Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Directed by	Gore Verbinski
Written by	Characters: Ted Elliott Terry Rossio Stuart Beattie Jay Wolpert Screenplay: Ted Elliott Terry Rossio
Produced by	Jerry Bruckheimer
Starring	Johnny Depp Orlando Bloom Keira Knightley Bill Nighy Stellan Skarsgård Jack Davenport Kevin McNally Jonathan Pryce Tom Hollander Naomie Harris
Cinematography	Dariusz Wolski
Edited by	Stephen E. Rivkin Craig Wood
Music by	Hans Zimmer
Distributed by	Walt Disney Company Buena Vista Pictures
Release dates	July 7, 2006
Running time	150 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$225 million

Template:Infobox movie certificates Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest is an Academy Award-winning 2006 pirate adventure film that follows the 2003 summer blockbuster Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. The sequel is again directed by Gore Verbinski and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer.

Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley reprise their roles as Captain Jack Sparrow, Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann, respectively. Also returning are Jack Davenport as Commodore James Norrington and Jonathan Pryce as Governor Weatherby Swann. Joining the cast are Bill Nighy, who portrays the villainous Davy Jones and Stellan Skarsgård playing Will Turner's father, "Bootstrap Bill" Turner.

The film was released in Australia and the United Kingdom on July 6, 2006, and in the United States and Canada on July 7, 2006. The movie set several records in its first three days, with an opening weekend of $135,600,000. As of its date of close, December 7 2006, the film has made $423,315,812 in the U.S. and became the third film to reach the $1,000,000,000 worldwide mark, with over $1,065,200,000. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End is set to follow on May 25, 2007.

Production

Information about the two sequels to Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl was presented at a Disney Investor Conference Studio Presentation in 2005. The title for the first sequel was revealed to be Dead Man's Chest, and a second sequel was promised for a May 2007 theatrical release.

Locations were in the Costa Alegre, in Jalisco (Mexico) and Barrouallie, St. Vincent. The sequel also includes location shooting in Dominica as well as The Bahamas. The filmmakers are largely shooting the two sequels back-to-back, à la The Matrix Trilogy, although throughout 2005 primary filming was for Dead Man's Chest, with only a handful of scenes for the third movie being shot. Because of the back-to-back setup, filming for Dead Man's Chest was not finished until February 7 2006. During production, the "tank" set where many of the shipboard sequences are filmed was severely damaged by Hurricane Wilma.

Dead Man's Chest premiered at Disneyland in Anaheim, California on June 24 2006, two days prior to the reopening day of the refurbished Pirates of the Caribbean attraction on which the movie series is based. The refurbished attraction includes an adjusted storyline and Audio Animatronics based on the movies and opened June 26 2006. The same attraction at Walt Disney World in Florida also underwent refurbishment to feature captain Jack Sparrow, Barbossa, and an appearance by the films' supernatural character Davy Jones as part of the attraction and reopened on July 6 2006 in conjunction with the film's theatrical release.

Plot

Template:Spoiler As the age of piracy nears its end, a new threat appears in Port Royal—the East India Trading Company (EITC). Guiding the company's monopolistic expansion in the Caribbean is Lord Cutler Beckett (Tom Hollander), a powerful and ruthless EITC agent. Beckett intends to eradicate all pirates from the area. To this end, he arrests Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) and Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) shortly before their wedding ceremony, threatening to execute them and the absent ex-Commodore James Norrington (Jack Davenport) for abetting Captain Jack Sparrow's escape. What Beckett really wants, however, is Sparrow and his magical compass, and he coerces Will into searching for both by offering clemency.

While Elizabeth languishes in jail, Will frantically searches for Jack. An informant in Tortuga leads him to the Black Pearl that is run aground on Pelegosto, a cannibal-inhabited island where Jack and his crew are captive. Jack hid there after being visited by his former crew mate, "Bootstrap Bill" Turner, who is now an indentured sailor on the ghost ship, the Flying Dutchman. Bootstrap delivered the Black Spot to Jack, a mark that his debt to Davy Jones is due. Thirteen years previously, Jones raised the Black Pearl from the ocean floor and made Jack her captain. In exchange, Jack must now serve aboard the Dutchman for 100 years or face Jones' leviathan, the Kraken.

