Does any of U understand Pirates III? Or you are as confused as I am?

Question

I have seen pirates I and II and I liked them. Before going to the movies with my friends, I watched the dvds of pirates I and II to recall my memory. But after seeing the movie, I thought I didn't quite understand a lot of stuff. If you understand the whole thing, would you please explain to me?

Answer 1

Yeah... you weren't the only one. It was a jumbled mess of a movie.

Answer 2

Lets get one thing straight. There was never gonna be a Pirates II & III until Pirates I was so lucrative. Same scenario as the Matrix trilogy and Star Wars episodes 5 &6. The Hollywood producers and souless corporate businessman just wanted everyone to believe they had alway planned for a trilogy.

The reason Pirates III was so perplexing and confusing was becasue it was yet another shameful Hollywood attempt to create a movie universe -- much in a similiar mode as the Star Wars universe. They made the main characters more complicated to give them their own backstory to sale to us at a later date.

They even made Jack Sparrow cartoon-like in an (hopefully) unsucessful attempt to design a spin-off character.

The movie contained no clear cut heroine or villain in an psychological attempt to get us all to watch it again and buy the DVD so we could try and figure out what was actually trainspiring.

Uhh ... shameful.

Answer 3

It's a lot to understand, but I'll lay down the basics stuff you needed to understand in POTC 3:
Davy Jones was in love with Tia Dalma, who was really Calypso.
Lord Beckett wanted control of the Flying Duchmen so he could rid the seas of pirates due to the Flying Duchmen's combat capabilities.

Beckett also was rounding up pirates and people associated with pirates in the beginning of the movie so as to making them sound(or rather "sing") the pirate call. Which would alert all the pirate lords to come together and decide what to do when piracy was being threaten. With them all together, Beckett assumed he could find and destroy them in one quick swoop.

Davy Jones was cursed(in looking like a sea monster) like he was because he didn't keep up his end of the bargain in beginning the captain of the Flying Dutchman, which was to guide or rather transport the dead to the "other side"

Will betrays them(Jack and crew) in order to save his father's life.

When we first see Jack he is trapped in Davy Jones locker in a sort of neverending hell because he can't move his ship anywhere due to the lack of water, but at the same time he some how sort of mentally overcomes this problem and the crabs help him bring the ship to water, which is when Elizabeth and "the gang" show up to save him.

I'm assuming you understand the only way to kill Davy Jones was to stab his heart. BUT when doing so another heart had to take it's place. Thus, Will's heart had to be the one to replace it because he was already wounded and dying anyway so to save his life they had to put his heart in the chest

At the end when Beckett is just standing there he realizes defeat because the Dutchman is no longer under his control. Thus, he doesn't give orders. He knows he's lost.

That's about all I feel like explaining. Sorry. Watch the movies again for more info.

Answer 4

The main point of Pirates 1 is to introduce the "protagonist" characters and familiarize us with their group dynamic - how they feel about each other. In this movie, East India Trading Company is portrayed as "The Man", but not necessarily as "The Villain". Any bad feelings we have toward Beckett and his employees can easily be written off as movie-induced perspective - we are *supposed* to be sympathetic toward Jack and the pirates because they're the main characters.

Pirates 2 serves as a setup for Pirates 3 because it more firmly establishes EITC as a villain (Beckett seeks out the heart of Davy Jones so he can use the Flying Dutchman as a tool to gain dominion over the seas and wipe out the pirates), and because it presents Will Turner, already established as a somewhat heroic figure, with a somewhat heroic quest to rescue his father off Jones's ship. (He's only "somewhat" heroic because he will gladly do whatever it takes to achieve his ends, even betray others. And while he has never liked Jack, betrayal is still a bad thing.)

If within the first five minutes of Pirates 3, you are not convinced EITC is truly villainous, there's something wrong with you. It's abundantly clear that the suspension of basic liberties in the name of protecting the realm from piracy came at Beckett's urging. And in a land so thoroughly oppressed, the pirates shine through as the protagonists because while they have always flouted the law, now the law is shown as a horrid ugly thing which they're *right* to flout. And in the face of an armada as powerful as Britain's (especially with the aid of the Flying Dutchman), the pirates have to band together against them. And thanks to our somewhat heroic Will following his somewhat heroic quest, and our beloved Jack Sparrow showing his quirky sense of pirate honour (and love for Elizabeth) at precisely the right time, Davy Jones is unseated as the captain of the Dutchman, which breaks EITC's stranglehold on marine trade, which means the "good guys" win - yay!

Did you wonder why Beckett refused to give the order to fire? He saw that the Flying Dutchman (with new captain Will Turner) was sailing *against* him. The immortal ship was no longer under his control, and he had been relying heavily on that to maintain his power. In his eyes, it was all over, and he gave up right then and there.

Don't think too hard about the part where they're rescuing Jack from Davy Jones's Locker. They needed to rescue him for the sake of unifying the pirates (the nine pieces of eight), and journeys to the underworld are always...interesting. That's all you really need to worry about.

Also, Calypso was a bad idea for this movie. She didn't need to be there, so ignore everything about her and see if that helps. They should have just mentioned her in Pirates 2 to help solidify Davy Jones's background, and then they could have left her out of the movie altogether. Why couldn't there just have been a mundane storm that day, without her divine influence? (Not to mention the appearance of the maelstrom made me want to yell "Calypso, not Charybdis, you dummies!")

Answer 5

Well the movie was originally likr 6 hours long, so they cut a lot out of it. like at the end after the credits, they didnt explain (but a friend looked it up online somewhere) and the green glow at the end was symbolic of him being released because elizabeth waited on the island for him for 10 yrs. supposedly they are gonna make it like start wawrs and go in and add sequels and prequels in it to make things make more sense. Frankly it dosent even make sense why they are even in that part of the world to begin with, so a prequel would make sense. But I have heard that they are having trouble getting johnny depp to sign on for 3 more movies. we shall see what happens.

Answer 6

I thought it was great. It had more to do with the psyche and what is going on through Jack Sparrow's mind. Most of our minds' are a mess though aren't they, yet through the mind we are able to understand better the depths of creativity and therefore the other person's thought patterns. Jack did a great job figuring out his dilemma. It was a bit like the Odyssey of Homer this time in trying to get home. I can't wait til the next adventure to see where it goes.

Answer 7

The 2nd and 3rd movies were unnecessary extensions to a very good movie, This is to show you how greed can surpass artistic endeavor.Same with Shrek.

Answer 8

i already didn't understand the 2nd one so i'm positive i won't understand the 3rd; from what i have read so far, every single review of the movie says the same thing too. that it is ridiculously complicated and nonsensical. too bad.

Answer 9

u need 2 watch it a few it does get easy 2 understand hun

Answer 10

Well, what all dont you understand? The whole movie?