First Jack Sparrow Movie

[Ken Reels]

CaptainJack Sparrow is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the Pirates of the Caribbean film series and franchise. An early iteration of Sparrow was created by screenwriters Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, but the final version of the character was created by actor Johnny Depp, who also portrayed him.[1][2][3]

In the films, Sparrow is one of the nine pirate lords in the Brethren Court, the Pirate Lords of the Seven Seas. He can be treacherous and survives mostly by using wit and negotiation rather than by force, opting to flee most dangerous situations and to fight only when necessary.

Sparrow is introduced seeking to regain his ship, the Black Pearl, from his mutinous first mate Hector Barbossa. After succeeding, he attempts to escape his blood debt to the legendary Davy Jones while fighting the East India Trading Company. Later, when searching for the Fountain of Youth, he is abducted and taken upon Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge and is forced to lead him to the Fountain while the Black Pearl is trapped in a bottle. In a later adventure, when the ghost spanish Captain Armando Salazar comes after him, he searches for the Trident of Poseidon while also seeking to restore the Pearl to its original form.

The Pirates of the Caribbean series was inspired by the Disney theme park ride of the same name, and when the ride was revamped in 2006, the character of Captain Jack Sparrow was added to it. He headlined the Legend of Captain Jack Sparrow attraction at Disney's Hollywood Studios, and is the subject of spin-off novels, including a children's book series, Pirates of the Caribbean: Jack Sparrow, which chronicles his childhood years.

When writing the screenplay for The Curse of the Black Pearl, Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio envisioned Captain Jack Sparrow as a supporting character in the vein of Bugs Bunny and Groucho Marx.[4] The producers saw him as a young Burt Lancaster.[5] Director Gore Verbinski admitted, "The first film was a movie, and then Jack was put into it almost. He doesn't have the obligations of the plot in the same ways that the other characters have. He meanders his way through, and he kind of affects everybody else."[6] Sparrow represents an ethical pirate, with Captain Barbossa as his corrupt foil, though both characters viewed as both light and dark tricksters.[4] His true motives usually remain masked, and whether he is honorable or evil depends on the audience's perspective.[7] This acts as part of Will Turner's arc, in which Sparrow tells him a pirate can be a good man, like his father.[4]

Following the success of The Curse of the Black Pearl, the challenge to creating a sequel was, according to Verbinski, "You don't want just the Jack Sparrow movie. It's like having a garlic milkshake. He's the spice and you need a lot of straight men ... Let's not give them too much Jack. It's like too much dessert or too much of a good thing."[6] Although Dead Man's Chest was written to propel the trilogy's plot,[8] Sparrow's state-of-mind as he is pursued by Davy Jones becomes increasingly edgy, and the writers concocted the cannibal sequence to show that he was in danger whether on land or at sea. Sparrow is perplexed over his attraction to Elizabeth Swann, and attempts to justify it throughout the film.[9]

At World's End was meant to return it tonally to a character piece. Sparrow, in particular, is tinged with madness after extended solitary confinement in Davy Jones's Locker,[8] and now desires immortality.[10] Sparrow struggles with what it takes to be a moral person,[11] after his honest streak caused his doom in the second film. This is mainly shown by his increasingly erratic behaviour and Jack's hallucinations, which appeared to be simply his deranged mind in the beginning where dozens of "Jack Sparrows" appeared to crew the ship in his solitary exile, but later the hallucinations grew more important and there were mainly two "Jacks" constantly arguing about which path to follow: the immortality or the mortality. The last hallucination took place while Jack was imprisoned on the Dutchman, where his honest streak won.[12] By the end of At World's End, Sparrow is sailing to the Fountain of Youth, an early concept for the second film.[13] Rossio said in 2007 that a fourth film was possible,[14] and producer Jerry Bruckheimer expressed interest in a spin-off.[15] Gore Verbinski concurred that "all of the stories set in motion by the first film have been resolved. If there ever were another Pirates of the Caribbean film, I would start fresh and focus on the further adventures of Captain Jack Sparrow."[16]

On Stranger Tides was first announced on September 28, 2008, during a Disney event at the Kodak Theatre. Verbinski did not return to direct the fourth installment and was replaced by Rob Marshall. The movie uses elements from Tim Powers' novel of the same name, particularly Blackbeard and the Fountain of Youth, but the film is not a straight adaptation of the novel.[17]

