Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest is a 2006 pirate adventure film that follows the 2003 summer blockbuster The Curse of the Black Pearl. The sequel is directed by Gore Verbinski and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, both of whom were involved in the making of the first film. Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, and Keira Knightley reprise their roles as Captain Jack Sparrow, Will Turner, and Elizabeth Swann, respectively. Stellan Skarsgård plays the role of Will Turner's father, "Bootstrap Bill" Turner. The film was released in Australia and the United Kingdom on July 6 2006, and in the USA and Canada on July 7, 2006. The movie set several records in its first three days in theatres over its opening weekend.

Plot

The film begins in Port Royal, Jamaica on what is meant to be the wedding day of Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) and Will Turner (Orlando Bloom). However, their misadventures at the end of the previous film, rescuing Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp), come back to haunt them with the arrival of Lord Cutler Beckett (Tom Hollander) of the East India Trading Company bearing arrest warrants for the couple. But Lord Beckett offers Will a reprieve if he can get Captain Jack's "broken" compass (which, in reality, points towards one's true desire) for the Company. To further motivate Will, Beckett threatens to hang Elizabeth (whom he is holding in prison) , should he fail to retrieve the compass. It is later revealed that Beckett wants the compass to locate the Dead Man's Chest (which holds Davy Jones' heart) to have power over the sea and its pirates.

Meanwhile Will's father, "Bootstrap Bill" Turner (Stellan Skarsgård), appears to Captain Jack to give him the Black Spot and warn him that it is time to repay an old debt to the legendary Davy Jones (Bill Nighy) — ruler of the ocean depths and captain of the Flying Dutchman, a ghostly ship crewed by all manner of lost sailors, whose bodies gradually mix with those of various aquatic fauna and eventually assimilate into the ship itself. The debt was for reviving the Black Pearl and making Jack Sparrow captain for thirteen years. To chase up the debt, Davy Jones has released the gigantic, ferocious Kraken, forcing Jack to flee the seas while being pursued by an unimaginable terror. Jack decides to head for land. Any land.

With time running out, Jack must find a way out of his debt or else be doomed to serve on Davy Jones crew for a century. Meanwhile, Will is seeking Jack's compass, Davy Jones is trying to protect his heart (which has been removed and buried on a secret island), Elizabeth is looking to rescue the man she loves, Bootstrap wants to save his son from the fate he suffered, ex-Commodore Norrington (Jack Davenport) wants to regain his honor, Governor Weatherby Swann (Jonathan Pryce) will do anything to protect his daughter, and the crew of the Black Pearl are mutinous about the lack of gold.

After a fruitless search for Jack, Will finally gets word that the Black Pearl is abandoned on a remote island. Travelling there, he gets into a trap by a superstitious native tribe who have crowned Jack as their king. Jack orders him to be taken away — but not before whispering "Save me" to Will. Jack's predicament is explained by the crew of the Black Pearl (with whom Will ends up trapped): the local cannibals believe Jack is a god and must be killed in order to be free from his "fleshy prison".

As the crew tries to escape captivity, Jack gets a temporary reprieve and manages to escape as well. They meet up back at the Pearl and there catch Ragetti (Mackenzie Crook) and Pintel (Lee Arenberg), who were trying to steal the ship on their own.

There, Jack and Will begin negotiating: Jack says he will give Will the compass as long as Will gets him the key to a chest where Davy Jones keeps his heart. In a visit "up river" to Tia Dalma (Naomie Harris) they swap Barbossa's undead monkey (also named Jack) for information on Davy Jones, the location of the Flying Dutchman, and a jar of dirt. Tia tells Will the legend of Davy Jones, telling him that he had cut out his own heart because of love. She also explains that Davy Jones cannot set foot on land for another decade, so the dirt is land that will protect Jack. Armed with this knowledge, the Pearl sets sail for the Flying Dutchman.

The Pearl comes upon a wrecked ship, and Will volunteers to go across and find the key. Sadly, it's a trap orchestrated by Sparrow himself — the wrecked ship is not the Dutchman but its prey destroyed by Kraken. Will is caught by Davy Jones's crew while looking for the key on the wreck. Davy Jones himself come on board of half broken ship to find more crew for Dutchman. While examining Will, Will conveys Jack's message that he came to repay his debt. Davy is surprised and looks around. Jack Sparrow sees the face of Davy Jones through spy glass as he looks around and when he pulls the glass away from his eye, is suddenly confronted by him. Apparently inspired by Tia's story of why Davy Jones had removed his heart, Sparrow tells him that Will is a man in love and was to be married. This seems to strike a chord with the merciless captain of the Dutchman, and Sparrow manages to talk him into taking Will aboard as a temporary part of his monstrous crew in exchange for three days in which Sparrow will find one hundred souls to exchange for his own (Will's being the first of the hundred). Davy Jones agrees and presses Will into his crew without telling him of the deal that was just made. Winning a temporary reprieve in buying more time, Jack sets sail for Tortuga to find some souls to recruit.

