Captn Jaq
Notorious Pirate
For me, these were the ideas that came to mind when my friend lived in LA at the time. This was when they were doing casting calls for extras for Stranger Tides.
What propelled these pitches were the first 3 POTC movies, the well-knowns of piracy, and the motivation of the original Dread Pirate Robert.
** If you want to share your own or comment, feel free to do so, but if commenting, reply/quote the rewrite or feedback post directly to help minimize confusion. ;'D Enjoy!
POTC 4
Being desperate, the Empire has resorted to acts of clemency and espionage in order to disband the Brethren Court and eradicate piracy world over.
As rumors of Edward Teach either being beheaded in a sea skirmish off the coast of Ocracoke, turned country gentleman with wife and farm, or agreeing to serve the crown as an agent of for the Governor of North Carolina, Jack is seen acquiring a crew -- with Gibbs by his side -- in hopes of finding the Agua de Vida. Barbossa is dead, and Tia Dalma no longer speaks or deals with the likes of pirates.
One new member is a French cabin boy (mid-20s) who speaks little English. Jack sees much of Will and Elizabeth in the boy and brings him under his wing. The boy refines his skills and is able to demonstrate his prowess as a buccaneer within a few land-skirmishes with the Navy -- only to have his true metal as a sailor tested once dark clouds loom over head.
The Black Pearl survives a tempest only to be trapped in a sandbar off the coast of Georgia. All crew members are bruised and battered yet -- by the stars -- accounted for. The skies clear and reveal a twilight sun. Jack gives the order for all hands off deck and set the Pearl free.
The day has been spent and the moon is in a full glow. The ocean’s growing waves slosh harder against the hull; it helps loosen the ship but not fully. As a portion of the crew refresh themselves with food and drink, a mate sees something approach within the darkness, another mate verifies, and word spreads to Jack, "Lights on the water!"
The lights are made out to be a ship, a ship sailing unfriendly colours. More of the crew are brought on board to ready their stations, while some remain in the water feverishly digging. Combative measures are taken as the opposing ship pull close to the Pearl's rudder. As the ship angles their broadside, crew mates scuttle back on The Pearl. A few mates remain on the sandbar against captain’s orders.
Commands are heard, naval ones. The ocean shifts the sands below. The Pearl is the first to fire! The waves and kick back from the cannons shove The Pearl off the bar. The Navy ship fires upon the Pearl with soldiers boarding quickly after.
Amidst the skirmish, Jack is unawares of the officer behind him. The boy -- caught in the blades of his own troubles -- tries to warn him but fails until a feminine British voice comes flying out him. " Jack! Behind y'!" Jack turns, blocks the impending strike, and finishes the officer.
As the body falls before him, Jacks sees the french boy with hand to mouth. A soldier grunts with a swing at the boy; the boy fends him off. Jack rushes in and the two of them take out that and three other soldiers without missing a beat. Jack confronts the 'boy,' but before the 'boy' could answer, a random voice cries out, "HIT THE DECK!"
Shrapnel and debris fly and so do soldiers’ bodies like rag dolls tossed by an angry child. Sound is distorted. The Navy ship is decimated. Another crew overwhelms the Black Pearl, but they're not wearing red or white. All goes to black.
Jack wakes to the gentle rocking of the ocean. He's below deck. Some of his crew are awake and chatting with the new crew; others are being treated for their injuries – Gibbs being one of them. For the most part, all seems well. He gets up, painfully discovering that his arm in a sling and starts looking for the Frenchie-Brit She-He along with a bottle of rum. Not finding either, he considers the possibility of finding both in his quarters.
Jack finds his quarters unoccupied in addition to the unoccupation of rum and the severe unoccupation of the Aqua de Vida map. The door to his quarter’s slams shut. Jack looks up, startled but yet well poised. Edward Teach – dark, harry, and formidable -- walks toward him.
Teach has taken ownership of the Pearl, deeming Jack unfit – surviving a hurricane-like storm is no excuse for marooning your ship and leaving it open to attack. Jack disagrees, but without an upper hand, he concedes to temporary failure and finds an opportunity. Jack will stay under Teach’s direction until the Fountain is found and The Black Pearl is released.
