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Guide
*Chapter 1: Thoughts
*Chapter 2: Character Relations
*Chapter 3: Hidden Easter Eggs in the Movie
*Chapter 4: The Pirates of the Caribbean series that hate iron and steel
*Chapter 5: Gossip knowledge points
Chapter 1: Aftermath (slightly spoiled)
The most common question is answered first, "Does it matter if I forget the first four or haven't watched the first four?" This is actually a common problem of the series, and the film company has already considered it, so if you watch it as a pirate movie for the whole family, It's not a problem, but some of the relationship between the characters and the hidden lines inside will be missed (it doesn't matter that after reading Datong's paper, I will help you make up all of them).
"Dead No Tale" is a brand-new story line, which has nothing to do with the fourth part but is connected with the characters in the first three parts, so the easter eggs and foreshadowing left over from the fourth part, it seems that I don’t know which part will take effect. Now, the appearance of the fifth part makes me feel that the fourth part "On Stranger Tides" is a side story.
Compared with the previous one, the plot of "Dead No Tale" is relatively simplified. It is no longer the previous navy line, Jack has one line, and the villain has one line. This time the main line has been strengthened, and only the big villain Captain Salazar and Captain Jack have two lines. Their common purpose is to get the trident. Although the British navy was also inside, it was completely reduced to a vase this time, and it faded in a flash without any effect.
The whole film is quite a joyous movie, with exquisite special effects and original soundtracks, especially to show that when Jack was young, Jack's face was so tender that he could pinch water out. In the performance of Salazar and his dead army, it also allows the audience to enter a new visual sense.
But what I have to complain about is that the characters in it can no longer settle down. Except for the protagonists, Jack and Barbosa run through the whole movie, the Turner and his wife are actually just showing their faces (is the pay too high?), Jack talked like he always did, but Barbossa had an extra hidden line. As for the other new roles, think of it as Disney cultivating two newcomers for the film industry.
Compared with the previous octopus Jones, the big villain Salazar's role is thin and weak, making people feel that he is just an executioner who simply wants to kill all the pirates in vengeance, without any motive, without any personal story line, NOTHING. Just want to kill.
In terms of the plot, there are some sections that make people feel that they will not make such low-level mistakes . The most incredible thing is the female astronomer Karina. If you say you go to jail and study the map, it’s fine. Why do you put all of them in prison? The information is drawn up to leave clues to the military. Isn't this looking for trouble?
In the final battle, it came too suddenly and I blamed me for not being ready. Obviously Salazar got the trident, you have the guts to kill Jack who has the protagonist's halo! He didn't, he took the trident and played with Jack on the water bike! I'm drunk too! Why is there a bunch of rituals before killing the protagonist in all movies? Either you have to talk to the protagonist about life and ideals, or you have to play with the protagonist first, and finally the protagonist has not killed his own life.
As for the Easter eggs in the movie and at the end of the credits, we will analyze them in detail in the following chapters.
Chapter 2: Character Relations (no spoilers)
The most difficult thing in the series of movies is the relationship between the characters. In order to let everyone understand 5 more easily, Dah Cong personally drew the relationship diagrams of all the 5 main characters for everyone, so that everyone can be preconceived.
Readers who have not watched or forgotten the content of the first four movies can absorb the following content summary to obtain relevant knowledge, and if they are familiar, they can skip directly to the next chapter.
The entire Pirates of the Caribbean series is a story with Jack as the core. The movies produced by Disney are generally not too complicated. The character relationship is also relatively simple, but according to the popularity of the series, new characters will be added to enrich the whole story and character relationship.
Prequel "A Fairy Tale of Rules: Wedding Deadlock":
This is an extra-special short film released in 2008. It tells the story of two women who happened to marry Jack at the same time. When the scam was exposed, they were also taken to an auction house to be auctioned.
Later, in order to retaliate against Jack, the two women removed a few screws on Jack's boat, which caused Jack to leak when he was on the boat, and the first movie Jack was about to sink when the boat went to the harbour.
The first "The Curse of the Black Pearl":
The story is that Jack, the captain of the Black Pearl, was rebelled by Barbosa and was exiled to prepare for a comeback. The current captain of the Black Pearl, Barbosa, became immortal because he robbed the crew of the cursed gold coins, but lost his emotions and desires. They wanted to retrieve all the cursed gold coins and return to Zhao to revoke the curse.
One of the rituals to revoke the curse is to get the blood of the last coin holder to stain the gold coin. The last coin holder is Turner, but they caught Turner's lover Elizabeth by mistake.
Therefore, Jack wants to take back the Black Pearl, Turner wants to rescue his lover, and the British general James wants to claim credit. The three parties have the same final goal and decided to cooperate and fight against Barbossa.
In the end, Jack won back the Black Pearl, and Turner and Elizabeth finally got married, and Barbossa died.
Easter egg: Because the monkey on the Black Pearl finally stole the cursed gold coin, it became immortal.