Meanwhile, Elizabeth Swann is almost rescued by her father the Governor and sent off to safety in England, but the attempt is foiled by Beckett's henchman, Mercer. Nevertheless, Elizabeth, who had not been keen on England anyway, manages to escape while her father gets captured, and she then heads to Beckett's office where she finds Beckett alone and confronts him with a pistol until she obtains a letter of marque — a letter that designates the holder as an official privateer in service to the Crown — with which Lord Beckett had intended to entice Jack Sparrow. Elizabeth then escapes to sea. After sneaking on board a merchant vessel, she tricks the captain into taking port in Tortuga so as to find Will or Sparrow. Sparrow and his first mate are there in a pub, recruiting members with little success, aside from a few incompetents. Ex-Commodore Norrington attempts to sign aboard, starts a brawl while trying to kill Jack, and is stunned by Elizabeth, who gathers him up and leads him to the Black Pearl. Once all are aboard the Pearl, Jack convinces Elizabeth that the only way she can regain Will is by finding Davy Jones' heart, and that finding the heart is therefore the thing she wants most in the entire world. Because of that conviction, she is able to use Jack's compass (whose full powers are now revealed to her) to navigate them there, which she does. Jack needs Elizabeth's help in this way because, ever since the beginning of the movie, the compass has not been "working" for him, in the sense that it no longer points to the thing he thinks he wants most. Of course, as Tia notes in their earlier interview, the problem lies not with the compass but with Jack himself, who apparently does not know what he truly wants.

Meanwhile, on the Flying Dutchman, Will meets his father. After having the nature of the Flying Dutchman explained to him, Will challenges the Captain to a game of Liar's dice in an attempt to win the key, with Will offering up his own soul for a term of service on the Dutchman if he loses. As they sit down to play, Davy Jones reveals where the key is hidden, which (we later learn) was Will's real motive for making the challenge. But Bootstrap, unaware of his son's true motive, joins the game and makes an even more staggering wager — an eternity of servitude on the Flying Dutchman — in order to save his son from losing the bet. Davy Jones calls Bootstrap, and Bootstrap loses. Soon after, Will uses his newfound knowledge of the key's whereabouts to steal it from Davy Jones's person while he sleeps. With the key in his possession, Will promises his father he will one day free him from his servitude, and he then rows to a ship, which happens to be the very same one Elizabeth took to Tortuga. Davy Jones soon catches the ship Will is on and summons the Kraken, who promptly destroys the ship and kills all aboard, save Will, who stows away on the Flying Dutchman. Davy Jones, aware of the threat to his heart, sets sail for the island where it is buried.

Both crews arrive at the island at much the same time, although Davy Jones must send his sailors to retrieve the chest as he cannot himself set foot on land for another decade. Jack, Norrington and Elizabeth are the first to reach the spot where the chest is buried, which they attempt to pinpoint using Jack's compass. Their attempt is stymied briefly by the fact that when Elizabeth holds the compass it no longer points reliably to the chest, but instead often points to Jack — a fact that perturbs Elizabeth herself and that appears to confirm Norrington's earlier accusation, aboard the Pearl, that Elizabeth's heart has begun to wander away from her "most recent fiancé" and toward the pirate captain. Nonetheless, the trio manage to find a chest buried in the sand, which contains letters (presumably to or from the woman who broke Davy Jones's heart) and also a smaller chest that holds the audibly beating heart itself. Will appears shortly afterwards, having arrived as a stowaway on the Dutchman, and he is reunited briefly with Elizabeth. (During this reunion, Jack and Norrington can be seen, looking particularly vexed.) Jack, Will, and Norrington reveal their separate plans for the heart and engage in a fierce three-way sword battle, while Elizabeth attempts to break up the scuffle. While the four of them are occupied, Ragetti and Pintel attempt to steal the chest for themselves; Elizabeth notes, and gives chase. Once she corners them, she discovers belatedly that she's unarmed, although with the timely arrival of Davy Jones' crew the three find themselves forced to battle the monsters together. They manage to fight them as Jack manages to get away from Will and Norrington. He opens the dropped chest, taking Davy Jones' heart and closing it again. He puts the heart in the jar of dirt he brought with him and then runs back to the longboat. Eventually, while Jack is distracted, Norrington sees both the chest and the jar of dirt in the longboat. He makes the "brave" gesture of taking the chest and running with it to draw Davy Jones' crew away from the others, allegedly to help them make their escape, not telling them that he has already taken the heart from the jar. Jack, still thinking that he has the heart, agrees and the others flee. Norrington is cornered by Davy Jones' crew, but plays the coward and drops the chest to run away while they laugh.

