When I first happened upon the attractively designed case for Jack Orlando: A Cinematic Adventure, I got an instant little surge of excitement. Had I perhaps discovered a true classic? A hidden gem? I'd never heard of the title before, but that doesn't preclude a game being good, right? The cover art and the screenshots looked great; an attractively designed mix of cartoon animation and hand drawn backgrounds. The 1930s pulp detective setting instantly appealed, and the promise of being a 'Director's Cut' version with new puzzles and backgrounds sealed the deal. I walked away five pounds poorer and one bizarre little curiosity richer. Why so bizarre? That will require some elaboration, because Jack Orlando turned out to be one of the best-worst games I've ever had the privilege to play. It's an enormously uneven production, and one that provokes mixed feelings of fondness and frustration. The set-up is simple but sound; washed up private eye Jack Orlando is coming home from an all-night bender when he stumbles upon an altercation in an alley. The formerly heroic detective tries to help, then wakes up with a headache, a corpse, and a couple of unfriendly cops to talk to, who are more than ready to jump to conclusions. It's not all over for Jack, though, as an old friend from the precinct gives him forty-eight hours to clear his name. I'm pretty sure that's not how bail works, but in a genre where it's even odds that the Knights Templar are involved somehow, I'm sure we can let that slide. What you may find less tolerable, however, are the utterly dire translations and mediocre-to-terrible voice acting. Jack Orlando was quite obviously not written by English speakers or, it would seem, translated by native English speakers either. This is demonstrated by everything from bizarre character interactions, odd phrases and nonsensical non-sequiturs to what I assume are badly translated idioms. 'Hmm, this is a heavy one', remarks an unintentionally amusing Irish cop on discovering the corpse is a Major in the US military; perhaps he is referring to the man's importance, rather than his weight? And that occurred within the first five minutes. Later on you'll be having extremely angry conversations with characters you've only just met, and listening to poor old Jack spout gems like 'a guy could do something good with that!' In an excited voice every time an inventory item isn't used correctly. The conversation structures are admirably detailed, often giving the player plenty of genuine dialogue options. Unfortunately, you won't want to listen to any of them or read the horrible translations. No wonder the voice actors do such a poor job, placing emphasis on odd words and putting on terrible foreign accents (in addition to the Irish cop, there are Chinese and Italian accents that have to be heard to be believed.) The female characters and their voices are even worse. Even the opening voiceover is read in a tone of campy hyperbole. Thankfully, the beginning of the game impresses as well as offends. The traditional cel-animation is sharp and generous, although the character animations are choppy and the opening and closing cut scenes look a lot rougher and more amateurish than the game itself. The backgrounds are also, for the most part, nicely painted. Little animation details like flapping paper, characters walking past and the three-dimensional cars show a painstaking level of care and really enhance the appeal, as does the gorgeous game map complete with animated traffic. A particularly impressive detail is the little round-framed close-up shots of Jack which appear when accomplishing significant actions. Jan 20, 2017 - 24 min - Uploaded by SquakenetIntroduction and gameplay for Jack Orlando: A Cinematic Adventure (Director's Cut), PC game. This neat device adds a nice little reward every time the player solves a puzzle. Which leads me on to one of the game's principle failings: the puzzles, such as they are, are often totally illogical. I am not exaggerating. We're all used to a tad of 'cartoon logic' or obscure clues, but Jack Orlando really does take the prize for bad design. It truly feels like the company (or companies, as it seems there are about ten different brands associated with developing and publishing this game) responsible spent all their time and resources on the animation and added a game as an afterthought. In fact, it's practically a textbook example of how to frustrate a player. Pixel hunting abounds, along with dozens of inventory items, most of which are totally useless, as are many locations and characters. The game follows a worn down 1930s post-Prohibition era private detective caught up in a murder that he was framed for. Jack Orlando: A Cinematic Adventure is a 1997 adventure game by Polish developer Toontraxx and German publisher TopWare Interactive. In 2001 a director's cut version was released, which adds the choice between easy and normal difficulty. The game was re-released in 2009 on GOG.com, and on January 26, 2012,. This helps increase a feeling