"You and Your Fiancee Face the Hangmans Noose"

So now we find ourselves in the next installment of PotC where we are inroduced to Cutler Beckett. He doesn't make a very good first impression when he barges in and tells us he wants to kill the main characters. But after more explaining we learn he really wants the main characters to find the other main characters so he can rule the EITC. Soldier: " Lord Beckett, the prisoner as ordered, sir." Beckett: " Those won't be necessary." The first kind thing we hear from Beckett. So exciting. Oh and now Will can use his hands! Beckett: " The East India Trading Company has need of your services. [Beckett offers Will a drink but Will ignores him. awkward.] We wish for you to act as our agent in a business transacton with our mutual friend, Captain Sparrow." 

Will: "More acquaintance than friend. How do you know him?" LIES, HE IS YOUR BFF!!! Beckett: "We've had dealings in the past. And we've each left our mark on the other." If you don't know what he's talking about read the Price of Freedom. Will: "What mark did he leave on you?" Beckett ignores him back. looks like their even. Beckett: "By your efforts Jack Sparrow was set free. I would like you to go to him and recover a certain property in his possession." Will: "Recover. At the piont of a sword?" Told you they were BFF's. beckett: "Bargain." Then he walks over to a really safe wooden box opens it and gets out, "Letters of Marque. You will offer what amounts to a full pardon Jack will be free, a privateer in the employ of England." 

Will: "Somehow I doubt Jack will consider employment the same as free." Cutler Beckett: "Freedom. . . Jack Sparrow is a dying breed. The world is shrinking. The blank edges of the map filled in. [Actually you just found two new continents. I don't know if you could say that.] Jack must find his place in the New world or perish. Not unlike you Mr. Turner. You and your fiancee face the Hangmans noose. [Will's thoughts: Nooo. I totally forgot my wife and I are abou to di a horrible death.]" Will : "So you get Jack and the Peral? " Cutler: "The BlackPearl?" Will: " The property you want that he possesses. " Beckett: "A ship? Hardly. The item in question is considerably smaller a far more valuable, something Sparrow keeps on his person at all times. A compass." And so the quest begins. Will will now det off to find Jack and get the compass (Iknow I just said will will). But little does anyone know much more is at stake than Elizabeth and Will's life. . . 

"I'll Watch Your Back"

Hello all!  I hope you have all voted in our newest poll asking who you would like to see back in the next Pirates of the Caribbean movie!  You may have realized that I did not list Gibbs in the available votes, so my apologies if you wanted to vote for him but were unable to, I can only list so many options.  So, in order to make it up to Joshamee Gibbs, who I really do love and hope to see back in the next film, this post is dedicated to him and his roll in the second movie, The Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.  Gibbs, Jack's first mate on board the Black Pearl is loyal to his captain always.  At the very beginning of the movie, he waits patiently keeping eye over the ship (singing and drinking a bit creepily though) until Jack returns, rowing in a coffin.  Gibbs is always there for Jack, ready to save him in whatever crazy circumstance that ever comes up, which is not to say that Jack couldn't find a way out himself, but you know what I mean.  Gibbs is always ready to sacrifice for Jack.  

When Jack returns in such an odd fashion, he informs the crew that he has the thing they have all been waiting for: a drawing of a key.  Yeah, somewhat of a let down.  Gibbs just calmly let's Jack know that the whole crew in fact is let down.  After the manly perils they had to sail to finally get there, they hoped that their Captain would go after something with a bit more value, than just a piece of cloth with a sketch of a key on it, even if it does cause creepy music to be played.  Even so, Gibbs commands the crew to set sail in search of the key, even when nothing really makes sense and Jack is just telling Gibbs that he is the crazy one.  But as usual, Gibbs just plays along and gives out the orders.  Now, things only get stranger after Jack has a short visit from Bootstrap Bill, telling him that he owes his soul to Davy Jones.  Jack, totally freaked out, screams at Gibbs to get their butts to land as soon as possible, with virtually no explanation.  When Gibbs tries to stop just to catch Jack's fallen hat, Jack protests and insists that they keep moving, which of course Gibbs agrees to.  Jack's direction ends them up in an island of cannibals, which usually isn't your desired destination.  
Gibbs gets thrown into some creepy cages made by the bones of other crew members while Jack gets declared king, but Gibbs is never jealous or bitter.  In fact, he is optimistic and wants to do everything humanly possible to save Jack before the Pelegostals eat him.  They manage to escape the island just in the knick of time.  From there on, Jack orders Gibbs to sail up river to Tia Dalma's shack.  You can just tell that the creepy obeah woman and her strange hut isn't all that appealing to Gibbs, yet he goes a long with it anyway, explaining to Will what's going on along the way.  After some run-ins with Tia Dalma and Davy Jones, Gibbs, Jack, and the rest of the crew sail to Tortugo so that Gibbs can help Jack collect souls to sell to Davy Jones in return for his freedom.  And when I say help, I mean do all the work.  Gibbs sits at the desk and takes recruits while Jack sits there in the back ground playing around.  
That is until Norrington shows up and starts a bar fight.  During this time, Gibbs and Jack manage to get out of it as Jack walks around in search for a new hat.  Gibbs also catches on very easily to what Jack is saying, which is understandable because they've been friends for over a decade.  Jack starts asking Elizabeth questions about Beckett, and Gibbs knows exactly where he's going with it.  Gibbs helps Jack crack codes and plans stuff out with him.  He executes Jack's orders, even when he isn't able to figure Jack completely out, because he knows that while Jack may be a bit crazy, he sure does know what he's doing when it comes to pirating.  But every pirate captain needs an almost as crazy first mate!

