Saturday, September 5, 2015

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)


"At the End of the World, the Adventure Begins"


Directed by Gore Verbinski
Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer
Written by Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio
Based on Walt Disney's "Pirates of the Caribbean", Characters: Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Stuart Beattie, Jay Wolpert
Starring: Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Geoffrey Rush, Bill Nighy, Tom Hollander, Stellan Skarsgård, Chow Yun-fat
Music by Hans Zimmer
Cinematography: Dariusz Wolski
Edited by Stephen E. Rivkin, Craig Wood
Production companies: Walt Disney Pictures, Jerry Bruckheimer Films
Distributed by Buena Vista Pictures
Release date: 23 May 2007 (France)
Running time: 169 minutes
Country: United States
Budget: $300 million
Box office: $963.4 million

"Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" is an action adventure fantasy film directed by Gore Verbinski. That's the third installment of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" film series which follows Will Turner, Elizabeth Swann, Hector Barbossa, and the crew of the Black Pearl rescuing Captain Jack Sparrow from Davy Jones' Locker, and then preparing to fight the East India Trading Company, led by Cutler Beckett and Davy Jones (Bill Nighy), who plan to extinguish piracy forever.


Cast
  • Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow
  • Orlando Bloom as William "Will" Turner Jr.
  • Keira Knightley as Captain Elizabeth Swann
  • Stellan Skarsgård as William "Bootstrap Bill" Turner, Sr.
  • Bill Nighy as Davy Jones
  • Chow Yun-fat as Sao Feng
  • Geoffrey Rush as Captain Hector Barbossa
  • Tom Hollander as Cutler Beckett
  • Jack Davenport as James Norrington
  • Kevin McNally as Joshamee Gibbs
  • Naomie Harris as Tia Dalma/Calypso
  • Jonathan Pryce as Weatherby Swann
  • Keith Richards as Captain Teague
  • Lee Arenberg and Mackenzie Crook as Pintel and Ragetti
  • Greg Ellis as Lieutenant Theodore Groves
  • David Bailie as Cotton
  • Martin Klebba as Marty
  • David Schofield as Mr. Mercer
  • Christopher S. Capp voices Cotton's parrot
  • "Pablo" and "Chiquita" act as Jack the Monkey
  • Peter Donald Badalamenti II as Penrod on Davy Jone's Crew



I must mention I don't think this part is worse than two first ones. There's enough action, adventures, fights, twists, special effects, the atmosphere stay the same - so why I have to complain?

As it's the final chapter of the original trilogy directed by Gore Verbinski, I want to say more words about my impression. Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow is absolutely incredible - totally one of the well-known characters in cinematography. Orlando Bloom's Will Turner isn't as simple as he may seem in the first part: a good guy who hates pirates at first, but then becomes one of them, even a captain. Elizabeth Swann performed by Keira Knightley gets better with every part and her uncertain love stories with different characters do its bit. And surprisingly James Norrington (Jack Davenport) isn't an annoying Admiral - he's just a man who cares about Elizabeth. And how I can say nothing about Bill Nighy's Davy Jones - yes, visual effects are great but his acting is even more amazing.


Advantages
  • Music
  • Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow
  • Orlando Bloom as Will Turner
  • Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Swann
  • Bill Nighy as Davy Jones
  • Jack Davenport as James Norrington
  • Naomie Harris as Tia Dalma/Calypso
  • Special effects

Disadvantages
  • As for pirates, they're less rude than they really were - but that's Disney is it's no wonder

"Strangenesses"
  • Many coincidences but that's the film

Clue Moments
  • Death of Weatherby Swann
  • Calypso
  • Davy Jones' love
  • Davy Jones' Locker
  • Death of James Norrington
  • Pirate Lord
  • The maelstrom


I suppose it's important to get to know who is Calypso. Calypso is remembered most for her role in Homer's Odyssey, in which she keeps the fabled Greek hero Odysseus on her island to make him her immortal husband. According to Homer, Calypso kept Odysseus prisoner at Ogygia for seven years, while Pseudo-Apollodorus says five years and Hyginus says one. Calypso enchants Odysseus with her singing as she moves to and fro, weaving on her loom with a golden shuttle. During this time they sleep together, although Odysseus soon comes to wish for circumstances to change.

Odysseus can no longer bear being separated from his wife Penelope and wants to go to Calypso to tell her. His patron goddess Athena asks Zeus to order the release of Odysseus from the island, and Zeus orders the messenger Hermes, to tell Calypso to set Odysseus free, for it was not his destiny to live with her forever. She angrily comments on how the gods hate goddesses having affairs with mortals, but eventually concedes, sending Odysseus on his way after providing him with wine, bread, and the materials for a raft.


