Thread:Uskok/@comment-27295021-20180325125431/@comment-27295021-20180326180508

No, the character was named Hawkins in the second POTC movie by the film-makers themselves, but it wasn't mentioned within the narritive of the movie, so they told us in the commentary who this apparently unidentified captain, was "supposed to be", which based on the context in which it was stated, meant "this is who this unnamed character actually was". They didn't say the name Hawkins was inspired/borrowed from a character from Treasure Island, they said the captain himself was a character from Treasure Island. Which makes sense, POTC is Disney, Disney have been involved in film adaptations of the book, among them if I am not much mistaken the famous version from 1950 with Robert Newton as Long John Silver.

Sorry, I should have clearified: When Jack Sparrow is told of the Wicked Wench and offered to captain her by Beckett in the Price of Freedom, I seem to remember seeing things from Beckett's perspective at the time. So theoretically, Jack could have recognized and rejoiced at the prospect of being reunited with his old pirate ship without showing it through body language or expression to conceal his past as a pirate from Beckett, but then why is there not as much as an inkling of any sort of recognition or glee over returning to the aforementioned ship from Jack whatsoever throughout the rest of the book. Jack goes to the dock to fix up the ship, and describes it in detail, but at no point does he even to himself give any indication that he had ever seen it before.

Therefore - yes, it is a plot hole. And this is the reason I am so certain that it is: