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Pirates of the Caribbean:
At World's End
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Directed byGore Verbinski
Written byTed Elliott
Terry Rossio
Produced byJerry Bruckheimer
StarringJohnny Depp
Orlando Bloom
Keira Knightley
Geoffrey Rush
Bill Nighy
Tom Hollander
Stellan Skarsgård
Chow Yun-Fat
Jack Davenport
CinematographyDariusz Wolski
Edited byStephen E. Rivkin
Craig Wood
Music byHans Zimmer
Distributed byBuena Vista
Release dates
May 24/May 25, 2007
Running time
168 min.
Country United States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$300 million
Box office$872 Million

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End is a 2007 adventure film, the third in the Pirates of the Caribbean films following The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) and Dead Man's Chest (2006). At World's End was directed by Gore Verbinski, as were the previous films, and the cast includes returnees Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Bill Nighy, Geoffrey Rush, Jack Davenport, Kevin McNally, Tom Hollander and Naomie Harris. Chow Yun-Fat makes his first appearance in the franchise as Sao Feng, one of the film's antagonists, as does Keith Richards as Jack Sparrow's father. The English version of the film was released on May 24, 2007 after Disney opted to move the release date to a day earlier than originally planned.

Plot

Lord Cutler Beckett continues his purge against piracy, hanging victims without trial, and using Davy Jones to destroy pirate ships. In response, the Brethren Court are summoned to convene at Shipwreck Cove. However, the late Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirate Lord of the Caribbean, died without a successor, and therefore must be present. Captain Hector Barbossa leads Will Turner, Elizabeth Swann, Tia Dalma and the Black Pearl crew to Davy Jones' Locker to fetch Jack. They need the navigational charts leading to World's End, the gateway to the Locker, charts belonging to Sao Feng, Pirate Lord of the South China Sea. In Singapore, Elizabeth and Barbossa bargain with Feng for a ship and a crew, but Feng is furious that Will attempted to steal the charts and is holding him captive. Just then, East India Trading Company soldiers attack Feng's bathhouse. During the chaos, Will secretly bargains with Feng for the Black Pearl in exchange for Jack. Will wants the Black Pearl to rescue his father from the Flying Dutchman.

The crew journey through a frozen sea. Reaching World's End, they sail over an enormous waterfall and into Davy Jones' Locker. There, Jack is aboard the Black Pearl, surrounded by desert and suffering hallucinations. After licking a sand crab, it awakens and watches Jack trying to pull the "Black Pearl" out of the locker. To his amazement, a whole army of crabs suddenly appear and carry the Pearl to an ocean where he is reunited with his former shipmates, although Jack and Barbossa bicker over who is captain. While seeking an escape route, the crew sees souls adrift underwater. Tia Dalma explains that Davy Jones was appointed by his lover, the sea goddess Calypso, to ferry those who died at sea to the next world. In return, Jones could step upon land for one day every ten years to be with her. But when Calypso failed to meet him, the scorned captain abandoned his duty and transformed into a monster. Elizabeth then sees her father, Weatherby Swann's soul pass by in a dinghy, murdered by Beckett after discovering that whoever slays Davy Jones by destroying the heart replaces him as the Flying Dutchman's immortal captain. Unable to retrieve him and bring him back on the Pearl, a distraught Elizabeth vows to avenge her father's death.

The charts reveal that a green flash on the horizon signifies a soul returning to earth. When Jack deciphers a clue on it, he realizes the ship must be capsized to escape the Locker. They turn the ship over at sunset and turn upwards back to the living world at sunrise amid an emerald light. Upon their return, they discover the Kraken is dead; Beckett ordered Davy Jones to kill it so it could not be used against him. Shortly after, Sao Feng attacks the Pearl. He has betrayed Will and made another deal with Beckett, but Beckett double-crosses Feng. In retaliation, Feng gives the Pearl back to Barbossa in exchange for Elizabeth, whom he believes is Calypso. Angry over Will's deception and to keep the crew safe, Elizabeth agrees. Jack is taken prisoner aboard the Endeavor and forms an accord with Beckett to lead his fleet to Shipwreck Island, but he escapes back to the Pearl. Will is thrown into the brig.

Aboard his war-ship, the Empress, Feng tells Elizabeth that Davy Jones revealed to the first Brethren Court how to entrap Calypso into human form, allowing men to control the seas. Feng is mortally wounded when Jones attacks his ship, and before dying, appoints Elizabeth his heir, making her captain and Pirate Lord of the South China Sea. She and the crew are taken prisoner aboard the Flying Dutchman. Also aboard is Admiral James Norrington, who switches allegiance after learning of Weatherby Swann's death, and he frees Elizabeth and her crew. They escape to the towed Empress, although Norrington is killed by a deranged "Bootstrap" Bill. Meanwhile, Will, who escaped the Pearl's brig, leaves a trail of floating corpses for Beckett to follow. Jack catches him and proposes that he will stab the heart, making himself immortal while freeing "Bootstrap" without condemning Will to taking Jones' place. Will agrees. Jack then gives him his magical compass and pushes him over board, intending to lead Beckett to Shipwreck Island. Will is rescued by Beckett's ship. There he learns that it was Davy Jones who masterminded Calypso's imprisonment with the first Brethren Court.

