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| Directed by | Gore Verbinski |
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| Produced by | Jerry Bruckheimer |
| Written by | Ted Elliott Terry Rossio |
| Based on | Characters by Ted Elliott Terry Rossio Stuart Beattie Jay Wolpert |
| Starring | Johnny Depp Orlando Bloom Keira Knightley Geoffrey Rush Bill Nighy Stellan Skarsgård Chow Yun-fat Jack Davenport Kevin R. McNally Naomie Harris Tom Hollander Jonathan Pryce |
| Music by | Hans Zimmer |
| Cinematography | Dariusz Wolski |
| Editing by | Stephen E. Rivkin Craig Wood |
| Studio | Jerry Bruckheimer Films |
| Distributed by | Walt Disney Pictures |
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| Running time | 168 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $300 million |
| Box office | $963,420,425 |
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End is a 2007 American adventure fantasy, the third film in the Pirates of the Caribbean series. The plot follows Will Turner, Elizabeth Swann, and the crew of the Black Pearl rescuing Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp), from Davy Jones's Locker, and then preparing to fight the East India Trading Company, led by Cutler Beckett (Tom Hollander) and Davy Jones (Bill Nighy), who plan to extinguish piracy. Gore Verbinski directed the film, as he did with the previous two. It was shot in two shoots during 2005 and 2006, the former simultaneously with the preceding film, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.
The film was released in English-speaking countries on May 25, 2007 after Disney decided to move the release date a day earlier than originally planned. Critical reviews were mixed, but At World's End was a box office hit, becoming the most successful film of 2007, with over $960 million worldwide.
It was nominated for the Academy Award for Makeup and the Academy Award for Visual Effects, which it lost to La Vie en Rose and The Golden Compass, respectively. A fourth installment, On Stranger Tides, was released in theaters on May 20, 2011.
Plot
To control the oceans for E. I. Co., Lord Cutler Beckett executes anyone associated with piracy and uses Davy Jones to destroy all pirate ships on the seas. Condemned prisoners sing "Hoist the Colours" to prompt the nine pirate lords of the Brethren Court to convene at Shipwreck Cove; however, the late Captain Jack Sparrow, pirate lord of the Caribbean, never appointed a successor by passing on his piece of eight. Captain Barbossa leads Will, Elizabeth, Tia Dalma and the crew of the Black Pearl to rescue Jack from Davy Jones's Locker. Sao Feng, pirate lord of the South China Sea, possesses "The Navigation Charts", a map to the Locker where Jack is imprisoned. Will bargains with Feng for the Pearl in exchange for Sparrow, so Will can rescue his father from Davy Jones and The Flying Dutchman.Meanwhile, Davy Jones - under control of Lord Beckett (whoever has the heart controls Jones) - destroys several pirate ships, leaving no survivors. Beckett confronts Jones with his decision to place the Chest of Davy Jones on board his ship Endeavor and post Royal Marines to guard it under command of the man who stole Jones' heart, Admiral James Norrington.
The crew meanwhile journeys into the Locker, retrieves Sparrow and the Pearl, but must find a way out. As the Pearl seeks an escape route, dead souls float past, including Elizabeth's father Weatherby Swann, murdered by Beckett. Tia Dalma reveals that Davy Jones was appointed by Calypso, his lover and goddess of the Sea, to ferry the dead to the next world; in return, Jones could step upon land for one day every ten years to be with his love. When she failed to meet him, he abandoned his duty and transformed into a monster, along with the rest of his crew. Jack then finds a means of escape encoded in the "Navigation Chart".
