How Pirates of the Caribbean Became a $140 Million Writing Prompt 

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I'm most astonished that Davy Jones' CGI stands up to this very day. Even surpasses a lot of CGI done today.

Me: "You're mad." Writers of PotC: "Thank goodness for that. 'Cause if I wasn't, this'd probably never work."

The sheer menacing laugh when he gives when he realizes Will and Elizabeth are in love before stabs will in the heart is great visual story telling and character realization

"... Elizabeth pining for Jack..." Do you mean Elizabeth using Jack's obvious feelings for her to use him to get to Will, then weaponizing those feelings to kill him, and finally becoming so guilt-ridden over it that she commits completely to traveling to Hell in order to raise the dead?

"We need a ship." *googles spooky ships* "Sure, that'll do."

Davy Jones is by far, besides the main trio, is the most developed and interesting character in the series. He's a menacing being, and a nearly empathetic villain. His love for Calypso is tragic and heartbreaking, and the scene in the prison was haunting.

I think overall the writing behind Davy Jones and his whole concept really shows the strength of having a central theme, whatever it may be. While Davy Jones, the Flying Dutchman and the Kraken are not related in any way, their shared relation makes it all believable. Not to mention when it comes to the pirate setting, not many are likely going to know that all these things are simply stitched together. Even if it was all just thrown together, its central theme of the ocean's depths made it easy to understand and enjoyable to watch.

Thanos: "Reality is whatever I make it." A Writer: "First time?"

For stories, there's no such thing as a bad idea, only a bad execution. There are ideas that are easier than others, and ideas that are harder. There are ideas that seem inherently incredible but are wrong for your story. There are ideas that seem inherently stupid that will make your story a masterpiece. Find a way to make the dumbest thing you can think of into the best thing you've ever seen. How else would we have Star Wars, a film about dogs and wizards flying spaceships shaped like hamburgers? How else would we have the Lord of the Rings, a story about destroying jewelry in a volcano with the help of talking trees and very hungry little people? How else would we have Super Mario, a story-ish thing about an Italian plumber who eats mushrooms to destroy an evil fire-breathing turtle? How else would we have even the eldest stories of Gilgamesh? Beowulf? All the way down to the absurdities of Spongebob and Gravity Falls? The "dumbest" ideas, the most random, are also the ones nobody else has tried yet. It's just a matter of making it into something people will actually care about.

I know Pirates gets a bad rap, but I really do enjoy the series. They make my simple minded brain go brrrrrrrr

Great critique. The only thing I disagree with here is the use of “random.” They pulled directly from sea faring/pirate mythology. As far as I can tell each choice has been inspired, given the large catalog to draw from (of which we subsequently get in the later, distinctly uninspired sequels). As you mentioned, they looked at what the first movie was and boiled it down to its elements I.e. cursed gold, a crew of the damned, bigger than life characters; and crafted another plot in the same manner. The Dutchman, kraken, dead mans chest etc. aren’t superficial elements, their important to the narrative. Love, fate, and ambition are reoccurring themes in the films and I think the bold mythological elements they adapted are fairly intentional. One mans opinion. Thanks for the thought provoking vid!

You: Davy Jones is a well written villain with a complicated backstory, and is a great stand in for the difficult to understand phenomenon that is relationship and betrayal. Me: Haha Squid man

"her image is of a crab which is linked to the ocean" not at all, lol. Calypso was the Nymph that lured Odysseus to her island. She is an allegory for the life of a sailor, Odysseus loved calypso but he had to forsake her to return to his wife and life on the land. Also there is the great link because Calypso offered Odysseus immortality if he would stay with her, but he could not because his honor and oath was more important to him than immortality and pleasure.

The best thing about creating a world? If you think of something that is too "fantastical" to be in your world, make a short story out of it, and put it in the world as internal folklore/myth/stories. I love writing stories within the stories, creating mythologies for characters that lived millenia before it. Honestly, incorporating the fantastical into the grounded in a realistic way is one of my favorite things. A man defeated a lion with his bear hands a few millenia ago? He is now known as a demi-god that had to kill a special and fantastical lion in order to be accepted by the gods. (my favorite origin theory for one of the labors of hercules) Not only does this make your world sound more alive, it gives you freedom to go crazy even when your world is bound by rules.

