Pirate cinema flourished in Hollywood throughout the first half of the 20th century. However, in the second half of the 1950s, this genre in the United States came to naught and actually died. All serious attempts to revive it turned out to be a costly fiasco. Until finally in 2003 the studio Walt Disney did not release a blockbuster, which became an international hit and the beginning of a popular movie cycle. This exciting tape was called "Pirates caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl.
Pirates occupy interesting place V European culture. On the one hand, these are obvious criminals. No one would want to sail on a ship that was attacked by sea bandits. On the other hand, during the heyday of piracy in America, pirates were often "privateers" - legal sea robbers who, under the auspices of Britain and other European states, robbed Spanish ships and colonies. Thus, for Britain, pirates were both villains and heroes, and among the English pirates were both those who ended their lives on the gallows, and those who were fully legalized and gained official honor and respect. At the same time, pirates were also a symbol of freemen of the sea - that complete freedom that many migrants were looking for in the New World. It's hard to find more ambiguous real-life characters!
In the 19th century, pirates, long gone from European and American everyday life, were even more romanticized than before, and such successful books as Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson and the novels of Rafael Sabatini made pirates the most popular literary heroes. Cinema was not slow to take advantage of this, and the first films about pirates began to appear as early as early era silent cinema. The heyday of the genre came in the 1930s and 1950s, when, for example, the Australian-Hollywood actor Errol Flynn was predominantly known for playing the roles of noble and romantic pirates.
It seemed that nothing would stop the pirates from sharing the laurels of adored characters with the heroes of westerns. But in the 1960s, Hollywood switched from historical narratives based on the history of modern America, and pirate cinema died quickly - much faster than westerns, which were more firmly integrated into American culture. Both genres became boring, and because of their reliance on history, there was no innovation in them that would attract the attention of a new generation of viewers. From romantic robbers, pirates have turned into an old-fashioned laughing stock.
Later, when Hollywood became less politicized and more entertaining in the 1980s, there were many attempts to revive pirate cinema. So, in 1986, Roman Polanski shot the 40 millionth blockbuster "Pirates", in 1995 Renny Harlin released the 98 millionth "Thug Island". These pictures, however, turned out to be artistically weak, and their distribution was simply disastrous. There have been other similar fiascos, each of which convinced major studios that only a lunatic would get involved with pirated cinema. Or someone who is not afraid to lose money.
This, however, did not stop screenwriters who loved pirated films, wanted to revive the genre and came up with their own ways out of the situation. In 1992, Aladdin co-writers Ted Elliot and Terry Rossio approached Walt Disney Studios to make a pirated film that would be both an adventure and a mystical story. The idea was based on the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction at Disneyland where visitors were greeted at the start by a talking skull and where "underground caves" were filled with animated pirate skeletons. "Pirates" was the last part of Disneyland, created with the personal participation of Walt Disney. Note that the short "Dance of the Skeletons" in 1929 was the first Disney musical cartoon, so the comical macabre was "native" for the studio.
Elliot and Rossio believed that audiences would be interested in seeing an unpredictable pirate movie in which supernatural events would provide an additional degree of plot freedom. For example, a treasure traditional for the genre can be turned into a cursed treasure of the Indians, which does something terrible and amazing with those who try to steal it. For example, it will turn pirates into living skeletons. Cursed Gold was part of The Pirates and the writers wanted to expand on that theme.
Then the Disney bosses refused the co-authors. “Screening the attraction?! You're out of your mind!" they told the writers. But years passed, and in the early 2000s, the studio decided that based on the attraction (more precisely, based on its general concept and visual ideas), it was really worth making a movie. Not to make a lot of money, but to cement the Pirates of the Caribbean brand in movies and prevent anyone else from using it. Then no one was going to spend huge sums, and even the option of releasing a video film was being worked out.
After the Disney managers figured out what kind of story they wanted to tell, they brought in writer/producer Jay Wolpert, who wrote the 2002 Hollywood adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo. Then it was about the usual, traditional pirate movie, which was decided to be shot in the spirit of a “buddy movie” (that is, a comedy thriller about forcedly cooperating partners).
The script written by Volpert was about a prison guard who was in love with the governor's daughter. When the famous pirate captain kidnapped the girl and demanded a ransom, the jailer released the villain's former comrade-in-arms to help find the pirates and save the beauty. Further events developed along the lines of such tapes as the 1982 thriller 48 Hours, where a policeman pulled a criminal out of prison for a while to help find the killer. Recall that this picture made Eddie Murphy a movie star.
Why was the pirate made the second main character, and not the first? Because main character in this kind of Hollywood storytelling, it's usually the virtuous bore who serves as the tape's moral compass. On the contrary, the second protagonist does as he pleases and says whatever comes to his mind. Recall the duet from the same “48 hours” or from “Rush Hour”. And since no one needs a boring pirate, a second one was allocated for the pirate hero. leading role, in which he could show all his pirate habits and be as colorful and cynical as studio censorship and script fantasy allowed.
After Wolpert, the Australian Stuart Beatty, the future screenwriter of "Accomplice" and "G.I. Joe: Cobra Throw. Beatty was considered a connoisseur of the pirate theme in Hollywood, although he did not have filmed scripts about pirates. Among other things, Beatty came up with the idea of naming the main characters after birds - the pirate Jack Sparrow, the governor's daughter Elizabeth Swann (swan means "swan") and the guard Will Turner (the surname comes from the French etourneau, "starling").