After Will, Elizabeth, and Jack escape from the island, the crew of the Dutchman brings the chest to Davy Jones, who then gives orders to chase the Pearl. The Pearl, however, outruns the Dutchman (as Jones' ship only excels in moving against the wind. The Pearl, on the other hand, is able to take advantage of the fact that the wind is blowing it away from the Dutchman, and Sparrow's ship outruns Jones'). After Davy Jones fails in catching the Pearl, he releases the Kraken. Will realizes that the Kraken is on its way (as it is his second Kraken-related experience), so he warns the crew about it. The beast arrives, but is driven off when Will orders the all the cannons to be simultaneously shot through the Kraken's tentacles. Taking advantage of the momentary peace, the crew begins to pile their stores of gunpowder and rum together, the plan being that a shot could be fired into it. The cache would then explode, further wounding the Kraken. While the crew awaits the oncoming monster, the jar holding the dirt is broken and emptied, revealing that the heart is no longer in it. Jack desperately searches what is left (frantically exclaiming, "Where's the thump-thump?!") as the crew prepares once more to defend the ship from the Kraken. During the battle, Elizabeth catches sight of Jack rowing away from the boat, and calls him a coward. Moments later, as Jack is rowing away from the embattled ship, he is shown looking at his compass, and it is implied that it points back to the Pearl and the crew on it (and possibly right to Elizabeth). It is during that final battle against the Kraken that Elizabeth runs into Jack, who has returned to save the day. He fires a shot into the trap of gunpowder, which explodes and painfully burns the Kraken's tentacles. It returns to the water, but Jack knows that it will certainly return. He gives the painful order to abandon ship.

Elizabeth realizes the Kraken is specifically after Jack. As the crew is climbing off the Pearl into a rowboat, Elizabeth turns to Jack and kisses him passionately. As she does, Will (who is climbing down the ship to the wooden "lifeboat") witnesses the kiss and is clearly hurt by what he sees. Elizabeth's kiss distracts Jack enough so that she can chain Jack to the mast of the doomed Pearl. She tells Jack at this point that her action is the only way to save the others, and that she is not sorry for it, although later she seems truly saddened by what she has done. (This is an interesting turning point for Jack and Elizabeth: Jack has seemingly decided to show his good side by returning to help at the risk of his own life, while Elizabeth for once throws her own sense of honor and decency to the wind, both by kissing Jack, and by chaining him to the mast to save herself and the crew. There are also two specific scenes in which the voodoo compass wavers towards Jack while under the influence of Elizabeth, insinuating some ulterior feelings on her part.) As she climbs into the lifeboat in which the survivors will escape, Elizabeth tells the others that Jack has decided to remain aboard and go down with his ship, and they sail away from the Black Pearl. Jack manages to slip out of his shackles just as the Kraken appears on all sides of the ship, trapping him. Jack grabs a sword and the last we see of him he is smiling and saying, "Hello, beastie," and attacking the Kraken as the monster destroys the Black Pearl and drags her underwater to her grave. Davy Jones sees this and proclaims Jack's debt fulfilled. However, he then realizes that something is not right and asks to see the chest. After realizing his heart has been stolen, he looks up into the sky and shouts, "Damn you, Jack Sparrow!"

Norrington then reappears in Port Royal and reports to Beckett. To Beckett's surprise, Norrington does not deliver Sparrow's magical compass, but another, more powerful item, the heart of Davy Jones itself.

The Pearl's survivors revisit Tia Dalma, where the sullen crew drinks a toast to Jack. Tia Dalma then asks if any of them would truly wish to bring back him and the Black Pearl, and each of the seven survivors says they would. Tia says if they are to manage this, they will need to go to the world's end and will need a strong captain who knows where to go and be able to steer a ship like the devil himself. At this, Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush), who was shot by Jack Sparrow after the curse was lifted in the first film, enters. He asks about his ship, then starts laughing. The film ends with Barbossa biting into a shiny green apple (his one desire from the first film) with his undead pet monkey screaming from his shoulder.

