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The penultimate post for Saturday Night At The Disney Movies! This week it’s not just one movie, but a quadrilogy…Pirates of the Caribbean!
There are currently four Pirates of the Caribbean (PotC) movies – The Curse of the Black Pearl (PotC 1), Dead Man’s Chest (PotC 2), At World’s End (PotC 3) and On Stranger Tides (PotC 4). A fifth movie is scheduled for release in 2017 and has the title of Dead Men Tell No Tales (PotC 5) and I’m super excited for that – I need a Captain Jack Sparrow fix!
The Story…
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Blacksmith Will Turner teams up with eccentric pirate Captain Jack Sparrow to save his love, Elizabeth Swann, from undead pirates led by Jack’s former first mate, Captain Barbossa. Jack wants revenge against Barbossa, who left him stranded on an island before stealing his ship, the Black Pearl, along with 882 pieces of cursed Aztec Gold.
Pirate of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
Lord Cutler Beckett of the East India Trading Company arrests Will and Elizabeth for aiding Captain Jack Sparrow in the previous film. Beckett offers clemency if Will agrees to search for Jack’s compass in a bid to find the Dead Man’s Chest – and inside, the heart of villainous Davy Jones – which would give Beckett control of the seas. However, Jack wants the Chest to escape from an unpaid debt with Jones, who raised the Black Pearl from the seabed (after it was sunk by Beckett) and made Jack captain for 13 years in exchange for 100 years of service aboard Jones’ ship.
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
Lord Beckett gains power over Davy Jones, and with the help of Jones’ ship, the Flying Dutchman, he is now executing his plans to extinguish piracy forever. To stand against the East India Trading Co., Will, Elizabeth, Barbossa, and the crew of the Black Pearl set out to rescue Captain Jack Sparrow from Davy Jones’ Locker. As one of the Nine Pirate Lords, Jack is needed in order to summon an ancient goddess with the power to defeat Beckett’s forces.
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Captain Jack Sparrow is on a quest to find the fabled Fountain of Youth and crosses paths with a former lover, Angelica. She forces Jack aboard the Queen Anne’s Revenge, a ship captained by the infamous pirate Blackbeard, Angelica’s father. Both are also in search of the Fountain; Angelica to save her father’s soul, Blackbeard to escape a prophecy of his demise at the hands of a one-legged man. Joining the hunt is former pirate captain Barbossa, now a privateer in King George II’s Navy, who is in a race against the Spanish for the Fountain.
Trailer Time!
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s chest
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Statistics & Trivia…
- based on Walt Disney’s theme park ride of the same name
- was such a success that Disney closed their Pirates of the Caribbean attractions at Disneyland, California and Disney World, Florida to update them. The new storyline of the attractions is Captain Barbossa chasing Jack Sparrow, both of whom were added in the form of animatronics.
- take place in a fictional historical setting; a world ruled largely by an amalgam of alternative versions of the British Empire and the East India Company, with the pirates representing freedom from the ruling powers.
- PotC 1 was released in 2003 and grossed $654 million worldwide
- PotC 2 was released in 2006 and grossed over $1billion worldwide
- PotC 3 was released in 2007 and grossed $963 million worldwide
- PotC 4 was released in 2011 and grossed over $1 billion worldwide becoming the second film in the franchise, and the 8th film in history to achieve this.
- all the first three films were nominated for a total of 11 Academy Awards, of which a single award was won. (Dead Man’s Chest – Visual Effects)
- all the four films were nominated for a total of 2 Golden Globe Awards, of which neither were won.
- all the first three films were nominated for a total of 13 MTV Movie Awards, of which 4 were won.
- all the four films were nominated for a total of 25 Teen Choice Awards, of which 16 were won.
- Johnny Depp improvised Jack Sparrow’s catch phrase, “Savvy?”
- HIDDEN MICKEY (PotC 1): The final cannon shot during the Black Pearl’s siege of the town, billows into a Mickey Mouse head shape against the night sky.
- PotC 1 was originally just “Pirates of the Caribbean” but the name was changed in the hope that it would do well at the box office and a sequel could be made.
- PotC 2 was the first film to feature Disney’s new logo, a computer-generated model of the Magic Kingdom, replacing the blue and white silhouette.
- PotC 2 & 3 were shot back to back
- PotC 3 was the most expensive film ever made, not adjusted for inflation. The budget ran at $300,000,000. That’s more than the budget of all three Lord Of The Rings films combined.
- filming of PotC 3 started without a finished script.
- Keith Richards agreed to appear as Jack Sparrow’s father in PotC 3 and the keeper of the pirate code. He has been noted as a primary influence on Johnny Depp’s performance as Jack Sparrow
- PotC 4 was the only film of the franchise to not receive any Oscar nominations.
- PotC 4 is loosely based on the 1988 pirate novel ‘On Stranger Tides’, by Tim Powers.
- While filming PotC 4 in London in October 2010, Johnny Depp received a letter from a local 9-year old schoolgirl, telling him her classmates needed help to ‘mutiny’ against her teachers. He turned up with almost no warning at the school in full Sparrow outfit, but advised against mutiny.
The Cast…
- Johnny Depp – Captain Jack Sparrow (PotC 1, 2, 3, 4)
- Geoffrey Rush – Captain Hector Barbossa (PotC 1, 2, 3, 4)
- Kevin McNally – Joshamee Gibbs (PotC 1, 2, 3, 4)
- Orlando Bloom – Will Turner (PotC 1, 2, 3)
- Keira Knightley – Elizabeth Swann (PotC 1, 2, 3)
- Jack Davenport – James Norrington (PotC 1, 2, 3)
- Jonathan Pryce – Governor Weatherby Swann (PotC 1, 2, 3)
- Lee Arenberg – Pintel (PotC 1, 2, 3)
- Mackenzie Crook – Ragetti (PotC 1, 2, 3)
- Bill Nighy – Davy Jones (PotC 2, 3)
- Stellan Skarsgård – Bootstrap Bill Turner (PotC 2, 3)
- Tom Hollander – Lord Cutler Beckett (PotC 2, 3)
- Naomie Harris – Tia Dalma, Calypso (PotC 2, 3)
- Keith Richards – Captain Teague (PotC 3, 4)
- Penélope Cruz – Angelica (PotC 4)
- Ian McShane – Blackbeard (PotC 4)
- Sam Claflin – Philip Swift (PotC 4)
- Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey – Syrena (PotC 4)
- Richard Griffiths – King George II (PotC 4)
- Full list of characters on Wiki
Why I Love Pirates of the Caribbean…
- Johnny Depp – what can I say, I’ve been a fan of him since his 21 Jump Street Days, and he is just sex on a stick (I’m also that shallow!!)
- Captain Jack Sparrow – played by the aforementioned Johnny Depp – he’s perfect for this character!
- Pirates – I LOVE pirates :D Especially when they’re called Captain Jack Sparrow!
- Swashbuckling Adventures – see above, but also, the films are full of adventure, sword fights, chases, pirate ships, treasure and lots of humour!
- The Theme Song – it’s EPIC and one of the best movie theme songs ever composed (in my humble opinion!)
I hope that you enjoyed reading about one of my favourite Disney movies!
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