In the final scene of the first movie, after the credits, right after all is done and everyone had left the island, Jack the monkey takes a medallion out of the chest and turns into an undead monkey.
I don’t think we ever find out what happened to that medallion.
After the credits in PotC 1 the monkey steals another piece.
Will took Davy Jones place to complete his story arc - that is his transformation from dork to cool guy. Yes, Orlando finally looked cool in his pirate outfit once the character’s heart was cut out.
Elizabeth couldn’t sail on the boat with Will since she was still alive, and he was still too nice a guy to kill her to bring her on board.
Captain Jack had to live another day to have further adventures, doncha know.
I was under the impression that Flying Dutchman crewmembers hadn’t died. Instead, they were about to die and chose servitude to delay death.
Aside from her joining the crew of the Dutchman, there are OTHER ways around this, and it just makes no sense at all that they implied she’d only ever see him four or five more times.
Just a couple of quick examples:
(1) We saw Davy standing on the reef in a bucket of seawater. Bathtub, anyone?
(2) She could sail on the Pearl and rendezvous with the Dutchman periodically.
I agree. I can only hope that the fourth installment, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Search for More Money, will involve what happened in the ten years that passed during the credits.
He wouldn’t be doing the ferrying-souls job if he was sitting around the house in a bathtub.
This is why I laughed so hard during the Brethren Court scene, when Jack responds to the Pirate King idea with “You’re making that up!” I had been thinking that for the previous hour or so. 
Another question just popped into my head:
How in the hell did one “pirate lord” end up the first mate on another’s ship?
That was a convoluted fucking movie. So many plot twists, changes, betrayals and updates, they may as well have foregone the plot entirely - didn’t make a damn bit of difference, it was all they could do for an excuse for another silly, over-the-top, CGI, ridiculous, never-ending fight scene.
But I never tire of looking at Keira. Hell, I’d go for another three hours (that was one long fucking movie, kids.)
When did Elizabeth kill Jack, by the way? How?
She chained him to the mast when the Kraken attacked at the end of the last movie. He broke free, but didn’t have time to escape by then. Of course, he’d already come back to the ship and foregone escape… but I guess it was sort of true.
Like you said, the movie was very convoluted. They should have given us a few pages of notes to remind us of the machinations and twists from the last movie. I kept up with the important stuff, but I felt like they were asking people to remember a lot of stuff 10 months after the last one.
Did anyone else catch what I think was a dig at Dubya, when at the Pirate Counsel, Johnny is walking aroung the table making his speech and he stands behind the Japanese pirate lady and rubs her shoulders while she cringes a la the Angela Merkel incident? I don’t remember what he said, but I believe it was Dubya’s words, as well.
I could have used notes to keep track of what happened 2 hours before by the end of the movie. It was entertaining and fun but I did find myself going ‘WTF?’ several times throughout.
Well, not all day, every day, obviously.
Unless being non-dead confers OTHER benefits a Disney movie couldn’t mention.
True, but having a face full of tentacles does have it’s benefits…
If you’re into certain kinds of Japanese porn, I suppose, but I can’t continue this line of inquiry because Ihavetogothrowupnow
I noticed that too (I don’t remember what he said either).
My son asked if Elizabeth would also live forever, because she’s part of Will’s curse. The idea being he can’t meet her every ten years if she croaks after X number of meetings.
I hadn’t considered it, and the movie did nothing to directly imply it. But it’s a nice thought. Has anyone else been thinking it?
And since this is a thread about questions - did anyone else come out of the movie thinking: “Damn, that was a really big nose on that screen”!
Not so sure about that… in the last scene with her father alive, Lord Becket asks ‘the other guy’ if he (dad) knew about the heart “thing”… he was told “no” and Lord Becket siad “all the better then”… then the scene on the raft fully implied that it was he who stabbed the heart.
I’m willing to accept the other thought, but I hope some others chime in one way or the other… otherwise, perhaps the “curse of the heart” morped several times during the movie to what we ended up with.
At the end of the second movie (“Dead Man’s Chest”), after they’d stunned the kraken with the exploding netfull of barrels of gunpowder/rum/etc, they all decided to abandon ship. As the others were boarding one of the longboats, getting off of the Black Pearl, Elizabeth hangs back – she kisses Jack (which Will briefly glimpses as he’s lowering into the longboat), backing Jack up against something on the ship, and then snapping a manacle on his wrist. The kiss was a ploy to distract him and chain him to the ship. She said something like, “Sorry Jack… but it’s after you. Not us. It’s the only way.”
So she didn’t technically kill him, but she manacled him to the ship so that the rest of them could escape. Jack manages to free himself from the manacle just as the kraken is attacking the ship again. This time, he faces it head on and leaps into its maw with drawn sword. The others watch from the longboat in the distance as the kraken takes the Black Pearl down. And Elizabeth is clearly feeling some guilt.