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| name = Captain Jack Sparrow | |||
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| first = '']'' (2003) | |||
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| creator = ]<br />]<br />Johnny Depp | |||
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| voice = Johnny Depp (2006)<br />Jared Butler (2007–present)<br />] (2006) | |||
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| gender = Male | |||
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| occupation = ]<br>'''Formerly:''' Captain for the East India Trading Company | |||
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| family = ] (father)<br />Jack (uncle) | |||
|'']'', ''The Grand Barnacle'', The '']'' (''The Black Pearl''), ''The Jolly Mon'', '']'' (briefly to steal ''The Interceptor''), '']''. | |||
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| title = ]<br>Pirate Lord of the Caribbean sea | |||
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| nicknames = Jackie/Jacky <br> | |||
Jackie boy/Jacky boy <br> | |||
Jack the Sparrow <br> | |||
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] '''Jack Sparrow''' is a fictional character and the main ] of the '']'' film series and franchise. An early iteration of Sparrow was created by screenwriters ] and ], but the final version of the character was created by actor ], who also portrayed him.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-10-14 |title=Johnny Depp Explained How He Created Captain Jack Sparrow |url=https://geektyrant.com/news/johnny-depp-explained-how-he-created-captain-jack-sparrow |access-date=2023-09-07 |website=GeekTyrant |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-11-16 |title=Johnny Depp created Captain Jack Sparrow by turning up sauna to '1000 degrees' until it affected him mentally |url=https://www.ladbible.com/entertainment/johnny-depp-captain-jack-sparrow-sauna-20221116 |access-date=2023-09-07 |website=LADbible |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=updated |first=Dirk Libbey last |date=2016-02-09 |title=How Cartoons Inspired Johnny Depp As He Created Captain Jack Sparrow |url=https://www.cinemablend.com/new/How-Cartoons-Inspired-Johnny-Depp-He-Created-Captain-Jack-Sparrow-111157.html |access-date=2023-09-07 |website=CINEMABLEND |language=en}}</ref> | |||
The Sparrow character is based on a combination of ]' guitarist ] and ] cartoons, specifically the characters ] and ]. He first appears in the 2003 film '']''. He appears in the later sequels '']'' (2006), '']'' (2007), '']'' (2011), and '']'' (2017). | |||
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, guile, and negotiation rather than force, opting to flee most dangerous situations and fight only when necessary. | |||
] portrays Sparrow and won great acclaim for his comic performance and, following the sudden popularity of the character after his debut in ''The Curse of the Black Pearl'', he reappeared in the two sequels, as well as a series of ], video games and even in the Disney theme park ride which inspired the films. | |||
Sparrow is introduced seeking to regain his ship, the '']'', from his mutinous first mate ]. After succeeding, he attempts to escape his blood debt to the legendary ] while fighting the ]. Later, when searching for the ], he is abducted and taken aboard ]'s ]. Sparrow is subsequently forced to lead Blackbeard to the Fountain while the shrunken Black Pearl is trapped in a bottle. In a later adventure, when the ghost Spanish Captain ] pursues him, he searches for the ] while also seeking to restore the Pearl to its original form. | |||
==Character development and acclaim== | |||
Depp claims that punk forerunner ], ] guitarist ] (who has a cameo role as his father in the third movie), and ] (from ]) were main inspirations for his performance (although ] — primarily in '']'' — was also an influence). Depp has also said that he imagined pirates as being "like the rock stars of their time"<ref name="rockstar">{{cite web | publisher=smh.com.au | title=Rock 'n' roll buccaneer | url=http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/08/31/1062268467722.html?from=storyrhs | accessdate=23 July | accessyear=2006}}</ref> and that he likes to portray Sparrow as "sexually ambiguous".<ref name="ambiguous">{{cite web | publisher=femalefirst.co.uk | title=Depp - Jack Sparrow Is Gay | url=http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/celebrity/104412004.htm | accessdate=17 August | accessyear=2006}}</ref> Screenwriters ] and ] compared his character to ] and ] on the DVD commentary for ''Curse of the Black Pearl''. | |||
The ''Pirates of the Caribbean'' series was inspired by the Disney ]. When the ride was revamped in 2006, the Captain Jack Sparrow character was added. The character headlined the ] attraction at ], and is the subject of spin-off novels, including a children's book series, '']'', which chronicles his childhood years. | |||
The part earned Depp an ] nomination for ], a rarity for a comic performance. The nomination also was the first for Best Actor in a Leading Role for a Disney film. | |||
==Concept and creation== | |||
==Fictional biography== | |||
===Character=== | |||
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When writing the screenplay for ''The Curse of the Black Pearl'', ] and ] envisioned Captain Jack Sparrow as a supporting character in the vein of ] and ].<ref name="writers curse">{{cite video | people = ], ], ], ] | title = Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl: Audio Commentary | type = DVD | publisher=Buena Vista |year=2003}}</ref> The producers saw him as a young ].<ref name="depp gold">{{cite news|author=Sean Smith |title=A Pirate's Life |work=Newsweek |date=June 26, 2006 |url=http://www.newsweek.com/pirates-life-111141 |access-date=May 30, 2007 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140110083047/http://www.newsweek.com/pirates-life-111141 |archive-date=January 10, 2014 }}</ref> Director ] 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."<ref name="chest verb">{{cite web|author=Jeff Otto |title=IGN Interviews Gore Verbinski |website=IGN |date=June 28, 2006 |url=http://uk.movies.ign.com/articles/714/714964p1.html |access-date=May 31, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120119141047/http://uk.movies.ign.com/articles/714/714964p1.html |archive-date=January 19, 2012 }}</ref> Sparrow represents an ethical pirate, with ] as his corrupt ], though both characters viewed as both light and dark ]s.<ref name="writers curse"/> His true motives usually remain masked, and whether he is honorable or evil depends on the audience's perspective.<ref>{{cite web|title=Shipload of Characters Both New and Familiar |publisher=Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Production Notes |url=http://madeinatlantis.com/pirates/production/production3.htm |access-date=May 31, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927203635/http://madeinatlantis.com/pirates/production/production3.htm |archive-date=September 27, 2007 }}</ref> This acts as part of ]'s arc, in which Sparrow tells him a pirate can be a good man, like ].<ref name="writers curse"/> | |||
===Early life=== | |||
According to the official Disney website and the game based on the film series, Jack Sparrow, the son of ], was born in British Colonial India and was once employed by the ]. Sparrow helmed the ''Wicked Wench'', an EITC merchant vessel, performing odd jobs for ]. When he refused to transport slaves and instead freed them in Africa, Beckett sanctioned the torching (and sinking) of the ''Wicked Wench'', and literally branded Jack Sparrow a pirate. Sparrow came to embrace his outlaw status, becoming a successful pirate with no desire to return to life under the command of others. Later, he petitioned ] to raise his ship from the ocean floor, and rechristened her the '']''. Jones granted Sparrow captaincy of the ship for thirteen years, after which Jones would own Sparrow's soul. | |||
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."<ref name="chest verb"/> Although ''Dead Man's Chest'' was written to propel the trilogy's plot,<ref name="desperate"/> 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 ], and attempts to justify it throughout the film.<ref name="writers chest"/> | |||
Disney Press began a book series for young readers in ], chronicling Sparrow's adventures as a teenager. Written by ], the first four books follow Sparrow and a young, ] in many adventures aboard a tiny fishing ship called ''The Barnacle''. The adventures included a search for the legendary Sword of Cortés, and a trip to ] that turned the city into bronze. Along the way, they battled pirates, ancient curses, witchcraft, ]s, and the power of the sea.<ref name="books">{{cite web | publisher=amazon.com | title=Amazon.com Books Search Results: Jack Sparrow | url=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/104-7697375-9509532?url=index%3Dstripbooks%3Arelevance-above&field-keywords=Jack+Sparrow&Go.x=7&Go.y=11 | accessdate=6 July | accessyear=2006}}</ref> | |||
''At World's End'' was meant to return it tonally to a ]. Sparrow, in particular, is tinged with madness after extended solitary confinement in Davy Jones's Locker,<ref name="desperate">{{cite news | author=Ian Nathan | title = Pirates 3 | work=] | pages = 88–92 | date = April 27, 2007}}</ref> and now desires immortality.<ref name="immortality">{{cite web|title=Characters (video) |publisher=Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End Official site |url=http://pirates.disney.com/pirates-of-the-caribbean-at-worlds-end |access-date=May 31, 2007 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019173126/http://pirates.disney.com/pirates-of-the-caribbean-at-worlds-end |archive-date=October 19, 2013 }}</ref> Sparrow struggles with what it takes to be a moral person,<ref name="success">{{cite web |title=Success Can Be a Tough Taskmaster |work=Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End Production Notes |url=http://numberonestars.com/pirates3/production1.htm |access-date=May 31, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070519042434/http://numberonestars.com/pirates3/production1.htm |archive-date=May 19, 2007 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|title=Chapter 3 – Revealing the True Nature of all the Characters |work=Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End Production Notes |url=http://numberonestars.com/pirates3/production3.htm |access-date=June 2, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120711221541/http://numberonestars.com/pirates3/production3.htm |archive-date=July 11, 2012 }}</ref> By the end of ''At World's End'', Sparrow is sailing to the Fountain of Youth, an early concept for the second film.<ref>{{cite video | title = Charting the Return | type = DVD | publisher=] |year=2006}}</ref> Rossio said in 2007 that a fourth film was possible,<ref>{{cite news | title = Exclusive interview: Terry Rossio | publisher=Moviehole | date = February 12, 2007 | url = http://www.moviehole.net/interviews/20070212_exclusive_interview_terry_ross.html | access-date =February 12, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011163402/http://www.moviehole.net/interviews/20070212_exclusive_interview_terry_ross.html |archive-date=October 11, 2007 }}</ref> and producer ] expressed interest in a spin-off.<ref>{{cite news | title = Bruckheimer talks Pirates spin-off | work=Moviehole | date = May 10, 2007 | url = http://www.moviehole.net/news/20070510_bruckheimer_talks_pirates_spin.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070512134248/http://www.moviehole.net/news/20070510_bruckheimer_talks_pirates_spin.html |archive-date=May 12, 2007}}</ref> 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."<ref>{{cite news | author=Steve Fritz | title = Talking Pirates with Gore Verbinski | work=] | date = November 30, 2007 | url = http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=137989 | access-date=December 2, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090828033013/http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=137989|archive-date=August 28, 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref> | |||
===''Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl''=== | |||
{{main|Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl}} | |||
About a ] prior to the beginning of '']'', Jack Sparrow was searching for the legendary Chest of ] containing cursed ] ]. When Sparrow shared the bearings to the chest's location, ] ] and the crew ] and ] him on an ] with only a ] containing a single ] (allowing the option of suicide over ]). After three days, Sparrow bartered passage off the island with ]. Seeking revenge, Sparrow kept the pistol to kill his former first mate. | |||
''On Stranger Tides'' was first announced on September 28, 2008, during a Disney event at the ]. Verbinski did not return to direct the fourth installment and was replaced by ]. The movie uses elements from ]' novel ], particularly ] and the Fountain of Youth, but the film is not a straight adaptation of the novel.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://herocomplex.latimes.com/uncategorized/johnny-depp-jack-sparrow-disney-costume/ |title=Johnny Depp (in Captain Jack Sparrow costume) surprises Disney D23 Expo audience |work=Los Angeles Times |date=September 11, 2009 |access-date=May 11, 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130701195008/http://herocomplex.latimes.com/uncategorized/johnny-depp-jack-sparrow-disney-costume/ |archive-date=July 1, 2013 }}</ref> | |||
Ten years later, Sparrow arrives in ] to steal a ship, but he is arrested for ] after saving ], the governor's daughter, from drowning. That night, the Black Pearl attacked Port Royal, seeking the last Aztec medallion that will break the curse that has rendered them into immortal skeletons. Elizabeth, who possesses the coin, is kidnapped. The next morning, ], a blacksmith apprentice whom Sparrow fought in an escape attempt, seeks Sparrow's help to rescue Elizabeth, whom he secretly loves. Sparrow agrees only when he realizes Will is the crucial element needed to break the curse and that he can use him to bargain back the ''Black Pearl''. Will frees Sparrow from jail, and the two hijack the HMS ''Interceptor''. | |||
The fifth film, ''Dead Men Tell No Tales'', was co-directed by ] and ].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/pirates-caribbean-5-orlando-bloom-teases-plot-film-will-keira-knightley-return-complete-1479866 |title=Pirates of the Caribbean 5 Plot: Will Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley reunite with Captain Jack Sparrow? |newspaper=International Business Times |author=Varma, Arjun |date=December 21, 2014 |access-date=December 21, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141221032021/http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/pirates-caribbean-5-orlando-bloom-teases-plot-film-will-keira-knightley-return-complete-1479866 |archive-date=December 21, 2014 }}</ref> | |||
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After recruiting a crew in ] with help from his old friend, ], they head to ], where Sparrow knows the pirates will go to break the curse. Once there, Sparrow and Will infiltrate the cave where a ritual is underway with Elizabeth, whose blood Barbossa believes will break the curse. Mistrusting Sparrow, Will knocks him unconscious. He rescues Elizabeth, and the two escape to the ''Interceptor'', but the ''Black Pearl'' pursues them. After a fierce battle, the ''Interceptor'' is sunk, and the crew is captured. After learning Will can break the curse, Barbossa maroons Sparrow and Elizabeth Swann. To Sparrow's horror, Elizabeth burns an abandoned rum stockpile as a signal fire that is spotted by Commodore ]. Sparrow provides the bearings to Isla de Muerta after Elizabeth persuades Norrington (by accepting his previous marriage proposal) to attack the island and rescue Will. | |||
===Johnny Depp=== | |||
At the island, Sparrow saunters into the cave and interrupts Will's sacrifice. He informs the stunned Barbossa that Norrington is waiting outside to ambush them and proposes they form an alliance. When Barbossa agrees and sends the crew to fight the navy, Sparrow attacks him. Sparrow more than matches the legendary swordsman blow for blow. Barbossa impales Sparrow with his sword, believing he is mortally wounded; but, when he stumbles backwards into the moonlight, Sparrow is revealed to be an immortal skeleton—having snuck a coin from the chest to curse himself. Sparrow and Turner lift the curse just after Sparrow fatally shoots Barbossa with the shot he has carried for ten years. No longer immortal, Barbossa falls to the ground dead and the remaining now-mortal pirates surrender. Sparrow is arrested and returned to Port Royal for hanging, but with help from Will and Elizabeth, the execution is interrupted, and he escapes by accidentally falling off the rampart and into the bay where the ''Black Pearl'' is waiting. Sparrow is captain once again. Will and Elizabeth declare their love for another, and Norrington graciously concedes Elizabeth's hand to Will. | |||
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Looking to do a ], Johnny Depp visited the ] in 2001 when he heard of plans to adapt the ] ride into a film. Depp was excited by the possibility of reviving an old Hollywood genre,<ref name="depp gold"/> 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.<ref name="depp commentary">{{cite video | people = ], ] | title = Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl Audio Commentary | type = DVD | publisher=] |year=2003}}</ref> Depp was cast on June 10, 2002.<ref>{{cite web | author=Greg Dean Schmitz | title = Greg's Previews – Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) |publisher=Yahoo! | url = https://movies.yahoo.com/shop?id=1808405416| access-date=August 9, 2008| author-link = Greg Dean Schmitz }}{{dead link|date=March 2020|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> 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.<ref name="talk"/> | |||