Sparrow was supposed to be played by Matthew McConaughey, who, on the set of the 2002 fantasy film Reign of Fire, proved himself to be a non-capricious, patient and hardworking star, perfect for filming a technically complex movie. “Power” had not yet been released, but there were already rumors pleasant for the actor about working with McConaughey. However, other options were also worked out - depending on the budget that the studio was ready to allocate. One of the candidates was Hugh Jackman, and it is said that it was in his honor that the pirate was named Jack.
When the studio began to lean towards the idea that the film was worth making not only for copyright reasons, but that it should be properly invested in based on impressive fees, the Disney people asked for help from blockbuster expert - producer Jerry Bruckheimer, who had already had such hits on his account, like "Beverly Hills Cop", "Top Gun", "The Rock", "Armageddon" and others. Bruckheimer knew a thing or two about "male" stories, but he also knew how pirated blockbusters consistently failed. Therefore, the producer refused to work on the picture.
Luckily for the project, Disney had an ace of trumps in store. Recalling Elliot and Rossio's longstanding "pirate" script submission, the studio approached the co-writers who had worked on The Mask of Zorro and Shrek since Aladdin and invited them to submit their ideas for improving Wolpert and Beatty's script. Elliot and Rossio figured out how to incorporate an ancient curse and skeleton pirates into the script. What they came up with impressed both the Disney people and Bruckheimer, who continued to oversee the project. Supernatural events made it possible to make the picture more spectacular than the previous, "realistic" pirate productions, and to distinguish it from other attempts to revive the genre. So Bruckheimer decided to try to succeed where his colleagues had failed.
The producer, however, had one condition. He wanted Jack Sparrow to be played not by the "obvious" McConaughey for such a role, but by someone whom the public does not imagine in such a movie and whose participation will intrigue viewers and journalists. Bruckheimer clearly understood that if the genre of the picture is more of a commercial minus than a commercial plus, then you need to lure the audience with an unexpected casting.
Disney had an answer to this request as well. A year earlier, the eccentric and talented handsome Johnny Depp, the hero of Tim Burton's films and others famous paintings, often art-house, asked the studio if she had a cartoon script that he could voice. Depp was then a young father (his daughter Lily-Rose Melody Depp was born in 1999), and he wanted to give his daughter a gift - a full-length Disney cartoon with his father's voice. The Disney people didn’t have anything suitable in mind, but contact was made with the actor, and when Bruckheimer set his condition, the Disney people asked Depp if he wanted to play a pirate in a teenage blockbuster.
Depp wanted. I really wanted to. It was no longer for his daughter - it was for himself. He loved the old pirate movies so much that he agreed to act as soon as he heard that he could play a pirate and brandish a sword. He didn't even read the script! However, when Depp read the script, his resolve only strengthened, as he realized that he was being offered a multi-faceted role in which he could really break away. While the main character, although he turned from a security guard into a blacksmith in the course of processing the script, he remained a bore.
Jack Sparrow was originally conceived as a colorful pirate, but Depp squared his eccentricity, if not a cube. The actor reasoned that in the pirate era in the Caribbean famous pirates behaved like modern rock stars, and he based his interpretation of the character Keith Richards from the band Rolling Stones. Richards went on to play Jack's father in the second sequel to Pirates of the Caribbean.
Jack turned out so peculiar that the Disney bosses were shocked by what they saw at rehearsals. "Is he 'blue' or always drunk?" the producers indignantly asked about the character. Depp, however, insisted on his vision, and Bruckheimer supported him. After all, Depp was invited to make the picture unusual and intriguing, and Jack came out as a bewitching character. Also, he didn't have to be "normal" since that was Will's job.
Meanwhile, the picture acquired a director. Pirates of the Caribbean was directed by Gore Verbinski, whom Bruckheimer had an eye on when he was filming music videos and commercials. The producer liked Verbinski's visuals. At that time, Bruckheimer did not find a suitable project for the novice director, but he was able to agree with him when Verbinski completed filming the horror film The Ring, a remake of the Japanese film of the same name. Like Depp, the director was a big fan of old pirate movies, and after The Ring, he also knew a thing or two about supernatural stories. Therefore, he was fascinated by the opportunity to shoot a mystical pirate movie and use the full power of the latest special effects in it.
For the role of the main villain of the film - the pirate captain Hector Barbossa, who kidnaps Elizabeth in the hope that she will help break the treasure curse imposed on Barbossa and his crew - Verbinski cast Australian Geoffrey Rush, Oscar winner for the 1996 biopic Shine. The director considered that this is a role for not only charismatic, but also talented performer, which will make Barbossa an ambiguous and interesting villain.
Rush came to the project not empty-handed. He brought with him the performer of the role of Will Turner. Rush was also filming the Australian historical film The Kelly Gang, and he offered to read the script for Pirates to his on-screen partner Orlando Bloom, who became famous as Legolas in The Lord of the Rings. The Englishman wasn't thrilled that all of his Pirates co-stars had more vivid images than him, but he consoled himself with the fact that he was playing the actual protagonist.
Bloom's compatriot Keira Knightley landed the role of the governor's daughter Elizabeth Swann through casting. Verbinski did not see English painting Play Like Beckham, which made Knightley a star in his homeland, but he still saw the 17-year-old girl as a superb modern heroine - both attractive and athletic. Unlike traditional pirate movie heroines, Elizabeth was not a helpless damsel in distress, and the film needed a beauty who would look convincing both in dress and with weapons in her hands.