of immersion in the world, especially in the 'Downtown' episode, the longest and most enjoyable segment, but it also feels like an enormous waste of time and a brazen effort to artificially increase the length of the game, which would otherwise be very short. Add to this a generous helping of event-triggers that don't pay any regard to cause and effect (items appear as if by magic) and mind-reading behaviour (Jack spends the first part of the game trying to obtain a crank handle for reasons which are only clear when he has it) and you have a perfect recipe for frustration. As much as I try and avoid using walkthroughs, with this game I would recommend playing with a print-out or not at all. Other choice oddities include characters that want something in exchange for an item, but never give you any sort of hint of what they want. Further, you'll spend a lot of the game in a pretty free-roaming environment, but with no clue where you should be investigating or even what your objectives are. At one point, you pass a bar but can't go in until a bit character mentions it. The bar has nothing to do with the investigation, simply acting as a location for an inventory item. Both dead-end and trial-and-error death sequences also make guest appearances. I cannot emphasise enough how totally appalling the design of this game is. The game's interface does not improve matters. Whilst using a classic point-and-click style with a variant of the 'verb coin' approach, actions like 'shooting' are virtually redundant as they are used so rarely. The animated cursors for each action, though pretty, have hotspots that are very hard to perceive. The mapping of the inventory button to the keyboard only was also a mistake; the manual claims it can also be activated by moving the cursor to the top of the screen but this never seemed to work. Having to re-select inventory items for each use also became a chore. Whilst your blood pressure might rise from the awful gameplay, it will hopefully be calmed a bit by Harold Faltermeyer's smooth, jazzy score. Faltermeyer, as the box eagerly proclaims, is the man behind the Beverly Hills Cop and Top Gun themes; not perhaps the most obvious choice to score a prohibition-era detective game, but he did the job well. Although the loops can sometimes get a trifle repetitive, the music is impressive in its professionalism, putting the voice acting and script to shame. Other positives include the fact that, bizarre happenings aside, the basic plot holds together in a functional manner, concludes satisfyingly, and there is a notable absence of supernatural happenings, conspiracies, super-weapons, aliens or even the good old Knights Templar. However, it would seem we couldn't have a down-to-earth historical tale of corruption, greed, and heroism without at least some surreal fantasy intruding. One area of the game, which forces its way firmly into the 'so bad it's brilliant' category, has Jack discovering medieval catacombs below an abandoned building. In 1930s America. Jack randomly stumbles upon these Broken Sword-style dungeons, then exits through a bizarre café which looks exactly like the 'Kickstand' bar from Full Throttle. I won't spoil any more of this sequence for you, but it genuinely surprises me that so many people could be convinced it was a good idea for long enough to make it. Perhaps this was the much heralded 'Director's Cut' content and they simply had a few backgrounds left over from another game? Maybe they just grabbed the work-experience kid's art portfolio and decided to let him shine? Or maybe they just got really, really drunk, in keeping with the game's preoccupation with bootleg liquor (there are at least three alcohol-for-item exchanges in what is essentially a pretty short game). Let me just remind you; medieval catacombs, in 1930s America. The last major part of the game, which takes place on a military base, is rather incongruous with the tone of the rest of the production, although at least it makes some sort of sense. It also has more redundant elements than the rest of the game, and that's saying a lot. At least the ending, whilst brief, is more or less sensible, although the credit sequence looks like more time was spent on it than the end cutscene. The plot is -- and perhaps this is a blessing -- pretty simple, and even the script and the gaping illogic of the whole thing doesn't manage to completely ruin the game. It's hardly an epic, but there's a definite satisfaction to be gained from seeing it through. Jack Orlando: A Cinematic Adventure is a game that's hard to assess an 'overall' rating. Whilst there are some truly special production values and meritorious ideas trying to escape here, the abysmal design, translation, and voice acting pull it down. To say this game is mediocre, or disappointing, or average simply doesn't do it justice. There's nothing 'average' about it; just a mix of wildly varying and inconsistent elements. By the end of it I had become rather drawn to its hapless protagonist and charmed with all the little