The second "Gathering Soul Coffin" and the third "The End of the World":
In order to save costs, the combined shooting was actually completed, which was divided into upper and lower episodes for release. The continuity is very close, and the big villain is the half-man and half-ghost octopus pirate Jones. Owns the flying Holland, a dual-purpose pirate ship that can be used on the sea and under the sea. The sailors on the ship are half-human and half-ghosts. As they work on the ship for a long time, they will gradually become part of the ship.
The reason why Jones is half-human and half-ghost is because he was betrayed by his lover hundreds of years ago and he no longer believed in love, so he dug out his heart, locked it and hid it, and Jones himself became a pirate who dominates the sea.
A long time ago, Jones made a deal with Jack. He made Jack the captain of the Black Pearl for 13 years. After 13 years, Jack will be Jones' slave sailor for 100 years. 13 is about to arrive, and Jack fled around in order to escape Jones' hunt.
Turner’s father was a pirate. He found that his father was enslaved in Jones’s hands. He wanted to save his father. Turner’s lover Elizabeth wanted to be with Turner. In addition, the British Navy wanted to dominate the sea. Jack wanted to get rid of Jones's bondage.
Therefore, the core of the problem is Jones's heart, and getting Jones's heart is equivalent to controlling Jones and controlling the sea. All in all, all parties are entangled together because of their different interests.
In the end, Jack used Turner's hand to assassinate Jones. Turner had to become the captain of the pirate ship flying Holland, and Turner himself became half-human and half-ghost, and he could only go ashore once in ten years. Jack's previous agreement was also cancelled because of Jones's death.
The easter egg is that Turner and Elizabeth have a son named Henry. The fifth "Dead without Proof" is the story of Henry's adulthood .
The fourth "Stranger Waves":
If the movie series follows a trilogy, "Pirates of the Caribbean" can be drawn to a successful conclusion in the first three parts. But when the pirate ship was experiencing the best tailwind, it released the fourth "Stranger Waves", which is actually more like a rumor.
Based on the notorious pirate Blackbeard in reality as the villain of the film, Jack meets his old lover Angelica, who happens to be the daughter of Blackbeard, and Barbosa is at this time Employed by the British Navy.
At this time, their goals were all aimed at a fountain of youth, so the forces of several parties once again confronted each other for the treasure, tossing and turning in love and killing each other.
The ending is easy to guess. Jack successfully killed Blackbeard. He exiled his old lover to an uninhabited island. Barbossa got the blackbeard Queen Anne’s revenge pirate ship as he wished. Jack and his first mate carry the locked Pearl to continue their pirate life.
Easter egg: Jack’s old lover Angelika accidentally got a doll that can control Jack in the isolated island.
Everyone knows that the story is driven by the motivations and choices of the characters. After introducing the plot of the movie, I have to deconstruct the main characters of the Pirates of the Caribbean series.
Jack Sparrow:
It can be said that without Johnny Depp's Jack, there would be no Pirates of the Caribbean series today. The orchid finger, sissy, smoky makeup, and exotic clothes have created the powerful black pearl captain Jack in people's minds.
He is one of the nine pirate kings at sea. He has a great reputation in the pirate world. From the beginning of the film, he has made countless enemies, but he can always turn a good fortune into a bad luck. In our words, he has a good life.
Barbossa:
One of the nine pirate kings, there is no constant friend between a pirate and a pirate, only permanent interests. What a good illustration of the relationship between countries.
After Jack captured the Black Pearl, Barbosa led the sailors to plunder countless treasures. At the same time, he looted the cursed gold coins, making himself and the crew not as good as dead. In order to lift the curse, he could only return the cursed gold coins. After returning to the flesh, he was killed, and was resurrected by a witch in the second part.
After that, he always fell in love with Jack and killed him for the treasure. After winning the Queen Anne's Revenge at the end of the fourth part, he continued to plunder the treasure. In the fifth part, he is already the captain of a fleet of more than ten pirate ships.
Captain Salazar:
The fifth brand-new villain was once the magic captain of the Spanish Navy, and the pirates were frightened when he heard his name. Captain Salazar has a lifelong vision of annihilating all pirates. Unfortunately, he was defeated by young Jack.
Jack, who was so tender that he could pinch the water, received the protection of the sea god and won the battle against Captain Salazar.
After the death of Captain Salazar, he was cursed and became a half-human and half-ghost captain who was stronger than Octopus Jones, but this time his identity was still not a pirate, but a half-man and half-ghost who wanted to destroy the pirates. The first person to take revenge is Jack Sparrow.
Will Turner:
Do you still remember the elven prince by the Daming Lake back then? It was him. He doesn't have much pectoral muscles, but he is so confident. When he is a pirate, he always likes to be topless and has a mustache, but he doesn't look like a vicious pirate.
So he is also the kindest pirate in the entire series. He was born as a pirate from the beginning, but because his father was a pirate, he was rescued by the British navy by accident. He became a blacksmith and had a crush on the mayor’s daughter Elizabeth.
