#Bootstrap Bill

[owenhcrper]

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST - Costumes

[kickingthepirate]

I forgot to repost on this sideblog some POTC memes I made years ago, so here's a few classics.

[thewitchkingiscool-ace]

[stingrayextraordinaire]

I love you Pirates of the Caribbean I love you Will Turner I love you Elizabeth Swann I love you Jack Sparrow I love you Hector Barbossa I love you James Norrington I love you Pintel and Ragetti I love you Davy Jones I love you Calypso I love you Bootstrap Bill I love you Joshamee Gibbs I love you stolen cursed pirate gold I love you dilapidated ships with ragged sails I love you desperation to find the one you love most I love you deep dark sea I love you monkey

[yen-sids-tournament]

Pirates of the Caribbean The Black Pearl's Crew Members

Once again we intentionally left out the Captains Sparrow and Barbossa as well as the Turners and Norrington

[annikityk]

In my writing I want to achieve one goal and one goal only: for the amount of polyamorous, gay gay and overall queer vibe to match whatever is going on in the pirates of the Caribbean film series

[boatmediatourney]

🌊Sad Soggy Boat Men LOSERS🌊

FINALS

Propaganda and image sources under the cut (warning for possible spoilers):

propaganda for Bootstrap Bill:

image from here

propaganda for Lieutenant Henry Thomas Dundas Le Vesconte:

gif from here

[godtrauma]

Makeup artist Ve Neill applies creature makeup to Stellan Skarsgård for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

[legolas-fan-blog]

Since you've just watched PotC again, tell me your thoughts on Will's dad.

Oh boy. So, I don't like him. Like at all. And I don't know if that's a common opinion or people will be mad at me for saying that but, yeah. Spoilers below line.

He abandoned his family to go be a pirate, so right off the bat not exactly a great dad. I understand Will being curious about him when he does finally meet him, but I really don't think he should have gone through so much trying to free him. Bill's never done anything for Will other than cause him suffering, Will should have just taken Elizabeth and forgotten about his dad. Maybe he could have avoided getting killed and bound to the Dutchman if he had, and actually gotten to raise is own son instead of having two generations grow up without a father.

In general I'm pretty unforgiving when it comes to absent dads. Bill's own choices led him to where he was, Will shouldn't have had to deal with the mess left behind.

[camille-lachenille]

I’m listening to Pirate of the Caribbean soundtrack and now I am imagining Maglor in a Bootstrap Bill style, with ragged clothes full of seaweed, kelp in his hair and barnacles growing on his face. And he’d just wander the coasts eternally, muttering something like “part of the doom. Part of the cliff. Part of the doom. Part of the cliff.” Again and again.

[a-crack-in-the-universe]

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest Thoughts

Memorable Moments:

·       The opening, with Elizabeth waiting for Will in the pouring rain. Also her and Will being arrested by Cutler Beckett.

·       Jack’s opening scene.

·       Jack meeting Boostrap Bill and getting the black spot.

·       “If it wasn’t for these bars I’d have you already.”

·       “Keep a weather eye on the horizon.”

·       Everything about the cannibal island sequence.

·       Elizabeth confronting Beckett. “Take into your calculations that you robbed me of my wedding night.”

·       Elizabeth tricking the crew of the merchant ship into believing that there is a ghost haunting the ship.

·       Everything about the Isla de Cruces fight sequence.

·       “I’ve got a jar of dirt! And guess what’s inside it!”

·       Will, Elizabeth and the crew fighting against the Kraken.

·       The iconic scene with Elizabeth kissing Jack and chaining him to the Pearl to stop him from leaving the ship.  

·       And of course, the iconic reveal of Barbossa! (one of my favourite moments in the film.)

 Foreshadowing: There is so much foreshadowing in this film, it’s really great.

·       Elizabeth: I’ll wait for you/Will: Keep a weather eye on the horizonàat the end of the next film Elizabeth waits for Will while he is acting as the Dutchman’s captain.

·       The cannibals who capture Jack and his crew believe that Jack is a god in human form and intend to release him from his body by eating him. In At World’s End it’s revealed that Tia Dalma is the Goddess Calypso bound in human form and the Pirate Brethren intend to release her.    