"Justice? Hardly."

Remember that classic bar fight that takes place in The Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest where pretty much everyone is htrowing stuff and sswinging their swords, including James Norrington and Elizabeth Swann.  Then afterwards, Elizabeth agrees to set sail with jack Sparrow on the Pearl to find the chest with the heart of Davy Jones which is suppose to somehow save Will?  Well, besides getting the ball rolling, the scene also gives some handy information to the antagonist of the movie: Cutler Beckett.  You see, Mr. Mercer is still working for Beckett and they've got spies everywhere.  One of which sees Elizabeth (badly disguised as a man in the bar) and reports this back to Beckett in his EITC office of Port Royal.  Beckett plays around with his sword as a man paints a map on his wall.  Beckett: "There's something to knowing the exact shape of the world and one's place in it.  Don't you agree?"  Words of wisdom from Lord Beckett.  

Governor Swann just stand there, with no wig, his hands bound by shackles and two Royal guards next to him. Swann: "I assure you, these are not necessary."  Beckett: "I had you brought here  because I thought ou'd be interest in the whereabouts of your daughter."  He strangely points his sword in Swann's direction, as if there would even be a need to defend himself.  Swann: "You have news of her?"  Mercer: 'Most recently seen on Tortuga, and left in the company of a known pirate, Jack Sparrow, and other fugitive from justice."  At the sound of the name 'Jack Sparrow', the governor just looks upward in frustration and despair: just the news he DIDN'T want to hear.  But atleast she's still a live.  Swann: "'Justice?'  Hardly."  What a slap in the face to the government he belongs to.  They just ignore his insults.  Beckett: "Including the previous ownder of this sword, I believe."  
Beckett finally decides it's time to stop playing around with large pointy objects and puts away JAMES NORRINGTON'S sword.  Beckett: "Our ships are in pursuit.  Justice will be dispensed by cannonade and cutlass, and all manner of remorseless pieces of metal.  I personally find it distasteful to even contemplate the horror facing all those on board."  Hmmm.  Then maybe you just shouldn't do it then?  There he goes again, bullying the people with less power than him. He's trying to totally feak out the governor over what he is going to do the Black Pearl which now has his only daughter on it.  Swann gets the message.  Swann: "What do you want from me?"  Beckett has his whole plan thought out.  Beckett: "Your authority as governor, your influence in London, and your loyalty to the East India Trading Company."  So pretty much everything except the life of your daughter.  

Not so nice of a bargain he offered to Jack Sparrow in our previous post.  Governor Swann grows a back bone in this scene, finally standing up for something.  Swann: "To you, you mean."  Beckett just stares at him and then creepily walks closer.  Beckett: "Shall I remove these shackles?"  Well, he already asked you to so I suppose that would be the right thing to do.  There was no good reason to arrest him in the first place but we all know what a greedy person Beckett is.  Swann things these over for a few seconds before deciding.  He holds out his shackled hands: "Do what you can for my daughter."  Beckett gives a sly triumphant smile.  He now has the government of Port Royal on his side, giving him wide discretion over his pirate hunting quest.  Some other many begins to unlock the chains roughly.  Beckett: "So you see, Mercer, every man has a price he will willingly accept.  Even for what he hoped never to sell."  The governor never wanted to pretty much sell his freedom and power away, but he had to inorder to secure Elizabeth's safety.  Never should have done it in the first place, because the E.I.T.C. never caught up to Elizabeth until into the second movie, where she was able to sneakily work things out and sail off onto Sao Fengs ship.  In the end, Beckett and the governor both die yet she gets to live.  Beckett indirectly kills the governor, and Elizabeth indirectly kills Beckett, so all's fair in love and war?  

"Reason's got nothing to do with it."