Driven by fate, he returned to the sea and became a pirate. Finally, in order to save his father who was enslaved in the hands of Octopus Jones, he killed Octopus Jones. He also had to be the captain of the Leap Holland and became half-man and half-ghost. It takes only ten years to go ashore to meet his lover Elizabeth.
Elizabeth:
The daughter of the mayor and governor grew up holding a golden key, but she has an adventurous heart in her bones.
In order to save Wiltner aboard the pirate ship, he has forged an indissoluble bond with the pirate ship. I feel born to be a sailor, strategist, and fighting expert. She won step by step throughout the series, and was finally elected as the king of pirates. Gather all the pirates and confront the British navy.
Finally, because his lover Turner was dying in a fight with Jones, Jack used Turner's hand to kill Jones, and Turner had to become the captain of the Flying Holland.
Henry Turner:
Wiltner and Elizabeth's son. Of course, there is also a pirate gene that is adventurous and fearless.
Since his father can only go ashore once in ten years, Henry was raised by his mother for family reunion. He learned that Poseidon's trident can lift the curse. So ventured to find the trident.
Karina Smith:
In ancient times, women who were too outstanding, knowledgeable, and astronomers could easily be regarded as witches. She has a map that no one can understand, which is the key to finding the trident.
Octopus David Jones:
He is the absolute villain of the second and third part, a half-man and half-ghost pirate who can control the ocean.
A long time ago, she fell in love with Poseidon, but because Poseidon betrayed him, Jones dug out his heart and never believed in love again. Therefore, gaining Jones's heart is equivalent to controlling the entire ocean.
Cutler Beckett:
Chairman of the East India Trading Company. In other words, he represents the national interests, and the development of the country is of course the supreme control.
This original intention makes them naturally at odds with the pirates. In the second and third installments, Beckett has great strength, but of course he can't match Jack, who has the protagonist's halo in the end.
Edward Titch:
Also known as Captain Blackbeard, the character setting and the setting of the pirate ship are very close to the real Blackbeard Pirate King.
The villain in the fourth part, he has a magic sword that can control the ship. To dominate the sea, the Black Pearl and many ships were magically packed in wine bottles by him.
But when he took the Black Pearl, he was cursed by Barcelona. So started the search for the fountain of youth.
Angelica:
Jack's old lover, black beard's daughter. He had a grudge against Jack's abandonment, but he wanted to save his father. So temporarily cooperated with Jack to find the fountain of youth. In the end Jack played tricks and saved Angelica with Blackbeard's life.
And Jack put her in exile on an island because she wanted to be free and want to get rid of Angelica.
Chapter 3: Hidden Easter Eggs in the Movie (with spoilers)
Keywords: Jack Sparrow's life experience
In the movie, Jack's life experience has always been a relatively hidden line of the movie. In the development of the movie plot, Jack's previous maritime career will slowly surface.
According to the original novel, Jack’s father is Jeff Sparrow, who previously owned the pirate ship Typhoon in the waters of Madagascar. When they were young, Jack and his father had been looking for the legendary sword of Cortez.
This sword possessed the power to dominate the Aztec empire in South America at that time. To dominate South America was actually tantamount to dominating the Caribbean Sea, the most prosperous trade at the time, and it was tantamount to dominating the entire ocean. So the ambitions of the father and son from the beginning were very big.
So Jack began to sail with his father everywhere. During the voyage, he met a young woman who was Jack's old lover in the fourth part. They also visited many countries, including Singapore, so they also offended Xiao Feng (acted by Fa Ge) at the time.
When Jack became an adult, he was unwilling to be just an ordinary pirate. He also wanted to be a captain, but there could not be two captains in a ship. He gradually opposed his father’s opinion, so he decided to abandon his pirate career and went to the east. Working in an Indian trading company is five years of service (of course, it is also possible to sneak in as a spy).
Perhaps in a company with a scale and system like the East India, Jack learned the knowledge of maritime operations and overall management, but during a treasure hunt, he found the cursed gold coin, yes, it was the first cursed one. Gold coins, so he decided to betray the East India Company.
On a certain day, Beckett, who was then Jack's boss (later became chairman of the East India Company, Beckett of the second and third department) asked Jack to complete a task of transporting black slaves.
But Jack rebelled against the uprising and refused to transport black slaves. He released all the slaves on the ship and then hid the ship. But soon after the incident happened, Beckett found out, and at this moment he determined that Jack was a pirate.
When Jack was caught, Beckett branded the letter "P" on Jack's right forearm, which is the initials of the pirate English, and identified Jack as a pirate for life.
Later, Beckett retrieved the slave ship that was hidden by Jack at the time. He burned the ship and sank the wreck of the ship into the sea. Beckett let Jack witness the whole process. It is to punish Jack.
After Jack successfully escaped, he summoned the half-human and half-ghost octopus monster David Jones to make a deal to let David Jones resurrect the sunken ship. At this time, the bargaining octopus Jones decided to resurrect the ship for 13 years. After 13 years, Jack will be enslaved by the Flying Holland for 100 years.
