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Calypso the Love of Davy Jones: Pirates of the Caribbean – AT WORLD’S END—UNIQUE LOVE STORY*** IN A DISNEY MOVIE***! WOW!!!
Okay, my friends, time for more of my discussion of my love of one of my most favorite trilogies….Pirates of the Caribbean.
Today I want to discuss Tia Dalma a.k.a. Calypso the goddess of the Sea. She has unqiue features like black lips, black paint under her eyes, and dreadlocks.
She has been visited by Jack Sparrow and company, i.e. Will Turner, Elizabeth and some of the crew members, and then again by Will Turner after Jack Sparrow was taken to Davy Jones Locker by the Kracken. Tia Dalma was always willing to help them.
She lives in the deep forest in the West Indies (Caribbean) surrounded by faceless forest people. She has a hut that has strange and odd looking jars filled with eyeballs and what not….But you can’t seem to be truly afraid of her.
You kind of like her. She is not really happy, but not really angry either. You find that she is willing to help those around her. She has strong views and concepts and seems to see the future of the key players in the movie. She constantly warns Will Turner of his “Touch of Destiny!”
Did you even think that Davy Jones could love anybody? Certainly not the OBIA (witchcraft) woman!
I was surprised that the young actress that portrayed the fabulous, loving, changing, angry Tia Dalma turned out to be the only one true weakness of Davy the Squid Head Jones!
Diadalma even said it herself, “There is an evil on the seas that even the staunchess pirates fear!”
But when Tia Dalama spoke directly to Davy Jones before she was released from her intombed body space, she told him” You have corrupted your purpose.”
Davy Jones had taken to the seas in fearce angry retribution on the sailors and their boats. Davy Jones unleash the Kracken on “innocent ships and sailors, or pirates” then he would ask people if they feared death.
He would enlist or force them into servitude to the Fying Dutchman if they feared death. Little did the unsuspecting dying sailors know….but they would soon be in a worse condition than if they had dyed at sea.
Tia Dalma was to blame, (in Davy Jones mind) for his change of heart. Davy Jones job was to ferry the dead to the other side, and then come to land every ten years.
Because Davy Jones loved Tia Dalma a.k.a. Calypso, he became angry when she did not show up for their meeting after his ten years at sea. His feelings and heart hurt so much that he wanted to end the pain.
He then cut out his heart, and thus you know how that all went. Dispite the scary appearance of Davy Jones, I felt a slight pang of compassion for this sailor turned monster at sea whenever he sat at his “church” organ to play himself to sleep, or soothe his mind.
Even though he placed his heart in a box, he could not run from his anger an all of his fears.
When the Flying Dutchman and the Black Pearl were soaring through the rough waters of the malstrom and shooting and fighting one another….Davy Jones was fighting with Will Turner’s father and then he knocked him to the floor and told him,”You will not forestall my judgement!”
At first hearing this I had thought that he meant that he was going to finish off the”whelp” Will Turner junior…..but on seeing it again….I have wondereed if Davy Jones was seeking freedom from his life as the tenatcled sea monster pirate?
Was he hoping that Will Turner would take over the job….instead? So I believe that he was referring to that…..well any way …only the director and writer truly know what that statement.
All I know is that when Davy Jones visited Tia Dalma he told her that his heart would always belong to her.
He loved ocean, the wind, and the life on and in the ocean. She smiled and he walked out of her holding room on board the Black Pearl.
I was happy to see a black woman cast in that role. I had grown to like her thick West Indian accent, and her all knowing personality.
But when she turned around and responded to Will Turner’s question…”Who told the Brethern Court how to bind you?!!! Tia Dalma grew so big that she was as tall as the mast on the ship. She yelled, “Say it! Say it!” And with that Will Turner yelled Davy Jones and she ballooned up to an unbelieveable size!
She began shaking her head and saying things in a garbled way and kind of exploded into the same white crabs that helped to pull the black pearl from the depths of Davy Jones locker.
What a sight! When all of the crabs fell over the ships edge (the Black Pearl) everybody said…”Is that all?” Suddenly the wind began to blow and the malstrom kicked up.
I thought this was wonderful and powerful portrayal of nature fighting back against the rules and establishment!!
It was so strange to see Davy Jones look of renewed faith….and even when his heart was stabbed….a look of peace as he fell off of the Flying Dutchman to his final resting place with Tia Dalma!