Bill Nighy is completely brilliant. He's part of the reason Davy is so compelling

How these movies managed to be as good as they are is a testament to the talent of those who made them. I only hope to be able to come up with something that amazing out of a few spitball ideas and images some day. Of course, having acting powerhouses like Johnny Depp and Bill Nighy helps.

So, basically, they threw together a whole bunch of odds and ends of lore that were totally unrelated to each other, but the individual parts were so obscure that everyone *assumed* that they were supposed to go together, and so kind of just.. took it in stride. Kind of genius, actually.

I feel like I’d rather use the word “integrated”’rather than “random” for the creation of Davy Jones. Maybe I’m misunderstanding the reality of maritime legends, but it seems like they took real legends or maritime fears and integrated them with the things they created, rather than just coming up with random things. I don’t mean to undercut your point about creativity and writing. It’s a really good point I want to take to heart, and clearly the Davy Jones creative team took to heart the idea of mixing varied concepts and legends even if they seemed incongruous. I learned a lot about that in this video, I’d always assumed it was a real legend. I think it gets a lot of believability by pulling from real myths, as ridiculous as the world building is otherwise.

I never understood the hate behind the second and third Pirates movie

For being an early 2000s series, I always liked how their special effects looked, the skeletons in the first movie looked amazing, Davy Jones looks like an actual living creature; better than most movies can do nowadays.

The Pirates trilogy really had an affect on people this is the 7th video essay I've found in the past week.

Idk, I don’t think you’re giving the series enough credit in how smart it was written

Nailed it. Davey Jones was the best-written part of Pirates 2 & 3...even if it was apparently by accident. For me personally, the biggest writing letdown of the Pirates trilogy was the fact that they hinted at the origin of Jack and the Black Pearl (i.e. that he was hauling slaves for the EITC but set them free) but didn't expand on that at all. Such a lost opportunity.

“Your son was fortunate enough to find a ship, yet not quite fortunate as to find land. Ha, ha” I don’t know why this gets me every time 🤣🤣🤣

The entirety of the Pirates of the Caribbean series is just unintentional genius. Kind of an example that having the right people at the right time in the right places can bottle lightning. More so than a happy accident, it shows the strength of individual talent.

1. Davy 2. Jones 3. Barbossa 4. Barbossa It's literally impossible for me to agree more with this list.

This is just a testament to what writing truly is. Writing is lying with confidence, if you can smack random ideas together, use things that have no basis in reality and convince people that all of this works then you are a good writer.

Everything you mentioned here is just evidence of the process of writing. Working off of prompts, choosing from concept art, tying together ideas that weren't previously related in a way that makes it seem organic is just good writing. To ignore these very basic techniques and strain yourself to produce an idea from nothing, that would be random. What these writers did, unsurprisingly, was write.

Your description of Davy Jones story strongly reminded me of Anakin Skywalker and his fall into Darth Vader. Here's a crazy thought - imagine if star wars episode 2 and 3 told that story as well as Pirates of the Caribbean... I didn't start the day thinking I'd write that sentence

The whole "heart in a box" thing is borrowed from the myth of Baba Yaga. It's not a writers' original creation at all XD