idiosyncrasies, but if I am to recommend it to you, it comes with a pretty strong note of caution that it is both brilliant and atrocious by turns, and probably best enjoyed with a walkthrough in one hand and perhaps a bottle of Jack's favourite bootleg whisky in another. Anna Deavere Smith is perhaps best known to television audiences as Nancy McNally on The West Wing and Gloria Akalitus on Nurse Jackie. In addition to her work in television and film, Smith’s theater work has become an inspirational source for civil discourse. Following her interviews with scores of individuals, usually on a topic of civic and political interest, she creates theater works in which she plays many characters – as many as 52 in one production – representing multiple points of view. When granted the prestigious MacArthur Award, her work was described as “a blend of theatrical art, social commentary, journalism, and intimate reverie.” Her work has been celebrated simultaneously for its journalistic detail as well as its empathic treatment of the people she portrays. David Richard wrote in the New York Times that Anna Deavere Smith “is the ultimate impressionist. She does people’s souls.” Through a short performance and interview, audiences will hear about the process of combining a passion for social causes with documentary style theatre making. Smith seeks to “discern the American character and to capture its politics.” Her insight into the social workings of our nation are filled with depth and wisdom. In her book Talk to Me: Travels in Media and Politics and in plays such as Fires in the Mirror, Ms. Smith unapologetically explores the character and their unique perspective. The discussion will focus on how she finds the authentic voice of the people she interviews and then creates on stage. There will be a Q&A following the interview. For more information, visit • •. • Barnacle • La Fleur De La Mort • Troubadour • Fair Wind • • HMS Interceptor • 10001 (Wanted dead) Jack Sparrow is a fictional character in the film series. The character was created by screenwriters and, and is portrayed. The characterization of Sparrow is based on a combination of ' guitarist and cartoon character. He first appears in the 2003 film. He later appears in the sequels (2006), (2007), (2011), and (2017). In the films, Sparrow is one of the nine pirate lords in the Brethren Court, the Pirate Lords of the Seven Seas. He can be treacherous and survives mostly by using wit and negotiation rather than by force, opting to flee most dangerous situations and to fight only when necessary. Sparrow is introduced seeking to regain his ship, the, from his mutinous first mate,. Later he attempts to escape his blood debt to the legendary while fighting the. The Pirates of the Caribbean series was inspired by the Disney, and when the ride was revamped in 2006, the character of Captain Jack Sparrow was added to it. He headlined the attraction at, and is the subject of spin-off novels, including a children's book series, which chronicles his teenage years. Main article: Captain Jack Sparrow first appears in (2003) when he arrives in in Jamaica to commandeer a ship. Despite rescuing (), the daughter of (), from drowning, he is jailed for piracy. That night, a cursed pirate ship called the attacks Port Royal and Elizabeth is kidnapped. The Black Pearl's captain, (), desperately seeks one last gold coin to break an ancient Aztec curse that he and his crew are under. A blacksmith named () frees Sparrow to aid him in rescuing Elizabeth. They commandeer the HMS Interceptor and recruit a motley crew in in Haiti before heading to, where Elizabeth is held captive. Along the way, Will learns that Sparrow was the Black Pearl's captain until Barbossa led a mutiny ten years earlier and took over the ship, marooning Sparrow on an island to die. Sparrow tells Turner that his father was a pirate known as 'Bootstrap' Bill Turner. The rescue attempt goes awry and Barbossa maroons Jack and Elizabeth on the same island upon which he had stranded Sparrow before. Elizabeth creates a signal fire from rum barrels and they are rescued by the British. Sparrow cuts a deal with Commodore () to lead Norrington to the Black Pearl. Norrington refuses until Elizabeth, desperate to save Will, spontaneously accepts Norrington's earlier marriage proposal. Right before the film's climactic battle with the pirates at Isla de Muerta, Sparrow swipes a cursed coin from the treasure chest, making himself immortal and capable of dueling Barbossa. He shoots his rival with the pistol he has carried for ten years just as Will breaks the curse, killing Barbossa. Despite having assisted the Navy, Sparrow is sentenced to hang. At Sparrow's execution in Port Royal, Will saves Sparrow, but they are quickly captured. Elizabeth intervenes, declaring her love for Will who is pardoned, while Sparrow escapes by tumbling off a sea wall. The Black Pearl and her new crew arrive in time to retrieve him, and he becomes captain once more. Impressed by the wily pirate, Norrington allows him