According to various reports and interviews, Johnny Depp prepared for the role while rehearsing in the steam room of a sauna. At times, he claimed to turn the heat up to its max temperature of 1,000 degrees. The actor was quoted as saying, ''"Captain Jack was actually born in a sauna—my sauna. I figured this is a guy who has been on the high seas for probably all of his life, the majority of his life at least, and therefore probably dealt with a lot of inescapable heat to the brain."''<ref></ref> Depp also said, due to his daughter ] being three years old at the time, he watched various cartoons, using ] and ] as examples.<ref></ref><ref></ref> | |||
===''Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest''=== | |||
{{main|Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest}} | |||
Thirteen years ago, Captain Sparrow obtained the ''Black Pearl'' from ] by bargaining his soul in exchange for 100 years service aboard the infamous ghost ship, '']''. Now the debt is due. One night, Sparrow's former shipmate, ] appears and marks him with the ], a sign the ] is hunting him. In the process of trying to sail away as fast as possible, Jack the monkey steals Jack's hat and throws it overboard. Meanwhile, Lord Cutler Beckett of the ] arrests Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann for aiding in Sparrow's escape. With Elizabeth in jail, Beckett offers clemency if Will agrees to search for Sparrow and his ]. He has ] with which he wants to recruit Sparrow as a privateer. Otherwise, Will, Elizabeth and former ] will be executed. Will finds Sparrow and the crew held captive on ] (by cannibals who believe Sparrow is a god trapped in a human body, which must be cooked to free him) and they escape, barely making it to the ''Black Pearl''. | |||
At the first ], Depp surprised the cast and crew by portraying the character in an off-kilter manner.<ref name="cocky">{{cite magazine | author=Ian Nathan | title = Pirates of the Caribbean 2 | pages = 66–69 | magazine=] | date = July 1, 2006}}</ref> He researched 18th-century pirates and, seeing parallels with modern rock stars, modeled his performance on ].<ref name="talk">{{cite web|author=Stax |title=Depp & Bruckheimer Talk Pirates |website=IGN |date=June 25, 2003 |url=http://uk.movies.ign.com/articles/425/425848p1.html |access-date=May 31, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080102184110/http://uk.movies.ign.com/articles/425/425848p1.html |archive-date=January 2, 2008 }}</ref> Richards later appeared in two cameos as Jack's father, ], in ''At World's End'' and ''On Stranger Tides''. Verbinski and Bruckheimer had confidence in Depp, partly because ] would play the traditional ]-type character.<ref name="depp commentary"/> Depp improvised the film's final line, "Now, bring me that horizon", which the writer called his favorite line.<ref name="cocky"/> Disney executives were initially confused by Depp's performance, questioning whether the character was drunk or gay. While watching the rushes, Disney CEO ] proclaimed Depp was ruining the film.<ref name="cocky"/> Depp's response to Disney executives was they could trust him with his choices or let him go.<ref name="talk"/> Many industry insiders questioned Depp's casting, as he was an unconventional actor not known for working within the traditional studio system.<ref>{{cite magazine|author=Chris Nashawaty |title=Box Office Buccaneer |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |url=http://ew.com/article/2003/07/25/how-pirates-fits-johnny-depps-quirky-career/ |access-date=May 18, 2007 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017212258/http://www.ew.com/article/2003/07/25/how-pirates-fits-johnny-depps-quirky-career |archive-date=October 17, 2015 }}</ref> | |||
Rowing upriver, they visit ], a voodoo priestess with whom Sparrow hints he was once close. Sparrow shows her a drawing of a key; where to find it, he does not know, and his magical compass has failed him. Tia Dalma says it will not work because Sparrow does not know what he truly wants or he is, "loath to claim it as his own." She tells them the legend of Davy Jones and the ''Dead Man's Chest''. When Jones lost his true love, his pain was so deep that he carved out his heart, locked it away in a chest, and buried it. The key is kept with him at all times. Back at sea, the ''Pearl'' encounters Davy Jones, who has come to claim his debt. Sparrow deviously attempts to exchange Will for himself, but Davy Jones says one soul is not equal to another and demands 100 souls in exchange for Jack's. Jones keeps Turner as a "good faith" payment, and removing Sparrow's black spot, gives him three days to fulfill the bargain. | |||
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."<ref>{{cite magazine|author=Alan Morrison |title=Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl |magazine=] |url=http://www.empireonline.com/movies/pirates-caribbean-curse-black-pearl/ |access-date=May 21, 2007 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161014173629/http://www.empireonline.com/movies/pirates-caribbean-curse-black-pearl/ |archive-date=October 14, 2016 }}</ref> ] 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".<ref name=Ebert2003>{{cite news|author=Roger Ebert |title=Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl |work=Chicago Sun-Times |date=July 9, 2003 |url=http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/pirates-of-the-caribbean-the-curse-of-the-black-pearl-2003 |access-date=May 21, 2007 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141206033540/http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/pirates-of-the-caribbean-the-curse-of-the-black-pearl-2003 |archive-date=December 6, 2014 |author-link=Roger Ebert }}</ref> Depp won a ] award for his performance, and was nominated for a ]<ref>{{cite web |title=Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl Awards |website=] |url=http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:281052~T4 |access-date=May 31, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080112201918/http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1%3A281052~T4 |archive-date=January 12, 2008 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> and the ], the first in his career.<ref name="farewell?">{{cite news |title=Pirates World's End: Johnny Depp's Farewell? |publisher=Emanuel Levy |year=2007 |url=http://www.emanuellevy.com/article.php?articleID=5729 |access-date=May 31, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071009180548/http://www.emanuellevy.com/article.php?articleID=5729 |archive-date=October 9, 2007 }}</ref> '']'' argued the film made Depp as much a movie star as he was a ].<ref>{{cite news|author=Neil Miller |title=The Ten Most Powerful Movie Franchises in History |publisher=Film School Rejects |url=http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/opinions/the-ten-most-powerful-movie-franchises-in-history.php |date=May 29, 2007 |access-date=May 31, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070601164829/http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/opinions/the-ten-most-powerful-movie-franchises-in-history.php |archive-date=June 1, 2007 }}</ref> | |||
In Tortuga, Sparrow and ] recruit unsuspecting sailors. A fallen James Norrington also applies and then attempts to shoot Sparrow, whom he blames for his ruin. Elizabeth, who escaped jail, arrives and rescues Norrington from the ensuing brawl. Confronting Sparrow at the pier, Elizabeth demands to know what has happened to Will. Sparrow regrets to report he was press-ganged into Davy Jones' crew, although Norrington doubts Sparrow's claim that he was uninvolved. Sparrow reveals the compass's secret, telling Elizabeth that if she finds the Dead Man's Chest, she can save Will. The compass works at last. After setting sail for ], Elizabeth discloses it was Cutler Beckett who sent Will and shows Sparrow and Gibbs the Letters of Marque. Norrington overhears the conversation and sets his own plan in motion. The captain then expresses an amorous interest in Elizabeth, who coyly rebuffs his attempts to woo her. When he tries to kiss her, the Black Spot suddenly reappears on his palm, and he hastily retreats. The Kraken is on the hunt again. | |||
Depp's return in ''Dead Man's Chest'' was the first time he had ever made a sequel.<ref name="cocky"/> ] wrote, "Remember how cool ] was in '']'' the first time you saw it? And then remember how much cooler he seemed when '']'' came out? This is that big a jump."<ref>{{cite news|author=Drew McWeeny |title=Moriarty Reviews Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest!! |publisher=] |date=June 25, 2006 |url=http://www.aintitcool.com/node/23694 |access-date=May 29, 2007 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121209153032/http://www.aintitcool.com/node/23694 |archive-date=December 9, 2012 |author-link=Drew McWeeny }}</ref> Depp received an ]<ref>{{cite news|author=MTV |title=The MTV Movie Awards Winners! |publisher=Comingsoon.net |date=June 4, 2007 |url=http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/20777-the-mtv-movie-awards-winners |access-date=June 4, 2007 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141220220901/http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/20777-the-mtv-movie-awards-winners |archive-date=December 20, 2014 }}</ref> and a ] for ''Dead Man's Chest'', and was nominated for an ] and another Golden Globe.<ref>{{cite web|title=Awards for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) |website=] |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0383574/awards |access-date=May 31, 2007 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120319003230/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0383574/awards |archive-date=March 19, 2012 }}</ref> For his performance in ''At World's End'', Depp won an MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance, as well as a ], a ], and another Teen Choice Award. He has signed on to reprise the role for future sequels.<ref>{{cite news|author=Marc Graser |title=Disney, Depp return to 'Caribbean' |work=Variety |date=September 24, 2008 |url=https://variety.com/2008/digital/features/disney-depp-return-to-caribbean-1117992798/ |access-date=September 25, 2008 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150612231201/http://variety.com/2008/digital/features/disney-depp-return-to-caribbean-1117992798/ |archive-date=June 12, 2015 }}</ref> | |||
On Isla Cruces, Sparrow, Elizabeth and Norrington find the chest. Will arrives with the key (having escaped from the ''Flying Dutchman''). Each man claims the heart. Turner hopes to free his father from Davy Jones' servitude, Sparrow wants to escape his blood debt, and Norrington schemes to reclaim his career. Sparrow extricates himself from their three-way sword fight and takes the heart. However, Norrington steals it and the Letters of Marque and escapes while Jones' crew retrieves the empty chest. Back at sea, the ''Dutchman'' chases the ''Pearl'', but the '' Pearl '' outruns her. Jones summons the ]. In a moment of cowardice, Sparrow deserts the ''Pearl'' as the crew valiantly fights the monster. However, Sparrow's underlying loyalty and honor compel him to go back and save his shipmates. Knowing the Kraken will return, he gives the order to abandon ship. | |||
===Make-up and costumes=== | |||
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[[File:OriginalSparrow.jpg|thumb|Early character sketches of Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow by Crash McCreery. | |||
Realizing the Kraken is only after Sparrow, Elizabeth distracts him with a passionate kiss and cuffs him to the mast. She claims she isn't sorry for her actions, to which Sparrow merely retorts "Pirate." She tells the others that Sparrow chose to stay behind, unaware that Will witnessed the kiss. Sparrow frees himself as the vicious beast rises above deck. The Kraken emits a loud roar, along with a good deal of mucus and Jack's hat. Jack nonchalantly shakes the phlegm off the hat and puts it back on. With a "Hello, beastie.", Jack lunges at the monster and is consumed. | |||
An initial costume concept before Depp's ideas took hold.]] | |||
Depp wears a ] wig in a ] approach to a pirate aesthetic.<ref>{{cite video | title = Jack's Scarf And Wig | type = DVD | publisher=] |year=2006}}</ref> He wears a red bandanna and numerous objects in his hair, influenced by Keith Richards' habit of collecting souvenirs from his travels;<ref>{{cite video | title = Jack's Dingles | type = DVD | publisher=] |year=2006}}</ref> Sparrow's decorations include his "piece of eight".<ref name="world"/> Sparrow wears ] around his eyes, which was inspired by Depp's study of nomads, whom he compared to pirates,<ref>{{cite video | title = Jack's Eye Make-Up | type = DVD | publisher=] |year=2006}}</ref> and he wore contacts that acted as sunglasses.<ref name="epic">{{cite video | title = An Epic At Sea: The Making of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl | type = DVD | publisher=] |year=2003}}</ref> Sparrow has several gold teeth, two of which belong to Depp,<ref>{{cite video | title = Jack's Teeth/Johnny's Teeth | type = DVD | publisher=] |year=2006}}</ref> although they were applied during filming. Depp initially forgot to have them removed after shooting ''The Curse of the Black Pearl'',<ref>{{cite web|title=Depp's Golden Teeth |website=] |date=June 23, 2003 |url=https://www.imdb.com/news/wenn/2003-06-23#celeb5 |access-date=May 21, 2007 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130823081330/http://www.imdb.com/news/wenn/2003-06-23 |archive-date=August 23, 2013 }}</ref> and wore them throughout the shooting of the sequels.<ref name="depp gold"/> Like all aspects of Depp's performance, Disney initially expressed great concern over Depp's teeth.<ref name="writers chest">{{cite video | people = ], ] | title = Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest: Audio Commentary | type = DVD | publisher=] |year=2006}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite video | title = Jack's Beard | type = DVD | publisher=] |year=2006}}</ref> Sparrow has numerous tattoos,<ref name="world"/> and has been ] a pirate on his right arm by Cutler Beckett,<ref name="chest"/> underneath a tattoo of a sparrow.<ref name="curse"/> | |||
Depp collaborated with costume designer Penny Rose on his character's appearance, handpicking a ] 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.<ref name="hat">{{cite video | title = Jack's Hat | type = DVD | publisher=] |year=2006}}</ref> Depp liked to stick to one costume, wearing one lightweight silk tweed frock coat throughout the series,<ref>{{cite video | title = Jack's Pirate Coat | type = DVD | publisher=] |year=2006}}</ref> and he had to be coaxed out of wearing his boots for a version without a sole or heel in beach scenes.<ref>{{cite video | title = Jack's Boots | type = DVD | publisher=] |year=2006}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite video | title = Jack's Shirt | type = DVD | publisher=] |year=2006}}</ref> However, one remains which has been displayed in an exhibition of screen costumes in ], England.<ref>{{cite web |title=Starstruck: the Costumes |url=http://www.worcestercathedral.co.uk/media/List_of_costumes.pdf |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/5trR1H8jM?url=http://www.worcestercathedral.co.uk/media/List_of_costumes.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 30, 2010 |access-date=August 4, 2010 }}</ref> It was a nightmare for Rose to track down the same makers of Sparrow's sash in Turkey. Rose did not want to ] it, as the homewoven piece had the correct worn feel.<ref>{{cite video | title = Jack's Sash | type = DVD | publisher=] |year=2006}}</ref> Sparrow wears an additional belt in the sequels, because Depp liked a new buckle which did not fit with the original piece.<ref>{{cite video | title = Jack's Belt | type = DVD | publisher=] |year=2006}}</ref> | |||
Davy Jones declares their debt settled but is enraged when he discovers the Dead Man's Chest is empty, dropping to his knees and bellowing to the skies "Damn you, Jack Sparrow!!" | |||
Sparrow's weapons are genuine 18th-century pieces: his sword dates to the 1740s and his pistol is from the 1760s. Both were made in London.<ref name="epic"/><ref>{{cite video | title = Jack's Sword | type = DVD | publisher=] |year=2006}}</ref> Depp used two pistols on set, one of rubber. Both survived production of the first film.<ref>{{cite video | title = Jack's Pistol | type = DVD | publisher=] |year=2006}}</ref> Sparrow's magic compass also survived into the sequels, though director Gore Verbinski had a red arrow added to the dial as it became a more prominent prop. As it does not act like a normal compass, a magnet was used to make it spin.<ref>{{cite video | title = Jack's Compass | type = DVD | publisher=] |year=2006}}</ref> Sparrow wears four rings, two of which belong to Depp. Depp bought the green ring in 1989 and the gold ring is a replica of a 2400-year-old ring Depp gave to the crew, though the original was later stolen. The other two are props to which Depp gave backstories: the gold-and-black ring is stolen from a Spanish widow Sparrow seduced and the green dragon ring recalls his adventures in the Far East.<ref>{{cite video | title = Jack's Rings | type = DVD | publisher=] |year=2006}}</ref> Among Depp's additional ideas was the necklace made of human toes that Sparrow wears as the Pelegosto prepare to eat him,<ref>{{cite video | title = Jack's Cannibal Toe Necklace | type = DVD | publisher=] |year=2006}}</ref> and the sceptre was based on one a friend of Depp's owned.<ref>{{cite video | title = Jack's Cannibal Scepter | type = DVD | publisher=] |year=2006}}</ref> | |||
Meanwhile, Norrington delivers the heart and the ] to Lord Beckett, hoping to reclaim his career. Beckett now controls the world's oceans. | |||