Soundtracks
  1. Hans Zimmer - Hoist the colours
  2. Hans Zimmer - Singapore
  3. Hans Zimmer - At wits end
  4. Hans Zimmer - Multiple jacks
  5. Hans Zimmer - Up is down
  6. Hans Zimmer - I see dead people in boats
  7. Hans Zimmer - The brethren court
  8. Hans Zimmer - Parlay
  9. Hans Zimmer - Calypso
  10. Hans Zimmer - What shall we die for
  11. Hans Zimmer - I don't think now is the best time
  12. Hans Zimmer - One day
  13. Hans Zimmer - Drink up me hearties


Quotations
* * *
Captain Ammand: [about Barbossa] Shoot him!
Captain Jocard: Cut out his tongue!
Jack Sparrow: Shoot him and cut out his tongue, then shoot his tongue! And trim that scraggly beard!
* * *
Barbossa: Dying is the day worth living for.
* * *
Gibbs: Jack! The world needs you back something fierce!
Will Turner: Cutler Beckett has the heart of Davy Jones, he controls the Flying Dutchman.
Elizabeth Swann: He's taking over the sea!
Tia Dalma: The song has already been sung! The brethren court is called!
Jack Sparrow: I leave you people alone for just a minute and look what happens, everything's gone to pot!
* * *
Jack Sparrow: I have no sympathy for any of you feculent maggots and no more patience to pretend otherwise. Gentlemen, I wash my hands of this weirdness.
* * *
Barbossa: There's not been a gatherin' like this in our lifetime.
Jack Sparrow: And I owe them all money...
* * *
Jack Sparrow: We must fight... to run away!
* * *
Will Turner: I'm losing her, Jack. Every step I make for my father is a step away from Elizabeth.
Jack Sparrow: Mate, if you choose to lock your heart away you'll lose it for certain.
* * *
Davy Jones: Do you fear death?
Jack Sparrow: You have no idea.
* * *
Elizabeth Swann: It's too late to earn my forgiveness.
* * *
Elizabeth Swann: [Norrington is helping Elizabeth to escape] What are you doing?
Norrington: Choosing a side.
* * *
Jack Sparrow: Why would he do that? Because he's a lummox, isn't he? Well, we shall have a magnificent garden party, and you're not invited!
* * *
Jack Sparrow: William, have you noticed something? Or rather, have you noticed something that's not there to be noticed?
Will Turner: You haven't raised an alarm.
Jack Sparrow: Odd, isn't it? Not as odd as this...
[referring to Will strapping the dead bodies of East India Co. soldiers to barrels and dropping them overboard]
Jack Sparrow: Come out with all this by your own son, did you?
* * *
Officer: In order to affect a timely halt to deterioriating conditions, and to ensure the common good, a state of emergency is declared for these territories by decree of Lord Cutler Beckett, duly appointed representative of His Majesty, the King. By decree, according to martial law, the following statutes are temporarily amended: Right to assembly, suspended. Right to habeas corpus, suspended. Right to legal counsel, suspended. Right to verdict by a jury of peers, suspended. By decree, all persons found guilty of piracy, or aiding a person convicted of piracy, or associating with a person convicted of piracy, shall be sentenced to hang by the neck until dead.
* * *
Jack Sparrow: So what are you proposing?
Lord Cutler Beckett: A new deal. One that requires absolutely nothing from you, but information.
Jack Sparrow: Were I in a divulgatory mood, what were I to divulge?
Lord Cutler Beckett: Everything. Where are they meeting? What are they planning? What is the purpose of the nine pieces of eight?
* * *
Tia Dalma: There's an evil on these seas that even the most staunch and bloodthirsty pirates have come to fear.
* * *
Elizabeth Swann: We've come to rescue you.
Jack Sparrow: Have you, now? It's very kind of you. But it would seem that as I possess a ship, and you don't... you're the ones in need of rescuing, and I'm not sure that I'm in the mood.
* * *
Ragetti: None of that!
Gibbs: If things don't go the way we want then we're the only chance they've got!
* * *
Captain Sao Feng: It is just good business, being on the winning side...
Captain Barbossa: The WINNING side?
Captain Sao Feng: They have the Dutchman, and NOW the Pearl! What do the Brethren Court have?
Captain Barbossa: We have... Calypso.
[Feng goes into shock, then recovers]
Captain Sao Feng: Calypso... an old legend.
Captain Barbossa: No. the goddess herself, imprisoned in human form by the first Pirate Lords long ago. Only the Brethren Court can release her.
[fondles Sao Feng's piece of eight]
Captain Barbossa: ALL the Court.
* * *
Elizabeth Swann: Oh, will you ever forgive me?
Jack Sparrow: No.
* * *
You may see the trailer here.


Plot: 7/10
Entertainment: 7/10
Acting: 7/10
Originality: 7/10
Music and Sound: 8/10

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