Looking to do a family film, Johnny Depp visited the Walt Disney Studios in 2001 when he heard of plans to adapt the Pirates of the Caribbean ride into a film. Depp was excited by the possibility of reviving an old Hollywood genre,[5] and found the script met his quirky sensibilities: the crew of the Black Pearl were not in search of treasure but trying to return it to lift a curse on them, and the traditional mutiny had already occurred.[19] Depp was cast on June 10, 2002.[20] Producer Jerry Bruckheimer felt Depp would give the film an edge that could draw teenage and adult audiences despite Disney's reputation for soft children's fare.[21]

At the first read-through, Depp surprised the cast and crew by portraying the character in an off-kilter manner.[25] He researched 18th-century pirates and, seeing parallels with modern rock stars, modeled his performance on Keith Richards.[21] Richards later appeared in two cameos as Jack's father, Captain Teague, in At World's End and On Stranger Tides. Verbinski and Bruckheimer had confidence in Depp, partly because Orlando Bloom would play the traditional Errol Flynn-type character.[19] Depp improvised the film's final line, "Now, bring me that horizon", which the writer called his favorite line.[25] Disney executives were initially confused by Depp's performance, questioning whether the character was drunk or gay. While watching the rushes, Disney CEO Michael Eisner proclaimed Depp was ruining the film.[25] Depp's response to Disney executives was they could trust him with his choices or let him go.[21] Many industry insiders questioned Depp's casting, as he was an unconventional actor not known for working within the traditional studio system.[26]

Depp's performance won acclaim from film critics. Alan Morrison found it "Gloriously over-the-top ... In terms of physical precision and verbal delivery, it's a master-class in comedy acting."[27] Roger Ebert praised Depp for drawing away from the character as written and found Depp's performance "original in its every atom. There has never been a pirate, or for that matter a human being, like this in any other movie ... his behavior shows a lifetime of rehearsal".[28] Depp won a Screen Actor's Guild award for his performance, and was nominated for a Golden Globe[29] and the Academy Award for Best Actor, the first in his career.[30] Film School Rejects argued the film made Depp as much a movie star as he was a character actor.[31]

Depp's return in Dead Man's Chest was the first time he had ever made a sequel.[25] Drew McWeeny wrote, "Remember how cool Han Solo was in Star Wars the first time you saw it? And then remember how much cooler he seemed when Empire came out? This is that big a jump."[32] Depp received an MTV Movie Award[33] and a Teen Choice Award for Dead Man's Chest, and was nominated for an Empire Award and another Golden Globe.[34] For his performance in At World's End, Depp won an MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance, as well as a People's Choice Award, a Kids' Choice Award, and another Teen Choice Award. He has signed on to reprise the role for future sequels.[35]

Depp wears a dreadlock wig in a rock-and-roll approach to a pirate aesthetic.[36] He wears a red bandanna and numerous objects in his hair, influenced by Keith Richards' habit of collecting souvenirs from his travels;[37] Sparrow's decorations include his "piece of eight".[38] Sparrow wears kohl around his eyes, which was inspired by Depp's study of nomads, whom he compared to pirates,[39] and he wore contacts that acted as sunglasses.[40] Sparrow has several gold teeth, two of which belong to Depp,[41] although they were applied during filming. Depp initially forgot to have them removed after shooting The Curse of the Black Pearl,[42] and wore them throughout the shooting of the sequels.[5] Like all aspects of Depp's performance, Disney initially expressed great concern over Depp's teeth.[9] Sparrow wears his goatee in two braids. Initially wire was used in them, but the wires were abandoned because they made the braids stick up when Depp lay down.[43] Sparrow has numerous tattoos,[38] and has been branded a pirate on his right arm by Cutler Beckett,[44] underneath a tattoo of a sparrow.[45]

Depp collaborated with costume designer Penny Rose on his character's appearance, handpicking a tricorne as Sparrow's signature leather hat; to make Sparrow's unique, the other characters did not wear leather hats. A rubber version was used for the scene in Dead Man's Chest when the hat floats on water.[46] Depp liked to stick to one costume, wearing one lightweight silk tweed frock coat throughout the series,[47] and he had to be coaxed out of wearing his boots for a version without a sole or heel in beach scenes.[48] The official line is that none of the costumes from The Curse of the Black Pearl survived, which allowed the opportunity to create tougher linen shirts for stunts.[49] However, one remains which has been displayed in an exhibition of screen costumes in Worcester, England.[50] It was a nightmare for Rose to track down the same makers of Sparrow's sash in Turkey. Rose did not want to silkscreen it, as the homewoven piece had the correct worn feel.[51] Sparrow wears an additional belt in the sequels, because Depp liked a new buckle which did not fit with the original piece.[52]

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