6:27 Heavily disagree. Jack's internal struggle felt just as real, if not more so, than Jones', mostly because we actually _see_ his story as opposed to just being told Jones' backstory. The entire crux of his conflict with Jones is him not wanting to die by climbing and stepping over others no matter how helpful they've been for him and, by the third movie, ultimately desiring Jones' immortality for himself even at the cost of his allies' lives. As opposed to Will and Elizabeth's heroism, Jack has been marked by being self-serving throughout the trilogy. Even as far back as the first film, he only agrees to help Will rescue Elizabeth (an innocent bystander) due to wanting vengeance on Barbossa and reclaiming the Black Pearl, and manipulates Will and other characters to get what he wants. Even after Elizabeth risked her neck to save his life from the gallows in the first film (and being explicitly told as much by Will, who _also_ saved his life at the end of the first film), Jack selfishly puts off giving Beckett his compass in favor of seeking Davy Jones' heart to get out of being forced to serve the rest of his life aboard the Dutchman (a deal Jack also selfishly got himself into when he traded the Black Pearl being raised from the ocean depths and captaining her for 13 years in exchange for joining Jones' crew). However, despite all his confident manipulations, Jack realizes he internally has moral quandaries, and he realistically fights himself over whether to only serve himself or aid those around him who have been caught up in his mess (something Gibbs, an ever-loyal ally of his, notes multiple times), culminating in him going back to the Black Pearl when the Kraken attacked it when he previously escaped to save his own skin. However, Jack's internal struggle isn't over yet, which is actually good since people don't just change overnight. In the third movie, Jack still has conflicts with himself over doing the right thing, highlighted by his repeated talks with his hallucinated other selves as he refuses to fully cooperate with the other pirates in a united front against Jones and Beckett. This continued struggle actually makes sense. Despite having gone back to help the others in the previous film, it's still undeniable that doing so _literally got killed_ and is the reason he was stuck in Davy Jones' Locker to begin with, so of course the thought of completely throwing away his self-serving attitude doesn't come to pass and instead distrusts his own rescuers with a treacherous perspective. This is only heightened by the revelation that whoever stabs Jones' heart gains his immortality, and since escaping death has been Jack's number one goal for all the movies so far, his past attitude rears its ugly head when he helps Will sabotage the pirates' efforts by sending Beckett the compass to let him find the Brethren Court and make a deal with Beckett to once again save himself while everyone else would be killed by the armada's cannons. While Will is also sabotaging the pirates' side, he's doing so with selfless motivations - he wants to stab Jones' heart purely to free his cursed father and views the Dutchman's immortality as a curse - whereas Jack's intentions are still purely to help himself at the cost of literally everyone else getting screwed over. Heck, Jack helping Elizabeth to get the Pirate Lords to fight was in fact a ploy to get the last remaining pirate fleet onto the open ocean and spare Beckett the trouble of laying siege to Shipwreck Cove's fortress defenses as part of his secret deal with Beckett. This is why Jack's final meeting with his hallucinated selves in the brig of the Dutchman is one of my favorite scenes, because it's a culmination of Jack's internal struggle so far; he's now _so_ close to Jones' heart and stabbing it, but as he's bickering with his clones who mock him for being so close yet so far, he's suddenly confronted with a disturbing version of himself who has merged with the Dutchman's sea life and literally emerged from the woodwork of the Dutchman's walls. If one looks closely, Jack actually looks disgusted and even terrified by the Dutchman-ified version of himself who creepily orders Jack to just stab the heart and captain the Dutchman for eternity. Even the comedic music abruptly stops and takes on a creepier tone, and even though its gets comedic again later on, we're still put off and disturbed by the version of Jack who has joined the Dutchman as he casually rips his own brain off and shows how disfigured and merged with sea life he's become due to the Dutchman's immortality. This brief little scene with the Dutchman version of Jack is literally Jack glimpsing what he'll become if he actually succeeds in becoming immortal captain of the Dutchman, and he clearly does not like it. Still, he's come too far now and he doesn't feel there's any other recourse, so he proceeds with escaping the brig and locating the chest while his allies take care of the Dutchman's crew. All of this setup is why it's Jack who has the ultimate showdown with Jones atop the mast in the legendary maelstrom; sure, Will and Elizabeth briefly fight Jones, but it's Jack who has the climactic swordfight with Jones over the chest. Really, Jones is who Jack thinks he wants to be - free to sail the seas, able to live forever and do what he wants - but Jack's talk with his Dutchman self and his other hallucinated selves along with Will previously reminding him of the price of captaining the Dutchman (only going on land once every ten years) chips away at his committment to get Jones' position. In fact, _Jack's entire iconic fight against Jones on the Dutchman could be an allegory with Jack's struggles to escape death itself;_ in the beginning, Jack actually puts up a good fight, even disarming him of his sword and tricking Jones into revealing where he keeps the key on him to chop off the tentacle holding it. However, then Jones rebounds and disarms Jack of _his_ blade and forces Jack off the mast first. From there, Jack still manages to give Jones a hard time by improvising different tactics and ideas, but ultimately all these measures are temporary and inevitably cast aside by Jones' immortal powers (phasing through the wheel Jack ran around, having endless stamina to run and fight with, using his unkillable state and superhuman strength to knock aside the piece of wood), and almost knocks Jack out before Elizabeth and Will arrive to take on Jones themselves while Jack goes for the key with Jones distracted. The whole fight, Jack's skill and determination puts up a strong struggle and improvises ways to stay ahead even when his main weapons are countered, but ultimately Jones (death) is only one step behind him and Jack is only given the opportunity to get the advantage when his friends (Will and Elizabeth) arrive to distract Jones from him while he gets the heart. _All of this_ comes to a head when Jones, seeing the love between Will and Elizabeth and bitterly reminded of his own history with Calypso, fatally stabs Will - one of Jack's oldest friends - out of pure spite when Jack threatens to stab his heart. Jack was so utterly triumphant when he held a knife over Jones' bare heart; after spending so long being chased and terrified by Jones, he finally stood completely victorious over Davy Jones, and by extension, death itself... until Jones calls his bluff by attacking Jack where it hurts him more than he'd want to admit; friends like Will Turner. It's obvious Jack is horrified, because for as much as he's manipulated and used good-hearted friends like Will and Elizabeth and put himself before others, he can't lie to himself that he genuinely cares about them and can't completely be at peace with it. When Bill distracts Jones in a brief fight, Jack initially tries to steel himself to stab the heart and kill Jones and get his immortality, but then he stops when he hears and sees Elizabeth desperately trying to keep Will from passing. In that moment, Jack finally puts himself second - giving up immortality and perpetually evading death when he had become _so close_ - to instead allow Will to stab the heart, finally killing Jones and letting one of his best friends live. He rescues Elizabeth and ends up finally siding with his allies against the armada, shoving his deal with Beckett aside even before knowing Beckett betrayed the deal and is the first one who personally gives the order to fire on Beckett and send him and his ship to the depths.