one day's head start before giving chase. Dead Man's Chest [ ]. Main article: A year following the events of the first film, Sparrow searches for the Dead Man's Chest, which contains the heart of (). Sparrow made a bargain with Jones to raise the sunken Black Pearl and make Sparrow captain for thirteen years. Now the debt is due, and Sparrow must either serve one hundred years aboard the, or be dragged to by the. If he can find the Dead Man's Chest Sparrow can free his soul and control Jones and the seas. Adding to Sparrow's woes, () of the has a personal score to settle with Sparrow. Beckett wants the chest and forces Will Turner to search for Sparrow and his magic compass. Turner locates Sparrow and his crew on, held captive by cannibals who intend to eat Sparrow. They escape, and voyage to () (a magical woman later revealed to be the Goddess, Calypso, bound in human form as Dalma, and former lover of Jones). Dalma immediately sees destiny in Will, and provides Sparrow with a jar of dirt - Jones can only set foot on land once every 10 years, and since land is where Sparrow is safe, Dalma suggests with the dirt that he takes land with him. Sparrow strikes a new deal with Jones to deliver one hundred souls in exchange for his own. Jones agrees but keeps Turner as a 'good faith payment'. Sparrow is recruiting sailors in Tortuga when he encounters Elizabeth Swann and James Norrington, the latter having succumbed to alcohol. Sparrow convinces Elizabeth that Turner can be freed by using the magic compass to find the chest. The duo head for and find Will, who escaped Jones's ship and has stolen the key to the Chest. Turner wants to stab Jones's heart and free his father from Jones's servitude, while Norrington plots to restore his career by delivering the heart to Beckett. Sparrow wants it to convince Jones to call off the Kraken. Norrington escapes with the heart amid a battle with Jones's crew, and Jones summons the Kraken. Realizing Sparrow is the target, Elizabeth traps him aboard the Black Pearl as the crew abandons the ship, and kisses him while she handcuffs him to the mast. Then, the monster devours Sparrow and drags the ship and his soul to Davy Jones's Locker. The surviving crew seeks refuge with Tia Dalma who produces a captain she says can rescue Sparrow: it was her doing that brought Barbossa back to life. At World's End [ ]. Main article: Two months following the events of the second film, with Davy Jones's heart in his possession and the Flying Dutchman under his command, Cutler Beckett begins exterminating all pirates. To combat Beckett, the nine pirate lords of the convene at Shipwreck Cove. Only Jack Sparrow is missing, killed and sent to Davy Jones's Locker at the end of the previous film. Sparrow, as Pirate Lord of the Caribbean, must attend, as he did not bequeathe to a designated heir his ', a pirate lord's marker. The collective 'nine pieces of eight' are needed to free sea goddess to defeat Beckett. With () and Will Turner, Barbossa leads Sparrow's crew to Davy Jones's Locker using stolen navigational charts from the pirate lord (). After the crew locate him, Sparrow deciphers a clue on the charts allowing them to escape the Locker. At the Brethren Court, Elizabeth has succeeded Captain Sao Feng as a Pirate Lord and is elected 'Pirate King' after Sparrow breaks a stalemate vote. Sparrow is briefly reunited with his father, Captain Teague (). During a with Beckett and Jones, Sparrow is traded for Turner, whom Jones and Beckett had captured. When Sparrow negotiates with Beckett in the extended version of the film, it is revealed that he once sailed the Black Pearl under Beckett's command, but deserted after refusing to carry slave cargo. The Black Pearl battles the Flying Dutchman during a maelstrom created by Calypso, during which Sparrow steals Jones's heart to become immortal. When Jones mortally wounds Turner, Sparrow instead chooses to save Turner by helping him stab the heart, which kills Jones and makes Turner the Dutchman 's captain. Together, the Pearl and the Dutchman destroy Beckett's ship. At the end, Barbossa again commandeers the Pearl and Sao Feng's charts, stranding Sparrow and Gibbs in Tortuga. However, Sparrow had managed to cut out the navigational section of the charts and with them begins to search for the legendary. On Stranger Tides [ ]. Main article: After failing to find the Fountain of Youth, Sparrow arrives in London only to learn someone is gathering a crew by using his name. While searching for the imposter, he saves Gibbs from being hanged but is captured by the Royal Guards. They present him to King. Sparrow is surprised to learn Captain Barbossa is now a privateer in the Royal Navy. Sparrow refuses to negotiate with them to locate the Fountain of Youth and escapes. Soon he crosses paths with his impersonator, an old flame named (). She him to serve aboard the, the ship captained by her father (), who forces Sparrow to search for the Fountain of Youth. Sparrow fails in his attempt to take over the ship in a mutiny against Blackbeard and save the naive Angelica from her evil father. After encountering dangerous mermaids, Barbossa, and the Spanish Navy, Sparrow locates the Fountain of Youth. When Angelica is wounded, he tricks Blackbeard into sacrificing himself to save her, and Angelica blames Sparrow for her father's death. Sparrow and Angelica acknowledge their feelings for one another, but Sparrow maroons Angelica on an island, believing she may avenge her father's death. Gibbs, meanwhile, has retrieved the shrunken Black Pearl from Blackbeard's collection of shrunken ships in the hope of restoring it to normal size. Though he has forfeited his opportunity for immortality, Sparrow settles for being famous as the one who found the Fountain of Youth. Following the film's end credits, Angelica's voodoo doll of Sparrow has drifted to the island that she is marooned on. Dead Men Tell No Tales [ ]. Main article: Sparrow returns in the fifth film, portrayed once again. Five years after the quest for the Fountain of Youth, Jack has reassembled a small crew, but the Black Pearl is still trapped in a bottle, his new ship the Dying Gull has never left berth, and his latest plans have met with failure, while his rival, Barbossa, has became the richest and most powerful pirate of the seven seas. Sparrow and his crew attempt to rob the new bank of. The robbery is a success, but all the gold in it had fallen while they were dragging the locker, and Sparrow's crew abandons him. Despondent, Jack trades his magical compass for a drink. However, this betrayal of the compass releases an old enemy of Sparrow, whom holds a serious grudge against him; the ruthless undead pirate hunter Captain Salazar. Years previously, Jack had defeated Salazar by tricking him into sailing his ship into the Devil's Triangle, where Salazar and his crew were cursed to live as the undead. Salazar states that Jack perched in the ship's rigging like a 'little bird', earning him the name 'Jack the Sparrow'. It was during this event that Jack received his compass, as well as his characteristic gear. While in prison, Jack is contacted by Henry Turner, the son of Will and Elizabeth, to seek his aid in finding the Trident of Poseidon. Remembering Elizabeth and Will from his previous misadventures, Jack agrees but not before expressing some hesitation. The next day, Sparrow is sentenced to be executed by (by Jack's accidental choosing), but is rescued by Henry and his crew. Aided by aspiring astronomer Carina, Jack and Henry attempt to locate the Trident of Poseidon, as both are in need of its power to break curses related to the sea. Barbossa releases the Pearl from its bottle, giving them a chance to outrun Salazar. Jack and Barbossa discuss the fact that Carina is in truth Barbossa's long-lost daughter, whom he had left at an orphanage in order to give her a chance for a better life. Jack attempts to use the secret to Barbossa for his compass and 216 barrels of rum, but fails. They are able to track the Trident to its resting place. Though Salazar nearly kills Jack, they are able to destroy the Trident. With the destruction of the Trident, Salazar and his crew become mortal again. Jack, Henry and Carina escape as Barbossa sacrifices himself to kill Salazar. Despite their differences, Jack mourns Barbossa's death. Later, Jack watches Will and Elizabeth's reunion before he departs, the Black Pearl and his compass once again in his possession. Concept and creation [ ] Characters [ ] When writing the screenplay for The Curse of the Black Pearl, and envisioned Captain Jack Sparrow as a supporting character in the vein of and. The producers saw him as a young. Director admitted, 'The first film was a movie, and then Jack was put into it almost. He doesn't have the obligations of the plot in the same ways that the other characters have. He meanders his way through, and he kind of affects everybody else.' Sparrow represents an ethical pirate, with as his corrupt. His true motives usually remain masked, and whether he is honorable or evil depends on the audience's perspective. This acts as part of Will Turner's arc, in which Sparrow tells him a pirate can be a good man, like. Following the success of The Curse of the Black Pearl, the challenge to creating a sequel was, according to Verbinski, 'You don't want just the Jack Sparrow movie. It's like having a garlic milkshake. He's the spice and you need a lot of straight men. Let's not give them too much Jack. It's like too much dessert or too much of a good thing.' Although Dead Man's Chest was written to propel the trilogy's plot, Sparrow's state-of-mind as he is pursued by Davy Jones becomes increasingly edgy, and the writers concocted the cannibal sequence to show that he was in danger whether on land or at sea. Sparrow is perplexed over his attraction to Elizabeth Swann, and attempts to justify it throughout the film. At World's End was meant to return it tonally to a. Sparrow, in particular, is tinged with madness after extended solitary confinement in Davy Jones's Locker, and now desires immortality. Sparrow struggles with what it takes to be a moral person, after his honest streak caused his doom in the second film. This is mainly shown by his increasingly erratic behaviour and Jack's hallucinations, which appeared to be simply his deranged mind in the beginning where dozens of 'Jack Sparrows' appeared to crew the ship in his solitary exile, but later the hallucinations grew more important and there were mainly two 'Jacks' constantly arguing about which path to follow: the immortality or the mortality. The last hallucination took place while Jack was imprisoned on the Dutchman, where his honest streak won (possibly due to not liking his sea creature-like 'future', which comedically dropped his brain and searched for it around the Brig). By the end of At World's End, Sparrow is sailing to the Fountain of Youth, an early concept for the second film. Rossio said in 2007 that a fourth film was possible, and producer expressed interest in a spin-off. Gore Verbinski concurred that 'all of the stories set in motion by the first film have been resolved. If there ever were another Pirates of the Caribbean film, I would start fresh and focus on the further adventures of Captain Jack Sparrow.' Was first announced on September 28, 2008, during a Disney event at the. Verbinski did not return to direct the fourth installment and was replaced. The movie uses elements from ' novel, particularly and the Fountain of Youth, but the film is not a straight adaptation of the novel. Johnny Depp [ ]. Johnny Depp during filming, sporting Jack's 'goatee' applied in makeup. Looking to do a, Johnny Depp visited the in 2001 when he heard of plans to adapt the ride into a film. Depp was excited by the possibility of reviving an old Hollywood genre, and found the script met his quirky sensibilities: the crew of the Black Pearl were not in search of treasure but trying to return it to lift a curse on them, and the traditional mutiny had already occurred. Depp was cast on June 10, 2002. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer felt Depp would give the film an edge that could draw teenage and adult audiences despite Disney's reputation for soft children's fare. At the first, Depp surprised the cast and crew by portraying the character in an off-kilter manner. He researched 18th-century pirates and, seeing parallels with modern rock stars, modeled his performance on. Richards later appeared in two cameos as Jack's father,, in At World's End and On Stranger Tides. Verbinski and Bruckheimer had confidence in Depp, partly because Orlando Bloom would play the traditional -type character. Depp improvised the film's final line, 'Now, bring me that horizon', which the writer called his favorite line. Disney executives were initially confused by Depp's performance, questioning whether the character was drunk or gay. While watching the rushes, Disney CEO proclaimed Depp was ruining the film. Depp's response to Disney executives was they could trust him with his choices or let him go. Many industry insiders questioned Depp's casting, as he was an unconventional actor not known for working within the traditional studio system. Depp's performance won acclaim from film critics. Alan Morrison found it 'Gloriously over-the-top. In terms of physical precision and verbal delivery, it's a master-class in comedy acting.' Praised Depp for drawing away from the character as written and found Depp's performance 'original in its every atom. There has never been a pirate, or for that matter a human being, like this in any other movie. His behavior shows a lifetime of rehearsal'. Depp won a award for his performance, and was nominated for a and the, the first in his career. Argued the film made Depp as much a movie star as he was a. Depp's return in Dead Man's Chest was the first time he had ever made a sequel. Wrote, 'Remember how cool Han Solo was in Star Wars the first time you saw it? And then remember how much cooler he seemed when came out? This is that big a jump.' Depp received an and a for Dead Man's Chest, and was nominated for an and another Golden Globe. For his performance in At World's End, Depp won an MTV Movie Award for Best Comedic Performance, as well as a, a, and another Teen Choice Award. He has signed on to reprise the role for future sequels. Make-up and costumes [ ]. An initial costume concept for Jack Sparrow before Depp's ideas took hold Depp wears a wig in a approach to a pirate aesthetic. He wears a red bandanna and numerous objects in his hair, influenced by Keith Richards' habit of collecting souvenirs from his travels; Sparrow's decorations include his 'piece of eight'. Sparrow wears around his eyes, which was inspired by Depp's study of nomads, whom he compared to pirates, and he wore contacts that acted as sunglasses. Sparrow has several gold teeth, two of which belong to Depp, although they were applied during filming. Depp initially forgot to have them removed after shooting The Curse of the Black Pearl, and wore them throughout the shooting of the sequels. Like all