- "Where precisely do you think you're going, gentlemen? This is a prison, not an inn."
- ―Mordillah to Jack Sparrow and Edward Teague
The Turkish Prison was a prison fortress located in the Mediterranean Sea, near the Ottoman Empire. It was built into the side of a cliff. At the time Jack Sparrow and his father Edward Teague were incarcerated, Mordillah was the warden.
History[]
- "Not quite according to plan."
"Complications arose, ensued, were overcome." - ―Joshamee Gibbs and Jack Sparrow
Jack Sparrow escaping the prison.
Prisoners were dragged along a stone bridge and through large, foreboding gateway. The bridge was lined with hanging cages, containing living prisoners who often became snacks for the ravens that circled above the prison. Such prisoners as died within the fortress were cast off a cliff into the churning sea in simple, wooden coffins.
Captain Jack Sparrow somehow infiltrated the Turkish Prison in the year following his escape from Port Royal, and escaped from his cell with the help of Captain Teague. Jack freed several prisoners, and defeated a prison warder in combat. Jack found a drawing of the key to the Dead Man's Chest on the body. He then defeated Mordillah the Warden and escaped by sneaking into a coffin, and getting cast into the Mediterranean Sea like the other corpses. Jack was able to blast his way out of the casket, after a raven kept pecking on it, and used the rotting occupant's leg as an oar to reach the Black Pearl.
Behind the scenes[]
- The location of the Turkish Prison is unknown, since "Turkish" often referred to anything relating to or associated with the Ottoman Empire, which controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa. It is possible it was located on the Barbary Coast, as an older version of DisneyPirates.Com stated that Jack Sparrow was taken to the prison by corsairs.[2]
- A portion of the Turkish Prison scene was filmed on a set, while the rest was a digital matte painting created by Industrial Light & Magic.[3][4] The scene in which the prison coffins were thrown into the sea was filmed at Peruvian Vale, St. Vincent.[3]
- The White Island prison in the short comic The Black Heart of the Pearl bears some resemblance to the Turkish Prison.
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Notes and references[]
- ↑ The location of the Prison Fortress in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, as shown on a world map in the At World's End video game.
- ↑ DisneyPirates.com - Archived
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Bring Me That Horizon: The Making of Pirates of the Caribbean
- ↑ CGSociety: A Treasure Chest of Techniques - archived