And this black slave ship resurrected by Octopus Jones was destroyed by fire, so the whole ship was black when it was reborn, so it was renamed by Jack: BLACK PEARL! The ship’s previous name was: WICKED WENCH.
So here comes the problem. In the fifth "Dead Without a Proof", the ship used by young Jack to defeat Captain Salazar is the Evil Banshee, the predecessor of the Black Pearl. And from the film's point of view, the hull at this time was not black, indicating that the ship had not been burnt at the time, that is, it had not been sunk.
That is actually the film adaptation of the plot of the novel. Understand according to the context. The timeline of the video should look like this:
Jack entered the East India Company as an undercover agent when he was young, and succeeded in stealing the Evil Banshee with other pirates, but because he was still too young to control the Evil Banshee as the captain, the captain of the Evil Banshee was different. People, as can be vaguely seen in the film, should be Captain Stoneeye Sam in the novel, and Stoneeye Sam is the person who gave Captain Jack a hat in the novel, and becomes a compass in the film.
Therefore, after the young Jack killed Captain Salazar, he won the respect of many pirates. Each pirate gave his tokens to Jack, including the distinctive captain's hat. This is very different from the novel. In the novel, every accessory on Jack's body is given by a very important pirate leader or powerful person.
Including the compass, it was actually given to Jack by Dia the Witch in the novel. This compass has magic power, it can point to the direction people think in their hearts.
According to the description of the fifth movie, it makes sense to explain why Jack has a compass and why he has his current outfit. It's just that there are not so many short stories derived from novels.
So when the owner of the compass becomes Jack, the first thing Jack does with the compass is to kill Salazar. Seal Salazar and his crew in the Devil's Triangle.
But the compass has another hidden skill, that is, when the owner voluntarily gives up, it will release the owner's greatest threat. Therefore, when Jack was at the end of his journey, he exchanged the compass for a bottle of rum, and the magic of the compass released Captain Salazar who was sealed in the Devil's Triangle.
Keywords: Jack's Uncle
Let’s talk about Johnny Depp’s private dream of a rock singer. His favorite bands are the Rolling Stones and The Beatles. In the third part, Johnny Depp personally invited the Rolling Stones guitarist to play himself. His father, and this time he invited Paul, a member of the Beatles, to play his uncle.
In the Caribbean novel, Jack does have an uncle who is also a pirate leader who has been dressed up in the movie. It seems that Jack's entire family has a prominent background.
Keywords: Barbosa and Karina
It is known in the film that they are father and daughter who have been separated for many years. Mentioned in the novel.
Barbossa was born in poverty and lived by the sea since he was a child. He was full of illusions about maritime adventures. At the age of 13, he went to sea as a pirate. At first he was honest and capable, but he saw that as a captain, he could have his own private room and even more. Right and freedom, ambitions began to swell, began to break the rules of pirates, lied, played tricks, etc., and became a cunning man without responsibility.
When he was young, he got into an Italian ship (the Italian team contributed a lot to astronomy, including the famous Galileo) and stole a gem-set astronomical record book. I guess he didn't even know it was a treasure map at the time.
And during that time, Barbosa and Marguerite fell in love, and Marguerite gave birth to a daughter. That is, Karina. For some reason, Karina’s mother died. Barbosa must know that he is not a competent father, so she put Karina at the door of the orphanage, but worried about Karina. Without any valuable objects, Karina left the astronomical book studded with gems.
And left a note saying: Her mother is dead, and her name is Karina Smith.
As for why Barbossa wants his daughter's surname to be Smith, it is because in the novel, the surname Smith has strong representatives of female pirates, including Laura Smith and Arabella Smith.
Therefore, Barbossa should use this surname to hope that his daughter will become a powerful woman when she grows up.
Keywords: Trident
Poseidon’s trident, also known as Poseidon’s trident. He is a weapon of the sea god in mythology, and has appeared in many film and television works.
Poseidon was the god of the sea. During the crusade against Crotis, the Cyclops gave Zeus Lightning Fire and also gave Poseidon the Trident. After that, Poseidon and Trident became a symbolic existence. Poseidon's use of the trident can cause huge waves and small waves, and can also sink the continent.
Of course, the trident is not just a weapon. It can also crack the ground, attracting clear springs to irrigate the ground, so that crops will be harvested, and Poseidon bestowed the first horses on mankind.
But Poseidon was particularly warlike. At that time, he thought he was invincible, so he wanted to seize the throne of Zeus (the Universe). Unexpectedly, he was discovered by Zeus and died with a thousand icy cones .
In the film, when Jack and the others found the Trident, they mentioned that this was the tomb of the King of the Sea God. The decoration of the trident looked a bit old, which also showed that Poseidon had been destroyed by Zeus for a long time.
Another explanation for the trident in the film is that it smashes the trident, and all the curses of the ocean are wiped out, including Salazar, including Captain Turner, including David Jones in the egg...
Keywords: credits
After each pirates of the Caribbean subtitles, there is an easter egg that is explosive and even subverts the plot. This time is no exception.
