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At World's End
IT WAS SO SAD!!!
They killed Norrington! At least he got to die nobly....sniff....And Governor Swann too!
And....waaah...Will got stabbed with the Symbolic Sword of Will/Elizabeth and now he's cursed sail the Flying Dutchman....and I suppose now he's immortal and Elizabeth isn't, which is never a good recipe, just ask Arwen. Have she and mini-Will been stuck on Cannibal Island or where ever it is for 10 years?
WHY CAN'T she come on the Flying Dutchman? Bootstrap can, and he's not cursed any more.
I thought it was good though the way Jack ended up where he'd started (but did he abandon Gibbs on the quayside?), because he's the kind of character that's sort of static. I liked the shipful of Jacks in the locker and the crabs and Murtog and Murtagh or whatever they're called coming back and becoming pirates and Captain Teague and Elizabeth becoming the pirate king and out-double-crossing everybody. And there were a lot of good funny lines; the auditorium was full up and there were about a dozen times everyone was laughing.
But the ending is still really sad.
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I'm getting madder and madder at Verbrinski for cutting this. It was supposed to go in Dead Man's Chest, and the writers didn't realize that it hadn't made it into At World's End either until AFTER the premiere. But it was intended, and it doesn't really make sense without it, so I consider it canon.
The duty of being Captain of the Flying Dutchman is supposed to be a 10-year appointment. If, at the end of the 10 years, when the Captain can set foot on land again, his love has remained true to him, then the curse is broken and someone else gets the duty for the next 10 years.
Which is why Davy Jones turned evil. At the end of ten years, he came back, expecting to find his true love waiting for him, having fulfilled the duty she asked him to perform. Instead, she wasn't there, and he was doomed to be Captain of the Dutchman for all time (unless he could find another love that would be true to him, but that's difficult to do in a single day :P). That's when he cut his heart out, because it was too painful, and that's when he cursed that heart so that the heart of the stabber would have to take its place (and the stabber would become Captain). It's also when he started turning fishy, because he decided her didn't want to do his job anymore.
So. Will is now Captain. Elizabeth, presumably, has been faithful to him for 10 years. Which means-- that flash of green light, the approach of the Dutchman to Shipwreck island, is not just a every-ten-years booty call. It's a reunion. Will is now free to live his life, and someone else will become Captain.
here's (http://www.wordplayer.com/forums/moviesarc08/index.cgi?read=98135) a link to where Terry Rossio explains it, and here's (http://www.wordplayer.com/forums/movies/index.cgi?read=98662) where he says that the lines were cut from AWE.
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(What? I like spoilers!)
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It's really crap that it didn't end up in the film.