As a kid who didn’t know what cgi was, I actually thought Bill nighy went through hours of makeup and prosthetics to bring Davy Jones to life

A fun bit of background on the CGI side of Davy Jones, they got the speckled appearance of his octopus parts from one of the artists noticing a stained styrofoam coffee cup in the trash looked "neat", so they took some pictures of the cup and recreated that stain pattern and texture as part of his texture to give it a bit more grit and roughness than just a clean slimy octopus would have. Every detail of the finished design is the result of throwing random ideas at the wall and seeing what looks good, right from the early stages you mentioned to the finishing touches. It's pretty amazing.

What I find really fascinating about Bill Nighy's performance is how well his strange, exaggerated facial movements and vocal inflections still work even without the cgi. At first glance, it seems that he is just exaggerating his movements so that they transfer better to the animated model, but they really add something to the intense, psychotic rage that drives the character.

When I was 12 years old, i watched „Dead Man‘s Chest“, and had to wait a year for „At World‘s End“. That time I figured out myself that Davy Jones wasn‘t a soulless monster but there was more than enough human in him. This realisation blew my mind, and when later all my „fan theories“ were confirmed in the third film, that blew my mind even more. So, PotC and Davy Jones kind of inspired my interest for media analysis and storytelling mechanics. Thank you for this video, it was a delight to watch and see that this character finally gets a validation that he deserves. Sorry for my English, it‘s not my first language.

Davy Jones is amazing. Bill Nighy completely _nails_ the role even when covered with CGI. The motion capture was flawless and kept all the quirks of his acting perfectly. He definitely steals every single scene he is in.

The Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy is so underrated. Sure, CotBP is looked upon favorably, but DMC and AWE are just as great, if not better.

I’m honestly shocked now that I think about it. After the Aquaman breakdown, these movies should’ve been the first thing to come to mind for mindless fun in need of a closer look. And yeah, 100 percent the one thing I always look back at as being great in these movies was Davy Jones. Also on a more direct note, why do I feel like the “final thought” of this video was aimed specifically at me? lol

Dead Man’s Chest and At Worlds End isn’t just throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks. It’s not all nonsensical and random, and even when it is, it’s not bad, it’s fun. The other storylines aren’t bad. It’s all neat/good stuff. Though I agree that Davy Jones is one of the best parts of the series.

I remember an interview of Keira Knightley. She didn't tell any of her friends she was in this movie because she, like all the others, was convinced it would be a flop.