The film also stars Englishmen Jack Davenport and Kevin McNally, Welsh actor Jonanan Pryce and the future "ethnic" science fiction movie star Zoe Saldana, a native of the United States with Hispanic and Lebanese roots. They played, respectively, the British naval officer and the official fiance of the heroine James Norrington, Jack Sparrow's first mate Joshami Gibbs, Governor Weatherby Swann (Elizabeth's father) and the pirate Anamaria. Unlike her colleagues, Saldana refused to appear in the sequels of the picture, because she did not like the way she was treated on the set of Pirates.
The actors of the tape did not just follow the instructions of the director. They actively participated in the development of their characters and inventing their lines and jokes. Rush was especially zealous, enjoying unquestioned authority and proving more than once that he could reduce an unnecessarily long script line to one expressive gesture or eyebrow movement.
While the Pirates crew was preparing for filming, in July 2002, The Country Bears, a children's musical film based on a Disneyland theme park attraction called the Country Bear Jamboree, was released and was a complete flop. This put The Pirates in jeopardy, as the top Disney bosses doubted they would really spend the $140 million allocated for the picture. However, they were impressed with the design work that Verbinski already had, and Bruckheimer convinced the Disney people that the studio had to spend hefty sums to keep up with the competition. In any case, the comparison of "Bears" with "Pirates" was not valid, since they were completely different tapes for different audiences.
Although "Pirates" was a fantasy with little connection to the real historical events, the filmmakers consulted with experts on the history of piracy, navigation and the Caribbean in order to give the picture a touch of plausibility. However, as usual in such cases, a significant part of the consultations consisted in the fact that the experts explained why what is described and shown in the picture is completely impossible.
Among the film's consultants were experts on classic pirate cinema. In particular, the legendary Bob Anderson, a British fencer who represented his country at the Helsinki Olympics in 1952, participated in the training of those actors who were to fence in the frame. Thereafter, Anderson became a prominent Hollywood stage fencing coach and stage fencing director. At the beginning of his career, he trained the master of the pirate genre Errol Flynn, and later worked on Star Wars, Highlander, The Princess Bride, The Lord of the Rings and many other tapes.
Filming for Pirates began in October 2002 and ended in March 2003. Studio shooting took place at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California, where, among other things, a giant underground cave set was built with pirate treasures. By the way, as consultants explained to filmmakers, in reality there were no such vaults - the pirates quickly spent everything they managed to loot, because their life was too short and dangerous to save for retirement. So pirate treasures are just idle myths. But myths are myths, and according to the scenario, the “bank” cave was needed, and 100 builders worked on it for five months. For another three weeks, the scenery was filled with imitations of treasures, among which was a million "Spanish doubloons". Decorators had to contract a company that specialized in the production of imitations of old coins.
Early location filming of the tape took place on the coast of California, where the producers managed to find places where signs of modern civilization, such as high-rise buildings and power lines, were not visible. The scenery of the fortress of Port Royal (the largest city in the Caribbean during the heyday of piracy) and the palace of Governor Swann were built there.
When, during preparation for filming, the creators of the tape thought about where they would shoot the Caribbean tropics, they looked first at California, and then at Australia and Thailand. However, in the end, they decided that the Caribbean should be filmed in the Caribbean, since each tropical region has its own unique look and imitation will be visible to viewers who have traveled. So, having carefully studied about 20 Caribbean islands, the group chose the island of St. Vincent, which is part of the state of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Historically, this is a banana, not a tourist land, and the producers found enough space on the coast to build the scenery of the ancient piers and the cities of Port Royal and Tortuga (Tortuga Island was the unofficial pirate capital of the Caribbean).
Marine scenes were filmed off the coast of St. Vincent and off the coast of California. Basically, three ships participated in them. According to the scenario, these are the pirate galleon "Black Pearl" (the former ship of Jack Sparrow and the current ship of Barbossa), the powerful British warship "Dauntless" and the fast clipper "Interceptor", which the heroes steal to follow the trail of the pirates who kidnapped Elizabeth. The Black Pearl and the Undaunted were ship decorations built on modern barges. They were moved using tugs, which were then cut out of the frame using computer graphics. The same technology was used to turn floating sets into full-fledged ships.
The Interceptor, on the other hand, was a real-life sailing ship, the Lady Washington, slightly modified for the needs of filmmakers - a copy of the first American ship that reached the northwest coast of the current United States, and then reached Hawaii, Hong Kong and Japan. Lady Washington serves as an open-air museum based in Washington State. The brig came to the Caribbean under its own power with an intermediate stop for repairs in Colombia (the ship was damaged by a severe storm). The management of such a ship requires special training and skill, so the crew of the Lady Washington starred in Pirates as extras. Since there were women in the ship's crew, and they were not supposed to be on the screen, the "sea wolfs" had to disguise themselves as men and wear fake beards and mustaches.
In general, a lot of attention was paid to the make-up and costumes of the pirates. Verbinski deliberately eschewed pirates with eye patches and hooks for arms, as the cliché of pirate cinema had long since become comical and childish. The costume designers were inspired by the actual outfits pirates might wear, and the make-up artists were responsible for making the pirates look like they never brushed their teeth or bathed. The director wanted the characters in the film to exude a "rebellion" against societal norms. Depp put four crowns on his teeth precious metals to emphasize the former high status your character in the pirate hierarchy. All the leading actors, except Orlando Bloom, wore wigs typical of the European fashion of the pirate era. The weapons they were carrying were partly sham and partly authentic, bought at auctions. So, Jack Sparrow's sword was a real weapon of the 18th century.
Contrary to the current Hollywood love for computer graphics, there was relatively little of it in Pirates. It was mainly used to remove signs of the modern world from the screen and visually complement the scenery. Skeleton pirates were the film's main CGI effect. Involved in creating the scenes, ILM scanned the entirety of each of the skeletal actors and created computer-generated "skeletal" models based on those scans, each one unique and recognizable. For Verbinski, it was important that the pirates, after turning into skeletons, did not merge into a homogeneous crowd.