aspects of Depp's performance, Disney initially expressed great concern over Depp's teeth. Sparrow wears his goatee in two braids. Initially wire was used in them, but the wires were abandoned because they made the braids stick up when Depp lay down. Sparrow has numerous tattoos, and has been a pirate on his right arm by Cutler Beckett, underneath a tattoo of a sparrow. Depp collaborated with costume designer Penny Rose on his character's appearance, handpicking a as Sparrow's signature leather hat; to make Sparrow's unique, the other characters did not wear leather hats. A rubber version was used for the scene in Dead Man's Chest when the hat floats on water. Depp liked to stick to one costume, wearing one lightweight silk tweed frock coat throughout the series, and he had to be coaxed out of wearing his boots for a version without a sole or heel in beach scenes. The official line is that none of the costumes from The Curse of the Black Pearl survived, which allowed the opportunity to create tougher linen shirts for stunts. However, one remains which has been displayed in an exhibition of screen costumes in, England. It was a nightmare for Rose to track down the same makers of Sparrow's sash in Turkey. Rose did not want to it, as the homewoven piece had the correct worn feel. Sparrow wears an additional belt in the sequels, because Depp liked a new buckle which did not fit with the original piece. Sparrow's weapons are genuine 18th century pieces: his sword dates to the 1740s and his pistol is from the 1760s. Both were made in London. Depp used two pistols on set, one of rubber. Both survived production of the first film. Sparrow's magic compass also survived into the sequels, though director Gore Verbinski had a red arrow added to the dial as it became a more prominent prop. As it does not act like a normal compass, a magnet was used to make it spin. Sparrow wears four rings, two of which belong to Depp. Depp bought the green ring in 1989 and the gold ring is a replica of a 2400-year-old ring Depp gave to the crew, though the original was later stolen. The other two are props to which Depp gave backstories: the gold-and-black ring is stolen from a Spanish widow Sparrow seduced and the green dragon ring recalls his adventures in the Far East. Among Depp's additional ideas was the necklace made of human toes that Sparrow wears as the Pelegosto prepare to eat him, and the sceptre was based on one a friend of Depp's owned. During the course of the trilogy, Sparrow undergoes physical transformations. In The Curse of the Black Pearl, Sparrow curses himself to battle the undead Barbossa. Like all the actors playing the Black Pearl crew, Depp had to shoot scenes in costume as a reference for the animators, and his shots as a skeleton were shot again without him. Depp reprised the scene again on a stage. In At World's End, Sparrow hallucinates a version of himself as a member of Davy Jones's crew, adhered to a wall and encrusted with barnacles. Verbinski oversaw that the design retained Sparrow's distinctive look, and rejected initial designs which portrayed him as over 100 years old. Characterization [ ] According to screenwriters Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, Sparrow is a who uses wit and deceit to attain his goals, preferring to end disputes verbally instead of by force. He walks with a slightly drunken swagger and has slurred speech and flailing hand gestures. Sparrow is shrewd, calculating, and eccentric. He fools Norrington and his crew to set sail on the royal ship Interceptor, which compels the admiration of Lieutenant Groves as he concedes: 'That's got to be the best pirate I have ever seen'. Norrington himself acquiesces to this praise: 'So it would seem', in sharp contrast to what he had previously proclaimed: 'You are without doubt the worst pirate I have ever heard of'. In the third film, while he leaves Beckett's ship stranded and makes off, Lieutenant Groves asks him: 'Do you think he plans it all out, or just makes it up as he goes along?' Though a skilled swordsman, Sparrow prefers to use his superior intelligence during combat, exploiting his environment to turn the tables on his foes, reasoning 'Why fight when you can negotiate?' He uses strategies of non-violent negotiation and turning his enemies against each other. He invokes parleys and tempts his enemies away from their murderous intentions, encouraging them to see the bigger picture, as he does when he persuades Barbossa to delay returning to mortal form so he can battle the Royal Navy. He often uses complex wordplay and vocabulary to confound his enemies, and it is suggested that his pacifism may be one reason Barbossa and the crew of the Black Pearl mutinied. 