[jib]

If some pirates had goals beyond personal wealth, however, treasure was, at the very least, a means to an end, and their way of acquiring it had no limits in cruelty and violence. To persuade their victims to hand over all they owned, pirates made regular use of every form of torture, including the rack and woolding, in which a knotted cord was wrapped around a man’s head and tightened until his eyes popped out. They were known to place burning matches inside a victim’s eyelids and slice off a man’s lips, then force him to watch as they were broiled.

[Pilot]

“The Sack of Panamá,” by Peter Earle, moves at a slower pace, at least in its initial chapters, but offers a more analytical and detailed discussion of the battle. Earle, the author of “The Pirate Wars,” also takes a close look at the Spanish side of the story — not just the general fears of King Philip IV, but the specific trials of the president of Panama, Don Juan Perez de Guzmán, who was handed the nearly impossible task of defending the isthmus against Captain Morgan and his terrifying band. more

[Cyril]

Among the reasons piracy became so rampant in its golden age, Woodard argues, was that many of its practitioners were looking for more than simply an exciting life and the chance for great riches. They “undertook nothing less than a social and political revolt,” he writes. They rebelled against oppression in its many forms, from press gangs to brutal navy captains to slave holders — many pirates were themselves runaway slaves — and they were effective. They disrupted British trade routes and communication among the colonies and accumulated such wealth that they were able to bribe merchants, plantation owners and even colonial governors.

[Osndok]

The uproar over Morgan’s tactics was so great that even his British masters felt obliged to distance themselves from their freebooting mercenary. In an effort to placate the furious Spanish, King Charles II had Morgan arrested and brought back to London. Morgan, however, was never imprisoned. In a turnabout that reflected his true value to the British monarchy, he was later knighted and named Jamaica’s deputy governor. [links]

[hewhocutsdown]

Perhaps the greatest paradox of Morgan’s career was that, in the end, his government put his privateering talents to use capturing — and hanging — pirates. So rapidly were the pirate ranks growing, however, that not even the great Captain Morgan could hold them back. Soon the golden age of piracy had begun, marked by the ascendancy and defeat of history’s most infamous pirates, from Blackbeard to Samuel Bellamy to the cruel and sadistic Charles Vane. What these men and their crews achieved, and destroyed, is the focus of Colin Woodard’s fascinating book, “The Republic of Pirates.” Woodard, the author of “The Lobster Coast” and “Ocean’s End,” chooses as his central characters not only Blackbeard, Bellamy and Vane, but also Woodes Rogers, the man who hunted them down.

[n0m4d]

The story of piracy began, of course, many centuries before Blackbeard, when desperate men first realized they could find easy prey on the open sea, far beyond the reach of any authority. For most of history, unarmed merchant and passenger ships were on their own. The technology of seafaring had grown sophisticated enough to allow pirates to roam freely, but was too primitive for others to stop them. As a result, pirates terrorized ancient Greece, the Roman empire and the Qing Dynasty, and they kidnapped whomever they chose, from Julius Caesar to St. Patrick to Cervantes.

[Art Gallery]

Introduce Protagonist (Leader): Young Elizabeth Swann rides across the ocean with her father. She’s a strong-willed woman with a pirate obsession.

[audrey01]

Obstacle Solution: They steal a naval ship, and get a crew at a famous pirate port. here

[Tasja]

New Subplot Obstacle: Will promises a ship to the crew. here

[spa]

Film critics have also given high praise to the actor for his interpretation of the Disney pirate. Alan Morrison, of Empire magazine described it as “gloriously over-the-top…In terms of physical precision and verbal delivery, it’s a master-class in comedy acting.”

[edwinc112]

Depp has reprised his role as Captain Jack in every film in the franchise, winning a Screen Actor’s Guild Award for the portrayal as well as Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations.

[rainchains]

A-list Hollywood royalty, Johnny Depp has starred in countless cinematic blockbusters in his long career. But how old was the star when he appeared in the first instalment of ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’?

[heraldtravis77]

Depp decided to add his own spin to Sparrow and surprised Disney executives when he portrayed the character as seemingly drunk and camp. here

[bittard]

In an interview with Collider, Depp gave further insight into his inspiration for Captain Jack: “This sounds weird but Captain Jack was born in a sauna. My sauna. I was looking at various aspects of the character and I figured this guy has been on the high seas for the majority of his life and therefore has dealt with inescapable heat to the brain.” here

[Timothy]

Producers of the film, Walt Disney Studios believed the character should be a slightly off centre hero, a ladies man and somewhat of a cad. But Depp had other ideas for this now famous pirate. more

[DGCmagazine]

Eight years later, Captain Norrington is being promoted to Commodore. Elizabeth attends the ceremony at her father's request. Norrington is Elizabeth's suitor; just as he begins to propose to her on the battlements, she faints because of the tight bodice she was wearing, tumbling over the wall into the bay. Destitute pirate Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp), only just arrived in Port Royal, rescues Elizabeth from drowning. The skull medallion Elizabeth is wearing around her neck, emits a mysterious pulse through the water as she is sinking (This scene is reportedly not seen in fileshared versions, and was also reportedly not in the theatrical version). After saving Elizabeth, the occupying British forces attempt to arrest Jack for piracy, for which he has been branded on the forearm by the East India Trading Company (pirate lore suggests the tattoos were actually placed on the foreheads of the convicted). Sparrow escapes and ducks into a blacksmith shop where he encounters Will Turner — now a blacksmith's apprentice. Will is also a seeker of Elizabeth, but due to his social rank, hides his feelings for her. Following a swordfight with Turner, Sparrow is knocked unconscious by Will's employer (who slept through the entire fight) and is arrested and jailed.

[Sweet]

- The jail scenes, in which the prisoners try to tempt the dog who holds the key to their cell. Jack says, "That dog is never going to move" - although the movie dog eventually does, the one in the ride doesn't. Jack later tries to tempt it with a bone, as does one of the audio-animatronic pirates in the ride. here

[mcjohn]

Governor Swann (Jonathan Pryce), the new governor of Port Royal, Jamaica, and his young daughter, Elizabeth (Keira Knightley) sail from England to the Caribbean on board the H.M.S. Dauntless. A young officer, Lieutenant Norrington (Jack Davenport) of the British Royal Navy is also aboard. They come upon a shipwreck with a sole survivor: a boy named Will Turner (Orlando Bloom). Elizabeth discovers a gold skull medallion around Will's neck and, fearing that he will be executed as a pirate, quickly hides it from the others. Elizabeth briefly glimpses another ship with shredded black sails vanishing into the mist.

[iamjerrytorres]

- There are references to cursed treasure in the ride: old pirates speak of cursed treasure and how you probably don't believe in it, and the line "Who knows when that evil curse will strike the greedy beholders of this bewitched treasure."