The content of the egg is a stormy night, Elizabeth and Turner are sleeping, (this implies that the plot of the next sixth episode is likely to return to Turner.)
While they were asleep, a mysterious person entered their room. This person was the octopus monster David Jones. From the octopus tentacles in the shadow and the crab tongs, he knew it was him.
Why is he resurrected again? Because the rupture of the trident can invalidate all curses. Including David Jones's, but here is very strange, David Jones was killed, not cursed to death.
Anyway, David Jones is back. He used to be the captain of the Flying Holland. Although Turner has lifted the curse of going ashore once in ten years, he may still be the captain of the Flying Holland. So is David Jones going to compete with Turner for captain during this visit? ? Still want revenge? !
But when Turner woke up, David Jones disappeared again. Is this a dream? Then the camera will go to the bottom of Turner's bed, there are two small white dots. Because of it flashed by at that time. I really can't see what it is.
So I started looking for a lot of information. At first I thought it was Barbosa's object. After all, Barbosa had died several times in the Caribbean series, and it was not bad to die this time and be enslaved by Jones.
But in the end, I ruled out that the two white dots at the end of the lens are related to Barbosa. Finally, I found the source of the two white dots.
It should be a small shell on David Jones. This shows that he has indeed been to Turner's room, not Turner's nightmare. Of course, maybe my judgment is wrong, if anyone has other official evidence, you can share it with everyone.
Keywords: Octopus David Jones
In fact, in the history of navigation, the term David Jones represents the meaning of death . David Jones and his box are actually two nautical legends circulating in the 17th-18th centuries. Because people used the word death when sailing, they directly used David Jones to understand death. It's as if we don't like the number "4".
The box of David Jones was on voyage. In order to avoid the plague, the dead would throw the corpse into the sea. Legend has it that the heart of their corpse would be kept in the box of David Jones.
The legend of David Jones in the film is a brave Dutch sailor who loves women and the sea.
But the woman he loves is Calypso, the goddess of the sea. Seeing that David Jones is very capable, loves her and loves the sea, he decides to give him a boat for him to be the captain. This boat is flying. Holland number.
However, there is usually a bondage or curse if there is an agreement with the gods. The curse is that David Jones can only go ashore once in ten years. And David Jones wants to use this ship to gather the people who died at sea, so that these people will become sailors flying the Holland.
Thus, David Jones and the Sea Goddess were so infatuated in love.
But when he went ashore for ten years, David Jones went ashore to wait for his lover, the Sea Goddess (don’t understand why he wanted to meet on the shore). However, he couldn't wait for the Sea Goddess. At this time, David Jones felt that his feelings had been deceived. Becoming annoyed into anger, scolding the stinky lady to love me is actually to make me work for you!
So David Jones summoned all the pirate kings at that time and decided to imprison the Sea Goddess in human form. In the end they chose the figure of a witch.
Although David Jones succeeded in imprisoning the Sea Goddess, he still loved his Sea Goddess in his heart, and he was suffering constantly in his heart. When he thought of his love and lover, he burst into tears.
So he decided to dig out his heart! Locked in a box, just as the so-called invisible and unpleasant , and then hide the box, be a pirate decently!
But because of this incident, David Jones became a moody, ferocious and cruel captain, and then he didn’t even get on the shore. He drifted at sea for a long time. Not only did he catch the dead and enslaved the Dutchman, he broke some ships and let him Some living people who were afraid of death became targets of enslavement by the Holland.
Later, a big octopus monster was raised! If a ship is disobedient at sea, summon the octopus monster to sink it.
In the third part, Jones was stabbed to death by Turner and died indirectly in the heart. Turner became the captain of the Flying Holland, but in the fifth part of the last egg, Jones was resurrected. We will wait and see what the next story will be. Bar
Keywords: black beard
In the fourth film, Barbosa stabbed Blackbeard in order to get revenge, and obtained Blackbeard's magic sword and the Queen Anne's Revenge. This magic sword can control any equipment of the Queen Anne's Revenge. Therefore, in the fifth installment, this sword can pierce the Black Pearl sealed on the bottle and return the Black Pearl to the sea.
In reality, Blackbeard is a notorious British pirate. He was active in the early 18th century. Everyone knew about him from his thick black beard and terrible appearance. According to legend, he would often use gunpowder in order to shock the opponent. The thread is lit on his head and beard.
In reality, pirates don’t have giant pirate ships with three sails at the beginning. Normal pirate ships have one sail. Only by accumulating and plundering wealth can they slowly upgrade their pirate ships.
Blackbeard used this method to slowly upgrade his ship. Finally, in the Caribbean Sea one day, he came across a three-sailed merchant ship full of black slaves. This ship was a French merchant army. The dual-purpose ship Concorde was one of the best large sailing ships at the time.
At that time, the blackbeard's pirate ship was fighting constantly, and he himself wanted to fight a big fight. He knew in his heart that either he would be killed by his own men, or he would be killed by the Concorde, and they would all be killed. Beard decided to take the Concorde.