The first act of being Teach’s swabbie is to interrogate the spy. Jack finds the Frenchie-Brit She-he is in the brig, clasped in irons. She is now known as Rosaline Cassin. She passed herself off as a spy before they could discover what Jack already has. Jack recognizes the last name; Rosaline fills in the blanks. Helen Cassin – a maid of a brothel in Barbados – was her mother. Rosa had heard rumors about her father, the most unique of them being that he was once a captain to a slave ship. Rosa also describes a mark she and her father share on the back of the neck.
Jack accepts the possibility but sees Rosa more as an asset than a daughter at this point of time. Jack will allow themselves to be delivered to the mainland and, while en route to the Fountain, lead his crew in the dispatching of Teach and his men. Rosa’s part is to play the distraction in any means necessary and Jack the drunken master.
As Teach’s fleet of two approach the mainland, Jack sorts through his memory with Gibbs the best they can to confirm Rosa’s story. This new develop raises past issues and future concerns, some more pressing than others and hitting a few humorous and serious points. He reevaluates his life and fear surprisingly creeps its way in. Will the Fountain be at his full disposal? Will he be able to live with himself or anyone else there on after?
The confrontation at the Fountain ends with Jack as victor but at a cost.
POTC 5
The Brethren Court is no more. The Empire is fierce and ruthless, killing any straggling sailor, merchant, and vagabond who could be labelled or presumed “pirate.”
There is conflict at the docks of Miskito and Jack and Rosa are in the center of it. They fight in perfect sync, as one with two swords blazing until Rosa disjoints them. In mid-scuffle, she reveals that she loves a man in the crew (Greaves) and the feeling is mutual. Despite having this news drop like an anchor, the two find a way to escape the docks and sail off.
Since their victory over Blackbeard, Jack has been trying to come to grips with being a father. And now -- a week after discovering this long lost daughter has love, true love in her heart for a man serving under him at a tavern in San Pedro, Belize – Jack doesn’t know what to do. Throughout the week, each attempt to speak with Rosa has turned into a tangent. Rambling to Gibbs about his worries and ineptitude helps, but Gibbs is not there nor ever will be – only a tattoo bearing his name on Jack’s inner forearm.
Jack finds an opportune moment to ‘address his fatherly concerns’ but leads to a grand tiff and ends in a heated discussion. The remaining days at sea pass like time held on the rack before The Pearl finally arrives at Port-A-Prince. Rumors circulate that a pirate, from Europe -- named Bartholomew – plans to get rid of the Empire, any of them, once and for all. Could this be the same Bartholomew of the Brethren? ..but how?
In light of this information, Jack's crew catches wind that Henri Morgaine still lives. The longevity of these two pirates fodders Jack's desire to live forever, that same desire which sought to pierce the heart of Davy Jones and thirsted for the aqua de vida – evermore so since Gibbs’s death. .. so it was decided: locate the founders of the Brethren and have them share their secret, and if ever questioned by the crew, to rebuild the Brethren Court.
Throughout their minor bouts with Bartholomew, Jack and his crew increasingly realize that the man is insane, driven mad by hatred against the Empire, and when Morgaine is located, all is made clear.
Morgan has settled down at a sandy seaside encampment, smuggling rum. Morgaine informs that Bartholomew Roberts might have taken his name but he’s no Portuguese Barthelemy. Being taken into the life of piracy then seeing your first captain ambushed and killed doesn’t help set the precedents. Bart’s idiosyncrasies were refreshing and his skills brilliant, but since the Summerset and the Philipa, Bart had become darker and more sadistic and God have mercy the who crosses him. Morgaine understands the motivation behind burning every Imperial Settlement to rubble, but he wouldn’t dare leave his life of leisure to fight Black Bart Roberts. “No, Mr. Sparrow,” Morgaine remarks, “I don’t want to become another Florimond de Montigny. Henri Morgaine suits me just fine…”
Jack and his crew leaves Morgaine to intercept Roberts. Within the confrontation, Jack warns him that he's going too far, and in turn, Roberts tells him, "By killin' me, y'll be killin' yer future." - directing his glance toward Rosa and Greaves - "'Cause what'll come o' them if Imperia doesn’t fall? ..The Empire must die." Jack is thrown off guard. Roberts wounds him. Greaves intervenes before Roberts has the chance to finish off Jack. Rosa jumps rank and gives the order to retreat.