During the course of the films, Sparrow undergoes physical transformations. In ''The Curse of the Black Pearl'', Sparrow curses himself to battle the undead Barbossa. Like all the actors playing the ''Black Pearl'' crew, Depp had to shoot scenes in costume as a reference for the animators, and his shots as a skeleton were shot again without him. Depp reprised the scene again on a ] stage.<ref name="epic"/> In ''At World's End'', Sparrow hallucinates a version of himself as a member of Davy Jones's crew, adhered to a wall and encrusted with barnacles. Verbinski oversaw that the design retained Sparrow's distinctive look,<ref>{{cite web|author=Scott Collura, Eric Moro |title=Designing At World's End |website=IGN |date=May 29, 2007 |url=http://uk.movies.ign.com/articles/792/792383p3.html |access-date=June 2, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120118153529/http://uk.movies.ign.com/articles/792/792383p3.html |archive-date=January 18, 2012 }}</ref> and rejected initial designs which portrayed him as over 100 years old.<ref>{{cite news|author=Drew McWeeny |title=AICN Exclusive! Pirates of the Caribbean 3 New Crew Member Designs! |publisher=] |date=April 27, 2007 |url=http://www.aintitcool.com/node/32457 |access-date=June 2, 2007 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070610063321/http://www.aintitcool.com/node/32457 |archive-date=June 10, 2007 |author-link=Drew McWeeny }}</ref> In Dead Men Tell No Tales, a young Jack Sparrow appears during a flashback sequence. | |||
The saddened crew make their way to Tia Dalma's hut. As she consoles them, she asks if they would be willing to sail to End of the World to bring back Sparrow and the his precious "Pearl", to which all agree. She says they will need a captain who knows those waters. Just then, the resurrected Captain Barbossa descends the stairs. | |||
==Fictional character biography== | |||
===''Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End''=== | |||
===Before the films=== | |||
{{main|Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End}} | |||
''Pirates of the Caribbean: The Complete Visual Guide'' gives a backstory to Jack Sparrow in which he was born on a pirate ship during a typhoon in the Indian Ocean and was trained to ] by an Italian.<ref>{{cite book | author=Richard Platt |author2=Glenn Dakin | title = Pirates of the Caribbean: The Complete Visual Guide | publisher=] | year = 2007 | pages = 12–15 | isbn = 978-0-7566-2676-1}}</ref> | |||
] | |||
In the film's theatrical traler, released in ], Will Turner, Elizabeth Swann, Barbossa, Tia Dalma, Pintel, Ragetti, and a large crew set out to rescue Jack Sparrow from Davy Jones' Locker. Sparrow wonders why he should join them; after all, he says, "four of you tried to kill me in the past—one of you succeeded." In an effort to save piracy as a way of life, "pirate Lords from the four corners of the Earth" gather for an epic battle against the East India Trading Company. Sparrow is shown escaping from Beckett by holding a rope attached by pulleys to a cannon that he fires off, and fighting Davy Jones in heavy rain. The trailer also includes a brief flash of Sparrow as a barnacle-encrusted member of Jones' crew. The film is set for release on ], ].<ref name="AWE_trailer">{{cite web | publisher=movies.yahoo.com | title=Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End at Yahoo! Movies | url=http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/piratesofthecaribbeanatworldsend.html | accessdate=21 March | accessyear=2007}}</ref> | |||
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Books following Jack Sparrow's adventures before the events of the film include a twelve-book series focusing on his teenage years entitled '']'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.goodreads.com/series/50050-pirates-of-the-caribbean-jack-sparrow |title=Pirates of the Caribbean: Jack Sparrow series |publisher=Goodreads |access-date=December 7, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141124122909/http://www.goodreads.com/series/50050-pirates-of-the-caribbean-jack-sparrow |archive-date=November 24, 2014 }}</ref> and a five-books '']'' series.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.goodreads.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=Pirates+of+the+Caribbean%3A+Legends+of+the+Brethren+Court | title = Pirates of the Caribbean: Legends of the Brethren Court | publisher = Goodreads | access-date = December 7, 2014 | archive-date = June 9, 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150609033529/http://www.goodreads.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=Pirates+of+the+Caribbean%3A+Legends+of+the+Brethren+Court | url-status = live }}</ref> | |||
==The character== | |||
===Appearance=== | |||
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Jack Sparrow has dark brown eyes and long, dark brown to black hair, which he wears mostly in ] and ]. He wears his facial hair in a ]-type style; the beard is fashioned into two long braids. Jack Sparrow wears dark eyeliner around his eyes which, according to Johnny Depp, serves the same purpose as the black marker sported by modern day American football players (to direct bright sunshine away from the eyes). He wears several strands of beads in his hair, a single ] draped over his ], a silver chain-link charm, and a reindeer shin bone needle. On the right side of Sparrow's jaw is an open wound, reminiscent of a scrape. For some unusual reason, as pointed out by ] in the DVD commentary for the first film, this wound never heals; Depp also implies that this may be ] (tertiary syphilis can also cause an ] gait<ref name="syphilis">{{cite web | publisher=merck.com | title=Syphilis: Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD): Merck Manual Professional | url=http://www.merck.com/mmpe/sec14/ch194/ch194i.html | accessdate=11 March | accessyear=2007}}</ref> similar to Sparrow's). | |||
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Sparrow's appearance has been altered slightly from film-to-film; (due to the fact that there were no more of the costumes left from the first film, pointed out on the second's bonus features) there are subtle color difference in his clothing, while other changes are more noticeable. His bandanna is dark red in the first film, although in the second and third installments it has a much more faded appearance, giving it a pink hue. | |||
The 2017 film, '']'', features a flashback with how "Jack the Sparrow" meets the ] Captain Armando Salazar. Sparrow was the helmsman aboard the ''Wicked Wench'', a pirate ship which may or may not be the ''Black Pearl'', under the command of Captain Morgan, who was killed in battle. In the flashback, as reminisced upon by Salazar, the ''Silent Mary'' attacked pirate ships in battle until Captain Morgan died aboard the ''Wicked Wench'', giving captaincy to young Sparrow. Sparrow outmaneuvers Salazar while being chased into the Devil's Triangle, in which the crew of the ''Wicked Wench'' throw ropes around nearby reefs off the port side and use the rigging to slingshot the ship in the opposite direction. Jack steers the ship through the reef, saving the crew and the ship by changing the ship's course at the last second. Afterward, on the deck of the ''Wicked Wench'', the crew rewards Sparrow with "tribute" and bestows Jack with his famous hat and other personal effects.<ref name="salazar"/> | |||
] wrote the Disney Publishing novel titled '']'', published in 2011, which focuses more on the films' continuity rather than the other prequel books, and follows Jack's adventures as a merchant captain for the ], which was hinted in ''At World's End'', due to Crispin reading the screenplay, though the scenes were deleted from the final cut of the film.<ref></ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://michaelaventrella.com/2011/07/01/interview-with-author-a-c-crispin/ | title=Interview with author A. C. Crispin | date=July 2011 }}</ref> Jack Sparrow captained the ] ''Wicked Wench'' for Cutler Beckett for about a year, hauling various cargoes, but he refused to haul slaves. Hoping to recruit Sparrow as one of his many "operatives", Beckett indulged what he regarded as an odd peccadillo of Sparrow's until he and the captain came to part ways. Beckett had dispatched Sparrow on a mission to find the lost island of Kerma, and the treasure at the heart of its underground labyrinth, but Sparrow double-crossed the EITC official and claimed he couldn't locate the island. Suspicious that Sparrow had indeed found the island and the treasure, but had not given him its accurate location, Beckett determined to browbeat the captain into obedience and demanded that the young captain transport a cargo of slaves to the New World. Initially, Sparrow agreed, but when he realized that he was betraying the ''Wicked Wench'', as well as himself, he rebelled and freed the slaves by taking them to Kerma for safe asylum. Furious that Sparrow had flouted his orders and stolen the "cargo" of "black gold", Beckett had Sparrow thrown into jail. After allowing him to languish for a couple of months, Beckett had Sparrow transported to the ''Wicked Wench''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s anchorage, about a mile from the coast of West Africa, near Calabar on the ]. After personally branding Sparrow with the "P" brand (so he'd be forever identifiable as a pirate), Cutler Beckett gave the order to fire incendiary carcass charges at the ''Wicked Wench'', to demoralize her captain. Sparrow fought his way free from his guards, dove overboard, and attempted to rescue his burning, foundering ship, but he was too late. The ''Wicked Wench'' turned into an inferno, then sank, taking Jack with her. But, while dying, Sparrow called upon ], and struck a bargain with him: his soul and one hundred years of service aboard the ''Flying Dutchman'', in return for continued human existence of thirteen years as captain, plus saving the ''Wicked Wench'' and transforming her into the fastest, most dangerous pirate ship on the seven seas. Jones agreed and raised the ship from the sea floor, now a charred vessel with an angel figurehead.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-04-11 |title=The Legend of the Black Pearl |url=https://www.pirateshowcancun.com/blog/famous-buccaneer-blaggards/legend-black-pearl/ |access-date=2022-06-09 |website=Pirate Show Cancun |language=en-US |archive-date=June 24, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230624041612/https://www.pirateshowcancun.com/blog/famous-buccaneer-blaggards/legend-black-pearl/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> In keeping with her scorched appearance, Jack painted his ship black and added black sails, rechristening her "the ''Black Pearl''".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4558004-pirates-of-the-caribbean |title=Pirates of the Caribbean: The Price of Freedom |publisher=Goodreads |access-date=December 7, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150609033536/http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4558004-pirates-of-the-caribbean |archive-date=June 9, 2015 }}</ref> | |||
Over his puffy white shirt, Sparrow wears a long waistcoat. This waistcoat is blue on the front and dark gray on the back, the back being shorter than the front. In the sequels, the waistcoat has been altered slightly adding a pinstripe pattern to the back. | |||
At some point, ] joins Jack Sparrow as his ]. The original backstory was that Jack recruited Barbossa and his cronies prior to the voyage to ].<ref name="writers curse"/> However, in the '']'' book series, Hector Barbossa was Sparrow's first mate in the quest for the Shadow Gold, where ] tasks them with securing seven vials of shadow gold to stop the evil ] from gaining total control over the seas by destroying the Brethren Court with his Shadow Army. Over the course of the novels, they are able to collect all vials shattered across the world by allying with or fighting against the other Pirate Lords. They are able to defeat the Shadow Lord with the combined efforts of all Pirate Lords, after which Jack wants to sail for ] to recruit a new crew. Barbossa offers him to handle that in his stead, implying that he recruited men with the intent to ] against his captain.<ref>'']'' "Epilogue"</ref> | |||
He also wears dark brown (dark gray in the first film) drop front ], which are tucked into his brown suede leather boots. | |||
Two years after his deal with Davy Jones,<ref name="chest"/> Jack Sparrow sailed the ''Black Pearl'' and used his magical compass in search of the mysterious Isla de Muerta with a new crew, where the legendary Treasure of ] was hidden. ] was already a member of Jack's crew, while the other crewmen, like ], were recruited in Tortuga. Jack was also the one who told his first mate Hector Barbossa and the rest of the crew about the curse that was upon the treasure, though nobody believed this ]. Captain and crew agreed to equal shares of the treasure, but devious first mate Barbossa persuaded Jack that equal shares included knowing the treasure's location. Jack complied, and soon after Barbossa led a ] and marooned Jack on an island with nothing but a pistol containing one shot. Although Jack was okay with Bootstrap Bill staying on board with Captain Barbossa, Jack hated Barbossa for having violated the Pirate's Code. Jack was able to escape after three days on the island and began his pursuit of the ''Black Pearl''. Within the next ten years, Jack learned of how Barbossa's crew found the ] gold and became cursed, despite not believing in the curse placed on it, as well as how they are trying to get all the gold back and add their blood to the chest.<ref name="writers curse"/> | |||
Sparrow has a leather ] with a silver ] buckle slung over his shoulder, which holds the ] for his black sabre. The color and buckle were changed from first film to the sequel. | |||
===Films=== | |||
His leather tricorne hat is medium brown. The back side of the hat is rolled up like a scroll. Sparrow also has a dark blue-grey frock coat. | |||
====''The Curse of the Black Pearl''==== | |||
{{Main|Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl}} | |||
Captain Jack Sparrow first appears in '']'' (2003). | |||
In his debut scene, Sparrow arrives in ], Jamaica on a sinking boat, seeking to commandeer a new ship. Despite rescuing ], the daughter of ], from drowning, he is jailed for ]. That night, a cursed ] ship called the '']'' attacks Port Royal and Elizabeth is kidnapped. The ''Black Pearl''{{'}}s ], ], desperately seeks one last gold coin to break an ancient ] curse that he and his crew are under. A ] named ] frees Sparrow to aid him in rescuing Elizabeth. They commandeer HMS ''Interceptor'' and recruit a motley crew in Tortuga, ] before heading to ], where Elizabeth is held. Along the way, Will learns that Sparrow was the ''Black Pearl''{{'}}s original captain until Barbossa led a mutiny ten years earlier and took over the ship, ] Sparrow on an island to die. Sparrow tells Turner that his father was a pirate known as "Bootstrap" Bill Turner.<ref name="curse">{{cite video | people = ] (director) | title = ] | type = Film | publisher=] |year=2003}}</ref> | |||
Four rings adorn Sparrow's hands. One is a skull ring with a green emerald on his right index finger. Another is a black onyx flower ring on his left ring finger. In Dead Man's Chest, he steals an oval amethyst ring from Tia Dalma's shack and places it on his left index finger, moving the silver oriental dragon ring to his left thumb. This ring appears to be the same one Captain Barbossa wore in ''Curse of the Black Pearl''. He also has two leather glove bands on his right middle and ring fingers which attach his leather glove. In Dead Man's Chest Jack also wears a piece of lace around his left wrist, a token from a woman he met. | |||
The rescue goes awry after Will betrays Sparrow, thinking Sparrow was going to betray him,<ref name="writers curse"/> and Barbossa later maroons Jack and Elizabeth on the same island upon which he had stranded Sparrow before. Elizabeth creates a signal fire from rum barrels and they are rescued by the ]. Sparrow cuts a deal with ] ] to lead Norrington to the ''Black Pearl''. Norrington refuses until Elizabeth, desperate to save Will, spontaneously accepts Norrington's earlier ]. Right before the film's climactic battle with the pirates at Isla de Muerta, Sparrow swipes a cursed coin from the treasure chest, making himself immortal and capable of dueling Barbossa. He shoots his nemesis with the pistol he has carried for ten years just as Will breaks the curse, killing Barbossa. Despite having assisted the Navy, Sparrow is sentenced to hang.<ref name="curse" /> | |||
Sparrow wears a red-striped sash and 2 belts around his waist. In the first film, only his compass is attached to his belt. In the second film, a second belt and more trinkets were added, such as a small animal skin, a chicken foot, an animal vertebrae, and a small red sculpture of a mermaid which serves as a fertility symbol. In the third film, a large tuft of gray hair has been added that is actually a shrunken voodoo head from the cannibal island. | |||
At Sparrow's execution in Port Royal, Will saves Sparrow, but they are quickly captured. Elizabeth intervenes, declaring her love for Will who is pardoned, while Sparrow escapes by tumbling off a sea wall. The ''Black Pearl'' and her new crew arrive in time to retrieve him, and he becomes captain once more. Impressed by the wily pirate, Norrington allows him one day's head start before giving chase.<ref name="curse"/> | |||
Sparrow sports a distinctive tattoo of a ] flying in front of a setting sun over the ocean on his right forearm. This is apparently a well-known identification mark of the infamous pirate as ] immediately recognized it. The letter "P" (for pirate) was also branded on his right wrist by the ]. While handling a red-hot '''P''' branding iron, Cutler Beckett tells ] that he and Sparrow each left their "mark" upon the other. Beckett branded Sparrow with the letter "P", but he refrains from saying just how Sparrow marked him. | |||