While Jack gets most of the hillarious lins of the serieis, all of his silly expressions were made on purpose, since he is pretty much the most outrageous characeter.  How many of you have just bursted out laughing at his lines or faces?  I know I can't be the only one.  How many of you are also aware that I love to poke fun of Elizabeth?  Well, the funny thing about her and Will is that they don't always mean to make these faces, but somehow they always do.  I've seen the movies so many times and have gone through countless photos from them.  I've pulled together a few of the most hillarious, imprompt expressions of theirs that I've ever seen.  In no particular order, here they are:

In The Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl, Elizabeth is not shy with her expressions around Barbossa apparently.  In fact, she attempts to kill him by shoving a butter knife into his chest.  Ew.  What's even grosser is that then he pulls it out of his torso and it's dripping with blood (which to be quite honest is rather fake looking).  This just totally freaks out Elizabeth, but she hasn't really seen much of the pirating world yet.  The gore and her expressions only get worse from here!

As we just discussed, Jack is a bit loony.  Will's trying to get to the bottom of his bizaireness by asking Gibbs what happened when Jack was marooned on the island alone.  After hearing that Jack went three days with no food or drink, Will thinks he's come down to it.  Will: "So that's the reason for all the . . ."  Gibbs: "Reason's got nothing to do with it."  Will pretends to be crazy old Jack again, but even like that Will can't nearly capture the amazingness of Captain Jack Sparrow.

Isn't this rather convinient? There's a picture of both lovers looking equally as funny from The Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.  Will really needs to comb his hair and is in utter shock.  Elizabeth on the other hand just looks like she's going to throw up. If I am correct, they are trying to figure out what to do about the fact that Davy Jones and the Flying Dutchman are out to get them.  Not good.

As I also stated earlier, Elizabeth is not good at masking her disgust for certain actions.  As the kraken attacks his own ship, The Black Pearl, Jack hops in a row boat and tries to make an easy escape, which flat out annoys Elizabeth.  Luck for her, Jack's compass helps him find what he really wants most, and that's to help save his friends and the Pearl, so he comes back.  This look was really in vain.

Not only is she bold with her expressions, but also her words.  This picture from The Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End captures both of these!  She angrily yells at Sao Feng when they first meet.  Elizabeth: "You are Saob Feng, the pirate lord of Singapore.  You command in an age of piracy where bold captains sailr free waters.  Where waves aren't measured in feet, butas increments of fear, and those who pass the test become legend.  Would you have that erea come to an end on your watch?  The mos tnotorious pirates from around the world are uniting against our common enemy, and yet you sit here cowering in your bathwater!"  Elizabeth says it how it is.  Now, if you want to check out more photos from the movies, follow us on instagram and twitter @snippetsofjack.  We've got a ton!  And if you have some that you havne'ts een up on this website, hashtag us and we'll be sure to check it out, or comment the link to it, or email us at parsley.parsnip@gmail.com  We would love to see them!

"We're devils and black sheep, we're really bad eggs"

Though I love the Pirates of the Caribbean there are some people who I really don't like. You can probably guess a few people on this list right now but there are also a few here that you might be surprised about. Here are a few of my least favorite people.

Weatherby Swann
This guy is one of the first people we ever get to see. He is sailing to the Caribbean from England in order to become the Governor of Port Royal. This is a pretty big deal because Port Royal is the Largest British settlement in the Caribbean. His daughter, Elizabeth, also comes to Port Royal. There she attracts the attention of Captain James Norrington. Weatherby seems to really want Elizabeth and James to get married because the day James proposes and Lizzy doesn't answer immediately he talks to the captain and convinces him she will wants to marry him. Of course as they are talking they are attacked by the Black Pearl, which ends their conversation. Later in the movie Elizabeth accepts the proposal in order to save Will who is at the Isla de Muerta. Once they reach the island Jack convinces them to lock Elizabeth in a cabin so she will stay safe. While there Governor Swann talks to her through the door. He declares a confusing statement that bores even Elizabeth, who climbs out of the Dauntless. At the very end of the movie when Elizabeth and Will proclaim they're love for each other and are having a romantic moment he asks them if that was their decision. No, they just went through all that because they don't want to be together. I mean James, who was in love with her in the first place and had been promised her heart, is okay with it but the Governor is not isn't. Some people, you know!