After the credits there is a brief sequence showing the cannibals have now adopted the stowaway key-taunting dog from the first movie as their new chief.

Cast

Actor	Role
Johnny Depp	Captain Jack Sparrow
Orlando Bloom	Will Turner
Keira Knightley	Elizabeth Swann
Stellan Skarsgård	"Bootstrap Bill" Turner
Bill Nighy	Davy Jones
Jack Davenport	James Norrington
Kevin McNally	Joshamee Gibbs
Jonathan Pryce	Governor Weatherby Swann
Tom Hollander	Lord Cutler Beckett
Mackenzie Crook	Ragetti
Lee Arenberg	Pintel
Martin Klebba	Marty
Naomie Harris	Tia Dalma
David Bailie	Cotton
Dermot Keaney	Maccus
Max Baker	Mercer
Alex Norton	Captain Bellamy
Geoffrey Rush	Captain Barbossa

Rating

In the United States of America it has been rated PG-13 for "Intense Sequences Of Adventure Violence, Including Frightening Images." In the United Kingdom it is a 12A: "Contains moderate horror and action-adventure violence." In Australia and New Zealand, it earned a rating of M, for "Mild violence and supernatural themes." In Canada it is rated PG for "Violence, Frightening Scenes, and Gory Scenes." In Quebec, however, it was rated G.

Background

Information about the two sequels to Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl was revealed at a Disney Investor Conference Studio Presentation in 2005. The title for the first sequel Dead Man's Chest was revealed, and a second sequel was promised for a May 2007 theatrical release.

Filming began on February 28, 2005, with locations once again in the Costa Alegre, in Jalisco (Mexico) and Barrouallie, St. Vincent. The sequel also includes location shooting in Dominica as well as The Bahamas. The filmmakers are largely shooting the two sequels back-to-back, à la The Return of the King, The Two Towers, and The Fellowship of the Ring , although throughout 2005 Dead Man's Chest was the main focus of attention, with a collection of scenes for the third movie being shot. Because of the back-to-back setup, filming Dead Man's Chest did not finish until February 7 2006. Although they were filmed back to back they are being released in the same fashion as The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, one year apart, and filming for the third movie continues into 2006.

Dead Man's Chest premiered at Disneyland in Anaheim, California on June 24, 2006, two days prior to the re-opening day of the refurbished Pirates of the Caribbean attraction on which the movie series is based. The refurbished attraction includes an adjusted storyline and Audio-Animatronics based on the movies and opened June 26, 2006.

Controversy

Walt Disney Pictures has been questioned by the National Garifuna Council, a representative body of the Garifuna people, for what they feel is a racist portrayal of the Calinago, or Caribs, as cannibals in Dead Man's Chest. The Council called for what they considered to be a fair and accurate representation, and Disney responded that the script could not be altered. No known changes were made to the film.

Reactions

Early reviews for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest were initially positive, but the days following the film's theatrical release revealed a virtual down-the-middle split between critics who thought it was a good piece of entertainment and those who believed otherwise.

One critic, Michael Medved, gave the film two stars (out of four), calling the plot "sloppy,...convoluted and insipid." Critics who liked the film have compared it to The Empire Strikes Back while many others think The Matrix Reloaded would be a more apt comparison.

Johnny Depp's return performance as Captain Jack Sparrow was warmly welcomed by most, though several prominent bloggers decried the changes made to Captain Sparrow's character.

Whilst the action and CG sequences were said to be well done, some critics felt that the plot was patchy, with the film relying on an overabundance of special effects and action scenes.

The film has a 54% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, the only consensus being that the film is overly long (2 hours, 31 minutes) and the plot incoherent. In reverse, Dead Man's Chest currently holds a 7.6/10 user rating on the Internet Movie Database.

Box office

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest grossed $55.8 million on its opening day, setting records for the largest opening day, the largest single day gross, and the largest Friday gross of all time. The previous record was held by Revenge of the Sith with $50,013,859.

The Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest opening weekend gross stands at $135,634,554 which beats the previous all time opening weekend set by Spider-Man with $114,844,116. Even taking into account the fact that ticket prices were higher for this movie than they were when Spider-Man debuted, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest still sold about 200,000 more tickets than Spider-Man did. The film is also the fastest to gross $100 million, doing so in just 2 days, as well as the fastest to gross $200 million, achieving that milestone in 8 days.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest has now grossed over $380 million worldwide and currently stands at #84 on the All Time Worldwide Highest Grossing Movies chart at Box Office Mojo.

Trivia

This is the first time Johnny Depp has portrayed the same character in more than one movie.
Stellan Skarsgård and Jonathan Pryce also both appear in the movie Ronin but this is the first movie they do not share scenes.
Johnny Depp has also said that he is willing to continue the role of Jack Sparrow beyond the current trilogy.
Legendary rocker Keith Richards, Depp's personal friend and inspiration for his flamboyant pirate persona, had originally agreed to appear in a cameo role as Jack Sparrow's father, but had to pull out due to a commitment with the Rolling Stones concert tour. He has now signed on to appear in a short cameo role in the third movie.
The movie is tied into Virtual Magic Kingdom with players being able to win items from the official site. Items include a Captain Jack costume, a poster, a Davy Jones Organ, a Skeleton Monkey, and a Dead Man's Chest. The Captain Jack costume code however is extremely difficult to get, with a code generated for it only once every so many codes.
For the film's release, the Walt Disney Company had the Pirates of the Caribbean rides in Walt Disney World and Disneyland redesigned to feature captain Jack Sparrow, Barbossa, and an appearance by the films' supernatural character Davy Jones as part of the attraction and reopened on the film's opening day.
Tia Dalma's firefly-surrounded dwelling resembles a small shack seen at the beginning of the famous Disneyland ride.
In the first visit to Tia Dalma's shack, there are clues that foreshadow Barbossa's resurrection. The undead monkey is seen interacting with someone offscreen with black, pirate-like boots. The monkey seems to recognize whoever this may be. The ring Jack steals a ring that was worn by Barbossa. The scene from The Curse of the Black Pearl, when Barbossa reaches out into the moonlight you will see that it is the same ring. A few scenes later, Jack is briefly shown handling a hat that looks like the one worn by Barbossa.
The Tortuga scene was inspired by part of the Disney attraction, and stuck closely to it, with the wild pirate revelers looking almost exactly like the theme park ride, particularly in the way they appear to chase each other in small circles akin to the animatronic counterparts on the ride.
The completely computer-generated Davy Jones turned out to be so realistic that many reviewers have mistakenly identified Nighy as wearing prosthetic makeup.
Many of the Tortuga scenes were unused shots from the first film and were on the second DVD of the collector's edition of the first film of Pirates.
So far both movies of the series prominently feature references to iconic pirate songs; in the first the song Yo Ho (A Pirate's Life for Me) is sung by several characters, most prominently Elizabeth and Jack, and a variation of it is featured in several scores in the movie, while in the second the title (and, subsequently, the treasure) reference the song Dead Man's Chest.
This was the first movie featuring the new Disney production logo.
The skull on the film's poster has a voodoo doll resembling Jack hanging from it. It also shares the red map Jack wears about his head.
When Jack takes a ring from Tia Dalma's table, a heart-shaped locket is visible. When Will is getting the key from Davy Jones, a very similar looking locket is seen open on the organ.

References to the first film

There are various references throughout the movie to scenes and lines that were in the first film. These include, but are not limited to:

Governor Swann pulls a candlestick off the prison wall, mirroring Will pulling one off of the Governor's wall in the first film.
When Lord Cutler Beckett says in the beginning, "Jack Sparrow", Will and Elizabeth corrects him saying, "Captain" which is a reference to what Jack always said when people didn't call him a captain.
Jack asks "Why is the rum always gone?", and advises people to keep the rum away from Elizabeth. This mirrors a scene in the first film, in which Elizabeth destroyed a large cache of rum. At the time Sparrow, who had particularly enjoyed the rum, asked, "Why is the rum gone?" Later in the second film, when Jack recognizes Elizabeth as one of the new crew signed on in Tortuga, he turns to a crewman and orders, "Hide the rum!"
While Will was searching for Jack, one of the fellows reported that Jack could definitely be found in Singapore. In the first movie, when Jack saves Elizabeth by removing her corset, one of the soldiers remarked that he wouldn't have thought of that, and Jack responded "Clearly, you've never been to Singapore."
Another reference to rum is during an attempt to repel the kraken; finding out there is no more gunpowder, Will gives the order to use the rum for the explosive device, which shocked all the pirates. After a brief moment of silence, Gibbs finally sobbed the order to place rum in it. Incidentally, the one that pulls the trigger on the gun to blow up this cache of rum is Jack, not Elizabeth.
Jack mentions being made a chief in the first film, although there is no proof he was chief of the cannibals.
Jack refers to Will as being castrated (he asked Will if he was a eunuch in the first movie), and gestures this to the tribe of cannibals. He later describes Will as a soprano to Davy Jones.
Barbossa's monkey, Jack, appears briefly as a skeleton, referencing a scene following the credits in the first film.
Barbossa's expressed desire to eat apples in the first film is finally completed as he takes a bite out of one before the end credits of the second movie.
When Will asked a couple of women about Jack, only to end up being slapped in the face as Jack was three times before.
A group of prisoners are seen calling something towards them through the prison bars, the dog with the keys in the first and Elizabeth in the second.
Jack tells Norrington that he's still rooting for him, alluding to the first film where he says he was rooting for him all along in his attempts to win Elizabeth's affection.
The dog with the keys had run off in the first and Governor Swann wants to know where it is now. It apparently has gone off with two of the pirates from the first movie and at a cameo at the end, we see that the natives have made it their chief.
Elizabeth pretends to faint when Norrington, Jack, and Will are in a sword fight to get their attention, whereas she fainted twice in the first movie. She faints for real at the start of the first movie and was consequently saved by Jack, and then pretended to faint later on, to distract the on-lookers (Norrington and the governor), allowing Will to help Jack escape from the gallows.
Will claims to have used two sea turtles strapped together in his escape from the Flying Dutchman, in the first film Jack claims to have used this method to escape the small island he was marooned on (he was really picked up by a ship, after a few days spent drinking rum he had found).
The man who arrests Will and Elizabeth (Lord Cutler Beckett), played by Tom Hollander, refers to when he had an encounter with Jack before, while holding a branding iron. On it is the same symbol branded on Jack's right arm during the first movie when Norrington pulls up his sleeve.
Just before the crew makes their escape from the island where the Dead Man's Chest is buried, Jack hits Will over the head with an oar, knocking him out. Will did this same thing to Jack in the first film.
In the first film, Will mentions that they are trying to get to Isla de Muerta with a compass that "doesn't even point north." Gibbs replies, "But we're not trying to find north, are we?" which foreshadows the revelation in Dead Man's Chest that the compass points to the user's greatest desire.
The curse has been mentioned by Barbossa's former crewmen, one by saying they aren't immortal anymore and another by saying Will wants to save his twice cursed father.
Elizabeth calls Jack a good man at the end of the film, Will did the same at the end of the first. Also, the first time Elizabeth calls Jack a good man closely resembles the deleted scene from the first film, in which Elizabeth says to Norrington, 'you're a fine man, James.'
In the first film, Elizabeth calls rum a vile drink that turns even the most respectable men into complete scoundrels. In this film, Norrington, who was a very respectable man before, seems to get more aggressive the more rum he drinks.
When Jack and Elizabeth were stranded on the island in the first film, Jack tries to bring her to his side. In the second film, while on the ship, he tries to get her to marry him. Both instances include drinking rum.
After a bar fight in Tortuga, Norrington is thrown into the mud next to some pigs, and Elizabeth comes to drag him out. Will and Jack find Gibbs in a similar situation in the first movie.
In Dead Man's Chest, Elizabeth hides on a ship in order to escape her arrest in Port Royal. The crew finds a dress onboard and speculate how it got there. The captain comes to the conclusion that there is a woman on board and she is probably naked, prompting the entire crew to look for her. In the first movie, while Elizabeth is captured aboard the Black Pearl, two pirates, one of whom is holding a dress, inform her that she will dine with Captain Barbossa while wearing the dress, or with the crew, in which case she will be naked.
In The Curse of the Black Pearl, Pintel, the pirate who captures Elizabeth (along with Ragetti) finds her hiding in a closet. He looks through the crack, and utters, "Hello, Poppet." In Dead Man's Chest, Elizabeth chases the same two pirates on a beach. She attempts to use her sword, but finds she doesn't have it because Will took it earlier to fight Jack and Norrington over the heart's chest. The two pirates smile and pull out their swords, as Pintel says, "Hello, Poppet."
In the first movie when Jack is being hanged, when reading a list of crimes Jack has done, the prosecutor mentions "Crimes against the East India Trading Company..." which Cutler Beckett is working for in the second movie.