All the snatches went smoothly unexpectedly. When Blackbeard raised the pirate flag and fired two shots to threaten the Concorde, the Concorde raised the white flag and surrendered. So Blackbeard boarded the Concorde, after negotiation, cut off a finger from the captain of the Concorde, and Zhao Anhe released the slave.
Blackbeard's doing this shows that he is not a heinous person, all he wants is wealth. He wants to make himself famous. This is a very clever approach. After the pirate incident was spread, everyone knew that it was Blackbeard who came to snatch it. No need to fight Blackbeard.
After Blackbeard got the best ship in the world at the time, he named the ship Queen Anne's Revenge and refitted it with many cannons. Blackbeard is self-reliant and unique, robbing some merchant ships that pirates can't even think of. Obtained a very considerable wealth.
In reality, one battle that made Blackbeard famous was that he directly provoked a confrontation with the British Empire fleet, and eventually won that victory.
At that time, Blackbeard had his own pirate fleet of five ships for the first time. You can think about the golden age of pirates in the 17-18th century. Pirates had the funds to form their own pirate fleet, and it was very incredible to be able to compete with the regular army. Things.
The ultimate goal of being a pirate is to obtain wealth. When the materials and wealth on the sea can't satisfy Blackbeard's ambition, he will begin to seize the city.
On one night in 1718, Blackbeard led his fleet, sealed the port of Charlton, robbed the port’s merchant ships, and kidnapped Charlton’s richest man (so the Pirates of the Caribbean first bombed the port town, the source of inspiration Yu Heibeard's real deeds). Coerce the richest man and the government to hand over money. Otherwise, use naval guns to blast the town into flat ground.
In the end, Blackbeard got the wealth he wanted and released the hostages and went away. Therefore, some historians have studied that Blackbeard is actually not as arbitrary and hot-tempered as described in the movie and TV series. On the contrary, Blackbeard is a master negotiator, and he can receive the greatest benefits with the least loss. Because as a pirate business, it is very important to preserve the integrity of the ship without damaging it. In this siege operation, Blackbeard respected his status as a pirate in history.
Perhaps this is the curse of fate. The pirate ship Queen Anne's Vengeance piloted by Blackbeard struck a rock and sank not far from the port. Archaeologists are still salvaging the wreckage of the Queen Anne's Vengeance to restore the time. History of black beard pirates.
In that shipwreck, Blackbeard did not die. He took a considerable amount of wealth and went to North Carolina. He was exempted from the royal family at that time. I spent the rest of my life there , so there are legends. In fact, Blackbeard has a lot of gold and silver treasures hidden all over the world, and the treasure map is hidden in North Carolina.
But Blackbeard felt quite boring after living in a small town for many years, so he abandoned his wife and re-emerged as a pirate. He could be a pirate for ten years and ten years. After his comeback, Blackbeard abandoned many sailors who followed him. He can gather more than a dozen people to be his men, and the ship is not the Queen Anne's Revenge.
When Blackbeard sailed to the high seas, the British navy had been eyeing Blackbeard. The crimes committed in the past were close to war and must be paid back. So in a fight, a British lieutenant cut off Blackbeard's head.
This also marked the end of the golden age of piracy.
Chapter 4: The Pirates of the Caribbean series (no spoilers)
In summary, the entire "Pirates of the Caribbean" series is a story with Jack as the core network.
The main line of the story is the "treasure" that Jack once took over Liangzi + the "treasure" pursued by Dangji. This kind of storyline can be said to be an unfinished day, because there are always bosses who cannot be killed, there are always "treasures" and countless adventures to find. The Pirates of the Caribbean series can always be patted as long as there is funding.
But looking at the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series horizontally and vertically, there is no way to compare it with "Harry Potter", "Lord of the Rings" and other magical series. This has a lot to do with the core mission of the Disney Group. Disney's core mission is: to make happiness! Happy sales!
So you can see that as long as it is a Disney product, whether it is a theme park or a movie, the ultimate goal will lead to happiness rather than deep thinking.
Except for the "Star Wars" series, this series is not the original Disney production. In 2012, Disney only acquired George Lucas’ Industrial Light and Magic, but the final screenwriting and director rights of the Star Wars series are still held by Lu. Cass's hands. But since then, the Star Wars series has officially entered the fast-food era, one every year, and one more "joy".
Because from the 2015 "Star Wars: The Force Awakens", you have already smelled Disney. There are a lot of small baggages in the movie, and the funny method is quite Disney.
In 2016, "Rogue One" has become even more intensified, and the funny methods have been further upgraded. Therefore, many foreign iron loyal fans are beginning to worry that the Star Wars series will be slowly assimilated by Disney and become a standard pipeline of Disney works.
Since the daddy of the Pirates of the Caribbean series is Disney, this has led to the entire "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, both at home and abroad. The first Black Pearl finally opened the door of a sea magical giant series. Isn't it coming soon? Will the future be comparable to magical themes like The Lord of the Rings?
