User blog comment:CutlerBeckett/Isla de Muerta/@comment-1984959-20130106031735

Just had to make a newer comment, as this might be a tad big of a post as well. As luck would had it, I got to watch CotBP today(just cause lol), and after watching it, I decided to get the actual quotations from the audio commentary with the four writers to see if my comment below was accurate or not...just in case.

Well, in short, almost all I said was right. The only big difference really was that Jack kinda anticipated the battle...hence why he took a piece of the gold from the chest(to make himself immortal just in case). But enough of the semi-obvious, here's the words from our esteemed writers word-for-word:

(Starting when Jack grabs Aztec coins from the stone chest while talking to Barbossa) ''Terry: In terms of the mechanics of the curse, here's a rather key moment. It's in there, provided for you in slow-motion and there's two shots, and we actually let, uh, the Will character register it. It's right there, for those who might miss it, mostly critics, that Johnny has actually stolen the coin for himself. He's predicted that he may be able to divide and conquer Barbossa's forces, but he's anticipating the battle to come. And, if you're about to...If you're going to bring off this whole strategy, and try to defeat this guy, he figures, hey, you know, a little insurance. I might as well make myself immortal just in case. Ted: That's also the moment when Will realizes, that from the beginning, this has been Jack's plan, to get Will close enough to the treasure to lift the curse but at the moment that is most profitable to Jack, which in this instance would also be most profitable to Will. I also want to point out Jack's plan here was to keep all of the British on the Dauntless, and have all of the pirates row out on rowboats where basically the Dauntless can just keep firing cannonballs at them until the curse is lifted. He did not anticipate Norrington going to ambush them as they came out of the cave, and he did not anticipate this.'' (Ending during the underwater march scene)