More Pirates

[ivyfic]

A summary of the writers' comments on PotC 3 -- spoilers ahoy, duh. Given the fact that the behind the scenes features on PotC 2 show a lot of snarking and yelling at the writers for not having any sort of script for PotC 3 when they were shooting PotC 2 (and not even having that script really done) despite the fact that the two movies are supposed to make up one story, I'm not that surprised that all of this didn't actually come across in the film. The film felt to me like it was full of little elements that were supposed to be storylines but were abandoned in one rewrite or another, leaving only the stub.

Now, I ask you, is it humanly possible to figure out that mythology about the curse of the Dutchman from the film? And I mean, that's a pretty freaking complicated curse. When you remove all the exposition about it, no wonder it makes no sense.

This is what confuses me. According to this film:
-Davy Jones falls in love with Calypso
-DJ accepts Calypso's commision to ferry souls with the Dutchman
-DJ ferries souls for ten years
-Calypso is not there when he returns
-DJ tells pirate lords how to behind Calypso
-Either after this or the first betrayal, DJ cuts out his heart
-DJ shirks his responsibilities and becomes a squid

Now, based on the exposition in the last film, I expected the sequence to go more like this:
-Tia Dalma betrays DJ's love
-DJ cuts out his heart
-DJ becomes captain of the Dutchman

Since this is not the case, why did DJ ever become the captain of the Dutchman? That sequence of events makes no sense. And if being the captain and having your heart cut out are seperate things, why do they cut out Will's heart when he becomes captain? And if Will is returned to mortal form after ten years, wouldn't he just immediately die, since he was mortally wounded when he became captain?

This is what I meant when I said this film was a plot seive.