#pirates of the caribbean saga

[jeandejard3n]

Pirates of the Caribbena: Aztec Gold

[realtimefanduboutofcontext]

Real-Time Fandub/Driftwood Saga | "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Dinghy" (2022)

[solaraurora]

fast x spoiler

stop. fucking. killing. all. my. favorite. sad. characters. this "redemption by death" trope has to stop tragic characters do not need to be sacrificed they deserve love & to be happy I'm so tired of this

[couragehopelovefaith]

At times it is so freaking awesome to watch the bloopers of your favorite shows and movies and wonder: "How the heck did they ever get any scenes done?" x)

[fulesthefirst]

fuck this day.

if anyone needs me i'm dead.

i'm just gonna watch the potc trilogy.

[passportforfiction]

Ok so I don’t celebrate Halloween for multiple reasons that I’m not going to talk about right now, but every now and then I wish I did. Like, not bc of the candy or the scariness or anything like that, BUT THE COSTUMES. I have SO MANY costume ideas and I wish desperately I could wear them so instead I’m going to list for you all below. Btw I want to be so many people from each one but the ones I listed specifically are my favorite ones.

1. A newsie, specifically Spot Conlon

2. PoTC, specifically Jack Sparrow

3. The Wingfeather Saga, specifically Artham P. Wingfeather

4. A cowboy but like a historically accurate one

5. Ranger’s Apprentice, specifically Halt

6. Narnia, specifically Susan

7. Katniss Everdeen or Lucy Gray

8. Kiss, Marry, Kill, specifically Kill

9. The Clue characters from the 1985 movie, specifically Mrs. White

10. Prince of Egypt, specifically Tzipporah

And there’s so many more but like these are some of my favorites. I know that I can dress up like these people any time but it would dope bc everybody else would be dressed up too ya know?

[t-the-ring-master]

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Why All Your Favorite Immortal Characters are not Truely Immortal

(Hint, they wouldn't be your favorite if they were).

Why can vampires die? Why, in Pirates of the Caribbean (can you guess my current hyperfixation?) do characters like Davy Jones and Calypso work, even if they're supposedly immortal? Why do vampires, ghosts, etc work, even if they're all immortal?

They aren't. Yee Haw.

Also, I hate philosophy, but we did talk about how Kass believed that if one was truely immortal, then they couldn't really be selfless. I think that's why the Cullens and the Twilight vampires never really work with people. Yes, they're killable, but it's really frickin' hard to do it and we only see a couple die, at the hands of either other vampires or werewolves, another supernatural creature. So for us humans, that's not attainable.

Now look at Davy Jones. Initally, he looks like he's truely immortal. In DMC when we meet him, we see that his immortality slowly stripped away, layer by layer. First, Jack gives us the idea that he's not with the quest for the chest with his heart, then we see the key, and they the chest itself. The final nail in that coffin is when we see Davy's reaction to his heart being taken. And in a deleted scene, we get to see Davy supplicate himself to Cutler Beckett, a mere mortal. So in our minds, this really concretes the thing that Davy isn't really immortal. So that makes his death in AWE so much more... I dunno, real? But it works.

So then why would someone like Will, now the new immortal captain of the Dutchman, seem human? He has to loose something else that is common enough to humans to be near universal. So what about... love? He looses Elizabeth almost permenantly. Just one day a decade. Pretty sucky ass deal. Then add on the fact that Elizabeth has a kid, and he looses out on that too... since we sort of know he's not gonna be killed and so for the meantime is immortal, him loosing his chance at a normal life, at a family and love for the first time in a long time makes him relatable. It makes us not hate him.

Now contrast that with Twilight.

Hardly anybody does. Especially the vampires or werewolves. The series does not go out of its way to establish it's immortal characters as having any sort of weakness at all. They're all just sad. There's really no threat to their existence, at all.

The reason Davy Jones works is because his heart, the thing that can kill him, the only threat to his existance, is the object of DMC's entire plot and a major plot device and threat in AWE. It's present and utilized and we know about it. We don't know about the weakness of our Twilight vampires or Werewolves. We rarely see them get hurt either. But we see Jones get stabbed and walk it off, or we see Will died before the heart brings him back.

Bit rambly but I wanted to get this out of my drafts.

[tailblazer-firewolf]

new animation premiering in 30 minutes

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Fandoms?

So I know most of my followers came to my blog when I started writing middle-earth fics, but as I want to start writing for characters from other fandoms, which fandoms/characters from my fandom/character list are you guys actually into and would read?

The link to my characters/fandoms list is below, so please take a look if you have the time.