The words stick with Jack has he recuperates in the safety of The Pearl. Roberts is right, but if he were to succeed, darker days will follow for all current and future pirates.
Their final confrontation with Roberts takes place at night in an apex settlement of the British Empire. Within a parallel series of events, Jack’s crew is dispersed: some distract the soldiers, other distract Roberts's followers, a few are charged with minimizing the intended damage, and Jack deals with Roberts himself. As the few remaining fuses reach their keggers, Jack and his crew scramble to their landing like rats fleeing a cat-ridden maze. They board the ship and set sail before suffering any further damage from Roberts's ill-fated revenge.
As the ship approaches the dawn, Jack remembers the words Morgan last told him before they left to dispatch Roberts, "A man never dies if 'is name lives."
Years have passed. Rosa and Greaves conduct business on a pleasant desert isle, one of many unlisted rum stations throughout the east Caribbean. There's a canvas tent a few meters away. The clanging of metal is softly heard against the sounds of the shoreline.
Without batting an eye, Rosa kindly calls out, "Jack, can you lend us a hand?"
The clanging persists. Rosa looks to the tent, laughing, "Jack! Are you listening?"
Beside the tent, a vintage Sparrow spares with a boy resembling himself at the age of 18. Rosa is heard still calling. Sparrow braces his sword against the boy's, hilt to hilt. Sparrow spots Rosa and grins. He looks to the boy, "That'll do fer now. Y'best head t'yer mum, or there'd be 'ell t'pay."
"Aye, Cap'n," the boy catches his breath before handing over the sword. Rosa continues to call as the boy runs in that direction, smiling, "Aye, mother, I was listenin’. Just not all the way. What do y'want fer me t'carry?"
Sparrow watches the family scene as he walks to his bottle of rum. He stabs the swords into the sand, picks up the bottle, and turns to the sea with a smirk on his face before taking a swig, "Drink up, me hearties. YoHo."
What propelled these pitches were the first 3 POTC movies, the well-knowns of piracy, and the motivation of the original Dread Pirate Robert.
** If you want to share your own or comment, feel free to do so, but if commenting, reply/quote the rewrite or feedback post directly to help minimize confusion. ;'D Enjoy!
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POTC 4
Being desperate, the Empire has resorted to acts of clemency and espionage in order to disband the Brethren Court and eradicate piracy world over.
As rumors of Edward Teach either being beheaded in a sea skirmish off the coast of Ocracoke, turned country gentleman with wife and farm, or agreeing to serve the crown as an agent of for the Governor of North Carolina, Jack is seen acquiring a crew -- with Gibbs by his side -- in hopes of finding the Agua de Vida. Barbossa is dead, and Tia Dalma no longer speaks or deals with the likes of pirates.
One new member is a French cabin boy (mid-20s) who speaks little English. Jack sees much of Will and Elizabeth in the boy and brings him under his wing. The boy refines his skills and is able to demonstrate his prowess as a buccaneer within a few land-skirmishes with the Navy -- only to have his true metal as a sailor tested once dark clouds loom over head.
The Black Pearl survives a tempest only to be trapped in a sandbar off the coast of Georgia. All crew members are bruised and battered yet -- by the stars -- accounted for. The skies clear and reveal a twilight sun. Jack gives the order for all hands off deck and set the Pearl free.
The day has been spent and the moon is in a full glow. The ocean’s growing waves slosh harder against the hull; it helps loosen the ship but not fully. As a portion of the crew refresh themselves with food and drink, a mate sees something approach within the darkness, another mate verifies, and word spreads to Jack, "Lights on the water!"
The lights are made out to be a ship, a ship sailing unfriendly colours. More of the crew are brought on board to ready their stations, while some remain in the water feverishly digging. Combative measures are taken as the opposing ship pull close to the Pearl's rudder. As the ship angles their broadside, crew mates scuttle back on The Pearl. A few mates remain on the sandbar against captain’s orders.