But so far, the result is already obvious. Although the Pirates of the Caribbean series has a good cast, a good audience base, and a good magic coat, at the same time I have to say that the core of the story is still good. However, the Disney Company has become a big children's fantasy adventure movie for all ages.
In my opinion, the director of the entire Pirates of the Caribbean series should bear a great deal of responsibility. If the director is a sailor, he must not be a good sailor. The first skill of being a good sailor is to tie the rope, regardless of whether it is the director of 123 or the director of 4, it has caused the chaos and disorder of the plot, which makes the film greatly discounted, and 5 is still passable.
In addition, in editing, the rhythm of the plot of the movie is also not well grasped. To use a popular analogy, Pirates of the Caribbean is actually a nautical road movie, where you experience sea strange things while walking. However, this series of nautical road films is often divided into three nautical lines, one for Jack, one for the villain, and one for the navy, with various myths, legends and adventures interspersed. This kind of multi-linear and parallel plot mode can easily be completed out of order.
As a result, everyone in the Pirates of the Caribbean series watched one and forgot one. Whenever the Pirates of the Caribbean released a new movie, everyone would first review what the Pirates of the Caribbean had said before. This is also the reason why I have to use a whole chapter to sort out the relationship between the characters in the front.
Of course, this is not just a problem with the Pirates of the Caribbean series, but a problem with the entire series of movies. I will write a separate column on the development of the series when I have time.
It is also worth mentioning that the first "Pirates of the Caribbean: Black Pearl" in 2003 was Disney's first PG-13 movie (you can only watch it at the age of 13 and above). Today, when Marvel shoots R-rated films (Deadpool), Disney has always adhered to the principle of happiness first.
The meaning of writing hate iron is not steel actually means that the Pirates of the Caribbean series can be better, can it be better, the box office is in the current movie market, as long as you spend money and marketing, recovering costs and earning profits should not be for a large group. Question (Isn't this kind of profitable movie model well absorbed in China).
However, whether a movie can be recorded in the annals of film history is not achieved by its marketing model, star effect and brand power.
It doesn't matter, maybe the emperor is not in a hurry for the maids. In Disney's words, he was not optimistic about the Pirates of the Caribbean at the beginning. This kind of unintentional effect can last as long as possible.
Chapter 5: Gossip knowledge points
The "Pirates of the Caribbean" series is a successful classic business case produced by Disney. Why is it said that it is a successful case rather than a successful series of movies,
Because the Disney Pirates of the Caribbean theme park first existed, the Pirates of the Caribbean movie came into being.
Speaking of two screenwriters visiting Disneyland on one day, they found that the opening commentary of the Pirates of the Caribbean Park was very powerful. If they were written into a movie, they could make themselves famous, marry Bai Fumei, and embark on the pinnacle of life. So they told the idea to Disney's board of directors, but the idea had already been conceived and aborted within Disney.
Because the executives believe that an ordinary pirate story will not bring much shocking content to Disney Pictures, what people need is the excitement of the pirate experience, not the content of the true pirate story.
And these two screenwriters are not trying to write a realistic pirate story, but a series of masterpieces with many magical elements. After many twists and turns, "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" was released. At first, the executives believed that the pirate theme was destined to fail, otherwise other film companies would have put the pirate theme on the screen.
As you can see, the Pirates of the Caribbean has now shot 5, which has become another major icon of Disney. Johnny Depp is also a household name.
Regarding the original soundtrack of the classic Pirates of the Caribbean movie, I remember that when the Pirates of the Caribbean movie first came out, his themed movie soundtrack appeared on the background music of major corporate annual conference promotional films, thematic promotional films, etc. (Do they not know Is this the original soundtrack of the pirate movie?).
Because what customers want is "atmosphere", "surging", and "majestic". Today, the soundtrack of the theme movie of the Pirates of the Caribbean series still appears on reality TV shows from time to time.
Everyone knows that pirates are a real illegal profession, and the Caribbean Sea is also real.
First of all, the Caribbean can find this area on the map. In the 17th century, a war of succession to the throne broke out between Britain, France and Spain, which changed the history of navigation.
The war was fought for more than ten years, and the purpose was to change the shipping routes of one's own country at sea. At that time, the maritime power of Britain was increasing rapidly, and the Caribbean Sea was an important route for the trade of these three countries.
So the three major countries began to turn a blind eye to their own pirates, in order to destroy the merchant ships of other countries. Even the United Kingdom has funded some British pirates and let them work together with the British navy.
Therefore, in the Caribbean at that time, just like some inaccessible areas in the Middle East today, without national constraints, it became a paradise for pirates. After more than ten years of naval wars between Britain, France and the West, Britain finally won the war and established its status as an empire that never sets.
The price for Britain to win this war was to train and nurture thousands of navies and sailors. After winning the war, Britain at that time was unable to reasonably convert a large number of navies and sailors into the labor force of a developing country, but ignored them.
You can imagine that after more than ten years of naval warfare, so many sailors, navy and sea generals who fought for national interests were ruthlessly forgotten after the British won the war. More importantly, they had battle and sea navigation. Without the second skill, there is no way to collect living expenses in peacetime.