My Fandoms/character list

Rather than include a poll as some people may want to pick multiple options, please let me know which fandoms/characters you like in the comments or my asks, anonymously or not.

This would be greatly helpful to me as I continue to come up with ideas and work on future fics as it really helps to know if people are going to read them to build my motivation to post them.

If there are fandoms/characters you’re not interested in but know others who are, it would be great if you could spread the word or share/tag them in this post.

Requests are open as always. Keep an eye out for polls regarding my future works. Thank you!

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[t-the-ring-master]

Two of my favorite fandoms in one… I love it.

Someone needs to draw Odysseus as Jack ���

The crew, opening the windbag and releasing the storm, and not finding any treasure:

Odysessus, the lying liar known for his fantastic lies:

[rohirriiim]

Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Swann and Orlando Bloom as Will Turner PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN SAGA (2003 - 2017) dir. Gore Verbinski, Espen Sandberg, Joachim Rønning

[thecollectorsbase]

El problema no es el problema... 3 datos que no sabías sobre Piratas del Caribe, magnífica saga con el genial Jhonny Depp.

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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales; Why It Shouldn’t Exist

Or how I invested time and energy into an analysis of a relatively dead franchise instead of doing it for my actual media analysis university course.

An essay by: a bitter and obsessed PotC fan since they were 7, with a lot of free time.

Lads, this is going to be long. You have been warned.

The Beginning

At the very beginning of the movie, we see a young Henry Turner looking for his dad.

Now, we're not talking about characterization problems or how likely it is that a ten-year-old child would risk his life to look for a man he technically only saw once; we're talking about plot problems, actual logical fallacies. My questions are:

How? The Flying Dutchman is a legendary ship, impossible to be found unless She wants to be found. The only reason we see Her in Dead Man's Chest is because Davy Jones himself is looking for Jack to collect his debt, and in that occasion the Dutchman's captain wasn't even doing what he was supposed to do, so he was most definitely in the living world. Will otherwise, he's doing the job Calypso gave him, so he's constantly in between. Is the movie trying to convince me that a kid was able to do something no one in the history of piracy was ever able to do? And even if he did, why hasn't anyone explained me how? He simply looks at a map and throws himself on the bottom of the ocean. How did he know The Dutchman was there? How did he know it would've come to surface?

Where is his mom? We got to know Elizabeth in the first three movies; we know she's a smart woman and we can assume she's an attentive mother. She didn't notice her son preparing himself for a trip in the middle of the ocean to go look for his dad? Was she distracted? Was she outsmarted by a 10ish-year-old? Or is she just not contemplated in this scenario?

Why does Will look like that? Will is doing his job, so... why does he look like he's slowly corrupting? That kind of corruption is the punishment Calypso reserves to The Dutchman's crew when the captain fails her, which isn't the case. Did they forget about it? Was the idea of putting algae on Orlando Bloom's face just impossible to resist to?

Alright, this isn't actually from this movie but it's bothering me, so I have to write it; also, it would make this whole movie unnecessary, so it's somehow related to it. Why (and I can't stress this enough) can't Elizabeth be on the Dutchman? Why can't they do the job together? Is it because she's not a pirate? I'm pretty sure se actually is. Is it because she's a woman? Last time I checked she was the KING. She wants to stay with Will forever, Will wants to stay with her forever, they can literally live forever on the same ship. Why aren't they?

Whatever the Hell Happened to Jack Sparrow

Imagine creating a character that is so iconic whenever you ask a person who was a kid in the early 2000 to imagine a pirate, they imagine said character.

Now imagine fourteen years pass and you decide to ruin that character by making him the most hideous, annoying, idiotic person in the whole saga, and we're talking about a saga that has Philip the Missionary in it. Why? Jack Sparrow is THE anti-hero. Never on the right side, but never on the wrong one. You can tell he's doing something morally questionable, but you still find yourself rooting for him. He's stupid enough to make you laugh, but he's secretly clever enough to always get away with it. Now he's just... drunk. And that's not even an excuse for this horrendous new characterization, because he was always drunk. The guy FORGOT HE WAS ROBBING A BANK, the same guy just one movie earlier was able to escape from the King of England's palace and steal a lady's earring (by pretending to be a literal slut) in the process. He just switched from the iconic drunk bi bestie everyone loves to my cringe uncle that drinks too much at Christmas parties and makes everyone uncomfortable. Please, if the risk is ruining an entire generation's beloved character, either don't make the movie or find a better explanation than "Bad luck dogs you day and night".