I don't understand how you say that The Brethren Court is a random plotline when their existance is directly connected to Davy Jones origins, the character that you hailed as one of the best parts of the movies (2 &3). And his decision to help the first Brethren Court to imprison Calypso is also what sets in motion a lot of the plotlines that happens several years later in this trilogy. Is it not Barbossa on a mission by Calypso that is tasked to gather all Pirate Lords for the court? The other scenes are also not random but have deeper meaning that can be understood if you wanna dive deeper into the characters. Some examples: Jack had started making his moves against Davy Jones already when he searched for the key in Dead Mans chest but didn't know what he really wanted after going out of the prison and couldn't use the compass. He had conflicting feelings because: 1. He had feelings for Elizabeth that he didn't know if he could/wanted to act upon. 2. He wanted to find the chest so he could use it to gain freedom of the deal he made with Davy. After he gets the mark from Bill Turner he flees to nearest land and meets the cannibals. It might be random that they see him as a God etc but him being there is not random at all. And him being the God while the rest of the crew is imprisoned fits nicely into the character Jack Sparrow that always seems to get in to and out of situations that other deem as impossible. Elizabeth going after Will also fits nicely into her character and we already saw in the first movie that she wasn't the stereotypical damsel in distress just waiting to be saved but was capable of doing her own decisions and plays to get what she wanted. One example is her being the only one wanting to go in after Will and Jack to Isla de Muerta while the rest of the Black Pearls crew chose to flee after being released. Another is her whole storyline to choose her own suitor and not go with what fitted best to a woman of her stature. I feel like the storyline of all main characters in especially the third movie if heavily underrated. They are all following the larger tides of what's happening in the world ( Cutler Beckett gaining control of the sea, Calypso trying to break free) while also chasing their own selfish motives which leads to a lot of betrayals and going their own ways. This leads to a lot of twists in the movies which ultimately all comes down to an epic showdown with the very good written villan, Davy Jones.

I swear, Mr. Books. Every single time I see one of your character insight videos pop up in my feed, my brain goes "wow, I LOVE that character. Let me know WHY that's justified."

the magic of art is linking things in new and interesting ways and make it work. i think it's insane how they made all these crazy things work together so well for pirates 2 and 3. lots of franchises don't even manage to do that for a standalone movie. also, i think they came up with the calpyso thing because it's not just a greek water nymph from the odyssey, but also a really cool (black) music subculture from the caribbean and so it kinda worked to recontextualize the voodoo witch character they had established in pirates 2.

The crew of Pirates' Flying Dutchman always reminded me of the stuff at the bottom of the sink when you don't clean it out.

"Jones could have very easily just been an evil, ugly sea orc with a literal hell crew." For some reason, this line made me crack up. Excellent video!

"Burying a broken heart does not heal it" Damn

The way you describe how they made and stitched together Davy Jones' character and passed it off as "It's been like this all along,"... that happens with every movie. Maybe not EVERY movie, but most. The beginning product of a script is generally very different from the finished product. So, all you really explained in this is, "how movies work" with some Davy Jones explanation thrown in.

"10 years I devoted to the duty you charged me. 10 years I looked after those who died at sea. And finally when we could be together again, you weren't there. Why weren't you there?" - Davy Jones "It's my nature. Would you love me if I was anything but what I am?" - Calypso "I do not love you." - Davy Jones *moments later* "My heart will always belong to you." - Davy Jones whispers This brief scene perfectly encapsulates a relationship that was doomed to pain from the beginning but you so desperately want to succeed because of how relatable it is.

While Pearl will always be my favorite *film* in the franchise as a whole, Davy Jones is by leaps and bounds my favorite *character*.

What they did with Davy Jones was a really good concept to focus the romantic aspect along with the hybrid sea-creatures. There are not to many stories like that.

Had to pause the video, the way you said "Caribbean" seriously shocked me for a second. I'll be back in a minute, I just need to process this.

Eyy Savage Books got HIS OWN BOOK? Nice. Cant wait for a book review

There is so much detail to him, not just the design. The way he walks, the way he speaks, the sounds he makes and his personality. Definitely one of the best movie villains of all time.