====''Dead Man's Chest''==== | |||
Interestingly, in a deleted scenes from the first film, Sparrow reveals a long jagged scar on his left forearm when Elizabeth questions his legend. However, in the second film (most noticeably as Sparrow hangs off the Pearl's rigging, bidding farewell to the Pelegostons), this scar is clearly missing. Having only existed in a deleted scene, this scar is non-canon. Also present during the deleted scene were two bullet-hole scars over his heart; it is unknown where/when he got these or how he survived. | |||
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{{Main|Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest}} | |||
A year following the events of the first film, Sparrow searches for the Dead Man's Chest, which contains the heart of ]. Thirteen years prior to the events of the film, Sparrow made a bargain with Jones to raise the sunken ''Black Pearl'' and make Sparrow captain for thirteen years. Now the debt is due, and Bootstrap Bill Turner warns that Sparrow must either serve one hundred years aboard the ''Flying Dutchman'', or be dragged to ] by the ]. Jack believes if he can find the Dead Man's Chest, he can free his soul as well as control Jones and the seas.<ref name="chest">{{cite video | people = ] (director) | title = ] | type = Film | publisher=] |year=2006}}</ref> | |||
Adding to Sparrow's woes, ] of the East India Trading Company has a personal score to settle and wants the chest himself. Beckett arrests Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann, forcing Turner to search for Sparrow and his magic compass. Turner locates Sparrow's crew on ], held captive by cannibals who intend to eat Sparrow. They escape, and voyage to ] (a magical woman later revealed to be the Goddess, Calypso, bound in human form as Dalma, and former lover of Jones). Dalma immediately sees destiny in Will, and provides Sparrow with a jar of dirt – Jones can only set foot on land once every 10 years, and since land is where Sparrow is safe, Dalma suggests with the dirt that he takes land with him.<ref name="chest"/> | |||
===Weapons and skill=== | |||
Average in height and build, Sparrow relies more on intelligence, agility, and quick wit to protect himself, rather than physical strength. Sparrow holds his own in duels by using a combination of acrobatic swordplay, trickery, and using any available object as a weapon. His trickery included pulling his flintlock on Turner to abruptly end their duel and exiting the three-way battle with Norrington and Turner by somersaulting himself off a roof. Sparrow is frequently disarmed, though the circumstances are seldom explained, and he prefers escape or negotiation to combat. | |||
Sparrow strikes a new deal with Jones to deliver one hundred souls in exchange for his own. Jones agrees but keeps Turner as a "good faith payment". Sparrow is recruiting sailors in Tortuga when he encounters Elizabeth Swann and James Norrington, the latter having succumbed to alcohol. Sparrow convinces Elizabeth that Turner can be freed by using the magic compass to find the chest. The duo head for ] and find Will, who escaped Jones's ship and has stolen the key to the Chest. Turner wants to stab Jones's heart and free his father from Jones's servitude, while Norrington plots to restore his career by delivering the heart to Beckett. Sparrow wants it to convince Jones to call off the Kraken.<ref name="chest"/> | |||
Jack often exhibits an unusual prancing gait when running and tends to flail his arms about. ] claims he based Sparrow's gait on a ] running over water. Hence, Jack's run is often referred to as 'the lizard run'. | |||
Norrington escapes with the heart amid a battle with Jones's crew, and Jones summons the Kraken. Realizing Sparrow is the target, Elizabeth traps him aboard the ''Black Pearl'' as the crew abandons the ship, and kisses him while she handcuffs him to the mast. Then, the monster devours Sparrow and drags the ship and his soul to Davy Jones's Locker. The surviving crew seeks refuge with Tia Dalma who produces a captain she says can rescue Sparrow: a resurrected Hector Barbossa.<ref name="chest"/> | |||
According to ''Pirates of the Caribbean: The Visual Guide'', Sparrow learned swordplay from an Italian fencing master in exchange for captured Chinese silk. He later trained himself to shoot by aiming at empty wine bottles tossed from the '']'s'' deck rail, and is presented as a skilled marksman. | |||
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====''At World's End''==== | ||
{{Main|Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End}} | |||
Sparrow's trademark physical characteristic is a slightly ]en swagger, accompanied by ] speech and awkwardly flailing hand gestures that make him appear unfocused. | |||
Two months following the events of the second film, with Davy Jones's heart in his possession and the ''Flying Dutchman'' under his command, Cutler Beckett begins exterminating all pirates. To combat Beckett, the nine pirate lords of the ] convene at Shipwreck Cove. Only Jack Sparrow is missing, killed and sent to Davy Jones's Locker at the end of the previous film. Sparrow, as Pirate Lord of the Caribbean, must attend, as he did not bequeath to a designated heir his "]", a pirate lord's marker. The collective "nine pieces of eight" are needed to free sea goddess ] to defeat Beckett. With Elizabeth and Will, Barbossa leads Sparrow's crew to Davy Jones's Locker using stolen navigational charts from the pirate lord ]. After the crew locate him, Sparrow deciphers a clue on the charts allowing them to escape the Locker.<ref name="world">{{cite video | people = ] (director) | title = ] | type = Film | publisher=] |year=2007}}</ref> | |||
At the Brethren Court, Elizabeth has succeeded Captain Sao Feng as a Pirate Lord and is elected "Pirate King" after Sparrow breaks a stalemate vote. Sparrow is briefly reunited with his father, Captain Teague. During a ] with Beckett and Jones, Sparrow is traded for Turner, whom Jones and Beckett had captured. The ''Black Pearl'' battles the ''Flying Dutchman'' during a maelstrom created by Calypso, during which Sparrow fights Jones for the chest so that he may acquire Jones' heart to become immortal. When Jones mortally wounds Turner, Sparrow instead chooses to save Turner by helping him stab the heart, which kills Jones and makes Turner the ''Dutchman''{{'}}s captain. Together, the ''Pearl'' and the ''Dutchman'' destroy Beckett's ship. At the end, Barbossa again commandeers the ''Pearl'' and Sao Feng's charts, stranding Sparrow and Gibbs in Tortuga. However, Sparrow had managed to cut out the navigational section of the charts and with them begins to search for the legendary ].<ref name="world"/> | |||
===Rum=== | |||
Sparrow is particularly fond of ]. After Barbossa maroons Sparrow and Elizabeth on the deserted island, Elizabeth burns the cache of smugglers' rum to create a smoke signal. Sparrow is so outraged that he asks Elizabeth, "Why is the rum gone?" Following her explanation, he asks the question again, briefly pulls out his pistol while her back is turned, then thinks better of it and storms off. However, when Commodore Norrington spots the smoky cloud and rescues them, Sparrow grouses to himself, "There'll be no living with her after this." While aboard the ''Dauntless'', Elizabeth accepts a previous marriage proposal made by Commodore Norrington. Upon hearing this, Sparrow exclaims "Wedding?! I love weddings! Drinks all around!" | |||
====''On Stranger Tides''==== | |||
When Elizabeth boards the ''Pearl'' in ], Sparrow turns and whispers to Gibbs, "Hide the rum," as if fearing she will try to get rid of it. In another nod to his fondness for the drink, upon finding his bottle of rum empty, Sparrow groans, "Why is the rum always gone?" Standing up, he staggers a bit and mutters, "Oh, that's why." | |||
{{Main|Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides}} | |||
Prior to the events of the film, Jack Sparrow gained some renown as the pirate who knew and memorized the Fountain of Youth's location. In the film, Joshamee Gibbs was put on trial in London until Sparrow himself arrived to rescue him as a disguised ] at the ] courthouse. However, they are captured at ]. Jack is dragged into a forced audience with ], who wants Sparrow to guide an expedition to the Fountain. Hector Barbossa, now a ] in the service to the British with a ], reveals to Jack that he lost his leg and the ''Black Pearl'', which he believes to be sunk. Jack Sparrow escapes and crosses paths with a "Jack Sparrow" impostor, ], a woman from Sparrow's past and ruthless ]. Angelica ] Jack aboard the '']'', the ship captained by ]. | |||
When Sparrow is visited by "Bootstrap Bill" Turner at the beginning of ''Dead Man's Chest'', he wonders aloud if it is merely a dream; when Turner replies that it is not, Sparrow resignedly sighs, "I thought not. If it were, there'd be rum." In response, Turner offers a bottle that Sparrow has to pry from his barnacle-encrusted hand. | |||
<ref name="stranger">{{cite video | people = ] (director) | title = ] | type = Film | publisher=] |year=2011}}</ref> | |||
Angelica tells Jack she is conning about being Blackbeard's daughter, though later revealed she was telling the truth, and that Blackbeard wanting to find the Fountain to avoid a prophesied death. Although Jack incites a ], saving the ] named ] and fighting ] ]s, Blackbeard himself subdues the mutineers, using a sword that controls ships, a power that Jack's crew of mutineers are unaware of. Blackbeard also practices voodoo magic and fashions a ] to bend Jack Sparrow to his will. Jack learns from Angelica that the ritual for the Fountain requires a ]'s tear and two silver ]s located on Ponce de León's ship, the ''Santiago'', and the person who drinks the water with the tear gets all the years of life from the other. Angelica also shows Jack Blackbeard's collection of ], including the ''Black Pearl''. After capturing the mermaid ] at Whitecap Bay, Blackbeard sends Jack to get the chalices, taking his compass and threatening his own daughter at gunpoint. Aboard the ''Santiago'', Jack meets Barbossa, but both find that the chalices have been taken by the Spanish. Before retrieving the chalices, Barbossa reveals his true agenda: ] against Blackbeard for the attack on the ''Black Pearl'', which Barbossa truly believes to be sunk,{{efn|Screenwriter ] released his unproduced screenplay for '']'' (2017), which includes additional information in extensive footnotes.<ref name="Terry Rossio Dead Men Tell No Tales"></ref> Pertaining to ''On Stranger Tides'', Rossio notes that Jack and Barbossa were each conning the other, while not knowing they were at the same time being conned. Barbossa does not know that the ''Black Pearl'' in a bottle, and Jack does not know the importance of Blackbeard's sword.}} which led to cutting off his leg via ]. Jack returns to give Blackbeard the chalices in exchange for Angelica's safety and Jack's compass, which Jack sends Gibbs off with.<ref name="stranger"/> | |||
===Crimes=== | |||
In ''The Curse of the Black Pearl'', Sparrow was given a ] for numerous crimes, including ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ] and ] ] of the ] and ]. He also was convicted of impersonating a ] of the ], to which Sparrow reacted with amusement when the charge was read aloud. Notably, violent crimes such as ] and ] are not among the charges, indicating Sparrow retains some sense of justice and morality (however skewed). | |||
After locating the Fountain of Youth, a battle ensues until Angelica cuts her hand trying to remove Barbossa's ] sword from Blackbeard's chest. Jack receives the chalices from Syrena, who tells him to not waste her tear. Filling the chalices with the remaining drops of water from the Fountain, Jack tricks Blackbeard into drinking the chalice lacking the mermaid's tear. Despite Blackbeard choosing to murder her so he can live, Angelica is mad at Jack about her father's death. Acknowledging their feelings for one another, Jack maroons Angelica with on a small island named Sola Fide Beach, unsure if he can trust her. Angered, Angelica then uses the one shot from her pistol to kill Jack as he rows away, but misses. Jack reunites with Gibbs, who used Sparrow's compass to locate and retrieved the shrunken ''Black Pearl''. Though he has forfeited his opportunity for immortality, Sparrow tells Gibbs he's settling for being famous as the one who found the Fountain of Youth and determined to continue living the pirate's life. Following the film's end credits, the Jack Sparrow voodoo doll drifted to the island that Angelica is marooned on.<ref name="stranger"/> | |||
===Traits=== | |||
Sparrow is a decent, if self-serving, man who adheres to the "Pirates' Code." He believes pirates can still be "good men," which was his evaluation of "Bootstrap" Bill Turner. Unusually ] for a pirate, Sparrow will risk himself to save others, most notably Will and Elizabeth. In the first film, it's implied that Sparrow's benevolence is one of the reasons his crew mutinied him. | |||
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====''Dead Men Tell No Tales''==== | |||
As often as Sparrow saves Elizabeth and Will, however, he also tricks them to serve his own purposes and even offers up Will to Davy Jones in exchange for himself. In a weak moment of cowardice, he deserts his ship and crew to save himself from the Kraken. However, after checking his compass, he chooses to return and saves his shipmates. What or who the magical compass was pointing towards is not established. | |||
{{Main|Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales}} | |||
Prior to the events of the film, Jack Sparrow's rival Hector Barbossa has become the richest and most powerful pirate of the seven seas, commanding a fleet of ten ships. Meanwhile, Jack has the ''Black Pearl'' still trapped in a bottle. Sparrow's new ship the ''Dying Gull'' has never left berth, and his latest plans have met with failure.<ref name="salazar">{{cite video | people = ] and ] (directors) | title = Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales | type = Film | publisher=] |year=2017}}</ref> | |||
Sparrow is also known for using his supposedly legendary status to create fantastic tales of his former escapades. When Gibbs is relating to Will the story of Sparrow escaping a deserted island by catching a couple of sea turtles and roping them together to make a raft, Will asks what he used for rope. When Gibbs cannot answer, Sparrow chimes in, "Human hair... from my back." Later, when Sparrow, Elizabeth, and Norrington are surprised by Will at Isla Cruces, Sparrow asked how he got there. Will sarcastically says he roped together a couple of sea turtles into a raft, to which Sparrow replies, "Not so easy, is it?" | |||
Sparrow and his crew attempt to rob the new bank of ]. The robbery is a success, but all the gold in it had fallen while they were dragging the locker, and Sparrow's crew abandons him. Despondent, Jack trades his magical compass for a drink. However, this betrayal of the compass releases an old enemy, who holds a serious grudge against Sparrow; the ruthless ]ly pirate hunter Captain Armando Salazar. Years previously, Jack had defeated Salazar by tricking him into sailing his ship into the Devil's Triangle, where Salazar and his crew were cursed to live as the undead. Salazar states that Jack perched in the ship's rigging like a "little bird", earning him the name "Jack the Sparrow".<ref name="salazar"/> | |||
In the video game "The Legend of Jack Sparrow", his ]s include the valiant rescue of Port Royal from the Black Pearl (Will Turner points out that Sparrow was locked up that entire time), a crew of cursed pirates surrendering to him on reputation alone (he actually was captured and barely escaped alive), and the depiction of various characters as fawning servants (Turner and Elizabeth Swann both dispute how Sparrow quotes them in his tales). | |||
While in prison, Jack is contacted by Henry Turner, the son of Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann, who asks for aid in finding the Trident of Poseidon, as both are in need of its power to break curses related to the sea. The Trident could help save Sparrow from Salazar's revenge and free Will from the ''Flying Dutchman''. Remembering Will and Elizabeth, expressing some hesitation, Jack agrees. The next day, Sparrow is sentenced to be executed by ] (by Jack's accidental choosing), but is rescued by his crew. Aided by aspiring astronomer Carina, Jack and Henry attempt to locate the Trident of Poseidon. Barbossa releases the ''Pearl'' from its bottle, giving them a chance to outrun Salazar. Jack and Barbossa discuss the fact that Carina is Hector's long-lost daughter, whom he had left at an orphanage in order to give her a chance for a better life. Jack attempts to use the secret to ] Barbossa, but fails.<ref name="salazar"/> | |||
In the writer's DVD commentary for Dead Man's Chest, screenwriters ] and ] state that, in a deleted scene, it is claimed that Sparrow single-handedly fought two hundred soldiers to a standstill at Port Royal, then grabbed two ] and jumped off a cliff to make his escape. | |||
They are able to track the Trident to its resting place. Though Salazar nearly kills Jack, they are able to destroy the Trident. With the destruction of the Trident, Salazar and his crew become mortal again. Jack, Henry and Carina escape as Barbossa sacrifices himself to kill Salazar. Despite their differences, Jack mourns Barbossa's death. Later, Jack watches Will and Elizabeth's reunion before he departs, sailing with the ''Black Pearl'' and his compass once again in his possession.<ref name="salazar"/> | |||
