play along. [Jack] “Commodore” Curiously, it is in the fourth film that we see Barbossa under that title and in service to the navy. When the cursed crew walks beneath the seabed, we can see how, in the shadow of the ship’s keel, they retain their human appearance. but as they pass beneath it and emerge into the moonlight, it reveals them underwater as undead. [priest] This thing is real, son. [Ragetti] How the Greeks done in Troy he refers to how the Greeks hid the wooden horse to trick the Trojans into thinking they had surrendered, thus storming the city at night from within. What Jack holds in the cave is a fertility idol from some Caribbean tribe that Barbossa stole. In the Pearl’s hold, a pair of pirates are already preparing for a banquet to decide what they’ll eat first once they break the curse. And when they stick their heads out the window under the moon, they’re skeletons again. Upon boarding, Ragetti carries her pistol in her neckline to keep it from getting wet, just like Jack did under the boat at the beginning. And Pintel also has his stuck in his ribs like a skeleton. In the cave, Barbossa thinks he’s killed Jack, but Jack is now also cursed for stealing a piece of gold from Cortés. And while they fight, the natural holes in the cave ceiling, through which the moonlight filters, alter the appearance of Jack and Barbossa as they pass right through them, alternating between their human and skeleton appearances, each time they enter or exit each beam of light. The pirate who uses bombs always leaves a small trail of smoke behind him and we see a golden statue of Buddha, showing that Barbossa has plundered loot all over the wide world, not just the Caribbean. That’s why in the third movie he is the navigator, because he knows every damn ocean in this world and its nooks and crannies. And although he is only a skeleton, Barbossa bleeds, as we see some blood on the tip of Jack’s cutlass from where he stabbed Barbossa in the chest earlier. When he plants the bomb in the bombs man’s ribs, we can see smoke coming out of his mouth as he’s about to burst. Jack takes advantage of the confusion caused by the explosion to cut his hand, still clutching the medallion. As he stole another piece of Aztec gold earlier, when the ark was already complete. and he throws it at Will, who also cuts himself to break the curse with the blood of his father, who was the first to steal Cortés’s gold from the pagan gods. And Jack uses his last shot on Barbossa. [Barbossa] I feel… cold… Just when Barbossa finally felt something, he dies before he can taste his apple. The arm the governor was fighting is now a severed human arm. And with the curse broken, all the pirates surrender. Will remains a virgin who doesn’t know how to talk to women, and Jack leaves his crew in the lurch… for now. Which brings us to Jack’s public execution in Port Royal, where Mr. Cotton’s parrot appears, which is the signal to rescue Jack. And Will looks like a musketeer who now saves Jack by throwing his sword. And Elizabeth pretends to run out of air, like at the beginning, to distract everyone. Right here you can see the contact lenses Johnny Dep wore to play Jack Sparrow; they’re not colored, they’re contact lenses that acted as sunglasses so he could act without having to worry about the Caribbean sun dazzling him in every take. Jack falls into the void, and his crew comes to rescue him, while a defeated Commodore Norrington lets Elizabeth be happy. [Mr. Swann] He’s a blacksmith… [Elisabeth] No. He’s a pirate. Will, that character who felt such disgust for pirates, ends up becoming one himself, because it’s in his blood. [Peter] This is my gift, my curse. They both kiss while Elizabeth’s father looks on, because deep down, he just wants to see his daughter happy. Jack finally recovers the Black Pearl and as he gives orders again, we see a member of the film crew in a corner in the shot. [Commodore] Hey, he didn’t say “but”! [Jack] You’ll always remember this day as the day you almost captured Captain JWulen… [Captain Jack Sparrow] I mean, Captain Jack Sparrow. Give it a like if you want me to make the video for the second movie… or is it that… [Davy Jones] …you’re afraid of dying? And subscribe for 100 years of cinema on JWulen’s channel because the August videos are… [Hiccup] It’s you and me, friend, always.