Silent Mary looks like the french ship La Couronne, I think.--Lord Beckett EITC (talk) 08:24, April 4, 2017 (UTC)
I think Silent Mary seems to be a ship of the line. Because of the enormous amount of gun fire power and the number of guns that galleon ships can carry. In addition, the ship's guns carried up to 3 decks, so it was certain that this ship would be classified as a ship first rate.
DMTNT Magazine info[]
Here's the translation of the Silent Mary pages (14-19) from the DMTNT Behind the scenes Magazine.--UskokViceroy of the Indies, Nemesis 21:16, 20 August 2023 (UTC)
DEMON FROM THE CURSED SHIP
Like its sinister captain, the Silent Mary causes terror in every pirate. Many years ago, her cannons destroyed dozens of pirate ships, but one day, a young Jack Sparrow sent the "Silent Mary" into the Devil's Triangle. The Spanish ship sank on the seabed, but then, half-rotten and broken up, rose again, becoming a ghost ship. From that moment on, the "Silent Mary" was doomed to sail the dark and misty waters of the Triangle, seeing no light, waiting for the day when Jack Sparrow would give the key to her freedom.
It's one of the Silent Mary's cannons, which the prop masters have made look like it's been rusting underwater for years, like the sails and hulk of the ghost ship. No other ship in the film could match the firepower of Salazar's ship. The Black Pearl and Queen Anne's Revenge each had 70 guns, while the Silent Mary was fitted with an additional third deck to accommodate 110 guns.
Concept-illustration of Salazar's sharks. Like watchdogs, they carry out all the commands of the captain. "They have to match the ship," explains Gary Broznich, director of visual effects. - That's why they are so mutilated, battered, gnawed. When the ghosts come down to the deck with the sharks to release them, we added broken jaws, slobbering mouths, flies everywhere, so that the audience would come out after the movie and think, "It's good that I'll never get there."
"Silent Mary" before the curse. Joachim Rönning, who co-directed the film with Espen Sandberg, wanted the Silent Mary to look solid rather than pretentious. In keeping with this vision, production designer Nigel Phelps stripped away all the intricate details from the first version to transform the "Silent Mary" into a frightening floating castle and high-security naval prison. Phelps added six gun turrets aft and forward. The sides of the ship were fitted with high sides and viewing platforms to give the main deck of the Mary the look of a prison yard.
On these two digital models of the main sail, one can distinguish the two-headed imperial eagle and the coat of arms of monarchist Spain. Above before the curse, below - after the curse.
Concept illustration of the "Silent Mary" before the curse.
Large wooden barrels are visible on the deck, but not for water or wine, but for prisoners. ______________________________
Concept illustration
The "Silent Mary" floating on the waves in the Devil's Triangle surrounded only by mist and ghosts of seagulls.
Concept illustration of the massive poop deck at the stern of the Silent Mary and her stern cannons.
Behind the scenes
Nigel Phelps and the art team have been working for several months to give all the ships individual features and thus make them easily recognizable. The different stern buildings and figureheads looked impressive in close-ups, and the colors of the sails helped best distinguish the ships from afar. Black sails on the Black Pearl, red on the Queen Anne's Revenge, and with a double-headed eagle on the main sail on the Silent Mary.
"Silent Mary" after the curse
The ghostly version of the "Silent Mary" is no less peculiar than a real ship. This is a broken skeleton, a floating skeleton with all decks and bulkheads, with a hull like a chest. “We wanted it to feel like death itself,” says director Ronning, and the artists succeeded quite well. But it's not just about appearance: when the Silent Mary attacks the ship, her hull opens like the mouth of a huge beast, then tears her prey and drowns it. Salazar's ship is like a sea monster, from which no pirate ship can escape.
3D model of the figurehead on the "Silent Mary" before and after the curse of the Devil's Triangle. ______________________________
Concept illustration of the Silent Mary crashing on the rocks surrounding the Devil's Triangle. A fire flares up near the gunpowder kegs, and a powerful explosion blows the ship to pieces, destroying the hull, decks and all people on board.
- Nice. Other than the "Silent Mary" instead of "Mute Mary" and "Silent Maria" which is some misspellings in the original translation that I just corrected. Other than that, it seems about all right to me, more or less. Well done! :) --
CJSFanOn Stranger Tides, Arkham City 11:19, 21 August 2023 (UTC)