Thursday, July 13, 2006

Pirates of the Carribbean The Curse of The Black Pearl
The Curse of The Black Pearl

About a decade prior to the beginning of the film, while searching for a legendary cache of Aztec gold, his crew mutinied and marooned him on an island with a pistol containing a single shot (allowing the deserted an opportunity to kill himself rather than die slowly from starvation, according to some versions of real pirate codes). Sparrow escaped, however, and went looking for revenge against the leader of the mutiny: his former First Mate, Barbossa. Sparrow kept the pistol and shot for the purpose of killing Barbossa.

Arriving in Port Royal eight years later, Jack is arrested for piracy. While imprisoned, Sparrow meets Will Turner, the son of "Bootstrap Bill" Turner (who was the lone holdout from the mutiny, an action that caused him to be sent to Davy Jones' locker). Sparrow, familiar with the legend of a "heathen curse" that has since stricken the crew of the Black Pearl, knows Turner's child is the only one who can break the curse, and sees Will as the means to get back command of his ship. Turner, though fiercely disapproving of piracy, agrees to go with Sparrow to Tortuga to find a ship and crew and sail to Isla de Muerta to track down the Pearl and rescue Will's sweetheart, Miss Elizabeth Swann—kidnapped from Port Royal by Barbossa (after she identified herself as "Elizabeth Turner") in order to reverse the curse.

Once Jack gets a crew he catches the Black Pearl and steals a coin, thus cursing himself. Jack and Barbossa engage in a swordfight and, in the end, the curse is lifted just after Jack shoots Barbossa with the same shot that he was left with when he was marooned. After the battle, Jack is arrested again and brought back to Port Royal for his "dawn appointment with the gallows," however, with the help of Will and Elizabeth he escapes by accidentally falling backwards into the sea, where the Black Pearl is waiting for him. In the end of the film, Jack becomes again the captain of the Black Pearl.


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