Will, Jack and the crew escape, unexpectedly recruiting Pintel and Ragetti who are attempting to commandeer the Pearl, and head to sea. Jack has been searching for a key that leads to untold riches, but his magical compass fails to work for him. Jack agrees to give Will the compass if he helps him find the key and what it unlocks. Seeking assistance from Tia Dalma (Naomie Harris), a voodoo priestess, Jack learns the compass will not work because he does not know what he truly wants—or he knows what it is and is unable to claim it as his own. The key, Tia tells him, unlocks the Dead Man's Chest containing Davy Jones' beating heart. When the pain of lost love was too much to bear, Jones carved it from his chest and buried it. Whoever possesses the heart controls Davy Jones, thereby controlling the oceans. Back at sea, the Flying Dutchman encounters Sparrow, who deviously attempts to barter Will in exchange for himself. But Jones demands 100 souls within three days for Jack’s freedom and keeps Will as a "good faith payment."

In Port Royal, Governor Weatherby Swann frees Elizabeth. Confronting Beckett at gunpoint, she forces him to validate a Letter of Marque—a document signed by George II of England with which he intends to recruit Sparrow as a privateer and that Elizabeth wants for Will. Stowing away on a merchant vessel, Elizabeth lands in Tortuga where she finds Jack and Gibbs recruiting unsuspecting sailors in a pub. A fallen James Norrington also applies. Blaming Sparrow for his ruin, he tries to shoot the captain and ignites a brawl. Elizabeth knocks him out to save him from the angry mob. At the dock, Jack reveals the compass' secret to Elizabeth; it points to what the holder wants most in the world. When he convinces her that she can save Will by finding the chest, she gets a bearing. Once the ship is underway, tension arises between Jack and Elizabeth when each discovers the compass now points to the other. It is unclear if they desire one another or if each seeks the other as a means to obtain what they truly want.

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Jack Sparrow opens the Dead Man's Chest containing Davy Jones' heart.

On Isla Cruces, Jack, Norrington, and Elizabeth find the Dead Man's Chest. Will, who has escaped the Dutchman with help from his father, Bootstrap Bill, arrives with the key, which he stole from Davy Jones while he was sleeping. Will wants to stab the heart to free his father, but a three-way duel erupts between Jack, Norrington, and Will, each attempting to claim it. It is Norrington who ultimately escapes with the heart and the Letter of Marque while Jones’ crewmen retrieve the chest, unaware that it is empty.

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Jack Sparrow battles the Kraken.

The Flying Dutchman pursues the Black Pearl, but with the wind behind them, the Pearl outruns her. Jones ends the pursuit and instead summons the Kraken. In a moment of cowardice, Jack abandons the ship in a longboat, but unable to desert his crew, he returns in time to save them. He gives the order to abandon ship before the Kraken returns for its final assualt. ‎Realizing the Kraken is only hunting Jack, a deceptive Elizabeth passionately kisses him while handcuffing him to the mast. Racked with guilt over her deceit, she tells the others Jack chose to remain behind, unaware Will witnessed what happened. Jack frees himself and charges the Kraken. The colossal beast drags him and the Pearl to a watery grave. Watching from his ship, Davy Jones declares their debt settled, but he becomes enraged when he discovers the chest is empty.

Arriving in Port Royal, Norrington presents the heart and the Letter to Lord Beckett in a bid to regain his career. Cutler Beckett now controls the seas. The grieving crew seeks refuge with Tia Dalma. Consoling them, she asks if they would sail to the World's End to return Jack and the Black Pearl. When they agree, she says they will need a captain who knows those waters. To everyone's shock, the formerly dead Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) descends the stairs, eating an apple and asking, "So, tell me. What's become of my ship?"