Naturally, the sailors and navy who had served for the United Kingdom changed their lives one after another and became pirates.
At that time, the Caribbean Sea had a warm and pleasant climate, many islands could make a good hiding place, resource-rich merchant ships, many routes, and all kinds of favorable times and places, so it naturally became a stronghold of pirates.
Tortuga Island (Turtle Island), which is frequently visited in the film, does indeed have such a small island in reality. It is a small island in the Caribbean Sea. In the 17-18th century, Turtle Island became a distribution center for pirates. No chapter. On the map, the shape of the island resembles the hand of a sea turtle, so it is named Turtle Island.
Therefore, the film uses the name "Pirates of the Caribbean" to pay tribute to the golden age of pirates in the 17th century. At that time, the pirates possessed the armament and technology to compete with the national navy. After all, some pirates flew solo from the British navy. .
However, although the name Caribbean is used in the film, the scope of activities of pirate ships is not limited to the Caribbean sea, but the sea of the entire world. It should be said that the film strengthens the combination of each pirate and magical elements, so that the pirates and the ship Can go to the sky and enter the sea, can summon the gods of the sea, can be cursed, and can even exchange existence between yin and yang.
Although the Pirates of the Caribbean added so many magical elements, in the costumes, ships and weapons, they carefully studied all the settings of the pirates in the 17th century, and would not add more elements that do not conform to the background of the times.
In the film, Jack often swings from one ship to another with a rope and then engages in close combat, which feels very exciting.
But in reality it is impossible. The width of the two ships is actually very large. It is impossible for one person to roll from one ship to the other. In reality, when the pirate ship paralyzes the other ship, the pirate ship will approach the ship. Use small-caliber cannons and guns to shoot at the opponent's splint, and the rebels who have cleared the splint, then the pirates will row small boats and board the plundered ships to snatch them.
It sounds so boring. In reality, the negotiation of pirate ship snatching is the priority. There are no dazzling weapons, no pirates flying over the walls, and the last snatch will have to go by boat. So if the Pirates of the Caribbean series is made into a realistic pirate movie, it is estimated that the top ten Nidepu won't be popular either.
Speaking of Johnny Depp, what's interesting is that when casting the cast, the person chosen by Disney was not him, but Robert De Niro (OMG...). Fortunately, Disney's producers insisted that Depp control this role.
Obviously Depp did not live up to this opportunity. He was very successful in playing the role of Jack . Many of the films in the film swung over with a rope, which was what he proposed to do in the first part to increase the drama. Since then Taking the rope to float around has become one of Jack's signature actions.
In the third part, Jack took the sand given by the witch and said to octopus Jones: " fish-face (fish face) , and then he added a play to himself when he hummed a song." Because the script doesn't say that at all.
After all, fish-face is an insult to Chinese in Europe.
Speaking of Chinese, Xiao Feng, played by Zhou Runhua, is a fictional character, but a female pirate named "Qin" in the pirate convention is adapted from a real historical figure.
At that time, the real Chinese female pirate was named Zheng Shishi. She was born in a brothel and was hijacked by Zheng Yi in Hokkaido in 1801. After Zheng Yi's death, she successfully won the throne of the pirate captain and became the most powerful female pirate.
At the peak of the Zheng Shi clan, she had controlled hundreds of ships and was an invincible pirate fleet in the South China Sea. But ten years later, Zheng Shi was recruited by the imperial court. She led 270 ships equipped with 1,200 artillery, and 16,000 sailors and generals presented the imperial portrait to the court. She herself was given the name "Chief Executive" by the Qing government.
But in the process of recruiting security, there were still many generals who were unwilling to recruit security, so they led their ships and subordinates south to Southeast Asia. Maybe Xiao Feng was actually one of Zheng Shi's generals at that time.
In the pirate career, it is unlucky to take a woman on board. It seems that the movie does not believe in this evil, and Elizabeth has a lot of heroic performance in the film, and finally became the king of pirate kings. On the surface, he wanted to break the unlucky curse of taking women on board.
But if you study carefully, think carefully, because Elizabeth, Xiao Feng were bombed to death, the captain James who had been chasing her died, Jack also died (resurrected after going to the underworld), and found her father also because of She is dead! Then her husband Turner also died while protecting her. You say, is it very unlucky?
Speaking of Elizabeth’s lover Turner, who became the captain of the Flying Holland after his death, he could only go ashore once in ten years. The last time Turner went ashore was the third part. It was released in 2007, and it was exactly ten years in 2017. Turner Get ashore in the fifth part! Is this deliberately arranged by Disney? ! ( However, the fifth Turner came ashore not because of the ten-year agreement, but because the curse was lifted.)
I finally finished writing. As for some of the little eggs that have not been noticed in the fifth drama "Dead No Proof", I will add them when the second brush is time.
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--------***The original source of part of the information in the whole article comes from the relevant pirate documentary and the original novel of "Pirates of the Caribbean", but they have been sorted and re-edited into their own original text***---- ------
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