Making up stuff happens so much in "historical" movies, so the Davey Jones stuff makes more sense than it should, ugh

The score that's tied to him is genius. That gentle melody gives him so much more depth as a character, not to mention its a beautifully written and emotive piece that stays in my head for hours. Even when it's played epically it's never the organ version or full orchestra that stays in my mind, it's always the soft music box that reflects his heart that I remember. A brilliant choice from all involved

The character was probably actually given her name not because of greek myth, but because Calypso is a genre of music in the caribbean, in particular Trinidad and Tobago. You might be more familiar with it's more famous offshoot Soca music (Soul of Calypso )

Jones is one of my favourite characters in movies, if not my all time favourite. The character design, performance, dialogue and story are simple iconic and the heart itself of the middle and end of the original trilogy. Honestly, it's quite surprising to know the creative process behind his creation and I cannot applaud enough the talent of everyone behind the movies. Thank you so much for this video.

Said this before to my friends who love these movies: Davy Jones is an S Tier villain in a pair of B Tier movies.

That wheel fight was actually really well-choreographed, original and amazing to watch, not just fodder for "the caveman demographic."

Honestly the mash up of a bunch of old myths and sailor’s stories is part of what I love about the pirates movies. Yeah, it can feel random at times but that’s super fun. The first three movies are just so delightfully over the top and obviously just playing to the pirate archetype but I love that.

Davy: “I do not love you.” Calypso: “Many tings you were Davy, cruel was never one of them.”

The three minute scene between Jones and Calypso had more chemistry and development than Will and Elizabeths relationship in the entire trilogy.

If Disney is going to make movies about its villains; find some young European theatre actor who can match Nighy's eccentricities to kick off a young Davy Jones series. Have each episode end in him furthering his curse

The first 3 Pirates of the Caribbean movies are one of the best trilogies of all time

The actor who plays Davy Jones is an absolute genius. They should make a movie about Davy Jones

Are these rules? Or more like... guidelines.

I actually really like the fight inside a wheel idea... they put a lot of thought into it; showing a bunch of sea bound lovers of the open waters, who live a lifestyle which requires a maxed skill called "sea legs", lose their sense of balance as their mad quest for power takes them away from their stomach turning, lurching, untamed home on the waves to solid dry land. It's ironic, as well as a thematic expression of how out of their element they are apart from the sea. Also, each character's reactions reflect their regard for the sea and land respectively. DMC has a lot more going on than some people give it credit for; beyond just Davey boy, whom I have to agree is the best thing going in this film. The way DMC was written was really good at making thematic connections. The next few sequels... not so much.

They really went alright to the idea dart board throws dart at a target lands on tentacles

Savage Books: shows a dark humor episode of spongebob squarepants with davy jones (which strangely didn't explained how they got out of that situation the next episode) Also Savage Books: shows a dark situation with davy jones

His story, casting, and everything just feels so right 🙏🏽

Everyone is in awe of how Davy Jones is written but you are all forgetting the awesome performance of Bill Nighy that brought Davy Jones to life.

Not trying to steal your thunder, but the best and most memorable villains are summed up as such. “Genuine passion, bad application.” Jones had a genuine passion for Calypso, when the hardship came, his genuine passion fuels by his terrible execution made him the villain. Vader, loved padme, tried to save her, did it by any means necessary,. (Genuine passion, terrible execution of that passion made him Vader). Thanos: genuine passion to save his people, he failed, his genuine passion to save everyone else because of his hurt and loss and wanting to act out in kindness but in the wrong way, made him the villain. It wasn’t that he wanted to save half the universe that made him a villain, it’s what he did to achieve it. (Genuine passion, terrible execution/bad application) All these people are feared, powerful, respected. But all of them were good people, wanting good things genuinely, but ended up becoming hurt, then their passion was used incorrectly making them the villain. If they used their passion correctly they could have done amazing things. They had the potential for greatness, but their pain caused confusion, and their confusion led them down the wrong path.

Hmm, this movie isn't random. It has a lot of coherent nautical/atlantic culture. Cannibals aren't random at all. In fact, Canniba is an Arawak term for a rivaled Kalinago tribe believed to have eaten other humans ritualistically to gain power. A lot of said nautical/mariner culture just isn't explained in movie.

I’m in the process of writing my very first book myself. I’ve had the idea in my head for a few years and pieced it together, but you’re absolutely correct when it’s difficult to apply it to paper. This video helped me in ways I did not realize!