·       When Tia Dalma meets Will for the first time, she notes that he has a touch of destiny about him. This foreshadows him becoming the new Captain of the Dutchman after Davy Jones is killed.    

·       Jack tells Elizabeth that a captain can perform a marriage ceremony. In the next film Elizabeth gets Captain Barbossa to marry her and Will during the Maelstrom battle.

·       Jack tells Elizabeth that she truly wants freedom to do what she wants (ie. to act on selfish impulse), and that one day she won’t be able to resist it. This comes true when Elizabeth forces Jack to stay behind on the Black Pearl so that she, Will and the rest of the crew can survive.

·       Likewise, Elizabeth tells Jack that one day there will come a time when he has the chance to do the right thing and something courageous. This comes true during the battle against the Kraken at Isla de Cruces.      

·       Will tells Elizabeth to guard the dead man’s chest at the start of the Isla de Cruces fight sequence, and Elizabeth objects. At the end of the next film Will asks her to guard the chest (which now has his heart in it), and this time Elizabeth agrees.    

 Other thoughts:

·       Elizabeth’s wedding dress appears in the beginning of the movie and then later on when Elizabeth uses it to haunt the merchant sailors. Then it ends up sinking into the sea after the Kraken destroys the merchant ship. What is the significance behind this?

·       Tia Dalma is very taken by Will when she first meets him, and even starts flirting with him. Why? Did he remind her of who Davy Jones used to be before he lost it and became a sea monster?

·       “Jack Sparrow does not know what he wants. Or do you know but are loath to claim it as your own?” What does this mean?

·       During the scene when Davy Jones teleports onto the Black Pearl after Will tells him that Jack sent him to settle his debt, Jack does do his best to get Will off the Flying Dutchman. Jack never intended to abandon Will to the Flying Dutchman and Davy Jones. He actually told Davy Jones that Will is in love and engaged in an attempt to trick Jones into letting him go. Which makes sense since Will is Bootstrap Bill Turner’s son, and Bootstrap Bill was a very close friend of Jack’s.      

·       Willabeth is meant to parallel Calypso and Davy Jones. Both Davy Jones and Will fall in love with a woman who is as harsh and untameable as the sea (Calypso and Elizabeth), and they never stop loving her.  

·       When he sees that the merchant sailors have Elizabeth’s wedding dress and hears the story behind it, Will realises that Elizabeth somehow escaped from Port Royal and went to Tortuga to search for him.

·       Davy and Calypso’s theme plays during the moment(s) you see Elizabeth’s wedding dress floating in the sea.            

·       When Will, Elizabeth and the crew are almost at Tia Dalma’s shack, the people holding lit candles actually appear to be the ones Jack saved from slavery many years before (you know, the thing that caused him to be marked as a pirate). It’s really sweet to see that they remember Jack and what he did for them and honour him in this way.    

·       Even though Jack was very irritating and hard to trust, Gibbs and the crew are saddened by his death and are eager to bring Jack back when Tia Dalma gives them the option. It’s especially heartwarming because they’re pirates and have abandoned Jack before when it was of benefit to them. It really shows that they do care deeply about Jack in their own way.

[podcasts-rotting-chaos]

Here's a thought I had a 5am

From this image we can determine:

Legolas = Will Turner

Legolas' dad = Thranduil

Will Turner's dad = Boostrap Bill

Neither of them have mothers

Conclusion: Legolas has two dads

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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl: this is the curse of the Black Pearl

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest: actually that was more like the curse of some people who happened to be on (and in one case distinctly under) the Black Pearl. Anyway this is the REAL curse of the Black Pearl

[lithiumseven]

Broke: the casting directors for the Pirates of the Carribean sequels forgot the line about Will being the spitting image of Bootstrap Bill and hired Stellan Skarsgård

Woke: Davy Jones put him through so much that Bootstrap straight up transmogrified into a Swede

[fallingthruspace]

One of these days I’m just going to walk into the sea and disappear, only to come back centuries later having forgotten human speech and looking like this

[hellpmeimobsessed]

Never understood the whole "pathetic little meow meow" thing until I saw Bootstrap Bill Turner.