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The Black Pearl and Flying Dutchman sail into battle amid a maelstrom.

When the Brethren Court's constituents disagree over Barbossa's proposal to free Calypso, he tricks them into yielding their pirate lord insignias. Meanwhile, Elizabeth arrives on the Empress. Unable to decide over Beckett, the Court moves to elect a "Pirate King", although the vote is doomed to fail: the lords always vote for themselves. Jack breaks the long-standing stalemate by voting for Elizabeth. As he anticipated, she declares war. During parley with Beckett and Jones, Jack is traded for Will, and Elizabeth declares the pirates will fight. Just before the battle, Barbossa conducts a ritual using the insignias to release Calypso (Tia Dalma). Her fury upon learning of Jones’ betrayal unleashes a violent maelstrom as Beckett's massive fleet appears on the horizon. As the Black Pearl and the Flying Dutchman clash head on, Will again proposes to Elizabeth, and Barbossa marries them amid the fighting. When Davy Jones mortally wounds Will, Bootstrap Bill attacks him. Jack, who has captured the heart for his own immortality, instead helps Will to stab it, killing Jones, who was about to kill Bootstrap. As Will dies, the crew carves out his heart and places it into the Dead Man’s Chest. Jack and Elizabeth escape as the Dutchman is pulled into the whirlpool, but it quickly resurfaces with Will at the helm as the new captain. Uniting forces, the Dutchman and the Black Pearl destroy the Endeavor, killing Beckett and forcing the armada to retreat.

Although Will has been saved, and the Dutchman crew has regained their humanity, Will is now bound to the Flying Dutchman and he must spend ten years in the netherworld ferrying souls to the other side. Will and Elizabeth have one day together to consummate their marriage on an island before Will leaves. Will entrusts Elizabeth with the Dead Man’s Chest containing his heart. Shortly after, Barbossa again commandeers the Black Pearl to seek the Fountain of Youth using Feng's charts, and stranding Jack in Tortuga. Having anticipated Barbossa’s deception, Jack already removed the chart's center and sets sail in a small dinghy, searching for immortality. In a post-credits scene set ten years later, Elizabeth and her son wait atop a cliff overlooking the sea. A green flash heralds Will's return from the netherworld.

Cast

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A promotional picture for the film showing, from left to right: Captain Hector Barbossa, Will Turner, Captain Jack Sparrow, Elizabeth Swann and Captain Sao Feng.
  • Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow: Pirate Lord of the Caribbean Sea, he was tricked by Elizabeth Swann into being swallowed by the Kraken to save the crew. Sparrow is trapped in Davy Jones' Locker until a rescue party arrives, whereupon he returns to the living world to battle his nemesis, Davy Jones. While in the Locker, he suffers hallucinations, seeing multiple versions of himself, each representing a different facet of his personality.
  • Orlando Bloom as Will Turner: A blacksmith turned pirate, and the son of the pirate "Bootstrap Bill" Turner, a crewman on the Flying Dutchman, commanded by Davy Jones. Will hopes to free his father, and marry Elizabeth even though he believes she loves Sparrow.
  • Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Swann/Turner: Governor Swann’s daughter and engaged to Will. She tricked Sparrow into being swallowed by the Kraken to save herself and the Black Pearl crew. Sparrow is unable to forgive her for sending him to his doom. She is elected Pirate King by the Brethren Court.
  • Geoffrey Rush as Captain Hector Barbossa: Pirate Lord of the Caspian Sea, was the first mate of the Black Pearl under Jack's command. He was cursed after he took the Aztec Gold. Although killed by Sparrow a year before, a resurrected Barbossa returns to lead the Black Pearl crew to the World's End. He and Sparrow argue over who is the real captain of the Black Pearl.
  • Bill Nighy provides a small scene of live action, in addition to the motion capture and voice acting for Davy Jones: The ghostly ruler of the ocean realm, captain of The Flying Dutchman, and to whom Jack owed a blood debt. His heart was taken by James Norrington, and as a result, he is now trapped into service to Lord Cutler Beckett of the East India Trading Company, who forced him to kill his pet Kraken. In one moment, Tia Dalma reveals his original human form.
  • Tom Hollander as Lord Cutler Beckett: Chairman of the East India Trading Company and the main villain of the film. Beckett possesses Davy Jones' heart, thus controlling the world's oceans and seven seas.
  • Naomie Harris as Tia Dalma: A witch who travels with the Black Pearl crew to rescue Jack. She also raised Hector Barbossa from the dead at the conclusion of Dead Man's Chest. She is more powerful than the crew realizes.
  • Stellan Skarsgård as "Bootstrap Bill" Turner: Will's father, he is cursed to serve an eternity aboard The Flying Dutchman. He is slowly losing his humanity, and grows confused over whether his son will rescue him or not.
  • Chow Yun-Fat as Captain Sao Feng: Pirate Lord of the South China Sea, he captains the Chinese ship The Empress. He has a bad history with Sparrow. "Sao Feng" (嘯風) means "Howling Wind" in Chinese.
  • Jack Davenport as James Norrington: He has an alliance with Lord Beckett and the East India Trading Company after stealing the heart of Davy Jones and bargaining it to Cutler Beckett in exchange for his career. He is also Elizabeth's former fiancé and still loves her.
  • Kevin McNally as Joshamee Gibbs: Jack's loyal, superstitious first mate.
  • Lee Arenberg as Pintel: A slightly mischievous, stolid member of Jack's crew.
  • Mackenzie Crook as Ragetti: A Black Pearl crewman and Pintel's eccentric friend who has a wooden eye.
  • Jonathan Pryce as Weatherby Swann: Governor of Port Royal, Jamaica. He is Elizabeth's father and is also trapped in Beckett's service.
  • Keith Richards as Captain Teague: A pirate who is the Keeper of the Code for the Brethren Court. He is Jack Sparrow's father, and keeps the shrunken head of his dead wife with him.