'Gentlemen, m'lady, you will always remember this as the day that you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow.' —Jack almost escapes another sticky situation The character is portrayed as having created, or at least contributed to, his own reputation. When Gibbs tells Will that Sparrow escaped from a desert island by strapping two sea turtles together, Sparrow embellishes the story by claiming the rope was made from hair from his own back, while in reality, Sparrow escaped the island by bartering with rum traders. The video game bases itself on these, including the sacking of port without firing a shot. Depp has likened pirates to rock stars in that their fame preceded them. Sparrow insists on being addressed as 'Captain' and often gives the farewell, 'This is the day you will always remember as the day that you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow!' Which is sometimes humorously cut off. When Norrington accuses him of being the worst pirate he has ever heard of, Sparrow replies, 'But you have heard of me.' In a deleted scene from The Curse of the Black Pearl Sparrow ponders being 'the immortal Captain Jack Sparrow', and during At World's End he again is interested in immortality, although his father, Captain Teague, warns it can be a terrible curse. Sparrow ponders being 'Captain Jack Sparrow, the last pirate,' as the East India Trading Company purges piracy. Despite his many heroics, Sparrow is a pirate and a morally ambiguous character. When agreeing to trade 100 souls, including Will, to Davy Jones in exchange for his freedom, Jones asks Sparrow whether he can, 'condemn an innocent man—a friend—to a lifetime of servitude in your name while you roam free?' After a hesitation Sparrow merrily replies, 'Yep! I'm good with it!' He carelessly runs up debts with, Davy Jones, and the other pirate lords. Sao Feng, pirate lord of, is particularly hateful towards him. In a cowardly moment, Sparrow abandons his crew during the Kraken's attack, but underlying loyalty and morality compel him to return and save them. Sparrow claims to be a man of his word, and expresses surprise that people doubt his truthfulness; there is no murder on his criminal record. Depp partly based the character on, a from. Sparrow claims to have a 'tremendous intuitive sense of the female creature,' although his conquests are often left with a sour memory of him. Former flames, Scarlett and Giselle, usually slap him or anyone looking for him. His witty charm easily attracts women, and even has Elizabeth questioning her feelings. Verbinski noted phallic connotations in Sparrow's relationship with his vessel, as he grips the. The Black Pearl is described as 'the only ship which can outrun the Flying Dutchman'. The overtones continue in the third film when Sparrow and Barbossa battle for captaincy of the Black Pearl, showing off the length of their telescopes, and in a deleted scene, they fight over the steering wheel. Sparrow claims his 'first and only love is the sea,' and describes his ship as representing freedom. Davy Jones's Locker is represented as a desert, symbolizing his personal hell. Reception and impact on pop culture [ ] Captain Jack Sparrow has become one of the most iconic film characters of all time. When Dead Man's Chest grossed over $1 billion worldwide, Ian Nathan attributed this to Sparrow's popularity: ' Pirates, the franchise, only had to turn up. There was a powerful holdover from the cheeky delights of its debut, something we hadn't felt since the called it a day.' In 2006 declared Depp's performance the seventy-fourth 'thing that rocked our world' and later named him the eighth greatest movie character of all time. In 2015, a new poll of the 100 greatest film characters of all time placed him as the fourteenth greatest. A survey of more than 3,000 people showed Jack Sparrow was the most popular costume of 2006, and a 2007 poll held by the showed Sparrow to be the second most popular live action hero after. In a 2007 poll, Jack Sparrow was listed as Depp's most popular performance. Todd Gilchrist feels Sparrow is the only element of the films that will remain timeless. According to Sharon Eberson, the character's popularity can be attributed to his being a 'scoundrel whose occasional bouts of conscience allow viewers to go with the flaws because, as played to the larger-than-life hilt by Depp, he owns every scene he is in'. Film history professor Jonathan Kuntz attributed Sparrow's popularity to the increased questioning of masculinity in the 21st century, and Sparrow's personality contrasts with action-adventure heroes in cinema. Concurs that Sparrow has a carefree attitude and does not take himself seriously. Mark Fox noted Sparrow is an escapist fantasy figure for women, free from much of the responsibility of most heroes. Sparrow is listed by as one of their ten favorite film outlaws, as he 'lives for himself and the freedom to do whatever it is that he damn well pleases. Precious few film characters have epitomized what makes the outlaw such a romantic figure for audiences as Captain Jack Sparrow has.' Put it on its end-of-the-decade, 'best-of' list, saying, 'Part Keith Richards rift, part sozzled lounge lizard, Johnny Depp's swizzleshtick pirate was definitely one of the most dazzling characters of the decade.' 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