Sao Feng
Yes, yes I know he's a pirate lord and everything but I just find him unnecessarily intimidating. I mean let's take a look at when we first go into his bathhouse. He convinces Elizabeth to take of her clothes. (That's Jack's thing!!) Let's see, after that he pulls out Will from a well where he'd been drowning him. Not cool. The only reason he decided to fight the East India Trading company is because Will promised to give him JACK'S SHIP. When Feng gets control of the Pearl what does he do??? He punches Jack in the nose. Umm, hello you're the one who is stealing the ship that Jack died for (literally). Of course the EITC comes in and helps convince Feng to fight for the EITC. The EITC helped because they were going to take "Sao Feng's ship".
Ian Mercer

 Ian Mercer was Cutler Beckett's right hand man from the very beginning, We first met him in my personal favorite book: The Price of Freedom. He and Cutler tried to trick Jack into finding the hidden city of Zerzura. Of course Jack being Jack caught on to their scheme and kept the island coordinates to himself. This of course made Beckett and Mercer quite angry and they burned Jack new ship the Wicked Wench fortunately for Jack he has a friend in high places or rather low places, Davy Jones.  Jones saved Jack's life and his ship, which later became the Black Pearl. Mercer continued to work with Beckett as he climbed the ladder at the EITC. Eventually after being a down right jerk to just about everyone he was killed by Jones in a rather disgusting way, but we really don't need to go into the details of that again. 

Christophe-Julien de Rapièr Christophe is a low down dirty rotten scoundrel with good fashion taste. In my opinion anyways. Jack and Christophe were great friends and fellow pirates, Christophe was the older richer and wiser half of the duo, but he didn't get the girl! Jack beat Christophe in the competition for the heart of Esmeralda the daughter of a pirate lord, and quite the catch if you ask me! When Jack and Esmerelda discovered the identity of the rouge pirate they never expected Christophe to be named as one of the accomplices, and Christophe did a good job of convincing Jack he was innocent, and Jack being the sweetheart that he is hatched a plan to free his friend. Unfortunately he was a rouge. And a mean one at that. He press ganged Jack into service on his ship. Christophe also followed Jack on his voyage to Zerzura and tried to steal the stone protecting the city. But Jack stopped him of course, and eventually beat him in a duel which cost Christophe his life. 
 

"We're going on a bone cage ride."

I thought we should return to the spectacular island of the Pelegostals, aka the canibals.  I know that we have addressed this team several times (which you should all read) but this post is even more!  We're discussing all the technicallities and special effects used during that scene, specifically the hanging bone cages that traps Will and the rest of the crew.  Now, obviously the directors did not actually hang them over a large cliff in a ball made of really human skeletons, because that would be dangerous and gross.  But the cast was hanging in a ball of bones made of styrofoam over a green screen.  Orlando Bloom (Will Turner) seemed pretty exited from inside to see how this whole experience would go.  "It's like a new ride at Disneyland" commented a member of the crew (technical crew, not Jack Sparrow's crew).   

How cool would that be if it actually were a ride???  Gore Verbinski, the director, even admitted, "We're not quite sure what's going to happen."  What encouraging information. He had to say this loudly so the people can hear them from ten feet above, hanging from a crane.  Verbinski actually never told the victims what would happen because he wanted to get the most realistic reactions of horror and shock from them.  Quite the interesting directing skills, but it seemed to work out because the movie was absolutely wonderful!  (As swere the other two Pirates films he directed).  They pulled the cage towards the crane and the actors get ready to swing.  Bloom was especially happy, "We're going on a bone cage ride!"  He said that quite creepily and excitedly.  And then they let the thing go and it falls very quickly.  Their screams in the movie probably weren't so far off because the swinging looks almost like a roller coaster.  

Kevin McNally (Gibbs) looked like he's about to puke but Orlando Bloom still seemed to enjoy it all.  This caused the director to call a reshoot, so they got to do the whole thing all over again!  Oh joy.  Martin Klebba (Marty) even puked during the swing.  So thne they had to do it atleast four more times to get all the shots and the right reactions.  The actors are terified the whole time but the crew just laughs in amusement.  Most of the scenery of all of that island was altered visual effects.  There were some shots that were all generated by the computer.  This really shocked me because while I knew that it couldn't all have been real, I didn't realize that so much of it was created.  They've got quite the tech crew, almost as good as Jack's crew!  There could be more that you didn't know from this scene.  For once thing, do you remember when Will was asking around to other people in the pirating community for news on Jack's location?  

Well one man tells him about the Island of the Pelegostals, where the "long pork" is apperently tasty.  Incase you didn't pick this up, "long pork" was a less disgusting way of saying "human flesh".  Ew.  This was so gross that this movie was actually banned in China for its descriptions of canibalism!  I wonder if the Chinese have seen some of Hollywood's latest horror movies.  If you are more interested in the filming of the Pirates of the Caribbean follow our blog for more to come!  You should also check out imbd.com and the bonus fealutres on your own copies of the films.  Feel free to share any information here!  We would love to hear it!

"This I cannot wait to see."