Production

Following Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl's success in 2003, the cast and crew signed on for two more sequels to be shot back-to-back.[1] For the third film, director Gore Verbinski wanted to return the tone to that of a character piece after using the second film to keep the plot moving. The film would explore Jack Sparrow's mad desperation to not return to Davy Jones' Locker,[2] Barbossa's political manipulations, the completion of Will and Elizabeth's coming of age arcs, the increasing humanity in Davy Jones and Norrington and vice versa in "Bootstrap" Bill.[3] Actor Johnny Depp was happy that he got more screentime with Geoffrey Rush than in the first film: "We're like a couple of old ladies fighting over their knitting needles... it's fantastic!"[4] Inspired by the real-life confederation of pirates, Elliott and Rossio looked at historical figures and created fictional characters from them to expand the scope beyond the main cast.[5] Finally embellishing their mythology, Calypso was introduced, going full circle to Barbossa's mention of "heathen gods" that created the curse in the first film.[6]

Parts of the third film were shot during location filming of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, a long shoot which finished on March 1 2006.[7] Chow Yun-Fat was confirmed to be playing Sao Feng in July 2005 while production of the second film was on hiatus.[8] Chow relished playing the role, even helping out crew members with props.[2] The two-film schedule resumed in August at the Singapore set, built on Stage 12 of the Universal backlot. It comprised 40 structures within a 80 by 130 foot tank that was 3½ feet deep. As 18th century Singapore is not a well-documented era, the filmmakers chose to use an Expressionist style based on Chinese and Malaysian cities of the same period. The design of the city was also intended by Verbinski to parody spa culture, with fungi growing throughout the set. Continuing this natural feel, the floorboards of Sao Feng's bathhouse had to be cut by hand, and real humidity was created by the combination of gallons of water and the lighting equipment on the set.[9]

Keith Richards, who partially inspired Johnny Depp's portrayal of Sparrow, was meant to appear in Dead Man's Chest, but there was no room for him in the story,[10] and he almost missed filming a scene in At World's End following injuries sustained by falling out of a palm tree. In June 2006, Verbinski finally managed to make room in Richards' schedule to shoot in September,[11] when he spent his three days of shooting drunk.[2] Filming resumed in August 2006 at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah[12] and continued until early 2007 for seventy days off the California coast, as all the shooting required in the Caribbean had been conducted in 2005.[13] Davy Jones' Locker was shot at Utah, and it was shot in a monochromatic way to represent its difference feeling from the usual colorful environment of a pirate.[14]

The climactic battle was shot in a former air hanger at Palmdale, California,[15] where the cast had to wear wetsuits underneath their costumes on angle-tipped ships. The water-drenched set was kept in freezing temperatures, to make sure bacteria did not come inside and infect the crew.[16] The maelstrom was one of many water-based challenges for Industrial Light & Magic in the film, spending just five months finishing the special effects. ILM took on 750 shots, while Digital Domain also took on 300.[17] A second unit shot at Niagara Falls.[18]