Filming the skeleton fight scenes was especially difficult, as the actors had to cut through the air and do it the same way in every take so that the editors and computer people could then assemble the scene from separately filmed and drawn components. Since filming was completed just four months before the scheduled premiere, post-production was done almost around the clock, and Verbinski sat in the studio for 18 hours a day.
For the same reason, 15 composers worked on the film. They were led by working Germans in Hollywood, Hans Zimmer and Klaus Badelt. Verbinski had hoped he could work with his longtime collaborator Alan Silvestri, but Bruckheimer decided that the Zimmer and Badelt team he had worked with before would do it faster and with better results. Time was running out - the picture had to be released during the season of summer blockbusters.
The result was a movie that became the first Disney release with a PG-13 rating. The studio hoped for a PG rating, but felt it was better to attract an older audience to the movie than to focus on the safety of the tape for kids and release a toothless " semolina”, which will attract only small children. To show their confidence in the project, Disney added the words "The Curse of the Black Pearl" to the name "Pirates of the Caribbean". Like, this is only the first series of the planned cycle. Verbinski was unhappy with this decision, as it is the treasure that is cursed in the film, not the pirate ship. Therefore, the director insisted that the additional title be on the posters in small, barely readable type.
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl was released on July 9, 2003. The release was accompanied by a strong advertising campaign, and many observers wondered how much the studio would lose on "a doomed pirate movie". However, "Pirates" exceeded all expectations. The tape debuted in first place at the end of the weekend rental and ultimately grossed $654 million on a budget of $140 million. This made it the fourth-highest-grossing film of 2003 worldwide and the third-highest-grossing film in the US. Only The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Finding Nemo and The Matrix Reloaded showed the best results, while, for example, X-Men 2 and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines lost the race to the Pirates.
Pirates of the Caribbean is a film with a distinct pirate aesthetic, worked out to the smallest detail. The history of the film, Interesting Facts, review
May 25, 2017 - the release date of the new part of the fantasy saga "Pirates of the Caribbean" - "Dead Men Tell No Tales", a film in 2017!
When the screen with this picture opens, it seems to me that a living ocean opens up to its full extent, I breathe deeply in the salty sea wind and can’t breathe, I squint from the bright sun and a little regret that my face will burn and I will have to smear it with sour cream, I look forward to a joyful meeting with countries and exotic islands and wondering if I will return from this campaign or die in a boarding battle with the entire crew of our galliot.
Oh, this pirate romance: the eternal pursuit of luck, the game on the verge of life and death, risk, freedom and untold riches hidden in treasured chests.
The creaking masts and the wind against the sails!
We recall the history of the creation of this absolute masterpiece, as well as interesting facts that happened on the set.
Pirates of the Caribbean: the history of the film, interesting facts
Movies are usually made based on books oral legends or stories, well, at worst, from comics. "Pirates" are created by ... the attraction of the same name in Disneyland.
It was he who inspired Theodore Rossio and Ted Elliot to write the script.
The creative duo rustled their feathers in unison, and in 1995 the script was “issued to the mountain”. And, I must say, he clearly did not ripen at the right time.
It would have been hard to think of a worse moment for such a scenario: the pirate film Cutthroat Island had just flopped, and the failure had instilled in the producers a strong immunity to the pirate theme.
For 15 (!) years, tireless screenwriters knocked on the thresholds of production centers, getting their invariable “turn from the gate”, until at the dawn of the 2000s, Jerry Bruckheimer took up the project. Did he know then that he had found his gold mine!
Interesting Facts:
- "Pirates of the Caribbean" is the first film in history with an age limit of 13+.
- The word "smart?" often uttered by Jack Sparrow is pure improvisation by Johnny Depp. It wasn't in the handwritten script.
- The role of Will Turner could be played by Tobey Maguire, Jude Law, Christian Bale, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Masterson. They all passed screen tests. But the hero, as conceived by the authors, should have had softer and more romantic manners, and at the same time a more daring character. All these qualities were found in Orlando Bloom.
- The brand on Sparrow's hand in the form of the letter "P" is a real artifact: it was used in the seas and meant "pirate", however, it was applied to the forehead of the captive filibuster. And Jack's artificial tattoo - a sparrow against the sunset, Depp, after filming, "stuffed" for real: his son asked him about it.
- Jim Carrey, Michael Keaton and Christopher Walken auditioned for the role of Jack Sparrow. True, the directors and screenwriters could only see the magical charm, peppercorn and unique facial expressions in Depp.
- The manners of Jack Sparrow, and the whole image of Johnny took over from rocker Keith Richards. In the film, he played the role of Sparrow's father.
- Most of location filming took place at sea. At the same time, there was no rest for the medical team on duty. The participants in the filming process were mowed down by seasickness, and they swallowed packs of pills.
- The bright sun blinded the crew. At the same time, many of its participants were addicted to sunglasses, including Knightley and Depp.
For all such "lovers" of glasses, special contact lenses were invented.
- Jack Sparrow's gold teeth are real. That is - real implants. Taking the opportunity, Depp made a few teeth precious, wanted to “gild” the entire jaw, but the director cooled his ardor, saying that the radiance could “illuminate the film.”
- Penelope Cruz filmed while pregnant. In some scenes, her sister Monica replaces her.
- The generous Depp bought overalls for the workers on the set: often the weather at sea was too fresh, and the team was not prepared for this. 60 thousand dollars went out of Johnny's pocket for this case.