The Pearl in The Bottle

So... what you're telling me is that Jack Sparrow, the guy who was able to defeat Hector Barbossa, Davy Jones and Blackbeard thanks to his slyness, and who loves his Black Pearl more than anything else in the world, had said ship in a bottle in his pockets for FIVE YEARS... and he never thought about breaking the bottle to free Her. That's what you're telling me. This is the pivotal point upon which the entire Jack's plot hinges. I... I don't even know what to say. Was this supposed to be funny?

What an Incredibly Lucky Coincidence

A guy needs a treasure to save his father. To find it, he needs the help of a notorious and legendary pirate. He looks for him everywhere, sailing on dozens of ships just so he has the remote chance to stumble across the pirate. The last ship he's been on has sinked, he's the only survivor. He's been found in the middle of the ocean and someone brought him to the nearest city. Which city? I mean, the one that has both the pirate he was looking for and a lady who's the only person in the whole planet who's able to find the treasure he was looking for! And, oh my... he finds the both of them! In that same city! Without even LOOKING FOR THEM! A hell of a coincidence, if you ask me. Also known as lazy writing.

What's Wrong With the Guards?

Now, I know Pirates of the Caribbean isn't exactly known for its accurate historical reconstructions, but why are the guards in this movie acting like they're some sort of hellhounds ready to kill anyone in sight? Even pirates and traitors as Jack and Henry were supposed to stand trial before being sentenced to death. It would've probably been an unjust and barbaric trial, but there should've been one. We literally saw it, in the previous movie. Why's Jack been sentenced to death for simply existing here? He gave pirate vibes and they decided that was enough?

Paul McCartney

This is not an actual point of the analysis, I just wanted to remind people that Paul McCartney is in this movie and that's the only valid reason to watch it.

Salazar

I am confused. Once again, I have questions.

El Matador Del Mar was so good at his job he had almost defeated piracy. "The last ones joined together to try and defeat me". The last what? Pirates? There were no pirates left? This happened when Jack was young, so a lot of time before the first movie, right? Where were, I don't know... Blackbeard? Davy Jones? Barbossa? All the other Pirate Lords? I might be wrong, but I guess Salazar didn't kill them, did he? Why weren't they there during that "last battle" in which "the last ones joined together"?

The Devil's Triangle. I just don't understand what's the logic behind it. So, this is a cursed place. Whoever enters there, can't get out. One would think it means that if you get there, you die; and Salazar does die, but he somehow also becomes a ghost whose only purpose is to find Jack Sparrow and have his revenge. So, do people become ghosts when they get in The Devil's Triangle? We have to assume people have gotten stuck in there before; otherwise, there wouldn't be legends around the place. So why isn't it like full of spirits ready to haunt people? Why are Salazar and his crew the only ones?

Poseidon or Calypso?

What's the Trident of Poseidon? Does Poseidon exist? Isn't Calypso the Goddess of the sea? Breaking the Trident, you break all the curses of the sea, so the Trident must be more powerful than Calypso, which leads to a question. Where is she? She IS the sea, right? So she must have known someone was about to find the Trident and brake all curses, including her one. She just decided it was okay? It really feels like someone decided to suddenly change the world's mythology without giving explanations.

The Compass

This is possibly the most blatant plot hole in the whole saga. Probably the most blatant plot hole I've ever witnessed, and man, I watched all the Harry Potter movies. In Dead Man's Chest, Jack meets Tia Dalma in her "shop" and he tells her he's looking for the Davy Jones' key. She asks him "The compass you bartered from me, it cannot lead you to this?", making another pivotal point of Dead Men Tell No Tales factually senseless.

That man couldn't have given his compass to Jack, because that wasn't his compass.

So either Salazar is lying while telling his tale or they forgot about that line in the second movie. Anyway, let's pretend that line doesn't exist; even if that captain gave Jack his compass in that exact moment, why would it be the key to free Salazar, exactly? How is the compass in any way related to The Devil's Triangle or to Salazar? In the movie, they try to explain it with a sentence: “if you betray it, your greatest fear comes true”. So, is Salazar Jack's greatest fear? I really doesn't seem right, Jack almost didn't remember Salazar when Henry mentioned him. To Jack, he's only a guy he outsmarted decades earlier. Also, Jack technically already gave the compass away, twice: to Elizabeth in Dead Man's Chest, to make her find the chest, and to Beckett in At World's End, when they're negotiating.

That's... That's Just Body Shaming, Mate

Let's talk about her. So, the woman's ugly. It can happen that a woman is ugly. Was it necessary to build an entire scene around some blatant body shaming? This scene wants to mimic the similar scene in Dead Man's Chest: Jack's on an island, running from the main villain, and he's forced to do things he doesn't want to do until someone saves him, then it was Will, now it's Hector.

