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Pirates of the Caribbean has certainly been a memorable franchise from the first movie’s release in 2003, but the rest of the trilogy that followed was all inspired by the theme park ride in a Disney theme park. While the Pirates of the Caribbean movies have only gone up in production over the years, the franchise has long lived however long anyone expected the movies to go. Pirates of the Caribbean movies are still being developed and created, as the sixth one has been getting a shuffle of rumors spread about it with little confirmation. It wasn’t until the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, that the films started to take a more standalone theme over a trilogy feel with interconnected themes. Below, we’ve detailed the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie, such as how it separated itself from the earlier films in the franchise, released decades before, and more about the franchise’s fourth installment.
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Pirates of the Caribbean
As stated above, Pirates of the Caribbean and the original concept for the film were taken from the Disney theme park ride of the same name. However, Pirates of the Caribbean as a media franchise hadn’t started until the release of the first film in 2003, which was followed by back-to-back sequels, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, but it only took the popularity of the first Pirates movie to create an extremely memorable franchise. However memorable that Jack Sparrow and crew may have been to audiences, as we round out our list of detailed Pirates of the Caribbean films, the joy of Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow has also come to a close since the release of the fifth Pirates of the Caribbean movie, following his court issues with ex-wife Amber Heard.
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The Original Pirates Trilogy
While the original and first Pirates of the Caribbean movie was just the paving ground for the next two installments of the franchise, those second and third entries were more intertwined than any other Pirates of the Caribbean films. However, after the trilogy of the first three Pirates of the Caribbean movies finished, the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, followed Jack Sparrow almost exclusively and abandoned fan-favorite characters. Characters like Elizabeth Swann, Will Turner, and other main characters were left behind for newer characters alongside Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, and others. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides has been considered the lowest point of the Pirates franchise, with a smaller budget than the last two films, but a core writer from the original Pirates has been added to the upcoming sixth installment.
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Fourth Pirates of the Caribbean Movie Detailed
The fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie, released in 2011, abandoned more familiar characters and plots established in the original trilogy for new stories and less connectivity between the previous Pirates of the Caribbean and the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean film. As the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean abandoned what was familiar for new stories, new characters were also introduced to bring a more expansive story over a more overconstructed one, as seen with Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End.
The additional cast members added to the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean, which brought Johnny Depp back with an older co-star and another that portrayed Blackbeard, possibly the most famed pirate of the modern world. The reunion for Johnny Depp in question is with his Blow co-star, Penelope Cruz, in which casting believed that she was a familiar person for Depp and a good copycat of Jack Sparrow, as alluded to in the earlier scenes of the film.
From the reunion of Depp and Cruz’s characters, Jack Sparrow and Angelica, the daughter of Blackbeard. Although Blackbeard, portrayed by Ian McShane, who was originally considered for Davy Jones, was the primary villain of the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie, and the film abandoned more familiar characters, the supernatural aspects and elements were only furthered, such as in The Black Pearl and other ships being miniaturized and kept in bottles aboard Blackbeard’s ship, Queen Anne’s Revenge. Overall, the central plot of the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie was alluded to for quite some time, as The Fountain of Youth was the prize sought from across the oceans in the fourth installment.
The Fountain of Youth was initially to be used as a foundation for what was supposed to be the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie. Still, it wasn’t until writing Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides that Disney acquired the rights to the book, On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers and incorporated the fountain. Interestingly, Tim Powers’ 1987 novel was also the inspiration for the Monkey Island video games, whose creator has had slightly bitter words about Pirates of the Caribbean‘s similarities to his game.
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