- Attentive viewers may have noticed that Captain Barbossa usually appears on the left side of the frame. The answer is simple - actor Geoffrey Rush shares the theory that viewers, like readers, look first to the lower left corner.
- Johnny Depp had doubles, however, he performed some of the dangerous stunts himself.
The actor is sure that difficult scenes the viewer needs to see the face of the hero, otherwise the authenticity disappears. Moreover, no understudy is able to convey the original body language inherent in the actor.
- The On Stranger Tides series took place in sunny Hawaii. In their free time, the actors rushed to the beach, including the girls playing mermaids. Members film crew I had to literally round up them and put them under visors and umbrellas so that they would not get sunburnt.
Mermaid skin should be white.
15. Almost all the weapons that appear on the screen are real. And Sparrow's pistol and sword are generally unique - they are genuine, pirated.
- On this moment the last part of the film "On Stranger Tides" grossed over a billion dollars at the box office. Huge money even for Hollywood.
How I love Pirates of the Caribbean! great music, vivid images, juicy picture! Fights, chases, mysticism, intrigue... This franchise made me take a fresh look at Hollywood cinema, made me fall in love with myself and still does not let go. Of the blockbuster series, I love the X-Men more. “The Curse of the Black Pearl was a great fairy tale for all ages with lots of funny, scary and tense moments. "Dead Man's Chest" turned out to be incredibly eventful, dynamic and significantly expanded the universe. "At the End of the World", although it came out a little chaotic, it adequately completed the trilogy. Well, five years later, the heroes loved by everyone returned in the part “On Stranger Tides”.
The fifth film in the franchise is coming out in May, Dead Men Tell No Tales, which I'm looking forward to. But you already understood from the title that not everything is so simple. So here are the top 11 annoying Pirates of the Caribbean moments!
In I deliberately did not mention the flywheel of time, I ignored the eagles. There will be no bracketing here, because there are simply no such well-known plot holes in the plot. It's a pity.
11. Undead Monkey
The hilarious monkey named Jack is the ultimate example of how you can make a character for comedic relief without being annoying. In the scene after the credits of the first part, she steals a coin from the chest, turns into the walking dead and makes the final screamer to the camera. Of course, Verbinski and the company did not abandon such a funny character and included him in subsequent films, and in the third part they also endowed him with incredible quick wits. But ... she repeatedly appears in the frame at night in subsequent parts! By the light of the moon! And there are no signs of her "corpse-likeness" at all! That is, the creators initially scored on this detail. It seems like a trifle, but it is very striking!
10. Pintel and Ragetti got good
Another hello from the first part. Most of Barbossa's immortal team from The Curse of the Black Pearl were completely unmemorable brute-faced thugs. But there was a pleasant exception. Charming couple Pintel and Ragetti, who somehow reminded me of the duo of robbers from Home Alone. And in the sequel, they decided not to abandon them and made them good. They even teased this moment a little, making one of them a devout person reading the Bible. As often happens, bandits decide to take the right path and find their salvation in the holy books. But damn it, I couldn't just forget the sins of the first part! At their first appearance, Pintel shamelessly shoots an innocent butler with the cynical phrase "Walked a long time!". It is clear that a pirate is, in principle, a violator of the law. But this scene is very jarring, especially when viewing subsequent parts.
9. Davy Jones' stash
In general, everything that happened with the Davy Jones Cache is some kind of one drug trip. As it is customary to write in such cases: "So many questions and so few answers." Why, after eating the Kraken, the "Pearl" and Jack ended up intact somewhere incomprehensibly where? What are these crabs? Why did he “float” to the seashore with their help? And do other ships that the Kraken eats also fall into this "cache"? If yes, what size is it? And how did it happen that the pirates who came to the rescue immediately found Jack? Although, of course, it cannot be called a strong jamb. Because everything can be answered: "It's magic, shut up and watch!"
8 Elisabeth's Stupid Blackmail That Worked
One of the weirdest scenes in the first part. At the first viewing, it does not raise any questions at all, but it is worth reviewing the film, and you are already thinking: pirates, what is wrong with you? So, Barbossa's team finds the last coin of cursed gold and, as it seems to them, the daughter of Bill Bootstrap (why they didn't know that Bootstrap had a son and not a daughter is another story). And Elizabeth begins to dictate terms to the pirates. How did she do it? She began to threaten to throw the locket overboard. But... But... But it's completely pointless! A little earlier, the pirates themselves say that they are drawn to gold, especially in the water! In fact, they found the coin when Elizabeth inadvertently fell into the sea with it. And further footage showed that they calmly walk on the seabed. So what prevented them from going down and calmly picking up the medallion? In addition, in the blackmail scene, they were standing in the bay, which means that there would be absolutely no problems with this!
7. Physics went out for a smoke and never came back
I don’t understand claims in the spirit of “the fact that Sparrow’s wound moves from the left side of his face to the right one confuses you, but the fact that the living dead walk in the film does not.” Because any fairy tale, any fantasy initially sets some laws of the genre, some conventions. But at the same time, a number of things in her should not differ from real world, otherwise there would be zero sense in a fairy tale and one could do anything. The only tales that are initially set up to break any laws are Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. And yes, I am not embarrassed by the revived dead pirates, but they will be embarrassed by banal movie bloopers and just stupidity. And here I am really confused by the endless violations of the laws of physics in the franchise. As far as we are given to understand, Jack and Will are two ordinary person like you and me. They weigh like normal adult men. SO WHY THE FUCK THEY MANAGE TO WALK ON THE BOTTOM AND CARRY AN OVERCUT BOAT LIKE A DIVING DOME?! This is completely unrealistic, if only they did not weigh 200 kg each. And how does Jack in the second part, running away from the natives, manage to fall from a gigantic height (albeit with a slightly slower fall) and not break anything? How do the characters in the third part manage to turn the whole ship over, albeit rocking it back and forth? Yes, even the scene of meeting Jack has no physical meaning - he swims up to the pier on an almost sunken boat, which, having gone under water, does not stop, but continues to move, as if it does not have a sail, but a motor.
6 Useless Calypso
The writers of the third part decided to surprise us with a few unexpected moves. And one of them was that the ugly sorceress Tia Dalma actually turned out to be the locked mistress of the sea Calypso. And so Barbossa had a long quarrel with the pirate barons, should she be released or not. It seems that everyone decided not to do this, but the hero of Geoffrey Rush did his own thing and still released her. Hoping for some goodies. And what did Calypso end up doing? Maybe she got her revenge on Davy Jones? Or vice versa, helped a former lover? Revenge on the pirates who captured her? Or helped the pirates who freed her? What did she do? She stupidly turned into a whirlpool. And what? And for what? And why? She is such a powerful goddess! And that's all she could do? An absolutely pointless and ridiculous scene that was needed solely to show a cool battle scene in a funnel.
5. Some kind of game with the curse of the Aztecs
As we remember, the pirates in the first part stole the cursed gold of the Aztecs and turned into the living dead. IN moonlight we saw their true nature - skeletons covered with decayed rags. They became immortal, but in return they lost the joy of food and feminine warmth. Their task was to collect all the lost coins and return them to their original place ... And all this curse will cause many questions. And why didn't the rest of the coin carriers become cursed - Will, Elizabeth? They kind of don't count because they didn't want to get rich on them? But after all, the monkey also hardly thought about buying bananas with these coins, then why did she become cursed? And why then were all pirates cursed? Did they all steal these coins? Surely someone stayed on duty on the ship while the rest climbed into this cave.
Not fewer questions summons the clothes of the dead. Here it is in the moonlight became decayed. And if they changed clothes, the curse would spread to new clothes Or would it remain on the old one?
Well main question: the pirates obviously did not lead a peaceful lifestyle - even in pursuit of one coin, they cut out half a fort. And it’s scary to imagine how many people were put, collecting the previous ones. And did they really not cut off a single limb from anyone? Watch the scene with Governor Swan and the severed hand. It turns out that half of the Caribbean should be in revived limbs!
And when Will removed the curse, Barbossa immediately died from a bullet fired by Jack. Why then did the other pirates who fought with the soldiers not die from their wounds? And they were there for sure, and not alone.
4. Curse of Will Turner
The ending of the third part came out very dramatic. It seems that everything ended with a happy ending: the bad guys were defeated, the good guys won, but ... Everything is not so rosy. Will dies in Elizabeth's arms, but Jack saves him, making him captain " Flying Dutchman". It seems like it's good, but a heavy curse falls on the hero: he can go to land only one day in ten years. “The main thing is what kind of day it will be,” Will says beautifully. And at the very end, we are first shown that she and Elizabeth are spending time as part of a film with a children's rating, and 10 years later, a long-haired boy runs to meet a folder.
But nobody cursed Elizabeth! Nothing prevents her, for example, to sit down with Jack on the ship, ride to the Flying Dutchman and have mercy on her beloved Will, until his polyps and tentacles grow! Of course, he is a busy man, but he can find an evening for a sweetheart! Even sea captains see their wives more often than once every ten years!
What's more, this entire ten-year curse is completely nullified by one negotiating scene on the islet. On one side are Jack, Barbossa and Elizabeth. On the other - Lord Beckett, Will and ... Davy Jones with their feet in a tub! So fir-trees-sticks, then put Will in a barrel and at least take them to the Gobi Desert! And you can also make a bucket for each leg - and let him walk where he wants, the main thing is not to spill it! The negotiation scene is really interesting, but this Jones in a barrel completely robs the curse of any meaning.
3. Pirate Lord Barbossa
An epic trilogy had to end epic. And one of the brightest moments of the third part is the massive congress of pirate barons from all over the world. At a large meeting there are barons from China, France, Turkey, Africa and other walking stereotypes. There is also Jack among them, which is strange in itself, given his "isolation" from the pirate brethren, and - here's a surprise! - Barbossa! This really hit me hard the first time I saw it. Somehow, I didn’t pay much attention to the larger jambs and inconsistencies that are lower in the rating. And this raises questions from the very first second. On what basis did Barbossa become a pirate baron? We were told in the first part in plain text: "He was a cook in Jack's team and started a riot." Cock, Carl! Why on earth did a pirate baron go to work as a cook? Say: was it his plan to take possession of the fast "Pearl"? Let us suppose. Why didn't Jack recognize him then? After all, he should have crossed paths with him at least once, when all the pirate barons locked Calypso together! It is immediately obvious: the creators of the third part did not even bother to revise the first one, saying the legendary bad-comedian "SHAAAAAYUT!"
2. Merged Kraken
Kraken is one of the brightest monsters in general in world cinema. In the second part, we were shown all its inevitability and indestructibility. Severed tentacles grow back, shots from cannons are not taken, and if this beast rushed at you, then one can only hope that a dedicated team will find you in Davy Jones's chest. And the creators did everything right: almost until the very end they did not show us it in full and pumped up suspense before his next attack. And what will happen to the Kraken in the third part? But nothing, he will lie dead on the shore, and Pintel and Ragetti will jump on him! At the same time, he was killed by Davy Jones himself on the orders of Beckett. It remains only to ask: “What, so it was possible?”. Moreover, we were not even shown the actual process of the murder, because it must have been very epic. But the most incomprehensible - what for Beckett needed to kill the Kraken? Same most powerful weapon who obeys Davy Jones who obeys you! It's like voluntarily destroying a nuclear warhead. I somehow did not notice any nobility in Lord Beckett to deprive myself of such an advantage! The only explanation is that the writers stupidly did not know what to do next with the Kraken and how to get him out of the final battle.