Sparrow considers himself a ladies' man, explaining that he has a "tremendous intuitive sense of the female creature." However, he is seemingly unable to commit to a long-term relationship, although Elizabeth appears to be the first woman he is unable to forget. Interestingly, in the novelization of the second film, Sparrow tells Elizabeth that marriage is "like a wager to see who will fall out of love first." As a youth, he unsuccessfully flirted with deadly mermaids and with Arabella, a crewmate on the 'Barnacle'. A mature Sparrow is more adept at sweeping ladies off their feet, although his conquests seem to have a sour memory of him; former flames Giselle and Scarlett slap him or anyone looking for him. However, ], with whom Sparrow apparently has a history, is rather pleased to see him when he visits her, although his anxiety over their impending reunion indicates they may have parted on less than good terms. | |||
==Characterization== | |||
Sparrow apparently suffers from ]. Commodore Norrington took a step back when Sparrow got a little too close, and Governor Swann nearly gagged when face-to-face with him. When Sparrow attempts to romantically approach Elizabeth during ''Dead Man's Chest'', she notes their various differences, including "personal hygiene." However, she seems unaffected by Sparrow's breath during later close encounters with him. | |||
According to screenwriters Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, Sparrow is a ] who uses wit and deceit to attain his goals, preferring to end disputes verbally instead of by force.<ref name="iconic">{{cite news |title=Pirates Dead Man's Chest: Depp's Iconic Role |publisher=Emanuel Levy |year=2006 |url=http://www.emanuellevy.com/article.php?articleID=2688 |access-date=May 31, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927184450/http://www.emanuellevy.com/article.php?articleID=2688 |archive-date=September 27, 2007 }}</ref><ref name="DMCPressKit"></ref><ref></ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://collider.com/terry-rossio-interview-pirates-caribbean-4-on-stranger-tides/74250/ |title=Terry Rossio Interview PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN 4: ON STRANGER TIDES {{!}} Collider |website=] |access-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-date=November 26, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121126170214/http://collider.com/terry-rossio-interview-pirates-caribbean-4-on-stranger-tides/74250/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> He walks with a slightly drunken swagger and has slurred speech and flailing hand gestures. Sparrow is shrewd, calculating, and eccentric. He fools Norrington and his crew to set sail on the royal ship ''Interceptor'', which compels the admiration of Lieutenant Groves as he concedes: "That's got to be the best pirate I have ever seen". Norrington himself acquiesces to this praise: "So it would seem", in sharp contrast to his earler assertion: "You are without doubt the worst pirate I have ever heard of". In the third film, while Sparrow leaves Beckett's ship stranded and makes off, Lieutenant Groves asks: "Do you think he plans it all out, or just makes it up as he goes along?"<ref name="world"/> Jack also tricks Blackbeard into saving his daughter by switching places the two chalices required to use the fountain of youth.<ref name=":0">'']''</ref> | |||
Though a skilled swordsman, Sparrow prefers to use his superior intelligence during combat, exploiting his environment to turn the tables on his foes, reasoning "Why fight when you can negotiate?" and using non-violent negotiation to turn his enemies against each other.<ref name="chest"/> He invokes parleys and tempts his enemies away from their murderous intentions, encouraging them to see the bigger picture, as when he persuades Barbossa to delay returning to mortal form so he can battle the Royal Navy.<ref name="curse"/> He often uses complex wordplay and vocabulary to confound his enemies,<ref name="curse"/><ref name="chest"/> and it is suggested that his pacifism may be one reason Barbossa and the crew of the ''Black Pearl'' mutinied.<ref name="curse"/> | |||
===Catchphrases=== | |||
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Sparrow's most commonly used words and phrases include "savvy?" ("Understand?"), and "]" when something does not go according to plan. He makes repeated references to using someone or something as "leverage" and to waiting for "the opportune moment". "That's interesting," is used frequently as well, often as a gross understatement. | |||
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The character is portrayed as having created, or at least contributed to, his own reputation. When Gibbs tells Will that Sparrow escaped from a desert island by strapping two ]s together, Sparrow embellishes the story by claiming the rope was made of hair from his own back, while in reality, Sparrow escaped the island by bartering with rum traders. The video game '']'' bases itself on these ]s, including the sacking of ] port without firing a shot.<ref name="curse"/> Depp has likened pirates to rock stars in that their fame preceded them.<ref name="iconic"/> Sparrow insists on being addressed as "Captain"<ref name="curse"/> and often gives the farewell, "This is the day you will always remember as the day that you ''almost'' caught Captain Jack Sparrow!" which proclamation is sometimes humorously cut short.<ref name="curse"/><ref name="chest"/> When Norrington accuses him of being the worst pirate he has ever heard of, Sparrow replies, "But you ''have'' heard of me."<ref name="curse"/> In a deleted scene from ''The Curse of the Black Pearl'' Sparrow ponders being "the immortal Captain Jack Sparrow",<ref>{{cite video | title = The Immortal Captain Jack | type = DVD | publisher=] |year=2003}}</ref> and during ''At World's End'' he again is interested in immortality, although his father, Captain Teague, warns it can be a terrible curse. Sparrow ponders being "Captain Jack Sparrow, the last pirate," as the East India Trading Company purges piracy.<ref name="world"/> The topic of immortality is brought up again during ''On Stranger Tides,'' when Jack says "But better to not know which moment may be your last, every morsel of your entire being alive to the infinite mystery of it all".<ref name=":0" /> | |||
Sparrow uses seemingly educated terms that are in fact nonsensical to the context. At the conclusion of ''The Curse of the Black Pearl'', he utters the line, "I think we've all arrived at a very special place, eh? ''Spiritually, ecumenically... grammatically''". In ''Dead Man's Chest'' he tells Will, "Because the finding of this finds you ''incapacitorially'' finding and/or locating in your discovering the detecting of a way to save your dolly belle, ol' what's-her-face. Savvy?" Others react to such remarks with confusion, to which Sparrow often appears pleased. | |||
Despite his many heroics, Sparrow is a pirate and a morally ambiguous character.<ref name="success"/> When agreeing to trade 100 souls, including Will, to Davy Jones in exchange for his freedom, Jones asks Sparrow whether he can "condemn an innocent man—a ''friend''—to a lifetime of servitude in your name while you roam free?" After a hesitation Sparrow merrily replies, "Yep! I'm good with it!"<ref name="chest"/> He carelessly runs up debts with ],<ref name="curse"/> Davy Jones, and the other pirate lords.<ref name="world"/> Sao Feng, pirate lord of ], is particularly hateful towards him.<ref name="world"/> In a cowardly moment, Sparrow abandons his crew during the Kraken's attack, but underlying loyalty and morality compel him to return and save them.<ref>''Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest'' comic book adaptation, ], 2006</ref> Sparrow claims to be a man of his word,<ref name="curse"/> and expresses surprise that people doubt his truthfulness.<ref name="chest"/> There is no murder on his criminal record.<ref name="curse"/><ref name="crimes">{{cite web|title=Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End |publisher=Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End Official Website |url=http://pirates.disney.com/pirates-of-the-caribbean-at-worlds-end |access-date=May 31, 2007 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019173126/http://pirates.disney.com/pirates-of-the-caribbean-at-worlds-end |archive-date=October 19, 2013 }}</ref> He is shown to genuinely care about his allies and even people he doesn't know. He genuinely cared for Angelica, and even admits to her at the end of the film that he does love her, and even saves Phillip Swift, a missionary trapped on Blackbeard's ship whom he had never met before.<ref name=":0" /> | |||
"I'm Captain Jack Sparrow", is also used by him as a simple explanation of his cunning craftiness. When Barbossa asks how he escaped from the island he stranded him on, Sparrow responds, "When you marooned me on that God-forsaken spit of land, you forgot one very important thing, mate: I'm Captain Jack Sparrow." | |||
Depp partly based the character on ], a ] ] from '']''.<ref name="depp gold"/> Sparrow claims to have a "tremendous intuitive sense of the female creature,"<ref name="chest"/> although his conquests are often left with a sour memory of him. Former flames, Scarlett and Giselle, usually slap him<ref name="curse"/> or anyone looking for him.<ref name="chest"/> Likewise, Angelica claims that Jack "seduced her and used her".<ref name=":0" /> His witty charm easily attracts women, and even has Elizabeth questioning her feelings.<ref name="chest"/> Verbinski noted phallic connotations in Sparrow's relationship with his vessel, as he grips the ].<ref name="depp commentary"/> The ''Black Pearl'' is described as "the only ship which can outrun the ''Flying Dutchman''".<ref name="world"/> The ] overtones continue in the third film when Sparrow and Barbossa battle for captaincy of the ''Black Pearl'', showing off the length of their telescopes, and in a deleted scene, they fight over the steering wheel.<ref>{{cite video | people = ] | title = Two Captains, One Ship audio commentary | type = DVD | publisher=] |year=2007}}</ref> Sparrow claims his "first and only love is the sea,"<ref name="chest"/> and describes his ship as representing freedom.<ref name="curse"/> Davy Jones's Locker is represented as a desert, symbolizing his personal hell.<ref name="writers chest"/> | |||
As an endnote, Sparrow frequently says, "This is the day you will always remember as the day you ''almost'' caught ''Captain'' Jack Sparrow". Twice in the first two films, the line is cut off to comedic effect; the only time he manages to complete the line, he is knocked out and arrested shortly after. He also attempts to use this line in the second movie when escaping Pelogosto natives. However, is cut off by a wave crashing against the ship. | |||
According to writer ], Jack Sparrow was inspired by the seventeenth-century ] pirate ].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Milton |first1=Giles |author-link=Giles Milton |title=Pirate John Ward: the real Captain Jack Sparrow |url=https://www.historyextra.com/period/elizabethan/pirate-john-ward-the-real-captain-jack-sparrow/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210118143525/https://www.historyextra.com/period/elizabethan/pirate-john-ward-the-real-captain-jack-sparrow/ |archive-date=January 18, 2021 |access-date=December 20, 2020 |website=HistoryExtra |publisher=BBC History Revealed}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Breverton |first1=Terry |title=A Gross of Pirates: From Alfhild the Shield Maiden to Afweyne the Big Mouth |date=December 15, 2018 |publisher=Amberley Publishing Limited |isbn=9781445682938 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SLCIDwAAQBAJ&q=jack+sparrow+jack+ward&pg=PT81 |access-date=February 14, 2021 |archive-date=May 18, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210518180350/https://books.google.com/books?id=SLCIDwAAQBAJ&q=jack+sparrow+jack+ward&pg=PT81 |url-status=live }}</ref> He was also based on ].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://study.com/academy/lesson/film-adaptations-of-treasure-island.html |access-date=2025-01-12 |website=study.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=An Interview with Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, writers of Pirates of the Caribbean |url=https://dvdizzy.com/pirates-tedandterry-interview.html |access-date=2025-01-12 |website=dvdizzy.com}}</ref> | |||
Sparrow often uses "]" as an insult. During his first duel with Will Turner, he asks him if he is one, given his penchant for practicing long hours with swords rather than courting ladies. In an effort to hide Will's identity, Sparrow tells Barbossa—and later Davy Jones—that Will has a "lovely singing voice" and is a soprano (making oblique reference to ]). While addressing the Pelogosto natives about the hog-tied Will, he refers to him by saying, "Eunuchy, snip-snip." | |||
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When ''Dead Man's Chest'' grossed over {{Nowrap|$1 billion}} worldwide, Ian Nathan attributed this to Sparrow's popularity: "''Pirates'', the franchise, only had to turn up. There was a powerful holdover from the cheeky delights of its debut, something we hadn't felt since the ] called it a day."<ref>{{cite magazine | author=Ian Nathan | page = 176 | magazine=] | title = How Pirates' feckless hero won over the fans before he even showed up | date = October 27, 2006}}</ref> '']'' in 2006 declared Depp's performance the seventy-fourth "thing that rocked our world" and later named him the eighth greatest movie character of all time.<ref>{{cite magazine | title = 200 things that rocked our world | page = 118 | magazine=] | date = January 2, 2006}}</ref> In 2015, a new poll of the 100 greatest film characters of all time placed him as the fourteenth greatest.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/100-greatest-movie-characters/ |title=100 Greatest Movie Characters |date=November 4, 2015 |work=Empire |access-date=April 1, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160329121320/http://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/100-greatest-movie-characters/ |archive-date=March 29, 2016 }}</ref> A survey of more than 3,000 people showed Jack Sparrow was the most popular ] costume of 2006,<ref>{{cite news | title = Captain Jack Sparrow top pick for 2006 Most Popular Halloween Costume | publisher=Extreme Halloween Network | date = October 17, 2006 | url = http://www.anniescostumes.com/popularhalloweencostumes2006.htm | access-date=June 2, 2007 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070606083704/http://www.anniescostumes.com/popularhalloweencostumes2006.htm <!--Added by H3llBot--> | archive-date = June 6, 2007}}</ref> and a 2007 poll held by the ] showed Sparrow to be the second most popular live action hero after ].<ref>{{cite web|title=From this list of live-action heroes, who is your favorite? |website=] |date=June 3, 2007 |url=https://www.imdb.com/poll/results/2007-06-03 |access-date=June 3, 2007 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130823083329/http://www.imdb.com/poll/results/2007-06-03 |archive-date=August 23, 2013 }}</ref> In a 2007 ] poll, Jack Sparrow was listed as Depp's most popular performance.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://people.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1307679.php |title=Johnny Depp's great Captain role |magazine=] |date=May 22, 2007 |access-date=June 4, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070901125559/http://people.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1307679.php |archive-date=September 1, 2007 }}</ref> | |||
Sparrow carries a number of items on his person at all times, which he collectively calls "my effects". They include his pistol, sword, coat and ] hat, and an unusual compass. Oddly, he does not seem to feel the term "my effects," includes the hat, which he always specifies separately (see below). | |||