Commands are heard, naval ones. The ocean shifts the sands below. The Pearl is the first to fire! The waves and kick back from the cannons shove The Pearl off the bar. The Navy ship fires upon the Pearl with soldiers boarding quickly after.
Amidst the skirmish, Jack is unawares of the officer behind him. The boy -- caught in the blades of his own troubles -- tries to warn him but fails until a feminine British voice comes flying out him. " Jack! Behind y'!" Jack turns, blocks the impending strike, and finishes the officer.
As the body falls before him, Jacks sees the french boy with hand to mouth. A soldier grunts with a swing at the boy; the boy fends him off. Jack rushes in and the two of them take out that and three other soldiers without missing a beat. Jack confronts the 'boy,' but before the 'boy' could answer, a random voice cries out, "HIT THE DECK!"
Shrapnel and debris fly and so do soldiers’ bodies like rag dolls tossed by an angry child. Sound is distorted. The Navy ship is decimated. Another crew overwhelms the Black Pearl, but they're not wearing red or white. All goes to black.
Jack wakes to the gentle rocking of the ocean. He's below deck. Some of his crew are awake and chatting with the new crew; others are being treated for their injuries – Gibbs being one of them. For the most part, all seems well. He gets up, painfully discovering that his arm in a sling and starts looking for the Frenchie-Brit She-He along with a bottle of rum. Not finding either, he considers the possibility of finding both in his quarters.
Jack finds his quarters unoccupied in addition to the unoccupation of rum and the severe unoccupation of the Aqua de Vida map. The door to his quarter’s slams shut. Jack looks up, startled but yet well poised. Edward Teach – dark, harry, and formidable -- walks toward him.
Teach has taken ownership of the Pearl, deeming Jack unfit – surviving a hurricane-like storm is no excuse for marooning your ship and leaving it open to attack. Jack disagrees, but without an upper hand, he concedes to temporary failure and finds an opportunity. Jack will stay under Teach’s direction until the Fountain is found and The Black Pearl is released.
The first act of being Teach’s swabbie is to interrogate the spy. Jack finds the Frenchie-Brit She-he is in the brig, clasped in irons. She is now known as Rosaline Cassin. She passed herself off as a spy before they could discover what Jack already has. Jack recognizes the last name; Rosaline fills in the blanks. Helen Cassin – a maid of a brothel in Barbados – was her mother. Rosa had heard rumors about her father, the most unique of them being that he was once a captain to a slave ship. Rosa also describes a mark she and her father share on the back of the neck.
Jack accepts the possibility but sees Rosa more as an asset than a daughter at this point of time. Jack will allow themselves to be delivered to the mainland and, while en route to the Fountain, lead his crew in the dispatching of Teach and his men. Rosa’s part is to play the distraction in any means necessary and Jack the drunken master.
As Teach’s fleet of two approach the mainland, Jack sorts through his memory with Gibbs the best they can to confirm Rosa’s story. This new develop raises past issues and future concerns, some more pressing than others and hitting a few humorous and serious points. He reevaluates his life and fear surprisingly creeps its way in. Will the Fountain be at his full disposal? Will he be able to live with himself or anyone else there on after?
The confrontation at the Fountain ends with Jack as victor but at a cost.
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POTC 5
The Brethren Court is no more. The Empire is fierce and ruthless, killing any straggling sailor, merchant, and vagabond who could be labelled or presumed “pirate.”
There is conflict at the docks of Miskito and Jack and Rosa are in the center of it. They fight in perfect sync, as one with two swords blazing until Rosa disjoints them. In mid-scuffle, she reveals that she loves a man in the crew (Greaves) and the feeling is mutual. Despite having this news drop like an anchor, the two find a way to escape the docks and sail off.
Since their victory over Blackbeard, Jack has been trying to come to grips with being a father. And now -- a week after discovering this long lost daughter has love, true love in her heart for a man serving under him at a tavern in San Pedro, Belize – Jack doesn’t know what to do. Throughout the week, each attempt to speak with Rosa has turned into a tangent. Rambling to Gibbs about his worries and ineptitude helps, but Gibbs is not there nor ever will be – only a tattoo bearing his name on Jack’s inner forearm.