After the credits, the jailhouse dog the cannibals chased earlier in the film has been crowned chief. Template:Endspoiler

Cast

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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest teaser poster.

Actor	Role
Johnny Depp	Captain Jack Sparrow
Orlando Bloom	Will Turner
Keira Knightley	Elizabeth Swann
Bill Nighy	Davy Jones
Stellan Skarsgård	"Bootstrap Bill" Turner
Jack Davenport	James Norrington
Kevin McNally	Joshamee Gibbs
Tom Hollander	Lord Cutler Beckett
Jonathan Pryce	Governor Weatherby Swann
Mackenzie Crook	Ragetti
Lee Arenberg	Pintel
Martin Klebba	Marty
Naomie Harris	Tia Dalma
David Bailie	Cotton
Dermot Keaney	Maccus
David Schofield	Mercer
Alex Norton	Captain Bellamy
Geoffrey Rush (not credited)	Captain Hector Barbossa

Reaction

Despite months of anticipation and industry hype, reviews for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest were mixed at best, as the film scored a 54% "Rotten" rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Among the positive critics were Michael Booth of the Denver Post, who awarded the film three-and-a-half stars out of four, praising it as "two hours and 20 minutes of escapism that once again makes the movies safe for guilt-free fun." On the other hand, critic Michael Medved gave the film two stars out of four, calling the plot "sloppy, ...convoluted and insipid." Ironically, after featuring a cover story on the film, magazine Entertainment Weekly's critic Lisa Schwarzbaum awarded the film a D+, slamming the film as "a hellish contraption." [1] Still, viewers were much more positive, as the film currently holds a 7.3/10 user rating on the Internet Movie Database.

The film grossed $55.8 million in North America in its opening day, setting a new record for largest opening-day gross and beating the previous year's Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith by 1.5%. The film grossed $135.6 million over its opening weekend, also a record, this time beating 2002's Spider-Man. The film set 19 other box office records, including fastest film to reach $200 and $300 million, the highest ten-day gross, and the fastest film to reach $1 billion worldwide.

The film ended with $423.0 million domestically and just over $1 billion worldwide, becoming the 6th-highest grossing film domestically and the third-highest worldwide. Adjusted for inflation, the film is the 44th highest-grossing domestically.

Nominations and awards

79th Academy Awards

• Nominee, Art Direction: Rick Heinrichs (Art Direction); Cheryl A. Carasik (Set Decoration)
• Nominee, Sound Editing: Christopher Boyes and George Watters II
• Nominee, Sound Mixing: Paul Massey, Christopher Boyes and Lee Orloff
• Winner, Visual Effects: John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and Allen Hall (Won)

Fifth Annual Visual Effects Society Awards

• Winner, Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects Driven Motion Picture: John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charlie Gibson, Jill Brooks
• Winner, Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Motion Picture: Marc Chu, Jung-Seung Hong, Steve Walton, James Tooley
• Winner, Best Single Visual Effect of the Year: John Knoll, Ned Gorman, Jakub Pistecky, Tom Fejes
• Winner, Outstanding Created Environment in a Live Action Motion Picture: Chris Stoski, Susumu Yukuhiro, Jack Mongovan, Greg Salter
• Winner, Outstanding Models and Miniatures in a Motion Picture: Bruce Holcomb, Ron Woodall, Charlie Bailey, Carl Miller
• Winner, Outstanding Compositing in a Motion Picture: Eddie Pasquarello, Francois Lambert, Jeff Sutherland, Tory Mercer

