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- "You can keep doing that forever, the dog is never going to move."
- ―Jack Sparrow to the seedy prisoners
These four individuals were incarcerated in the Fort Charles prison for unknown crimes.
Biography[]
At some point in their lives, these four men were captured and imprisoned by the British Royal Navy for unknown reasons. Later, Jack Sparrow was placed in a cell next to theirs. They attempted to lure a scruffy dog, who was carrying the keys, with a large bone. Jack correctly predicted that the dog was never going to move.[1]
Shortly afterwards, cannon blasts were heard outside. Jack, looking out the barred window, concluded that the Black Pearl was attacking Port Royal. This fact terrified one man, who related that there were stories about the "Pearl", that she attacked ships and left no survivors. He had no answer when Jack asked him who had invented the stories, if there were no survivors.[1]
Later during the attack, a cannonball fired form the Pearl broke a hole in the seedy prisoners' cell wall and they escaped, leaving Jack behind. The prisoner who had been talking with Jack expressed his regret that Jack couldn't escape too.[1] Their further fate is unknown.
Behind the scenes[]
The seedy prisoners first appeared in Irene Trimble's junior novelization for the 2003 film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.[2] In the film's ending credits, Michael Sean Tighe was Seedy Looking Prisoner, Ben Wilson was Seedy Prisoner #2, Antonio Valentino was Seedy Prisoner #3, and Mike Babcock was Seedy Prisoner #4.[1] The prisoner who talked to Jack Sparrow and had the most lines was played by Michael Sean Tighe.[citation needed]
Walt Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean featured a jail scene, which introduced the gag with the pirate inmates trying to coax the key from a good-natured "guard dog," one of the attraction's—and the featured film's—most memorable moments.[3][4]
In Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio's first screenplay draft for The Curse of the Black Pearl, there are three seedy-looking prisoners in cell block of Fort Charles.[5] Although the final cut of the film featured four prisoners, three prisoners were retained in the 2003 junior novelization.[2] In the 2006 German The Curse of the Black Pearl novelization by Wolfgang and Rebecca Hohlbein there were six prisoners.[6]
The 2006 film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest featured a similar group of prisoners trying to lure Elizabeth Swann into coming closer to their cell.
Appearances[]
Sources[]
- Spirit Of The Ride
- Pirates of the Caribbean: From the Magic Kingdom to the Movies
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003 junior novelization), p. 30
- ↑ Spirit Of The Ride
- ↑ Pirates of the Caribbean: From the Magic Kingdom to the Movies
- ↑ Wordplayer.com - PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL by Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio
- ↑ Fluch der Karibik - Der Roman zum ersten Kinofilm, pp. 71-72