As a bonus today, I would like to mention an issue that is not specific to this series, but has spread to other films. Namely - the image of Captain Jack Sparrow. Johnny Depp was a 100% hit in this image in 2003. They say that many people auditioned for this role, including Jim Carrey, but Gore Verbinski managed to find someone who would play an extravagant hero, but within certain limits, and not like Jim Carrey. Alas, because of this role, the previously multifaceted actor Johnny Depp began to play the same character from time to time: "Willy Wonka", "Alice in Wonderland", "The Lone Ranger" ... And even in serious roles like the same Sweeney Todd, "sparrow" notes were traced. Although it seems like Lately the actor is getting better.
1. The entire Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides movie
There are successful sequels - for example, "Back to the Future" -2 and 3. There are sequels that come out even better than the original ("Terminator 2"). There are bad sequels. There are even terrible ones. But On Stranger Tides is even worse. He's just... no. This is an empty, not catchy film that evokes absolutely no emotions from viewing. After viewing it, only the question remains: why is it needed? No, of course, to cut down the dough on the franchise, but still. The original trilogy came out as a brilliant finished story, with amazing humor, great dialogues and popular phrases. Can you remember at least one phrase from the fourth part? The fourth part came out absolutely useless, optional. She does not develop the plot of the trilogy in any way, does not expand the universe in any way and does not try to start new history. That is, it seems like in the scene after the credits we were shown Penelope Cruz with Jack's voodoo doll, but even at the first viewing it became obvious: there is no development of the story here and never will be.
"On Stranger Tides" is remembered only for the fact that it constantly slips into quoting old phrases. There isn't even new music. All the same He's a pirate theme and a couple of non-catchy compositions.
Love line? God, she's pointless and miserable. Will and Elizabeth pissed me off in the trilogy, but at least their relationship was interesting. There is also a missionary and a mermaid, who do not even have a billionth share of charisma, doing meaningless things (why, for example, did the mermaid want to help the sailors who hunted her sisters?).
The villain? Come on, why should I be afraid of some man, even if he manages the ropes of his ship? I have seen animated skeletons, the terrifying Kraken and the Davy Jones team in previous parts! That's who inspired real fear - a crowd of immortal monsters from the depths of the sea! And then ... well, some regular pirate, who is not even a match for Barbossa from the first part, let alone Davy Jones. It is not clear why Jack was suddenly so afraid of him.
Do you remember that the post is called "top 11 most ANNOUNTING moments"? And what irritates me most of all in the fourth part is that there is simply nothing to hate her for! How separate story She looks quite tolerable, albeit a little clichéd. But I don't see any reason to love her (well, other than Penélope Cruz's breasts rising above her corset)! And it hurts as hell that such a posh franchise contains such an empty film.
As I wrote above, in May we are waiting for the fifth part of the adventures of Jack Sparrow ... Sorry, Captain Jack Sparrow. Orlando Bloom will return to the franchise, they seem to promise a cameo by Keira Knightley ... Well, the most colorful Geoffrey Rush is in place. And although I look forward to it with my heart, I understand in my mind that it is not worth waiting for any discoveries from her. And the reason for this is the useless fourth part. However, we should not forget that no one will take away from us three great first films. And thanks to Gore Verbinski and company for that! Are you savvy?
At the end of the 20th century, the pirate theme came under the most severe ban in Hollywood. A screenwriter or director who would dare to come to the producers with a “brilliant” idea for a film about corsairs and filibusters would first be whipped, and then tied to a cannon and eaten alive. And all because the pirate theme in the cinema was pursued by an infernal curse: any film on a similar theme with a loud bang failed at the box office under the hooting of critics and the gallery. "Island of cutthroats" and at all. And "Waterworld" about pirates from the post-apocalyptic future almost ruined the career of Kevin Costner.
Not only did the viewer not feel any enthusiasm for the theme of sea robbery and pirate romance, but the process of filming a movie with water scenes was extremely time-consuming, dangerous and consumed money with a redoubled appetite. For this reason, analysts predicted Gore Verbinski's "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" a modest success and considered it an almost hopeless gamble. Moreover, the director is not God knows what eminent, but main star- Johnny Depp - at that time was not at all listed as a box office actor. The fact that the tape was filmed based on the attraction in Disneyland certainly did not inspire optimism, on the contrary. The film's phenomenal triumph lifted an ancient Hollywood curse: it grossed $650 million at the box office, which in 2003 was considered very decent money in the movie business.
Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland
Second vial
Pirates was the very first movie to premiere at Disneyland. Not to say that all critics without exception were delighted. Some wrote nasty things like "If you think Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl's title is too long, then you haven't seen the movie yet!" Many reviewers found the movie not funny and not very entertaining - in general, they drowned as best they could. But their efforts were in vain: the movie broke through, became the third highest-grossing film of 2003 (after The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King and Finding Nemo), overtook the second The Matrix.