It is my greatest pleasure to announce to you that on January 14, 2013 A.D., Disney announced that they will be bringing Johnny Deppback for a fifth Pirates of the Caribbean movie, aimied to be repleased on July 10, 2015!  Up untl this point Disney admitted they were working on a plot but there was no official announcement, but now we can mark it on our calendars!  Only 903 more days!  Jerry Bruckheimer will once again produce and the screen play will be written by Jeff Nathanson.  Who's excited?  I AM!  I know you're probably thinking, "That's over two years away."  But at least there is hope.  So in honor of this most spectacular news, I feel like we should do a quick recap of ALL the past movies.
In The Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl, Captain Jack Sparrow is off to recapture the Black Pearl from his mutinous first mate, Hector Barbossa.  Barbossa is after an unknown heir of William Turner and his last peice of cursed Aztec gold.  In the meantime, Will Turner and James Norringtion are after the hand of Elizabeth Swann.  Barbossa finds Elizabeth, so Will finds Jack, who finds Barbossa, who leaves Elizabeth and Jack on an island, who are then found by Norritngton, who then finds Barbossa and Will, who then lifts the curse on Barbossa, who is then dead.  With Barbossa dead, Jack gets back his ship and Will pushes Norrington out of the way and wins Elizabeth.  Obviously there's more the brilliant story than just that, but that's the overview.

Moving on to The Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest: Jack Sparrow has the Black Pearl for a bery short amount of time before some bad news arrives: Jack owes his soul to Davy Jones.  Bad news also hits Will and Elizabeth when they are arrested by Lord Cutler Beckett.  Similiar to the first movie, both of their problems connect when Will goes running to Jack for help.  Once again, Jack uses Will's desperation for his advantage: he gets Will to find him the key to the chest.  Elizabeth (and later Norrington) help Jack find the chest.  To revenge the fact that Will got Elizabeth and the glory at the end of the last movie, Norringtion uses the contents in the chest to redeem himself.  Jack gets the short end of the stick when Elizabeth feeds him to Davy Jones' pet, the kraken.  Just when all hope seems to be lost, Hector Barbossa is back, but this time he intends to help Jack by getting him out of Davy Jones locker, which brings us on to the next movie.
In The Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, the gang sails to the world's end (shocker), to rescue Jack and the Pearl.  Together, they all set sail to Shipwreck Cove for the meeting of the Brethren Court.  Of couse, they run into Beckett on the way there, who is threatening to kill all pirates in the Caribbean.  After a set of complex negotiations, they finally arrive at Shipwreck Cove, with three of the nine pirate lords: Jack, Barbossa, and Elizabeth.  A LOT of bickering goes by and they finally agree to fight Beckett's armada and the Flying Dutchman, which they are actually sucessful in doing, minus a few casualties including Will Turner.  Will and Elizabeth have a brief wedding but Will has to become the cpatain of the Dutchman as the only way to live.  So alas, Will gets a ship and a wife but Jack doesn't even keep the Pearl because stupid Barbossa stole it from him, again.
Jack gets back the Pearl in The Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides after Barbossa looses it to the infamous pirate, Blackbeard.  Jack also gets a rather complicated love story when he is reunited with Angelica, his past love and daughter of Blackbeard.  He sails with Angelica and Blackbeard on the Queen Anne's Revenge to the Fountain of Youth.  Along the way, we see yet another love story brewing between Syrena the mermaid and Philip Swift, the missionairy.  Once they've reached the fountain with Syrena's much coveted tear and Ponce de Leon's chalices, they clash with the British Royal Navy lead by Hector Barbossa and the Spanish, lead by the Spaniard :P.  After some intense battles, Blackbeard dies so Barbossa takes his ship.  Gibbs manages to get the bottled Black Pearl and Angelica gets landed alone on an island.  Jack finally has the Pearl back but how will he get it back to its normal size???  I guess we'll see in 2015!

"More Acquaintance Than Friend"

Happy last day of the year!  This past year has been great for our blog!  We've received more views and comments as the year continues.  This next year, we'll try to post for consistently and hopefully you will try to spread the word of our website!  Now, we would like to make his post all about the antagonists of the series.  Hopefully their New Years Resolutions will  help Jack have an easier time dealing with them because they are sorry.  However not all of the villains are equally liked by me. These are my top five favorite.
5) Blackbeard