On returning to the living world, the Pearl is ambushed by Sao Feng, who reveals his agreement with Will. Feng betrays Will, handing over the crew to Beckett in exchange for the Pearl. Beckett takes Sparrow aboard the Endeavour, but Jack refuses to divulge where the Brethren Court will convene. Jack offers to lure the Court out, in exchange for Beckett's protecting him from Jones. Feng then bargains with Barbossa to release the Pearl in exchange for Elizabeth, whom he believes is Calypso in human form. Feng's ship attacks the Endeavour, allowing Jack to escape. Feng tells Elizabeth that the first Brethren Court trapped Calypso in human form so men could rule the seas. When Davy Jones attacks Feng's ship, the mortally wounded Feng appoints Elizabeth his successor, then she and the crew are imprisoned in the Flying Dutchman's brig. Bootstrap Bill Turner (now becoming a part of the ship) tells Elizabeth that whoever stabs Davy Jones' heart becomes the next captain of the Dutchman. Admiral Norrington, regretting betraying the crew of the Pearl, frees Elizabeth and her crew. They escape to their ship, but Norrington is killed by a crazed Bootstrap Bill.
Will leaves a trail of floating corpses for Beckett's ship to follow. Jack catches Will in the act, and they discuss control of Davy Jones' heart. Jack suggests he stab the heart to solve Will's conflicting obligations, then tosses Will overboard after giving him his compass (it points to what you desire most) so Beckett can find Shipwreck Cove. Will is rescued by Beckett, and Davy Jones reveals that he masterminded Calypso's imprisonment at the First Brethren Court. At Shipwreck Cove, the pirate lords present their nine "pieces of eight", but disagree over freeing Calypso.
Meanwhile on the Pearl Tia Dalma (Calypso) plays her music box, then hears another. Jones appears & asks why she left him ("It is my nature."). He reveals the plan to free her. Then Calypso declares that she will only let them free her so she can show them "How cruel I can be!" as revenge for imprisoning her. Then Jones disappears through the walls, showing how he got there.
Back at Shipwreck Cove, Barbossa calls upon Captain Teague, Jack's father and Keeper of the Pirate's Code, to confirm that only a Pirate King can declare war. There have been no Pirate Kings since the first Court because the Pirate Lords always vote for themselves, and no Lord has ever had a plurality. Jack calls for a vote, the first eight Lords vote for themselves, and Jack breaks the stalemate by voting for Elizabeth. She is now "king", and she favors a war. During a parley with Beckett and Jones, Elizabeth swaps Sparrow for Will after realizing Jack and Will plan to have Jack stab the heart; this places Jack on the Dutchman with the heart, but he is in the brig.
Barbossa steals Jack's "piece of eight" and uses it and its counterparts to free Calypso from human form. As she transforms, Will discloses that Davy Jones betrayed her to the Brethren Court, Barbossa prays her to help, and Calypso's fury unleashes a storm and a maelstrom, in which the Dutchman and the Pearl battle. Sparrow escapes the Dutchman's brig and steals the Dead Man's Chest, which leads to a sword battle with Jones. In the heat of battle Will proposes to Elizabeth, who accepts, and during the fighting Captain Barbossa marries them. Will boards the Dutchman to retrieve the chest, but Jones thrusts his sword through Will's chest and turns away. Sparrow, holding the heart, places his sword in Will's hand and stabs it, making it Will who stabs Jones's heart before Will dies; Jones spasms, turns, sees the pierced heart and falls into the maelstrom. Jack and Elizabeth escape the Dutchman as it is pulled under. While Elizabeth mourns Will, left on the Dutchman, Beckett moves to attack the Pearl. The storm and maelstrom suddenly cease, and the Dutchman resurfaces with Will as the captain and the crew restored to human form. Bootstrap had removed Will's heart and put it in the Chest. The Dutchman and the Pearl destroy the Endeavour, killing Beckett; the armada retreats.
Will is bound to sail the sea as the Dutchman's captain, ferrying the dead. Elizabeth bids Jack, Barbossa and the crew farewell; then she and Will have one day together. He departs after giving Elizabeth the Dead Man's Chest. Jack and Gibbs find themselves stranded in Tortuga: Barbossa has commandeered the Pearl in order to find the Fountain of Youth, then discovers Jack cut out the middle of the map. Jack sails from Tortuga in a small boat to find the Fountain.