Surprisingly, it was only thanks to this film that Johnny Depp earned his first Oscar nomination. Then he was also nominated for his roles in the films "Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street" and " Wonderland”, but he never received a single statuette. I wonder what would have happened if Johnny Depp had insisted on his own: he wanted Jack Sparrow to have no nose, but there would have been a set of idiotic phobias - fear of peppers and colds, in particular. A mix of Michael Jackson and Woody Allen! Disney's bosses rejected these rationalization proposals.
Third flask
Very strange ideas film set Australian film and theater veteran Geoffrey Rush also visited. He somehow convinced himself that the audience looked at the film the same way they read the book, that is, from left to right. For this reason, in those shots where there was someone colorful next to him, Jeffrey always wanted to be on the left in order to be noticed. This was especially true for the scenes where the monkey or Keira Knightley appeared.
Fourth flask
It is well known that the image of Jack Sparrow Depp was inspired by the observation of Keith Richards from The Rolling Stones. However, the motivation to introduce such an image into the film was by no means a stupid desire to make faces, Depp simply believed that pirates in their golden era were something like rock stars for the townsfolk, and therefore they should be portrayed in a rock and roll manner.
Fifth flask
All the main characters of the film are present in it as birds: the scriptwriters gave them all feathered surnames. Jack, of course, Sparrow. The surname Elizabeth is translated as Swan. And the name of Orlando Bloom's character - William Turner - by a strange coincidence belongs to an important English ornithologist who in the 16th century published the first ever printed book about birds. By the way, Keira Knightley for some reason was sure that she would be fired almost immediately after the start of filming. For this reason, she practically did not even take things from home. When the film was released, Kira was only 18 years old. If she were fired, it is likely that Jessica Alba would have come to replace her: she was on the list of top candidates for the role.
Stories of pirate adventures captured the imagination of people in the 17th and 18th centuries. Even 300 years later, the stories of John Silver, Captain Hook and Jack Sparrow are still as popular as ever. But are these fictional characters really like real-life pirates?
Was buried treasure really marked with an “X” on the map, with a black flag with a skull and crossbones fluttering in the wind? Did Royal Navy officers and pirate leaders really fight each other in death duels?
It turns out yes.
But in reality, the life of the pirates was even more amazing than what you saw on the big screen.
I am a gentleman of fortune and I will surely catch her
Henry Avery was a sailor on board a merchant ship and knew firsthand about the hardships of the life of ordinary sailors. The captains and owners of merchant ships treated the sailors very badly. They were given meager rations, they were deceived when paying their salaries, and they were often fed spoiled food.
It couldn't go on like this. In 1694, Avery united other sailors around him, promising them freedom, wealth and glory. Having landed the captain and several of his supporters on the boat, the team captured the ship and went to sea under a pirate flag.
Soon they met at sea a ship belonging to the Indian emperor. On the ship, the team found a lot of gold, silver, jewelry and ivory. Avery caught his luck by the tail, and each member of his team received at one time as much money as they would receive in 20 years of service aboard a merchant ship.
Naval forces around the world hunted for pirates, but Avery bribed the governor of the Bahamas, left him his ship and returned to Europe on a smaller ship.
After disembarking in Ireland, he said goodbye to the crew. Further, his traces are lost in history, but rumors and myths about him future fate a lot of.
The fate of pirates and the pirate flag
The authorities fought piracy by all means and spread news everywhere about the terrible fate that befell many pirates. Stories about the capture and massacre of pirates were full of terrible details. This was done specifically to intimidate people so that they would not become pirates. It was also necessary to destroy the halo of romanticism that surrounded the pirates. But some of these horror stories were by no means exaggerated.
"Black Sam" Bellamy, for example, was rising star in the world of pirates of the "Golden Age". He called himself the "Robin Hood of the Seas" and earned a reputation for being invincible. Already at the age of 26, he was the captain of his own ship and the most terrible person who terrified everyone who swam in the waters washing North and South America.
In 1717, Bellamy was caught in a storm off Cape Cod. His ship was carried to the shore and, having flown onto a shallow, he turned over and sank with all the treasures on board. About 160 people died, including the captain. The newspaper of those days claimed that God had punished him for becoming a pirate.
There are still sad famous story about Jack Rackham. As a pirate, Jack was rather unfortunate. He was seized easily enough in 1720 and hanged. But his flag had a different fate. It is this flag with a skull and crossbones, the Jolly Roger, that everyone still knows as a symbol of piracy. The black flag with the attributes of death was terrifying, and many ships surrendered without a fight to the mercy of the pirates.
female pirates
Rackham was also famous for having two women on his crew, Mary Reed and Anne Bonnie, the only known female pirates of the era.
women on sailing ships of that time they could just be passengers, but female sailors were extremely rare, since there was a belief that a woman on a ship was in trouble.
Reid and Bonnie were also convicted of piracy and would have been hanged, of course. But knowing that pregnant women are not sent to the gallows, both women seduced the guards while they were in captivity and became pregnant, avoiding the common fate of the team.
Blackbeard
Edward Teach, nicknamed Blackbeard, was an English pirate who repaired robbery in the Caribbean in 1713-1718.
Blackbeard was not the most successful pirate at all, but he knew how to inspire fear with his formidable appearance alone. He weaved fuses into his beard and, during the battle, burst aboard the captured ship, literally in fire and smoke. At the sight of such a monster, many sailors immediately surrendered.
Blackbeard died in a brutal duel with English Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard.
There is a mystery associated with the name Blackbeard- the disappearance of his logbook, where the captain recorded everything important events- the names of the robbed ships and information about the captured treasures.
Who knows, perhaps there was even a map in the magazine with an "X" mark indicating the place where the treasures were hidden.
But those who secretly took possession of the magazine died long ago, and the dead do not tell tales.