Also known as Edward Teach, Blackbeard is pretty evil but he's not a very interesting villain.  He's captain of the Queen Anne's Revenge but truly doesn't do very much.  In fact, his crew doesn't even think he exists for a while.  Angelica, his daughter and first mate, runs most of the business on the ship.  And then we find out that he actually is a character with a pretty epic sword.  So he kills some people and insists Jack takes him to the Fountain of Youth.  Things really get interesting when we learn Blackbeard has shrunk and bottled the Black Pearl.  It's no surprise that Jack is ready to do anything to gain back his ship, and that annoying monkey.  So now it's up to Jack to defeat Blackbeard and get back the Pearl.
4)Ian Mercer
This fellow has been in two movies and the Price Of Freedom. He is describes by A.C. Crisp in as a man who could kill a man with out hesitation. Wonderful I know. He is Scottish and heavily accented. He works as a "operative" for Cutler Beckett. This job eventually gets him killed. Killed by another person on this list. A very gross death including tentacles getting stuck up his nose,mouth, and eyes. 3)Davy Jones
I told you Mercer's killer was on this list too! And here he is.  Like Mercer, Davy Jones for a while had to do what Cutler Beckett told him to, including tracking down the pirates at Shipwreck Cove and attacking them.  It's during this attack that Davy Jones decides that he's  tired of Cutler Beckett telling him what to do.  So he disgustingly killed Mercer and tries to track down his heart.  Beckett does eventually fail, but so does Jones when Will Turner stabs his heart sending him to his watery grave.

2) Hector Barbossa
Barbossa switches off throughout the series between being a helping and harming the protagonist (Jack).  However, during the first movie he is definitely a villain.  First of all, he pretty much took over Jack's beloved ship, which is never appreciated.  He also wants to kill Jack, Elizabeth, Will, and Norrington, and pretty much everybody else.  He's not even very nice to his own crew members.  To see if the curse in them is lifted, Barbossa shoots Pintel to see if he dies.  But I love how Barbossa seems just to ramble on and on in his super piratey talk.  He's one of the funniest characters and the only reason he's not on the first on this list is because he's not a villain all the time.  Speaking of which, let's continue on to first place.

1) Cutler BeckettI hope by this point you've taken my advice and read The Price of Freedom, because Beckett's childhood history is shared in the book.  He's also a total jerk in the book.  He brands Jack with the 'P' on his wrist and then tries to take down the Wicked Wench, even though it's his own ship!  Then, during Dead Man's Chest, he poses a menacing threat on Jack, Will, and Elizabeth.  This threat continues into the second movie as he desperately tries to completely strike pirates off the face of the earth.  You can tell that he's not a big fan of pirates, making him the ultimate villain during the series.

"Not With The Chest"

Ever wonder what it's like to look down at  your beating heart?  Well, you might as well wonder because unless our medical technology gets extremely more advance, most of us will probably never experience it.   I'm not so sure how I feel about that.  But in The Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Davy Jones desperately needs to find his heart.  Even though he knows Will Turner as an interest in finding it, he doesn't expect to be in any danager because to get to the heart, you need the key to the chest.  Remember?  Jack so nicely pointed this out to us at the beginning of the movie.  "We don't have the key.  WE can't open whatever it is that we don't have that it unlocks.  SO what purpose would we be serving finding whatever need be unlock, which we don't have.  Without first having found the key what unlocks it?"  But then Will goes missing from the Flying Dutchman with the precious key to the chest, leaving Davy Jones nothing but a cloth drawing of a key (which is actually even better, according to Captain Jack!).  This puts Davy Jones into a panic.  First, he calls the kraken to slaughter a ship, and then makes his crew sail as quickly was possible to the Isla de Muerta where Jones hid the chest.  Now that's when all the confusing stuff happens concerning the location of the chest.  Might I just add, I'm not quite sure why the named the movie "Dead Man's Chest", when Davy Jones owns the chest and he's not dead.  In fact, half the movie is all about Davy Jones avoiding death.  Just a thought.  

Anyways, things seem pretty under countrol when Elizabeth, Jack, and Norrington dig up the chest.  Then they all completely forget about the chest when Will shows up and they all get caught up in a sword fight.  So Pintel and Ragetti see this as an opportunity to be idiots again and run off with the chest.  The party continues when lo' and behold Davy Jones arrives.  He, of course, stays the ship and sends he menacing crew after them.  The men find the empty whole where the chest used to be, and are angry.  Then they hear the church bell ringing where the trio are fighting and run after them.  Pintel, Ragetti, and the chest, are boing chased after an angry Elizabeth, and then they all are being chased after the crew of teh Dutchman.  The three of them fend off the crew with only two swords (pretty impressive if I do say so myself).  But then they leave the chest laying in the grass (not so impressive).  Why does everyone keep leaving Davy Jones' hear lying around?  It's slightly important.  Well, one of Jones' men finds it and picks it up happily.  Only too bad for him because Jack throws a coconut at him, knocking off his head.  