In a post-credits scene set ten years later, Elizabeth and her son (he sings "we kidnap and ravage"[2]) watch from a seacliff as the Dutchman appears with Will Turner aboard, anticipating "one day on land" to spend with Elizabeth. While unclear in the film, the writers of the film stated in blog posts and in video commentary that as Elizabeth stayed faithful to Will unlike Calypso, Will is released from his duty on the Flying Dutchman and is free to live out his days on land. The green light that was flashed when Will arrived was also mentioned in the early part of the movie that it means a spirit is release and can live as a human again.
Production
"I felt it important that the third film was the end of an era — like in a postmodern western
where the railroad comes and the gunfighter is extinct. It seemed that
we had an opportunity to take a look at a world where the legitimate has
become corrupt and there is no place for honest thieves in that
society, so you have darker issues and a little melancholy. The myths
are dying. That seemed a great theme with which to complete the
trilogy."
Parts of the third film were shot during location filming of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, a long shoot which finished on March 1, 2006.[18] During August 2005, the Singapore sequence was shot. The set was built on Stage 12 of the Universal backlot, and comprised 40 structures within an 80 by 130-foot (24 by 40-m) tank that was 31⁄2 feet (1.1 m) deep. As 18th century Singapore is not a well-documented era, the filmmakers chose to use an Expressionist style based on Chinese and Malaysian cities of the same period. The design of the city was also intended by Verbinski to parody spa culture, with fungi growing throughout the set. Continuing this natural feel, the floorboards of Sao Feng's bathhouse had to be cut by hand, and real humidity was created by the combination of gallons of water and the lighting equipment on the set.[19]
Filming resumed on August 3, 2006 at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah[20] and continued until early 2007 for 70 days off the California coast, as all the shooting required in the Caribbean had been conducted in 2005.[21] Davy Jones' Locker was shot at Utah, and it was shot in a monochromatic way to represent its different feeling from the usual colorful environment of a pirate.[22] The climactic battle was shot in a former air hangar at Palmdale, California,[23] where the cast had to wear wetsuits underneath their costumes on angle-tipped ships. The water-drenched set was kept in freezing temperatures, to make sure bacteria did not come inside and infect the crew.[24] A second unit shot at Niagara Falls.[25] Industrial Light & Magic did 750 effects shots, while Digital Domain also took on 300. They spent just five months finishing the special effects. The film posed numerous challenges in creating water-based effects.[26]
Filming finished on December 12, 2006 in Molokai,[27] and the first assembly cut was three hours.[28] Twenty minutes were removed, not including end credits, though producer Jerry Bruckheimer maintained that the long running time was needed to make the final battle work in terms of build-up.[29] Hans Zimmer composed the score as he did for the previous film, composing eight new motifs including a new love theme for the At World's End soundtrack.[27] He scored scenes as the editors began work, so as to influence their choice of cutting to the music. Gore Verbinski helped on the score. He played the guitar in the parley scene between Barbossa, Sparrow, Elizabeth and Will, Davy Jones, and Cutler Beckett.[30] He also co-wrote the song "Hoist the Colours" with Zimmer.[31]
Release
Marketing
After a muted publicity campaign, the trailer finally debuted at ShoWest 2007.[36] It was shown on March 18, 2007 at a special screening of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl named "Pirates Ultimate Fan Event", and was then shown on March 19 during Dancing with the Stars, before it debuted online.[37] Action figures by NECA were released in late April.[38] Board games such as a Collector’s Edition Chess Set, a Monopoly Game, and a Pirates Dice Game (Liar's dice) were also released. Master Replicas have made sculptures of characters and replicas of jewellery and the Dead Man's Chest.[39] A video game with the same title as the film was released on May 22, 2007 on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, PSP, PlayStation 2, PC, and Nintendo DS formats.[40] The soundtrack and its remix were also released on May 22.Censorship