Filming finished on January 10 2007 in Molokai,[19] and the first assembly cut was three hours.[20] Twenty minutes were removed, not including end credits, though producer Jerry Bruckheimer maintained that the long running time was needed to make the final battle work in terms of build-up.[21] One scene cut explained that if Calypso had greeted Davy Jones after his ten years of ferrying dead souls, then he would have been freed of his duty: in turn, Will is freed of his captaincy as Elizabeth remains faithful to him ten years later.[22] Hans Zimmer composed the score as he did for the previous film, composing eight new motifs including a new love theme for the At World's End soundtrack.[19]

Marketing

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Original teaser poster for the film. The Chinese characters on the poster mean "Good luck, Captain Jack."

At the 2006 San Diego Comic-Con International, two minutes of footage was shown including Captain Jack Sparrow having to convince the crew to run back and forth on the ship deck to rock a ship over and Sparrow and Davy Jones battling on top of a crow's nest during the maelstrom battle.[23] After a muted publicity campaign, the trailer finally debuted at ShoWest 2007.[24] It was shown on March 18, 2007 at a special screening of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl named "Pirates Ultimate Fan Event", and was then shown on March 19 during Dancing with the Stars, before it debuted online.[25]

Action figures by NECA were released in late April.[26] Board games such as a Collectors Edition Chess Set, Monopoly Game and Pirates Dice Game (Liar's Dice) were also released. Master Replicas have made sculptures of characters and replicas of jewelery and the Dead Man's Chest.[27] A video game with the same title as the film was released on May 22 2007 on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, PSP, PlayStation 2, PC and Nintendo DS formats.[28] The soundtrack and its remix were also released on May 22.

Release

The world premiere of At World's End was held on May 19, 2007, at Disneyland, home of the ride that inspired the movie and where the first two films in the trilogy debuted. Disneyland offered the general public a chance to attend the premiere through the sale of tickets, priced at $1,500 each, with proceeds going to the Make-A-Wish Foundation charity.[29] Just a few weeks before the film's release, Walt Disney Pictures decided to move the United States opening of At World's End from screenings Friday, May 25, 2007 to Thursday at 8:00pm, May 24, 2007.[30] The film opened in 4,362 theaters domestically, beating Spider-Man 3's theater opening record by 110.[31]

Reaction

Like Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, At World's End received mixed reviews with the most common criticism of the film from reviewers was that the plot was too convoluted for them to follow. Drew McWeeny was an exception, praising its complexity as giving it repeat-viewing value, and its conclusion as "perhaps the most canny move it makes."[32] Todd Gilchrist found the story too similar to other cinematic trilogies such as Star Wars but praised the production values.[33] Brian Lowry felt that "unlike last year's bloated sequel, [it] at least possesses some semblance of a destination, making it slightly more coherent - if no less numbing during the protracted finale."[34] Total Film praised the performances but complained that the twists and exposition made it hard to care for the characters.[35] Edward Douglas liked the film but had issues with its pacing,[36] while Blake Wright criticized the Davy Jones' Locker and Calypso segments.[37] James Berardinelli found it the weakest of the trilogy as "the last [hour] offer adventure as rousing as anything provided in either of the previous installments... that doesn't account for the other 108 minutes of this gorged, self-indulgent, and uneven production."[38] Peter Travers praised Richards and Rush but felt "there can indeed be too much of a good thing" regarding Depp.[39] At World's End has only a 47% score at Rotten Tomatoes.

Favourable reviewer Alex Billington noted, "This is just how the film industry works nowadays, critics give bad opinions, films make money, the public usually has a differing opinion, and all is well in the world of Hollywood since the studios made their millions anyway."[40] On May 24, 2007 the film earned $58 million worldwide,[41] and earned the fifth-biggest three-day opening yet, breaking the Memorial Day weekend record of X-Men: The Last Stand, with a domestic gross of $142 million. The addition of the Thursday screenings gross bought the opening total to $156 million. Elsewhere, it grossed $205 million, bringing the worldwide opening gross to $332 million.[42] By June 13 2007, the film grossed $500 million overseas in 20 days, breaking Spider-Man 3's record for reaching that amount the quickest,[43] and it has grossed $872 million worldwide.[44]

Censorship

At least one nation's official censors have ordered scenes cut from the movie. According to Xinhua, the state news agency of the People's Republic of China, 10 minutes of footage containing Chow Yun-Fat's portrayal of Singaporean pirate Sao Feng have been trimmed from versions of the film which may be shown in China. Chow is onscreen for 20 minutes in the uncensored theatrical release of the film. No official reason for the censorship was given, but unofficial sources within China have indicated that the character offered a negative and stereotypical portrayal of the Chinese people.[45]

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