As the crew member's head and body try to frantically be reunited, Jack just tells them both "Oh, shut it."  He uses the key he just desperately fought for to unlock the chest and take out the heart.  Ew.  If you're a doctor and happen to be reading this: 1) tell all your friends about us and 2) tell me if the heart actually looks really (you know, with all the arteries and stuff).  Jack gets about two seconds to examine the heart before more of Jones' men appear.  He stuffs the heart in his shirt pocket and makes a run for it.  Gross, imagine feeling someone else's heart beating on your chest.  He leaves the chest laying there for Pintel and Ragetti to pick it up, not realizing its contents are missing.  In the meantime, Jack runs across the beautiful beach to the row boat he took to shore.  He frantically cries for his jar of dirt, and creatively hids it in there just in time to fend off one of Jones' henchmen and runs.  

James Norrington makes it to the row boat after him.  He digs around and finds the Letters of Marque Jack had.  Then he looks around and finds the jar of dirt, but some of the dirt is messily displaced around the boat, which leads him to beleive Jack hid the heart in the jar.  He's the next Sherlock Homes.  Pintel and Ragetti still think they have the heart, so Will stops them.  He examines the chest, which oddly has the key in it.  Jack, becoming paranoid that Will will unfoil his plans, knocks Will upside the head.  Elizabeth, of course runs over to save him his unconsious body.  Jack: "Leave him lie!  Unless you plan on using him to hit something with."  Creative.  But their surrouned by Jones' men, so even if they did use Will's body as a weapon, it doesn't look like they'd get far.  Elizabeth: "We're not getting out of his."  Norrington: "Not with the chest.  Into the boat."  He grabs the chest, which he knows is empty.  (He has the heart stuck in his shirt too, ew).  Elizabeth: "You're mad!"  James: "Don't wait for me."  

He frantically runs off, distracting the henchmen.  Jack: "I say we respect his final wish."  Jack thinks that he still has the heart in the jar.  Pintel: "AYE!"  They all flee in the row boat.  Norrinton is chased into the forest, where he surrenders the empty chest and secretly runs off with the heart!  Wow, talk about some misunderstandings.  Everyone thinks they have the heart, but only Norrington is correct!

"Thank you, Captain Sparrow"

Feeling in the Thanksigiving mood still, I'd like you to all know that I am so thankful for the awesome Pirates of the Caribbean series.  Whosever idea it was to transform the intense ride into four epic movies deserves a round of aplause!  All four movies are great, but I must admit that some of them I like more than others.  So here's my listing on which are my favorites.  Please comment and let us know if you agree or disagree and what your preferences are!
4) Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

While this movie was the only one so far I was able to see in theatres (went opening day!), I don't think it quite surpassed any of the movies in the trilogy before it.  While I liked Angelica's pessimistic mood and the strange love going on between her and Jack, I wished they had brought back some of the old characters.  For example, I missed Jack's crew, like the good old silly pirates that we love to post about.  Also, I wasn't really a big fan of Philip and Syrena.  If they wanted to have a complicated love story a long with Jack and Angelica's, then they should have stuck with Will and Elizabeth.  I'm wondering how they are handeling their long distance relationship.  That being said, I did like the super creepy mermaids.  I mean, what could be better than deceiving maniupulative yet beautiful sea creatures who drown and eat men?  Not much.  They were quite the obstacle to face and I loved watching them do so.  Oh, and Blackbeard and his Sword of Triton was pretty epic.  It takes a lot to get through all that, but of course Jack and Barbossa mange it.  So, it's not that I don't like the movie, It's just not my favorite.  
3) Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 

I feel bad listing the movies, becasue I like them so much.  But some must rise above the others.  Dead Man's Chest is a pretty dark and evil movie.  It starts out with a rained out and ruined wedding, and ends witht the couple falling apart of the death of a hero.  The second scene opens with the wicked torturing of sailors at a Turkish prison.  The super sad aroma is about the only critisism I can make though.  I love the scene when the crew ends up on the island of the Pelogostals.  The scene with the stupid sailors who are being tricked by Elizabeth always makes me laugh.  Not to mention I love the additon of Tia Dalma, the crazy Obeah woman.  She's one of my favorite characters of the movie and she really freaks out Pintel and Ragetti. Davy Jones and Lord Cutler Beckett both become enemies to the pirates, both being equally as evil and scary.  Of course, both in their own way.  Jones has a bunch of creepy tentacles coming off his face and a beating heart in a chest, but Beckett is about four feet tall with a deathly glare.  Two antagonists in one movie so epic!
2) Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
This movie is just so cool.  Of course, it starts out kinda dark again with Lord Cutler Beckett executing a bunch of innocent people in Port Royal, probably Will and Elizabeth's neighbors, including a poor little boy.  But this boy starts singing and then everyone else continues singing, "Hoist the Colors", the pirate anthem.  And someone goes over and tells Beckett about all the singing, and all Beckett says is: "Finally."  Yeah, I wasn't really sure why he was waiting for his prisoners to sing, but I later found out that when "Hoist the Colors" begins to be sung, it means that the Brethren Court is going to meet.  This meeting is the premesis of the whole movie, which is kinda what makes it so awesome.  All the pirates in the world joining together against two equally menacingly creepy vilians.  Um, whoah there.  This is just too awesome.  But first you have the hillarious scene between all the bickering pirates before you get to all the fighting.  And in the midst of all the action you even get a little bit of romance.  I'm serious, this movie has it all.  
4) Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
The first movie ever really was my favorite.  It got the ball moving for all the next movies.  It's when you're first introduced to all the characters, and all the locations, including Tortuga!  It starts off with little Will and Elizabeth, when they first meet.  Elizabeth is sailing across the Atlantic when she catches a glimpse at the Black Pearl sailing away after destroying a ship.  One person was able to survive this raid: William Turner Jr.  Elizabeth takes care of him after he is rescued until they reach Port Royal.  Elizabeth finds a medallion on him while he is unconscious, and keeps it from him.  This little peace of gold is the main object of the whole movie.  To be honest, I think all the characters were the best in this movie: Jack was the funniest, Will and Elizabeth were the cutest, and Barbossa was a great villain.  The fact that Jack was always switching sides added to the awesomeness of the movie because the audience was never sure what was going through his mind.  Then again, we can never be sure, but we love Jack all the same!