Jack finds an opportune moment to ‘address his fatherly concerns’ but leads to a grand tiff and ends in a heated discussion. The remaining days at sea pass like time held on the rack before The Pearl finally arrives at Port-A-Prince. Rumors circulate that a pirate, from Europe -- named Bartholomew – plans to get rid of the Empire, any of them, once and for all. Could this be the same Bartholomew of the Brethren? ..but how?
In light of this information, Jack's crew catches wind that Henri Morgaine still lives. The longevity of these two pirates fodders Jack's desire to live forever, that same desire which sought to pierce the heart of Davy Jones and thirsted for the aqua de vida – evermore so since Gibbs’s death. .. so it was decided: locate the founders of the Brethren and have them share their secret, and if ever questioned by the crew, to rebuild the Brethren Court.
Throughout their minor bouts with Bartholomew, Jack and his crew increasingly realize that the man is insane, driven mad by hatred against the Empire, and when Morgaine is located, all is made clear.
Morgan has settled down at a sandy seaside encampment, smuggling rum. Morgaine informs that Bartholomew Roberts might have taken his name but he’s no Portuguese Barthelemy. Being taken into the life of piracy then seeing your first captain ambushed and killed doesn’t help set the precedents. Bart’s idiosyncrasies were refreshing and his skills brilliant, but since the Summerset and the Philipa, Bart had become darker and more sadistic and God have mercy the who crosses him. Morgaine understands the motivation behind burning every Imperial Settlement to rubble, but he wouldn’t dare leave his life of leisure to fight Black Bart Roberts. “No, Mr. Sparrow,” Morgaine remarks, “I don’t want to become another Florimond de Montigny. Henri Morgaine suits me just fine…”
Jack and his crew leaves Morgaine to intercept Roberts. Within the confrontation, Jack warns him that he's going too far, and in turn, Roberts tells him, "By killin' me, y'll be killin' yer future." - directing his glance toward Rosa and Greaves - "'Cause what'll come o' them if Imperia doesn’t fall? ..The Empire must die." Jack is thrown off guard. Roberts wounds him. Greaves intervenes before Roberts has the chance to finish off Jack. Rosa jumps rank and gives the order to retreat.
The words stick with Jack has he recuperates in the safety of The Pearl. Roberts is right, but if he were to succeed, darker days will follow for all current and future pirates.
Their final confrontation with Roberts takes place at night in an apex settlement of the British Empire. Within a parallel series of events, Jack’s crew is dispersed: some distract the soldiers, other distract Roberts's followers, a few are charged with minimizing the intended damage, and Jack deals with Roberts himself. As the few remaining fuses reach their keggers, Jack and his crew scramble to their landing like rats fleeing a cat-ridden maze. They board the ship and set sail before suffering any further damage from Roberts's ill-fated revenge.
As the ship approaches the dawn, Jack remembers the words Morgan last told him before they left to dispatch Roberts, "A man never dies if 'is name lives."
Years have passed. Rosa and Greaves conduct business on a pleasant desert isle, one of many unlisted rum stations throughout the east Caribbean. There's a canvas tent a few meters away. The clanging of metal is softly heard against the sounds of the shoreline.
Without batting an eye, Rosa kindly calls out, "Jack, can you lend us a hand?"
The clanging persists. Rosa looks to the tent, laughing, "Jack! Are you listening?"
Beside the tent, a vintage Sparrow spares with a boy resembling himself at the age of 18. Rosa is heard still calling. Sparrow braces his sword against the boy's, hilt to hilt. Sparrow spots Rosa and grins. He looks to the boy, "That'll do fer now. Y'best head t'yer mum, or there'd be 'ell t'pay."
"Aye, Cap'n," the boy catches his breath before handing over the sword. Rosa continues to call as the boy runs in that direction, smiling, "Aye, mother, I was listenin’. Just not all the way. What do y'want fer me t'carry?"
Sparrow watches the family scene as he walks to his bottle of rum. He stabs the swords into the sand, picks up the bottle, and turns to the sea with a smirk on his face before taking a swig, "Drink up, me hearties. YoHo."