I love this honestly, it shows that stories don't just happen, all the behind the scenes elements have to jell just right, and sometimes the most insignificant creative details can become central to the story as perceived by the audience

It's hilarious in hindsight that oda eiichiro (creator of one piece)based part of the arc of the fishermen's island on davy jones' character: the flying dutchman is the ship that carries davy jones' descendant, and the kraken is the one that's moving the ship around...

Johnny made this franchise what it is. What a shame he is getting cancelled.

I'm right now working on a novel. When I watch your videos, I feel like writing is this amazing, adventurous and challenging activity that can change worlds. For that I have to say, Thank you.

Great video, Davy Jones definitely carried the two movies he was involved in, and set an incredibly high standards for Pirates' villains to come (which ultimately fell short). One thing you did not mention however, is his theme song, which is also a part of his memorable identity (to me). The sad music box beginning to represent his tragedy, followed by the same melody played on the organ (I think) transitions from sadness to anger, which sums up his character well. Just like you can recognize Davy Jones in Bill Nighy without the CGI, you can feel the sadness and anger that characterizes Jones just by listening to his theme song (without the actual movie).

Humans are natural pattern seekers, that's why we can see faces so easily through as little as arbitrary squiggles. We just have to break free of the constraints we put on ourselves.

The pirates trilogy is a bit of a mess, but I think they're so easy to come back to because there's really nothing out there like them. The lore is fresh and unique as far as franchise films go and despite the trilogy getting more convoluted as it went on, I still felt engaged with the characters and most of the emotional beats hit for me.

I write fiction but often use historical facts, scenarios, or characters. I tend to restrain myself too much because if I can't find the "original" link between two "true" things, I scrap it out thinking there's no way it will work. I tell myself it's too forced and cheap. But knowing that the creative team of one of my favorite movie sagas dared to combine legends from all over the world AND make it work flawlessly... I think a door just opened up for me. Thank you for your great content!

The whole fun of Pirates is the dichotomy of its randomness and the deeper storyline that actually has a good message. Its the pirate life, savvy?

Please consider not using pure white backgrounds. Maybe a light grey? I've got everything in dark mode, so it's kind of jarring.

I wasn’t listening the whole time because I kept admiring how creepy and awesome Davy Jones was

Your videos are so encouraging!!! Thanks for all the knowledge and positivity your putting out into the world!

Dude, you are my literal hero! Through you I discovered that I was a writer in the first place, through your videos I learn what I'm doing right and how to make my stories even cooler, and your encouragement enriches the advent of my creativity! I'm going to buy and read your book, then keep it on my bedroom shelf as a reminder of the serendipity of thematic story telling. You are straight up the perfect online mentor who teaches like how I imagine Stan Lee or Mark Twain would. Everything you explain makes total sense and resonates with me as a story teller. You are the freaking best 👍 watching your videos inspires me to write even though I began as a character illustrator

I think Beckett and Jones are one of the best villain duos, especially since they never actually are really on the same side.

There are three cgi characters that have such great performance that the cgi just evaporates and you just SEE the character. Davey Jones, Gollum and Thanos.

The way you described. The love story of Calypso and Davey Jones in its basic blocks, reminded me of a sailor legend from the coast of Taranto, «The Siren Wife»: A sailor returns after a long journey through the sea to his home, looking for his wife. But she is gone. She ran off with some rich lord, and it breaks the sailor. Eventually, the wife returns, ridden with guilt, but her husband feels so betrayed that he throws her into the sea. There, the woman is saved by the mermaids, who turn her into one of them. And still, after everything those two went threw, as soon as the siren sees her husband drowning in the water, she rushes him to the surface, and as soon as the sailor hears his wife‘s voice, he searches desperately to free her from the waves!

Oh my god, you have put it so well, it hit the spot inside me, you are amazing, I cried my hart out listening to your explanation of him Thank you!

Every time I watch a review on Pirates the person picks their favorite character or movie and focuses on that and aren't looking at the full picture. This is another one of those. At least the first part.

I’ve always enjoyed and loved the second and third film over the first! I don’t know why everyone likes the first one better.

You made this so emotional and I love it

Absolutely loved this video. Well written and well delivered. Keep up the good work!

Next time one of your clients tells you about something doesn't link in their fictional world, just reply: "brah... Have you read one piece?"

Pirates of the Caribbean is one of the best Disney series of all time

Wow, I needed this so bad right now. Thank you

You've really helped me a lot. I can't thank you enough.