Todd Gilchrist feels Sparrow is the only element of the films that will remain timeless.<ref>{{cite web|author=Todd Gilchrist |url=http://uk.movies.ign.com/articles/791/791309p1.html |title=Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End |website=IGN |date=May 24, 2007 |access-date=May 24, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070811175521/http://uk.movies.ign.com/articles/791/791309p1.html |archive-date=August 11, 2007 }}</ref> According to Sharon Eberson, the character's popularity can be attributed to his being a "scoundrel whose occasional bouts of conscience allow viewers to go with the flaws because, as played to the larger-than-life hilt by Depp, he owns every scene he is in".<ref>{{cite news|author=Sharon Eberson |title=Jack Sparrow joins a unique line of iconic characters |newspaper=Post Gazette |date=May 24, 2007 |url=http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07144/788381-254.stm |access-date=June 2, 2007 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070526080117/http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07144/788381-254.stm |archive-date=May 26, 2007 }}</ref> Film history professor Jonathan Kuntz attributed Sparrow's popularity to the increased questioning of masculinity in the 21st century, and Sparrow's personality contrasts with action-adventure heroes in cinema. ] concurs that Sparrow has a carefree attitude and does not take himself seriously.<ref>{{cite news |author=Sandy Cohen |title=Depp's Captain Jack Sparrow smashes enduring cinematic mold of swashbuckling seafarers |agency=Associated Press |date=May 25, 2007 |url=http://www.themonitor.com/entertainment/pirate-2623-pirates-sparrow.html |access-date=July 30, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928050838/http://www.themonitor.com/entertainment/pirate-2623-pirates-sparrow.html |archive-date=September 28, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Mark Fox noted Sparrow is an escapist fantasy figure for women, free from much of the responsibility of most heroes.<ref>{{cite news|author=Mark Fox |title=Besting Jack Sparrow |publisher=Crave Online |date=May 24, 2007 |url=http://www.craveonline.com/articles/humor/04647967/besting_jack_sparrow.html |access-date=June 4, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080103054857/http://www.craveonline.com/articles/humor/04647967/besting_jack_sparrow.html |archive-date=January 3, 2008 }}</ref> Sparrow is listed by '']'' as one of their ten favorite film outlaws, as he "lives for himself and the freedom to do whatever it is that he damn well pleases. Precious few film characters have epitomized what makes the outlaw such a romantic figure for audiences as Captain Jack Sparrow has."<ref>{{cite web|title=Top Ten Movie Outlaws |website=IGN |date=September 19, 2007 |url=http://www.ign.com/articles/2007/09/19/top-ten-movie-outlaws |access-date=September 22, 2007 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121030074221/http://www.ign.com/articles/2007/09/19/top-ten-movie-outlaws |archive-date=October 30, 2012 }}</ref> '']'' put it on its end-of-the-decade, "best-of" list, saying, "Part Keith Richards rift, part sozzled lounge lizard, Johnny Depp's swizzleshtick pirate was definitely one of the most dazzling characters of the decade."<ref>Geier, Thom; Jensen, Jeff; Jordan, Tina; Lyons, Margaret; Markovitz, Adam; Nashawaty, Chris; Pastorek, Whitney; Rice, Lynette; Rottenberg, Josh; Schwartz, Missy; Slezak, Michael; Snierson, Dan; Stack, Tim; Stroup, Kate; Tucker, Ken; Vary, Adam B.; Vozick-Levinson, Simon; Ward, Kate (December 11, 2009), "The 100 Greatest Movies, TV Shows, Albums, Books, Characters, Scenes, Episodes, Songs, Dresses, Music Videos, and Trends That Entertained Us over the Past 10 Years". Entertainment Weekly. (1079/1080):74–84</ref> In June 2010, Sparrow was named one of ''Entertainment Weekly''{{'s}} ''100 Greatest Characters of the Last 20 Years''.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=The 100 Greatest Characters of the Last 20 Years: Here's our full list! |url=http://ew.com/article/2010/06/01/100-greatest-characters-of-last-20-years-full-list/ |magazine=] |publisher=] |access-date=July 7, 2012 |author=Adam B. Vary |date=June 1, 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150214081853/http://www.ew.com/article/2010/06/01/100-greatest-characters-of-last-20-years-full-list |archive-date=February 14, 2015 }}</ref> In the ], a voter gained media coverage when he "voted" for Jack Sparrow by writing his name on the ] ballot.<ref>{{Cite web |last=IEFIMERIDA.GR |first=NEWSROOM |date=2012-05-07 |title=Ψηφοφόρος από τη Ρόδο ψήφισε τον Τζακ Σπάροου στο Κόμμα των Πειρατών! |url=https://www.iefimerida.gr/news/49337/%CF%88%CE%B7%CF%86%CE%BF%CF%86%CF%8C%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%82-%CE%B1%CF%80%CF%8C-%CF%84%CE%B7-%CF%81%CF%8C%CE%B4%CE%BF-%CF%88%CE%AE%CF%86%CE%B9%CF%83%CE%B5-%CF%84%CE%BF%CE%BD-%CF%84%CE%B6%CE%B1%CE%BA-%CF%83%CF%80%CE%AC%CF%81%CE%BF%CE%BF%CF%85-%CF%83%CF%84%CE%BF-%CE%BA%CF%8C%CE%BC%CE%BC%CE%B1-%CF%84%CF%89%CE%BD-%CF%80%CE%B5%CE%B9%CF%81%CE%B1%CF%84%CF%8E%CE%BD |access-date=2023-08-28 |website=iefimerida.gr |language=el}}</ref> | |||
His sword is a ] (a 17th and 18th century style of ]) rather than a ], the weapon preferred by most cinematic pirates. The sabre's longer blade allows him to keep his enemies a few inches further away than a cutlass. | |||
An internet hoax about a ] on the now-defunct ] platform called ''Jack Sparrow House'' gained traction in the early 2020s. The program supposedly featured fourteen Jack Sparrow impersonators living in a house together, with them being eliminated if they broke character. The hoax included a detailed Misplaced Pages article, which was eventually deleted.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-12-01 |title=Some Evil Genius Made The Internet Think There's A Quibi Show About Jack Sparrow Impersonators |url=https://junkee.com/jack-sparrow-house-quibi-show/280653 |access-date=2022-08-04 |website=Junkee |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="Snopes">{{Cite web |last=Evon|first=Dan|title=Did 'Jack Sparrow House' Air on Quibi? |url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/jack-sparrow-house-quibi/ |date= November 30, 2020|access-date=August 4, 2022|website=Snopes |language=en-US}}</ref> ] said that comedian Rory Strahan-Mauk was behind it, and that a photo claiming to be of the contestants were actually fans attending the Tokyo premiere of ''Dead Men Tell No Tales''.<ref name="Snopes"/> | |||
In ''The Curse of the Black Pearl'', Sparrow carries a single barreled pistol given to him by Barbossa when he maroons him, apparently so he can commit suicide. The weapon was made by and bears the name of a gunsmith named "Perry." He only uses the pistol at the film's end, having saved his only shot to kill Captain Barbossa. During his escape from the Turkish prison in ''Dead Man's Chest'', he carries a double-barreled pistol. He later returns to his original, single barreled variant, using it to prove to ] that ] is undead after being shot. | |||
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After his compass, Sparrow's most prized possession is his hat. He is rarely seen without it, and he always mentions it when discussing his effects. When Sparrow orders the ship to head for land to escape the Kraken, his hat is tossed overboard by Jack the monkey. A panicked Sparrow commands it be left behind, which so surprises the crew they are literally struck motionless. The hat, which is unwittingly picked up by nearby Turkish fishermen, is eaten by the ] when it attacks the wrong ship. Sparrow spends the entire film searching for a suitable replacement and even walks through a pub fight trying on the brawlers' tricornes. He eventually regains his own hat when it is regurgitated by the Kraken as it is about to devour him. Covered in mucus, he merely shakes it off and puts it back on before drawing his sabre and attacking the monster. | |||
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Jack Sparrow appears in ] and books spun off the ''Pirates of the Caribbean'' ]. Some notable ''Pirates'' video games in which Jack Sparrow appears as a playable character in include '']'', voiced by Johnny Depp, '']'', voiced by Jared Butler, and '']'', with archive audio of Johnny Depp's vocal effects.{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}} Jack was one of the first playable characters in the '']'' series, where he is reprised by Jared Butler. He also appears in the '']'' series, first in 2005's '']'', where he is voiced by ], and again in 2019's '']'', reprised again by Butler.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://venturebeat.com/2018/06/11/kingdom-hearts-iii-is-getting-a-new-pirates-of-caribbean-level/|title=Kingdom Hearts III is getting a new Pirates of Caribbean level|last=Minotti|first=Mike|work=]|date=June 11, 2018|access-date=June 26, 2018|archive-date=June 26, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180626135955/https://venturebeat.com/2018/06/11/kingdom-hearts-iii-is-getting-a-new-pirates-of-caribbean-level/|url-status=live}}</ref> In the ''A Pirate's Life'' expansion for the video game '']'' he is voiced again by Butler.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.seaofthieves.com/news/a-pirates-life-announcement|title=Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean Collides with Sea of Thieves!|website=www.seaofthieves.com|access-date=September 8, 2021|archive-date=September 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210909120448/https://www.seaofthieves.com/news/a-pirates-life-announcement|url-status=live}}</ref> Jack Sparrow also appears as playable character in '']'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOR0ziOwl2Q |title=Update 4: Pirates of the Caribbean {{!}} Trailer|publisher=]|date=September 15, 2016}}</ref>''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcNpxjkf-44&ab_channel=DisneyMagicKingdoms |title=Update 22: Pirates of the Caribbean Part 2, Peter Pan Part 2 {{!}} Livestream|publisher=]|date=July 5, 2018}}</ref> ]'',<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-05-07 |title=Update 0.4 Notes |url=https://discourse.disneyheroesgame.com/t/update-0-4-notes/1317 |access-date=2024-01-22 |website=Disney Heroes: Battle Mode |language=en}}</ref> and '']''. A purchasable cosmetic outfit of Jack Sparrow was added to '']'' on July 19, 2024, as part of the Cursed Sails ].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-07-19 |title= Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean Docks Into Fortnite BR for "Cursed Sails" |url= https://www.fortnite.com/news/disneys-pirates-of-the-caribbean-docks-into-fortnite-br |website=] |language=en}}</ref> Jack also appears in '']''. | |||
In 2011, comedy group ], in collaboration with ], released a song ].<ref name="Bierly">{{cite journal|url=http://popwatch.ew.com/2011/05/09/snl-michael-bolton-jack-sparrow// |title=Michael Bolton returns to ''SNL'' after 20 years: Best thing he did in between appearances? |last=Bierly |first=Mandi |date=May 9, 2011 |journal=Entertainment Weekly (Via Archive.org) |location=New York |access-date=June 8, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110511000025/http://popwatch.ew.com/2011/05/09/snl-michael-bolton-jack-sparrow// |archive-date=May 11, 2011 }}</ref> | |||
===Compass=== | |||
Captain Jack Sparrow's compass was obtained in a barter with ] (as established in '']''). Rather than point north, its needle points to whatever the person holding it wants most. That can be treasure or other valuable items, but also a person or a geographical location. It works for anyone using it, but only if they know what they truly want. It will even work while lying untouched on the ground, if the possessor is nearby. When it fails to work properly for Sparrow, Tia explains that it is because he does not know what he truly wants, "or do you know but are loath to claim it as your own". | |||
In July 2022, Depp portrayed a ] of Sparrow, Phillip Artoosh, in ''Adventurer's Game'', a promotional short film for the mobile game ''Sea of Dawn''.<ref name="Artoosh">{{cite web | url=https://screenrant.com/johnny-depp-acting-return-sea-dawn-short-film/ | title=Johnny Depp Returns to Acting with Short Film for Sea of Dawn | website=] | date=July 29, 2022 }}</ref> | |||
When Sparrow is arrested after saving Elizabeth Swann from drowning (in ''The Curse of the Black Pearl''), Commodore Norrington searches through his possessions. Most of what he finds appears to be junk, including the compass that does not point north. In fact, the four geographical directions are not even specified on it. | |||
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Later, a hint of the compass' true nature is revealed. When Will notices Sparrow using the odd instrument to navigate through a storm, he asks Gibbs how they're supposed to find ] with a compass that doesn't work. Gibbs replies, "The compass doesn't point north. But we're not trying to find north, are we?" The compass points them to the island, where Jack's beloved '']'' is anchored. | |||
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When ] discovers ] wants Sparrow's compass, she mistakenly believes he is searching for the treasure on Isla de Muerta and warns him about the cursed Aztec gold. However, Beckett says that the compass does not only point to Isla de Muerta and that there is "more than one chest of value in these waters." | |||
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During the Kraken's attack, Sparrow deserts the '']'' and his shipmates in a longboat. He pauses a moment to look at his compass. Although it is not shown where the needle points, he returns to the ship and saves his crew. | |||
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Addressing this scene on the audio commentary for the DVD, the writers hinted that, whilst the scene was deliberately ambiguous as to the direction the compass pointed, that it may indeed have been pointing towards land, and thus Jack's choice was motivated not by what he wanted, but by what he knew was the right thing to do, as hinted early by a conversation he has with Elizabeth. | |||
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The toy company ] has made several Jack Sparrow action figures from both ''Pirates of the Caribbean'' movies. At least one figure will be made based on the ], according to information released at ]. | |||
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Though these figures have been well received for their near perfect likeness of ] as Captain Jack, there is some ] among collectors over certain parts of the figure being reused for different versions, particularly the wide-legged stance sported by all Jack Sparrow figures. | |||
Three plush toys have been made of the character. One plush came in Summer 2006's ] ] ] Promotion. This featured Jack with his jacket and a plush sword. Another plush Jack featured the pirate sans-jacket with his vest. It featured a plastic version of his beads. A third Jack plush was a Red ] version of the character. He came with a plush telescope. | |||
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===Television=== | |||
Jack Sparrow appears as ]'s fantasy lover in the ] for her ] song, "Girls Lie Too". He is not portrayed by Depp. | |||
The character has been impersonated and parodied on television numerous times; on '']'', Marshall (]) dresses up as Sparrow for special occasions. | |||
'']'' features the skit "Curse of the Butt Pirates" in which ] portrays the ] character Captain John Swallow. | |||
For the Halloween 2006 special of ], ] was dressed as Captain Jack Sparrow, although he claimed that he felt more like ]. | |||
The character was depicted in an episode of '']'' in a match between ] and ]. | |||
] imitates Jack Sparrow in a '']'' episode. | |||
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In '']'', Sparrow is parodied for the first time in a separate film: ] portrays the flamboyant and traitorous Jack Swallows, who harbors a grudge against the ]. Eventually, he rides a rolling wheel that flattens all of the protagonists, by accident. He also flattens the White Bitch just as the others were thinking of sparing her. | |||
===Video games=== | |||
Sparrow appears in '']'' as a member of the party in the ''Port Royal'' world. ] voices Jack Sparrow in the English release of the ] because Johnny Depp (as well as the rest of the cast) was unavailable during the production of ''Dead Man's Chest''; incindentally, Taylor previously filled in for Depp as ] in the ] of '']''. ], who voiced Jack Sparrow in the Japanese dub of ''Pirates'', plays the character in the Japanese release. In this incarnation, he fights alongside ], ] and ] against ], ] and ]. | |||
Depp does voice Sparrow in '']'' for the ] and ] platforms. The game follows exaggerated events of Sparrow's past, from his point of view, including his escape from the island on which he was marooned and how he sacked ] without firing a shot. | |||
Sparrow's name makes an appearance in the game '']'' and '']'' on a tombstone in the Lychfield Graveyard. The grave reads "Cpt. J. Sparrow: A wind at your back forever, sir". Depp utters a similar line as George Jung in '']''. | |||
===Other appearances=== | |||
In Spring ], Disney retooled the ] rides in all their theme parks to include more references to the film. Jack's first appearance is in the rouge gallery paintings of famous pirates in the queue area. He then makes three appearances in the attraction while hunting for the town's treasure. The final scenes in the ] and ] versions show Jack victorious in his efforts, sitting on a throne surrounded by treasure, happily singing the "Yo-Ho" song and proclaiming "There's treasure enough for all!" | |||
The character of the Pirate King in the 2006 ] production of the classic ] operetta '']'' is played by ] as a dead ringer impersonation of Sparrow. | |||
In issue #24 of the ] series '']'', Sparrow makes a cameo appearance as part of a group of time-displaced pirates and robots. | |||
In a special ] presentation of "'']'' - The Final Episode" released at the 2007 Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas, ] talks to ] about being rescued. When Sawyer asks her if she is picking him or ], Kate replies she picked Jack, because he has a bigger boat. The scene cuts to Captain Jack Sparrow in the crow's nest of the Jolly Mon (his introductory scene from the first film). Later, a captured ] indicates to ] that the ] survivors were rescued by pirates. | |||
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Main character of the Pirates of the Caribbean film series For the song by The Lonely Island featuring Michael Bolton, see Jack Sparrow (song). For the Jamaican singer, see The Ethiopians.Fictional character
Captain Jack Sparrow | |
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Pirates of the Caribbean character | |
Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow | |
First appearance | The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) |
Created by | Ted Elliott Terry Rossio Johnny Depp |
Portrayed by | Johnny Depp Anthony De La Torre (young) |
Voiced by | Johnny Depp (2006) Jared Butler (2007–present) James Arnold Taylor (2006) |
In-universe information | |
Aliases | Smith/Smithy Justice Smith |
Nicknames | Jackie/Jacky Jackie boy/Jacky boy |
Species | Human |
Gender | Male |
Title | Captain Pirate Lord of the Caribbean sea |
Occupation | Pirate Formerly: Captain for the East India Trading Company |
Affiliation | Crew of the Black Pearl Formerly: East India Trading Company Blackbeard's Crew |
Weapon | Cutlass Flintlock |
Family | Edward Teague (father) Jack (uncle) |
Nationality | English |
Appearance(s) |
Captain Jack 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.
The Sparrow character is based on a combination of The Rolling Stones' guitarist Keith Richards and Looney Tunes cartoons, specifically the characters Bugs Bunny and Pepé Le Pew. He first appears in the 2003 film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. He appears in the later sequels Dead Man's Chest (2006), At World's End (2007), On Stranger Tides (2011), and Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017).