"There's No One to Have the Key"

After Will Turner is finally reunited and whipped by his father, William Turner Sr., they run into more people on the Flying Dutchman in The Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.  Father Turner tells little Turner that he needs to get off the cursed ship.  Will: "Not until I find this.  The key."  He pulls out the super handy dandy drawing of a key, and of course the creepy music is played.  This magical word even awakens this old member of the crew, Wyvern, who has now become part of the ship wall.  Part of the ship, part of the crew!  Wyvern: "The key."  He pulls himself out of the wall, his brain just barely making int out.  How much more weird can Will take in one day?  I guess we'll find out.  Wyvern: "The dead man's chest."  Gee, that sounds familiar.  Will: "What do you know of this?"  Wyvern: "Open the chest with the key, and stab the heart. . . No, don't stab the heart.  The Dutchman needs a living heart or there'll be no captain, and if there's on captain, there's no one to have the key."  Well, if there were no captain and no heart, there wouldn't be a need to have the key.  But if it weren't so confusing, then it wouldn't be so awesome!  

Will: "So the captain has the key?"  Sudden Wyvern gets all freaked out and scared.  He starts to re merge with the wall.  Will: "Where is the key?"  Wyvern: "Hidden."  Will: "Where is the chest?"  As Jack already explained, if they don't have the key, then there's not point in even trying to find the chest.  Jack: "We don't have the key.  WE can't open whatever it is that we don't have that it unlocks.  SO what purpose would we be serving finding whatever need be unlock, which we don't have.  Without first having found the key what unlocks it?"  But I guess Will wasn't present at tha hillarious scene so he doesn't really understand it all.  Wyvern: "Hidden."  And with that, Wyvern completely sinks back into the wall and freezes up again.  Oh, so I guess even if Jack had the key, they still haven't got a clue where the chest is.  That is, of course, where Elizabeth comes into play and leads them to the Isla de Cruces, where the chest is.  But will takes care of acquiring the key.  

So to accomplish this, he first challenges Davy Jones to a game of dice.  Now, in a deleted scene, which you should really try to watch, Will bets his own sole for a chance of winning freedom for his father.  So if Will were to win, he and his father could go free.  But if he looses, he and his father would have to do all their bonding on the Flying Dutchman.  Not exactly that appealing.  But luckily for Will, he winds and his father can go free!  This really should be more a celebratory scene, but Will's not done yet.  That's everything that happens in the deleted scene.  Now, back to what survived the editor's cut.  Will challenges the captain again, waging his own sole again, this time for the key.  Davy Jones pulls out the keys, showing Will what he wants: the location of the key.  But Father Turner is so worried for his son, that he bets his newly received freedom.  And to prevent his son from joining the cursed crew, William Turner Sr. purposefully looses.  

So now everyone is right back to where they started before Will challenged anyone.  Papa Turner is stil stuck on board, and Will is free but has no way of leaving.  But Will does have one very valuable peice of information: the location of the key.  We're all pirates here.  If you can't receive something fairly, you steel it, right?  Will's chance comes when Davy Jones falls asleep playing the organ.  I guess he liked played himself a lullaby on the organ until he just fell asleep?  Well, Jones is quite the heavy sleeper because he doesn't even wake up when Will sticks his hands and sticks through the tentacles to reach the key beneath.  Will even drops something on the key, making on this noice, and Jones doesn't open an eye.  Just a bit oblivious.  But lucky for Will, because now he is free to leave the ship with the actual key and a promise to his father to save him some day.