Except in Dead Man's Chest it was LITERAL CANNIBALISM he was facing, and yet he looked LESS TERRIFIED and DISGUSTED. What's exactly the message here? Lads, is marrying an ugly woman worse than cannibalism? I don't know... that was just bad.

Justice for Hector Barbossa

If you know me (you probably don't, but if you do) then you know about my obsession with Hector Barbossa. I truly believe he's the best written character in the saga, and he's in my top five of the characters I love the most in all media. I watched The Curse of the Black Pearl when I was seven and I am autistic, so I had all the time to develop a literal relationship with these characters in my head. As much as Geoffrey Rush's interpretation was impeccable, as always, it really hurt to watch Hector in this movie. He just doesn't sound like him. First of all, why isn't he on the Queen Anne's Revenge? Why's he letting someone else sail around on his ships? He would've never. Why's he just sitting on a throne and shooting musicians instead of, I don't know... being a pirate? Being a pirate is the only thing that matters to him. He says it at the end of On Stranger Tides, and he even says it in this movie, to the witch. "I'm a pirate. Always will be".

So, why isn't he pirating? What happened to him? And what about the pact with the witch? He made her curse all his enemies; that's honestly the most out-of-character thing he could've done.

Seriously, watch this movie, and then The Curse of the Black Pearl and tell me he sounds like he's the same character. Then there’s his death... was it necessary? And I don't mean if it was necessary to the plot (it wasn't), but the way he died, did it make sense? He takes the sword and sacrifices himself to kill Salazar, but WHY? Salazar was back a mortal. They could've brought him to surface and then shoot him. What was the point of his death, Disney? I will never forgive you.

I would've preferred if they never showed him again. He's alive and living his best life in Tortuga, if you ask me.

How does Carina Smyth exist?

Let's do the maths. Carina Smyth has approximately the same age as Henry Turner, who was born around nine moths after the end of At World's End. At the end of that movie, Barbossa once again stole the Black Pearl (he's iconic we stan a legend), so we have to assume it is during that time (between the At World's End and On Stranger Tides) that he conceives Carina. He stays with this woman during the whole pregnancy, bacause he says he was there when she died. So nine months, at least, right? Except; Jack makes it clear that he and Barbossa met Carina's mom, Margaret, together.

When, exactly, did this happen? It can't be between On Stranger Tides and Dead Men Tell No Tales, because Hector himself says only five years passed between the two, and Carina doesn't look like a five-year-old;

it can't be between At World's End and On Stranger Tides, because we know Jack and Barbossa weren't together, and Hector was too busy losing a leg and planning his revenge by working for the King of England; it can't be during At World's End, because Barbossa was too busy rescuing Jack and then slaying (literally and metaphorically) Beckett's men to save piracy; it can't be during Dead Man's Chest, because he was dead; it can't be during The Curse of the Black Pearl, nor during the ten years before it, because he was... he was a skeleton, I hardly believe he could reproduce, despite what’s written in some fanficions; it can't be before, of course, because Carina would be too old. The only chance, but it's a stretch, is that Hector and Jack met this Margaret Smyth years and years before, and that at a certain point (while he was still busy slaying, losing a leg or planning his revenge), for some reason he decided to come back to her and accidentally had a daughter. That would mean that Jack remembered Margaret Smyth's name DECADES after he met her.

The Post-Credit Scene: What?

WHY'S DAVY JONES BACK? The Trident technically broke all the curses of the sea. He is THE cursed man of the sea. AND HE'S DEAD. The only answer I was able to give me, is that the moment the Trident broke the curses, the curse that said if you stab his heart he dies was also broken, so he technically didn't die, but it makes even less sense, because if the curses just aren't real anymore, then a man shouldn't be able to... carve out his heart and put it in a chest, right? (Which by the way, makes Will Turner being alive senseless as well). Even if so, Davy should've come back as a human.

My conclusion is that this movie should not exist, and we, as a community, should pretend it was never made. Hector is alive. Bye.

Imago

[childofthefireandthestorm]

@manticoreimaginary

If I had a nickel for every time a British cringe fail, pretty boy, down bad, simp named William got a million times hotter once he became a member of the undead -

became a notoriously terrifying historical figure within the supernatural world -

would literally die for his incredibly hot, badass wife and was apart of a couple who awoke bisexuals everywhere -

and was apart of a piece of media that literally defined a decade I’d have two nickels….which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice right?