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, guile, and negotiation rather than force, opting to flee most dangerous situations and 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 aboard Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge. Sparrow is subsequently forced to lead Blackbeard to the Fountain while the shrunken Black Pearl is trapped in a bottle. In a later adventure, when the ghost Spanish Captain Armando Salazar pursues 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. When the ride was revamped in 2006, the Captain Jack Sparrow character was added. The character 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.
Concept and creation
Character
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. The producers saw him as a young Burt Lancaster. 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." Sparrow represents an ethical pirate, with Captain Barbossa as his corrupt foil, though both characters viewed as both light and dark tricksters. His true motives usually remain masked, and whether he is honorable or evil depends on the audience's perspective. This acts as part of Will Turner's arc, in which Sparrow tells him a pirate can be a good man, like his father.
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." Although Dead Man's Chest was written to propel the trilogy's plot, 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.
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, and now desires immortality. Sparrow struggles with what it takes to be a moral person, 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. By the end of At World's End, Sparrow is sailing to the Fountain of Youth, an early concept for the second film. Rossio said in 2007 that a fourth film was possible, and producer Jerry Bruckheimer expressed interest in a spin-off. 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."
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.
The fifth film, Dead Men Tell No Tales, was co-directed by Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg.
Johnny Depp
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, 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. Depp was cast on June 10, 2002. 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.
According to various reports and interviews, Johnny Depp prepared for the role while rehearsing in the steam room of a sauna. At times, he claimed to turn the heat up to its max temperature of 1,000 degrees. The actor was quoted as saying, "Captain Jack was actually born in a sauna—my sauna. I figured this is a guy who has been on the high seas for probably all of his life, the majority of his life at least, and therefore probably dealt with a lot of inescapable heat to the brain." Depp also said, due to his daughter Lily-Rose Depp being three years old at the time, he watched various cartoons, using Tex Avery and Wile E. Coyote as examples.
At the first read-through, Depp surprised the cast and crew by portraying the character in an off-kilter manner. He researched 18th-century pirates and, seeing parallels with modern rock stars, modeled his performance on Keith Richards. 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. Depp improvised the film's final line, "Now, bring me that horizon", which the writer called his favorite line. 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. Depp's response to Disney executives was they could trust him with his choices or let him go. Many industry insiders questioned Depp's casting, as he was an unconventional actor not known for working within the traditional studio system.
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." 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". Depp won a Screen Actor's Guild award for his performance, and was nominated for a Golden Globe and the Academy Award for Best Actor, the first in his career. Film School Rejects argued the film made Depp as much a movie star as he was a character actor.
Depp's return in Dead Man's Chest was the first time he had ever made a sequel. 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." Depp received an MTV Movie Award and a Teen Choice Award for Dead Man's Chest, and was nominated for an Empire Award and another Golden Globe. 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.
Make-up and costumes
Depp wears a dreadlock wig in a rock-and-roll approach to a pirate aesthetic. He wears a red bandanna and numerous objects in his hair, influenced by Keith Richards' habit of collecting souvenirs from his travels; Sparrow's decorations include his "piece of eight". Sparrow wears kohl around his eyes, which was inspired by Depp's study of nomads, whom he compared to pirates, and he wore contacts that acted as sunglasses. Sparrow has several gold teeth, two of which belong to Depp, although they were applied during filming. Depp initially forgot to have them removed after shooting The Curse of the Black Pearl, and wore them throughout the shooting of the sequels. Like all aspects of Depp's performance, Disney initially expressed great concern over Depp's teeth. 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. Sparrow has numerous tattoos, and has been branded a pirate on his right arm by Cutler Beckett, underneath a tattoo of a sparrow.
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. Depp liked to stick to one costume, wearing one lightweight silk tweed frock coat throughout the series, and he had to be coaxed out of wearing his boots for a version without a sole or heel in beach scenes. 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. However, one remains which has been displayed in an exhibition of screen costumes in Worcester, England. 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. Sparrow wears an additional belt in the sequels, because Depp liked a new buckle which did not fit with the original piece.
Sparrow's weapons are genuine 18th-century pieces: his sword dates to the 1740s and his pistol is from the 1760s. Both were made in London. Depp used two pistols on set, one of rubber. Both survived production of the first film. Sparrow's magic compass also survived into the sequels, though director Gore Verbinski had a red arrow added to the dial as it became a more prominent prop. As it does not act like a normal compass, a magnet was used to make it spin. Sparrow wears four rings, two of which belong to Depp. Depp bought the green ring in 1989 and the gold ring is a replica of a 2400-year-old ring Depp gave to the crew, though the original was later stolen. The other two are props to which Depp gave backstories: the gold-and-black ring is stolen from a Spanish widow Sparrow seduced and the green dragon ring recalls his adventures in the Far East. Among Depp's additional ideas was the necklace made of human toes that Sparrow wears as the Pelegosto prepare to eat him, and the sceptre was based on one a friend of Depp's owned.
During the course of the films, Sparrow undergoes physical transformations. In The Curse of the Black Pearl, Sparrow curses himself to battle the undead Barbossa. Like all the actors playing the Black Pearl crew, Depp had to shoot scenes in costume as a reference for the animators, and his shots as a skeleton were shot again without him. Depp reprised the scene again on a motion capture stage. In At World's End, Sparrow hallucinates a version of himself as a member of Davy Jones's crew, adhered to a wall and encrusted with barnacles. Verbinski oversaw that the design retained Sparrow's distinctive look, and rejected initial designs which portrayed him as over 100 years old. In Dead Men Tell No Tales, a young Jack Sparrow appears during a flashback sequence.
Fictional character biography
Before the films
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Complete Visual Guide gives a backstory to Jack Sparrow in which he was born on a pirate ship during a typhoon in the Indian Ocean and was trained to fence by an Italian.
Books following Jack Sparrow's adventures before the events of the film include a twelve-book series focusing on his teenage years entitled Pirates of the Caribbean: Jack Sparrow, and a five-books Pirates of the Caribbean: Legends of the Brethren Court series.
The 2017 film, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, features a flashback with how "Jack the Sparrow" meets the Spanish Navy Captain Armando Salazar. Sparrow was the helmsman aboard the Wicked Wench, a pirate ship which may or may not be the Black Pearl, under the command of Captain Morgan, who was killed in battle. In the flashback, as reminisced upon by Salazar, the Silent Mary attacked pirate ships in battle until Captain Morgan died aboard the Wicked Wench, giving captaincy to young Sparrow. Sparrow outmaneuvers Salazar while being chased into the Devil's Triangle, in which the crew of the Wicked Wench throw ropes around nearby reefs off the port side and use the rigging to slingshot the ship in the opposite direction. Jack steers the ship through the reef, saving the crew and the ship by changing the ship's course at the last second. Afterward, on the deck of the Wicked Wench, the crew rewards Sparrow with "tribute" and bestows Jack with his famous hat and other personal effects.
Ann C. Crispin wrote the Disney Publishing novel titled Pirates of the Caribbean: The Price of Freedom, published in 2011, which focuses more on the films' continuity rather than the other prequel books, and follows Jack's adventures as a merchant captain for the East India Trading Company, which was hinted in At World's End, due to Crispin reading the screenplay, though the scenes were deleted from the final cut of the film. Jack Sparrow captained the merchant ship Wicked Wench for Cutler Beckett for about a year, hauling various cargoes, but he refused to haul slaves. Hoping to recruit Sparrow as one of his many "operatives", Beckett indulged what he regarded as an odd peccadillo of Sparrow's until he and the captain came to part ways. Beckett had dispatched Sparrow on a mission to find the lost island of Kerma, and the treasure at the heart of its underground labyrinth, but Sparrow double-crossed the EITC official and claimed he couldn't locate the island. Suspicious that Sparrow had indeed found the island and the treasure, but had not given him its accurate location, Beckett determined to browbeat the captain into obedience and demanded that the young captain transport a cargo of slaves to the New World. Initially, Sparrow agreed, but when he realized that he was betraying the Wicked Wench, as well as himself, he rebelled and freed the slaves by taking them to Kerma for safe asylum. Furious that Sparrow had flouted his orders and stolen the "cargo" of "black gold", Beckett had Sparrow thrown into jail. After allowing him to languish for a couple of months, Beckett had Sparrow transported to the Wicked Wench's anchorage, about a mile from the coast of West Africa, near Calabar on the Bight of Benin. After personally branding Sparrow with the "P" brand (so he'd be forever identifiable as a pirate), Cutler Beckett gave the order to fire incendiary carcass charges at the Wicked Wench, to demoralize her captain. Sparrow fought his way free from his guards, dove overboard, and attempted to rescue his burning, foundering ship, but he was too late. The Wicked Wench turned into an inferno, then sank, taking Jack with her. But, while dying, Sparrow called upon Davy Jones, and struck a bargain with him: his soul and one hundred years of service aboard the Flying Dutchman, in return for continued human existence of thirteen years as captain, plus saving the Wicked Wench and transforming her into the fastest, most dangerous pirate ship on the seven seas. Jones agreed and raised the ship from the sea floor, now a charred vessel with an angel figurehead. In keeping with her scorched appearance, Jack painted his ship black and added black sails, rechristening her "the Black Pearl".
At some point, Hector Barbossa joins Jack Sparrow as his first mate. The original backstory was that Jack recruited Barbossa and his cronies prior to the voyage to Isla de Muerta. However, in the Legends of the Brethren Court book series, Hector Barbossa was Sparrow's first mate in the quest for the Shadow Gold, where Tia Dalma tasks them with securing seven vials of shadow gold to stop the evil Shadow Lord from gaining total control over the seas by destroying the Brethren Court with his Shadow Army. Over the course of the novels, they are able to collect all vials shattered across the world by allying with or fighting against the other Pirate Lords. They are able to defeat the Shadow Lord with the combined efforts of all Pirate Lords, after which Jack wants to sail for Tortuga to recruit a new crew. Barbossa offers him to handle that in his stead, implying that he recruited men with the intent to mutiny against his captain.
Two years after his deal with Davy Jones, Jack Sparrow sailed the Black Pearl and used his magical compass in search of the mysterious Isla de Muerta with a new crew, where the legendary Treasure of Cortés was hidden. Bootstrap Bill Turner was already a member of Jack's crew, while the other crewmen, like Pintel and Ragetti, were recruited in Tortuga. Jack was also the one who told his first mate Hector Barbossa and the rest of the crew about the curse that was upon the treasure, though nobody believed this ghost story. Captain and crew agreed to equal shares of the treasure, but devious first mate Barbossa persuaded Jack that equal shares included knowing the treasure's location. Jack complied, and soon after Barbossa led a mutiny and marooned Jack on an island with nothing but a pistol containing one shot. Although Jack was okay with Bootstrap Bill staying on board with Captain Barbossa, Jack hated Barbossa for having violated the Pirate's Code. Jack was able to escape after three days on the island and began his pursuit of the Black Pearl. Within the next ten years, Jack learned of how Barbossa's crew found the Aztec gold and became cursed, despite not believing in the curse placed on it, as well as how they are trying to get all the gold back and add their blood to the chest.
Films
The Curse of the Black Pearl
Main article: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black PearlCaptain Jack Sparrow first appears in The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003).
In his debut scene, Sparrow arrives in Port Royal, Jamaica on a sinking boat, seeking to commandeer a new ship. Despite rescuing Elizabeth Swann, the daughter of Governor Weatherby Swann, from drowning, he is jailed for piracy. That night, a cursed pirate ship called the Black Pearl attacks Port Royal and Elizabeth is kidnapped. The Black Pearl's captain, Hector Barbossa, desperately seeks one last gold coin to break an ancient Aztec curse that he and his crew are under. A blacksmith named Will Turner frees Sparrow to aid him in rescuing Elizabeth. They commandeer HMS Interceptor and recruit a motley crew in Tortuga, Haiti before heading to Isla de Muerta, where Elizabeth is held. Along the way, Will learns that Sparrow was the Black Pearl's original captain until Barbossa led a mutiny ten years earlier and took over the ship, marooning Sparrow on an island to die. Sparrow tells Turner that his father was a pirate known as "Bootstrap" Bill Turner.
The rescue goes awry after Will betrays Sparrow, thinking Sparrow was going to betray him, and Barbossa later maroons Jack and Elizabeth on the same island upon which he had stranded Sparrow before. Elizabeth creates a signal fire from rum barrels and they are rescued by the Royal Navy. Sparrow cuts a deal with Commodore James Norrington to lead Norrington to the Black Pearl. Norrington refuses until Elizabeth, desperate to save Will, spontaneously accepts Norrington's earlier marriage proposal. Right before the film's climactic battle with the pirates at Isla de Muerta, Sparrow swipes a cursed coin from the treasure chest, making himself immortal and capable of dueling Barbossa. He shoots his nemesis with the pistol he has carried for ten years just as Will breaks the curse, killing Barbossa. Despite having assisted the Navy, Sparrow is sentenced to hang.
At Sparrow's execution in Port Royal, Will saves Sparrow, but they are quickly captured. Elizabeth intervenes, declaring her love for Will who is pardoned, while Sparrow escapes by tumbling off a sea wall. The Black Pearl and her new crew arrive in time to retrieve him, and he becomes captain once more. Impressed by the wily pirate, Norrington allows him one day's head start before giving chase.
Dead Man's Chest
Main article: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's ChestA year following the events of the first film, Sparrow searches for the Dead Man's Chest, which contains the heart of Davy Jones. Thirteen years prior to the events of the film, Sparrow made a bargain with Jones to raise the sunken Black Pearl and make Sparrow captain for thirteen years. Now the debt is due, and Bootstrap Bill Turner warns that Sparrow must either serve one hundred years aboard the Flying Dutchman, or be dragged to Davy Jones's Locker by the Kraken. Jack believes if he can find the Dead Man's Chest, he can free his soul as well as control Jones and the seas.
Adding to Sparrow's woes, Lord Cutler Beckett of the East India Trading Company has a personal score to settle and wants the chest himself. Beckett arrests Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann, forcing Turner to search for Sparrow and his magic compass. Turner locates Sparrow's crew on Pelegosto, held captive by cannibals who intend to eat Sparrow. They escape, and voyage to Tia Dalma (a magical woman later revealed to be the Goddess, Calypso, bound in human form as Dalma, and former lover of Jones). Dalma immediately sees destiny in Will, and provides Sparrow with a jar of dirt – Jones can only set foot on land once every 10 years, and since land is where Sparrow is safe, Dalma suggests with the dirt that he takes land with him.
Sparrow strikes a new deal with Jones to deliver one hundred souls in exchange for his own. Jones agrees but keeps Turner as a "good faith payment". Sparrow is recruiting sailors in Tortuga when he encounters Elizabeth Swann and James Norrington, the latter having succumbed to alcohol. Sparrow convinces Elizabeth that Turner can be freed by using the magic compass to find the chest. The duo head for Isla Cruces and find Will, who escaped Jones's ship and has stolen the key to the Chest. Turner wants to stab Jones's heart and free his father from Jones's servitude, while Norrington plots to restore his career by delivering the heart to Beckett. Sparrow wants it to convince Jones to call off the Kraken.
Norrington escapes with the heart amid a battle with Jones's crew, and Jones summons the Kraken. Realizing Sparrow is the target, Elizabeth traps him aboard the Black Pearl as the crew abandons the ship, and kisses him while she handcuffs him to the mast. Then, the monster devours Sparrow and drags the ship and his soul to Davy Jones's Locker. The surviving crew seeks refuge with Tia Dalma who produces a captain she says can rescue Sparrow: a resurrected Hector Barbossa.
At World's End
Main article: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's EndTwo months following the events of the second film, with Davy Jones's heart in his possession and the Flying Dutchman under his command, Cutler Beckett begins exterminating all pirates. To combat Beckett, the nine pirate lords of the Brethren Court convene at Shipwreck Cove. Only Jack Sparrow is missing, killed and sent to Davy Jones's Locker at the end of the previous film. Sparrow, as Pirate Lord of the Caribbean, must attend, as he did not bequeath to a designated heir his "piece of eight", a pirate lord's marker. The collective "nine pieces of eight" are needed to free sea goddess Calypso to defeat Beckett. With Elizabeth and Will, Barbossa leads Sparrow's crew to Davy Jones's Locker using stolen navigational charts from the pirate lord Sao Feng. After the crew locate him, Sparrow deciphers a clue on the charts allowing them to escape the Locker.