2006 Teen Choice Awards

• Winner, Choice Movie: Action Adventure
• Winner, Choice Drama/Action Adventure Movie of the Summer
• Winner, Choice Movie Actor: Drama/Action Adventure, Johnny Depp
• Winner, Choice Scream, Keira Knightley
• Winner, Choice Rumble, Will Turner vs. Commodore (Orlando Bloom & Jack Davenport)
• Winner, Choice Hissy Fit, Keira Knightley
• Winner, Choice Sleazebag, Bill Nighy
• Nominee, Choice Movie Actress: Drama/Action Adventure, Keira Knightley
• Nominee, Choice Movie Actor: Drama/Action Adventure, Orlando Bloom

Golden Trailer Awards

• Nominee, Summer 2006 Blockbuster

64th Golden Globe Awards

• Nominee, Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture: Comedy or Musical, Johnny Depp

People's Choice Awards

• Favorite movie
• Favorite dramatic movie
• Favorite male star (Johnny Depp)
• Favorite on-screen couple (Johnny Depp and Keira Knightley)

2007 BAFTA Awards

• Winner, Visual Effects: John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and Allen Hall
• Nominee, Production Design: Rick Heinrichs, Cheryl A. Carasik
• Nominee, Costume Design: Penny Rose
• Nominee, Sound: Paul Massey, Lee Orloff, Christopher Boyes and George Watters II
• Nominee, Makeup & Hair: Ve Neill, Martin Samuel

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The Disney logo introduced on the film.

Trivia

• Walt Disney Pictures has been questioned by the National Garifuna Council, a representative body of the Garifuna people, for what they feel is a racist portrayal of the Calinago, or Caribs, as cannibals in Dead Man's Chest. The Council called for what they considered to be a fair and accurate representation, and Disney responded that the script could not be altered. No known changes were made to the film.
• This is the first time Johnny Depp has portrayed the same character in more than one movie. Depp has said that he is willing to continue the role of Jack Sparrow beyond the current trilogy.
• Rocker Keith Richards, Depp's personal friend and inspiration for his flamboyant pirate persona, had originally agreed to appear in a cameo role as Jack Sparrow's father, but had to pull out due to a commitment with the Rolling Stones concert tour. He has now signed on to appear in a short cameo role in the third movie.
• The completely computer-generated Davy Jones turned out to be so realistic that many reviewers mistakenly identified Nighy as wearing prosthetic makeup.
• This was also the first Disney film to use a new computer-generated Disney production logo before the film. The first movie had no opening logos.
• According to Terry Rossio and Ted Elliot, the shot of Elizabeth clinging to Jack's leg as he prepares to shoot the powder keg was directly influenced by the work of Frank Frazetta.
• In the Pelegosto scene, Leech, one of Jack's crew, makes an off comment about how only six of the remaining crew are truly needed to salvage the Pearl, and, ironically he and the rest of the men die moments later, leaving only the six more important crewmen (including Gibbs and Will). This is (apparently) a self mocking in-joke about the character shields that exist within the series, and definitely in this movie in itself.
• According to the film's writers Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio in the Dead Man's Chest DVD commentary, the captain that Mercer kills at the pier is named Hawkins, and is meant to be the father of Jim Hawkins, the lead character in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. The writers claim that in the novel, Jim's father disappeared without a trace, and thus decided to supply an explanation. However, Jim's father never leaves home in the novel, and in fact dies from an illness in chapter three, rather than at the hands of the East India Company.
• The dice game played aboard the Dutchman is called Liar's Dice.
• In the Liar's Dice game between Will, Davy Jones and Bootstrap Bill, the last truthful bid (made by Jones) is "seven fives"
• For a dose of authenticity in the film's final twist, the actors were left unaware that Geoffrey Rush would appear in the movie. They were told that the person descending the stairs would be Anamaria from The Curse of the Black Pearl; their surprised looks as Rush descends are genuine.
• Another authentic reaction was Orlando Bloom's when Jack and Elizabeth kiss. A false page was inserted into his script; hence, the look of surprise on his face is genuine.
• Keira Knightley had to wear hair extensions during the filming of the movie. This was because her hair had been cut short for her role in Domino.
• The dog that played the dog with the keys in the movie is named Chopper.