At least one nation's official censors have ordered scenes cut from the film. According to Xinhua, the state news agency of the People's Republic of China, ten minutes of footage containing Chow Yun-fat's portrayal of Singaporean pirate Sao Feng have been trimmed from versions of the film which may be shown in China. Chow is onscreen for twenty minutes in the uncensored theatrical release of the film. No official reason for the censorship was given, but unofficial sources within China have indicated that the character gave a negative and stereotypical portrayal of the Chinese people.[41]Home media
The one-disc and two-disc re-edited versions of the Region 2 DVD were released by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment in the UK on November 19, 2007, on both standard DVD and Blu-ray Disc formats.[42] The film was released on DVD in Australia on November 21, 2007, and released on December 4, 2007 in the United States and Canada. The 2-Disc Limited Edition DVD was in continuous circulation until it stopped on September 30, 2008. In contrast, the Blu-ray Disc release, containing all of the features from the 2-Disc DVD version (including some original scenes from the theatrical release, but excluding the writer's commentary) is still widely available. The initial Blu-ray Disc release was misprinted on the back of the box as 1080i, although Disney confirmed it to be 1080p. Disney has decided not to recall the misprinted units, but will fix the error on subsequent printings.[43] DVD sales brought in $296,043,871 in revenue marking the best-selling DVD of 2007, although it ranks second in terms of units sold (14,496,242) behind Transformers.eception
Critical response
As with Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, At World's End received mixed reviews. The most common criticism of the film from reviewers was that the plot was too convoluted for them to follow. In review aggregate websites, At World's End has a "Rotten" rating of 44% on Rotten Tomatoes[45] and 50% at Metacritic.[46] Favorable reviewer Alex Billington noted, "This is just how the film industry works nowadays; critics give bad opinions, the public usually has a differing opinion, and all is well in the world of Hollywood since the studios made their millions anyway."[47]Drew McWeeny was an exception, praising its complexity as giving it repeat-viewing value, and its conclusion as "perhaps the most canny move it makes."[48] Todd Gilchrist found the story too similar to other cinematic trilogies such as Star Wars but praised the production values.[49] Brian Lowry felt that "unlike last year's bloated sequel, it at least possesses some semblance of a destination, making it slightly more coherent - if no less numbing during the protracted finale."[50] Total Film praised the performances but complained that the twists and exposition made it hard to care for the characters.[51] Edward Douglas liked the film but had issues with its pacing,[52] while Blake Wright criticized the Davy Jones' Locker and Calypso segments.[53] James Berardinelli found it the weakest of the trilogy as "the last hour offers adventure as rousing as anything provided in either of the previous installments... which doesn't account for the other 108 minutes of this gorged, self-indulgent, and uneven production."[54] Peter Travers praised Richards and Rush but felt "there can indeed be too much of a good thing," regarding Depp's character.[55] Travers later declared the movie to be one of the worst films of the year.[56] Colm Andrew of the Manx Independent said the film was overall a disappointment and that "the final showdown ... is a non-event and the repetitive swordplay and inane plot contrivances simply become boring by the end".[57]
Chow Yun-fat's character stirred a great deal of controversy with the Chinese press. Perry Lam, of Hong Kong cultural magazine, Muse, found the striking resemblance between Chow's character and Fu Manchu offensive: "Now Fu Manchu has returned after an absence of 27 years in the Hollywood cinema; except that, in a nod to political correctness and marketing realities, he is no longer called Fu Manchu."[58]
Box office
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End earned $309,420,425 in North America and $654,000,000 in other countries for a worldwide total of $963,420,425.[1] Worldwide, it is the 14th highest-grossing film,[59] the highest-grossing film of 2007[60] and the third highest-grossing film in the Pirates of the Caribbean series.[61] Compared to its predecessor, it grossed far less at the North American box office, but more outside North America. Still, its worldwide earnings are more than $100 million below Dead Man's Chest's.[62] On its worldwide opening weekend it grossed $344.0 million, making it the seventh-largest opening.[63]- North America
- Outside North America
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