At the Brethren Court, Elizabeth has succeeded Captain Sao Feng as a Pirate Lord and is elected "Pirate King" after Sparrow breaks a stalemate vote. Sparrow is briefly reunited with his father, Captain Teague. During a parley with Beckett and Jones, Sparrow is traded for Turner, whom Jones and Beckett had captured. The Black Pearl battles the Flying Dutchman during a maelstrom created by Calypso, during which Sparrow fights Jones for the chest so that he may acquire Jones' heart to become immortal. When Jones mortally wounds Turner, Sparrow instead chooses to save Turner by helping him stab the heart, which kills Jones and makes Turner the Dutchman's captain. Together, the Pearl and the Dutchman destroy Beckett's ship. At the end, Barbossa again commandeers the Pearl and Sao Feng's charts, stranding Sparrow and Gibbs in Tortuga. However, Sparrow had managed to cut out the navigational section of the charts and with them begins to search for the legendary Fountain of Youth.
On Stranger Tides
Main article: Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger TidesPrior to the events of the film, Jack Sparrow gained some renown as the pirate who knew and memorized the Fountain of Youth's location. In the film, Joshamee Gibbs was put on trial in London until Sparrow himself arrived to rescue him as a disguised judge at the Old Bailey courthouse. However, they are captured at St James's Palace. Jack is dragged into a forced audience with King George II, who wants Sparrow to guide an expedition to the Fountain. Hector Barbossa, now a privateer in the service to the British with a peg leg, reveals to Jack that he lost his leg and the Black Pearl, which he believes to be sunk. Jack Sparrow escapes and crosses paths with a "Jack Sparrow" impostor, Angelica, a woman from Sparrow's past and ruthless con artist. Angelica shanghais Jack aboard the Queen Anne's Revenge, the ship captained by Blackbeard.
Angelica tells Jack she is conning about being Blackbeard's daughter, though later revealed she was telling the truth, and that Blackbeard wanting to find the Fountain to avoid a prophesied death. Although Jack incites a mutiny, saving the missionary named Philip Swift and fighting zombie officers, Blackbeard himself subdues the mutineers, using a sword that controls ships, a power that Jack's crew of mutineers are unaware of. Blackbeard also practices voodoo magic and fashions a voodoo doll to bend Jack Sparrow to his will. Jack learns from Angelica that the ritual for the Fountain requires a mermaid's tear and two silver chalices located on Ponce de León's ship, the Santiago, and the person who drinks the water with the tear gets all the years of life from the other. Angelica also shows Jack Blackbeard's collection of ships in bottles, including the Black Pearl. After capturing the mermaid Syrena at Whitecap Bay, Blackbeard sends Jack to get the chalices, taking his compass and threatening his own daughter at gunpoint. Aboard the Santiago, Jack meets Barbossa, but both find that the chalices have been taken by the Spanish. Before retrieving the chalices, Barbossa reveals his true agenda: revenge against Blackbeard for the attack on the Black Pearl, which Barbossa truly believes to be sunk, which led to cutting off his leg via self-dismemberment. Jack returns to give Blackbeard the chalices in exchange for Angelica's safety and Jack's compass, which Jack sends Gibbs off with.
After locating the Fountain of Youth, a battle ensues until Angelica cuts her hand trying to remove Barbossa's poisoned sword from Blackbeard's chest. Jack receives the chalices from Syrena, who tells him to not waste her tear. Filling the chalices with the remaining drops of water from the Fountain, Jack tricks Blackbeard into drinking the chalice lacking the mermaid's tear. Despite Blackbeard choosing to murder her so he can live, Angelica is mad at Jack about her father's death. Acknowledging their feelings for one another, Jack maroons Angelica with on a small island named Sola Fide Beach, unsure if he can trust her. Angered, Angelica then uses the one shot from her pistol to kill Jack as he rows away, but misses. Jack reunites with Gibbs, who used Sparrow's compass to locate and retrieved the shrunken Black Pearl. Though he has forfeited his opportunity for immortality, Sparrow tells Gibbs he's settling for being famous as the one who found the Fountain of Youth and determined to continue living the pirate's life. Following the film's end credits, the Jack Sparrow voodoo doll drifted to the island that Angelica is marooned on.
Dead Men Tell No Tales
Main article: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No TalesPrior to the events of the film, Jack Sparrow's rival Hector Barbossa has become the richest and most powerful pirate of the seven seas, commanding a fleet of ten ships. Meanwhile, Jack has the Black Pearl still trapped in a bottle. Sparrow's new ship the Dying Gull has never left berth, and his latest plans have met with failure.
Sparrow and his crew attempt to rob the new bank of St. Martin. The robbery is a success, but all the gold in it had fallen while they were dragging the locker, and Sparrow's crew abandons him. Despondent, Jack trades his magical compass for a drink. However, this betrayal of the compass releases an old enemy, who holds a serious grudge against Sparrow; the ruthless ghostly pirate hunter Captain Armando Salazar. Years previously, Jack had defeated Salazar by tricking him into sailing his ship into the Devil's Triangle, where Salazar and his crew were cursed to live as the undead. Salazar states that Jack perched in the ship's rigging like a "little bird", earning him the name "Jack the Sparrow".
While in prison, Jack is contacted by Henry Turner, the son of Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann, who asks for aid in finding the Trident of Poseidon, as both are in need of its power to break curses related to the sea. The Trident could help save Sparrow from Salazar's revenge and free Will from the Flying Dutchman. Remembering Will and Elizabeth, expressing some hesitation, Jack agrees. The next day, Sparrow is sentenced to be executed by guillotine (by Jack's accidental choosing), but is rescued by his crew. Aided by aspiring astronomer Carina, Jack and Henry attempt to locate the Trident of Poseidon. Barbossa releases the Pearl from its bottle, giving them a chance to outrun Salazar. Jack and Barbossa discuss the fact that Carina is Hector's long-lost daughter, whom he had left at an orphanage in order to give her a chance for a better life. Jack attempts to use the secret to blackmail Barbossa, but fails.
They are able to track the Trident to its resting place. Though Salazar nearly kills Jack, they are able to destroy the Trident. With the destruction of the Trident, Salazar and his crew become mortal again. Jack, Henry and Carina escape as Barbossa sacrifices himself to kill Salazar. Despite their differences, Jack mourns Barbossa's death. Later, Jack watches Will and Elizabeth's reunion before he departs, sailing with the Black Pearl and his compass once again in his possession.
Characterization
According to screenwriters Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, Sparrow is a trickster who uses wit and deceit to attain his goals, preferring to end disputes verbally instead of by force. He walks with a slightly drunken swagger and has slurred speech and flailing hand gestures. Sparrow is shrewd, calculating, and eccentric. He fools Norrington and his crew to set sail on the royal ship Interceptor, which compels the admiration of Lieutenant Groves as he concedes: "That's got to be the best pirate I have ever seen". Norrington himself acquiesces to this praise: "So it would seem", in sharp contrast to his earler assertion: "You are without doubt the worst pirate I have ever heard of". In the third film, while Sparrow leaves Beckett's ship stranded and makes off, Lieutenant Groves asks: "Do you think he plans it all out, or just makes it up as he goes along?" Jack also tricks Blackbeard into saving his daughter by switching places the two chalices required to use the fountain of youth.
Though a skilled swordsman, Sparrow prefers to use his superior intelligence during combat, exploiting his environment to turn the tables on his foes, reasoning "Why fight when you can negotiate?" and using non-violent negotiation to turn his enemies against each other. He invokes parleys and tempts his enemies away from their murderous intentions, encouraging them to see the bigger picture, as when he persuades Barbossa to delay returning to mortal form so he can battle the Royal Navy. He often uses complex wordplay and vocabulary to confound his enemies, and it is suggested that his pacifism may be one reason Barbossa and the crew of the Black Pearl mutinied.
"Gentlemen, m'lady, you will always remember this as the day that you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow." |
—Jack almost escapes another sticky situation |
The character is portrayed as having created, or at least contributed to, his own reputation. When Gibbs tells Will that Sparrow escaped from a desert island by strapping two sea turtles together, Sparrow embellishes the story by claiming the rope was made of hair from his own back, while in reality, Sparrow escaped the island by bartering with rum traders. The video game Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow bases itself on these tall tales, including the sacking of Nassau port without firing a shot. Depp has likened pirates to rock stars in that their fame preceded them. Sparrow insists on being addressed as "Captain" and often gives the farewell, "This is the day you will always remember as the day that you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow!" which proclamation is sometimes humorously cut short. When Norrington accuses him of being the worst pirate he has ever heard of, Sparrow replies, "But you have heard of me." In a deleted scene from The Curse of the Black Pearl Sparrow ponders being "the immortal Captain Jack Sparrow", and during At World's End he again is interested in immortality, although his father, Captain Teague, warns it can be a terrible curse. Sparrow ponders being "Captain Jack Sparrow, the last pirate," as the East India Trading Company purges piracy. The topic of immortality is brought up again during On Stranger Tides, when Jack says "But better to not know which moment may be your last, every morsel of your entire being alive to the infinite mystery of it all".
Despite his many heroics, Sparrow is a pirate and a morally ambiguous character. When agreeing to trade 100 souls, including Will, to Davy Jones in exchange for his freedom, Jones asks Sparrow whether he can "condemn an innocent man—a friend—to a lifetime of servitude in your name while you roam free?" After a hesitation Sparrow merrily replies, "Yep! I'm good with it!" He carelessly runs up debts with Anamaria, Davy Jones, and the other pirate lords. Sao Feng, pirate lord of Singapore, is particularly hateful towards him. In a cowardly moment, Sparrow abandons his crew during the Kraken's attack, but underlying loyalty and morality compel him to return and save them. Sparrow claims to be a man of his word, and expresses surprise that people doubt his truthfulness. There is no murder on his criminal record. He is shown to genuinely care about his allies and even people he doesn't know. He genuinely cared for Angelica, and even admits to her at the end of the film that he does love her, and even saves Phillip Swift, a missionary trapped on Blackbeard's ship whom he had never met before.
Depp partly based the character on Pepé Le Pew, a womanizing skunk from Looney Tunes. Sparrow claims to have a "tremendous intuitive sense of the female creature," although his conquests are often left with a sour memory of him. Former flames, Scarlett and Giselle, usually slap him or anyone looking for him. Likewise, Angelica claims that Jack "seduced her and used her". His witty charm easily attracts women, and even has Elizabeth questioning her feelings. Verbinski noted phallic connotations in Sparrow's relationship with his vessel, as he grips the ship's wheel. The Black Pearl is described as "the only ship which can outrun the Flying Dutchman". The Freudian overtones continue in the third film when Sparrow and Barbossa battle for captaincy of the Black Pearl, showing off the length of their telescopes, and in a deleted scene, they fight over the steering wheel. Sparrow claims his "first and only love is the sea," and describes his ship as representing freedom. Davy Jones's Locker is represented as a desert, symbolizing his personal hell.
According to writer Giles Milton, Jack Sparrow was inspired by the seventeenth-century English pirate Jack Ward. He was also based on Long John Silver.
Reception and impact on pop culture
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When Dead Man's Chest grossed over $1 billion worldwide, Ian Nathan attributed this to Sparrow's popularity: "Pirates, the franchise, only had to turn up. There was a powerful holdover from the cheeky delights of its debut, something we hadn't felt since the Clone Wars called it a day." Empire in 2006 declared Depp's performance the seventy-fourth "thing that rocked our world" and later named him the eighth greatest movie character of all time. In 2015, a new poll of the 100 greatest film characters of all time placed him as the fourteenth greatest. A survey of more than 3,000 people showed Jack Sparrow was the most popular Halloween costume of 2006, and a 2007 poll held by the Internet Movie Database showed Sparrow to be the second most popular live action hero after Indiana Jones. In a 2007 Pearl & Dean poll, Jack Sparrow was listed as Depp's most popular performance.
Todd Gilchrist feels Sparrow is the only element of the films that will remain timeless. According to Sharon Eberson, the character's popularity can be attributed to his being a "scoundrel whose occasional bouts of conscience allow viewers to go with the flaws because, as played to the larger-than-life hilt by Depp, he owns every scene he is in". Film history professor Jonathan Kuntz attributed Sparrow's popularity to the increased questioning of masculinity in the 21st century, and Sparrow's personality contrasts with action-adventure heroes in cinema. Leonard Maltin concurs that Sparrow has a carefree attitude and does not take himself seriously. Mark Fox noted Sparrow is an escapist fantasy figure for women, free from much of the responsibility of most heroes. Sparrow is listed by IGN as one of their ten favorite film outlaws, as he "lives for himself and the freedom to do whatever it is that he damn well pleases. Precious few film characters have epitomized what makes the outlaw such a romantic figure for audiences as Captain Jack Sparrow has." Entertainment Weekly put it on its end-of-the-decade, "best-of" list, saying, "Part Keith Richards rift, part sozzled lounge lizard, Johnny Depp's swizzleshtick pirate was definitely one of the most dazzling characters of the decade." In June 2010, Sparrow was named one of Entertainment Weekly's 100 Greatest Characters of the Last 20 Years. In the May 2012 Greek elections, a voter gained media coverage when he "voted" for Jack Sparrow by writing his name on the Pirate Party of Greece ballot.
An internet hoax about a reality program on the now-defunct Quibi platform called Jack Sparrow House gained traction in the early 2020s. The program supposedly featured fourteen Jack Sparrow impersonators living in a house together, with them being eliminated if they broke character. The hoax included a detailed Misplaced Pages article, which was eventually deleted. Snopes said that comedian Rory Strahan-Mauk was behind it, and that a photo claiming to be of the contestants were actually fans attending the Tokyo premiere of Dead Men Tell No Tales.
In other media
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Jack Sparrow appears in video games and books spun off the Pirates of the Caribbean media franchise. Some notable Pirates video games in which Jack Sparrow appears as a playable character in include Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow, voiced by Johnny Depp, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, voiced by Jared Butler, and Lego Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game, with archive audio of Johnny Depp's vocal effects. Jack was one of the first playable characters in the Disney Infinity series, where he is reprised by Jared Butler. He also appears in the Kingdom Hearts series, first in 2005's Kingdom Hearts II, where he is voiced by James Arnold Taylor, and again in 2019's Kingdom Hearts III, reprised again by Butler. In the A Pirate's Life expansion for the video game Sea of Thieves he is voiced again by Butler. Jack Sparrow also appears as playable character in Disney Magic Kingdoms, Disney Heroes: Battle Mode, and Disney Speedstorm. A purchasable cosmetic outfit of Jack Sparrow was added to Fortnite Battle Royale on July 19, 2024, as part of the Cursed Sails Event Pass. Jack also appears in Disney Speedstorm.
In 2011, comedy group the Lonely Island, in collaboration with Michael Bolton, released a song named for Jack.
In July 2022, Depp portrayed a parody of Sparrow, Phillip Artoosh, in Adventurer's Game, a promotional short film for the mobile game Sea of Dawn.
Notes
- Promotional image for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)
- Anthony De La Torre, with his face replaced with a CGI replica of a younger Depp's and his voice replaced by Jared Butler, played a younger Jack in Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017).
- Screenwriter Terry Rossio released his unproduced screenplay for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017), which includes additional information in extensive footnotes. Pertaining to On Stranger Tides, Rossio notes that Jack and Barbossa were each conning the other, while not knowing they were at the same time being conned. Barbossa does not know that the Black Pearl in a bottle, and Jack does not know the importance of Blackbeard's sword.
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External links
- Jack Sparrow on IMDb
- Jack Sparrow at Inducks
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