References to and similarities with the first film

There are various references throughout the movie to scenes and lines that were in the first film. These include, but are not limited to:

• Governor Swann accidentally pulls a candlestick off the prison wall, mirroring Will pulling one off of the Governor's wall in the first film.
• In the first film, when Elizabeth has just fallen off the cliff, Jack is having a conversation with the two soldiers, and is in the process of saying "and then they made me their chief", before he jumps in to save her. This becomes a reality in the second film with the Cannibals making Jack their chief. However, Jack may have been telling the truth all along as he fluently speaks the native language. (On the DVD commentary, the writers claim he was telling the truth)
• Jack asks "Why is the rum always gone?" and advises people to keep the rum away from Elizabeth ("Hide the rum!") when he recognizes her as one of the new crew signed on in Tortuga. This mirrors a scene in the first film, in which Elizabeth destroyed a large cache of rum. Jack (who had particularly enjoyed the rum), had asked, "Why is the rum gone?" twice. (In Dead Man's Chest he answers his own question when he gets up, staggers slightly drunkenly, and says, "Oh, that's why...")
• While Will was searching for Jack, one of the men reported that Jack could definitely be found in Singapore. In the first movie, when Jack saves Elizabeth by cutting open her corset, one of the soldiers remarked that he wouldn't have thought of that, and Jack responded "Clearly, you've never been to Singapore."
• Captain Barbossa is portrayed eating an apple, which was the symbol of desire he felt in the previous film.
• While Will is searching for Jack at Tortuga, he runs into Giselle and Scarlett. During their brief meeting Giselle slaps Will in the face as a message to be given to Jack; this is a nod to the first film when Jack and Will visit Tortuga where Scarlett and Giselle slap Jack in the face. Will's facial reaction to the slap is also similar to Jack's facial reaction in the first film.
• Will's comment about getting to the island using a pair of sea turtles strapped to his feet echoes the story Gibbs told Will to explain how Jack escaped from the island he was marooned on prior to the events of the first film. Jack comments in response, "Not so easy, is it?"
• Just before the crew of the Black Pearl is to leave the island that Davy Jones's heart is buried on, Jack hits Will over the head with an oar, which Will did to Jack in the first film.
• A reference to the famous dog with the keys is made when the prisoners are seen calling to Elizabeth in the same manner they used when calling the dog.
• When escaping from the cannibals and climbing aboard the Black Pearl, Jack says, "Alas, my children! This is the day you shall always remember as the day that you almost... ['caught' is inaudible because he gets splashed in the face by a wave] ... Captain Jack Sparrow." Jack says the same line at the beginning of the first film when he escapes after briefly holding Elizabeth hostage. He also says it at the end of the film before he falls off a ledge. Furthermore, Jack was only able to finish his speech the first time he said this line; he is always interrupted every try after. (Ironically, the first and only time he says it whole, he is caught a few scenes later.)
• When Jack and Will sword fight in the first movie, Jack asks Will, "You're not a eunuch are you?" He also tells Barbossa that Will's a eunuch after the Interceptor explodes. In the second film, when the cannibals bring Will to Jack, Jack describes Will as "Eunuchy snip-snip" while making a cutting motion with his fingers. In the special deleted scenes disk for the first movie, Pintel states, "I used to date a eunuch." Jack also describes Will as having a "lovely singing voice" in the first film (in relation to the eunuch joke). In the second film Jack calls Will a "terrific soprano."
• Elizabeth has tried to garner attention three times by fainting in both movies, with the first two times from the first film working, the first for legitametly having no air because of her tight corset, and the second as a distraction for Will to rescue Jack from his hanging. In the second movie, she tries again to stop Will, Jack, and Norrington to stop their fight, but fails this time.
• In both films, we see Jack Sparrow using a rather unorthodox method of transportation in his first scene. In the first film he stands atop the mast of a sinking dinghy. In the second, he uses a coffin and a skeletal leg as a paddle. Both occurrences had skeletal remains and a sign of respect to the deceased from Jack. In the first, it was skeletal pirates hanging from the rocks at Port Royal, and Jack solemnly salutes them as he passes. In the second, it is a skeletal leg that Jack uses as a paddle, with the words, "Sorry, mate."
• Pintel says "'Ello Poppet" to Elizabeth as he did in the first film.
• At the end of the first film Jack tells Norrington he was rooting for him. In the second film Jack says he's still rooting for him.
• When Jack takes Elizabeth hostage in Curse of the Black Pearl, he remarks, "I knew you'd warm up to me." When Norrington attempts to stop Will from stabbing Davy Jones' heart in Dead Man's Chest, Jack begins to say the same line before Norrington turns on him as well.
• After being knocked out by the oar swung by Jack, Will recovers on the Black Pearl while Elizabeth watches over him, recalling how they met in the first film.
• In the first movie, Barbossa looks at a ship through a telescope and Jack jumps right in front of him. In the second movie, Jack is looking at a ship through a telescope and Davy Jones appears right in front of him.
• In the first movie, Jack and Will find Gibbs lying unconscious in a sty. Norrington ends up in the same position after the bar fight and being knocked unconscious by Elizabeth.
• After the Kraken destroys the boat Will escapes to, he is seen climbing onto a plank of wood, recalling the way he was found as a child in the first movie.
• Also, this makes three times Will survives boat wrecks (four counting the Black Pearl) after this movie, with the writers of the DVD commentary saying that obviously Will has "a touch of destiny" in him.
• Norrington refers to Will as Elizabeth's "latest fiance," which is a reference to the fact that Norrington is Elizabeth's fiance in the first movie.
• Jack saves Elizabeth once in both films with a single shot:

• When Barbossa has his gun shot aimed at her, Jack shoots Barbossa, as a distraction so Will can lift the curse off of the crew.
• Elizabeth loses the gun to shoot the barrels that will explode and hurt the Kraken; Jack takes the gun from her, and as her arms are wrapped around his legs, he fires, injuring the Kraken's tentacles.

Home Video & iTunes release

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The 3D Limited Edition 2-disc Special Edition DVD.

The film became available on DVD on December 5 2006 for Region 1, and sold more than five million copies on its first day. The DVD became the best-selling of 2006, at about 18 million copies. The versions for Regions 2 and 4 had already been released on November 15 2006 and November 20 2006, respectively . The Region 3 two-disc collector's edition disc has been wrongly labeled. The 2-disc special edition boasts almost four hours of additional features, including:

• Captain Jack: From Head to Toe – Secrets & Legends Revealed by Johnny Depp and Others
• Meet Davy Jones: Discover the Creation, Mystery & Mythology of the Sea’s Ghostly Ruler
• Bloopers of the Caribbean
• Mastering the Blade – Sword Fighting With the Film’s Stars
• Audio Commentary: Screenwriters Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio
• “Charting the Return” – A Preproduction Diary
• “According to Plan” – Journal of Filming the Movie
• “Fly on the Set” Featurette: The Bone Cage
• Creating The Kraken
• Dead Men Tell New Tales: Re-Imagineering the Attraction
• Pirates on Main Street: The World Premiere
• A Producer's Photo Diary With Jerry Bruckheimer

The second disc of the two-disc collector's edition also contains five Easter Eggs (see Easter egg (virtual)) which are behind-the-scenes snippets.

The film was presented in its 2.35:1 theatrical aspect ratio. The region 2 and 4 release included a DTS soundtrack.

The Blu-ray Disc release of Dead Man's Chest is set for May 22 2007.

Dead Man's Chest was also made available as a download from the iTunes Store in the U.S.

See also

• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (video game)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (soundtrack)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

External links

• Official Site
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest at IMDb
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• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest at Rotten Tomatoes
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest at Metacritic
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Trailer At ThoseMovies.com