I really loved the music that portrayed the tender love that had gone wrong between Davy Jones and Tia Dalma a.k.a Calypso.
Now a new story must be told about Will Turner… the hope of the dead who must still be carried to the after life…, and Elizabeth his chillhood love turned “Pirate King” during the Brethen court meeting.
What a wonderful pirate, action adventure and double love story!
Stay tuned for more discussion on the Pirates of the Caribbean Trilogy!
Next Time Captain Barbossa, Singapore, and more!!!!!!
Till next blog,
RIVEROFLIFELISAJOY!!!
DAVY JONES AND the CRACKEN! Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Man’s Chest!
What is it about this movie PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN- DEAD MAN’S CHEST, that I love so much?! Well, today class, we will discuss Davy Jones and his pet cracken…. in continuing in my favorite movie triology action/drama/comedy Pirates of the Caribbean we will now talk about my most favorite villian Davy Jones! Class please feel to free to comment!
At first he scared me with his “dread lock” tenticles! Davy Jones was a first in the animation blue technique. The computer graphics, the artistic stretch and intense attention to detail is also a fabulous testiment to what mankind can achieve!
Education, and attention to excellence made this character of Davy Jones believeable! I constantly looked for flaws and weakness in the cinematography and I could not find it. I even paused the video, slowed the video and studied the faces of the”fish people” at various times during the movie.
For example Will Turner, the handsome traditional leading man of the movie, a.k.a. Orlando Bloom, first comes into contact with Davy Jones and his computer generated ship the Flying Dutchman, after he is knocked over board from the Black Pearl by Jack Sparrow a.k.a. Johnny Depp.
When Will heard that the Cracken– a huge squid/ octopus that is the “pet” of squid head Davy Jones, could suck a man’s face clean off his head….he found that to be true when he came upon the wreckage of a ship with some few survivors.
Will found a man without a face. I did a close up with my hand controller and could not see any flaws in the computer/madeup suctioned face! Disney apparently did not spare any expense in the making of this movie. I love it!
Respect the intelligence of your audience and they will keep coming back for more!!!!
While looking at the suctioned face man, suddenly the “fish people, arrived on the ship from within the walls of the ship….alive yet dead.
One fish faced man, apparently a ship mate in high standing with Davy Jones gave the order for the lone survivors of this wrecked ship to “Get down on your marrow bones and pray!” At that point Will Turner began to fight for his life with the fish people.
Davy Jones then arrived on board this doomed boat with its doomed crew and began to speak in the most interesting accent I have ever enjoyed listening too–and asked one very injured crew member “Do you fear death?”
His eyes were glowing from the colors known to be in the eyes of squid and octopus…that glow in the ocean naturally, and his tenticales moved effortlessly around his pirate hat, shoulders, and chest. He was so ugly, yet so handsome.
The designer of the character’s appearance had explained in the commentary in the special features of the movie that he had created this character depiction of Davy Jones from his own mind!
The voice of the actor was so intriquing that my son Jay Jewels and I immate it while joking around at home sometimes!!! LOL!!!
My son has the best talent for voice, and vocal inflection of Davy Jones! The first statement that Davy Jones makes to Will Turner is “You are neither dead nor dying! What is your purpose here?! Will, surprisingly unafraid of the fierce looking half human/half squid faced harsh pirate Davy Jones stated, I am here to pay the debt of Jack Sparrow!
Suddenly Davy Jones stood quite still and repeated again, “What is your purpose here?! After Davy Jones and Will were talking for a bit, the camera turns back to the curious look of Jack Sparrow who is watching from what he thought was a safe distance. But to my dear silly Jack’s shock and dismay Davy Jones turned in his direction while talking to see Jack looking though a spy glass.
No sooner did Davy Jones turn and look with glowing golden eyes did Davy Jones suddenly appear on board the ship deck of the Black Pearl! To which Jack responded in shock!
That was so funny that I and my son rewind that part several times when we watch the video! I enjoy the interaction between Jack Sparrow and Davy Jones. Even though Jack is in deep debt to Davy Jones for raising the Black Pearl from the depths of ocean, he is allowed to plead his case, stating that he has only been a captain of a ship for only 2 years because Captain Barbosa had mutinied against him.
However, Davy Jones turned to him and had the fish people crew laughing and said, ” Well you were a poor captain….but a captain nonetheless!”
You owe me an eternity of service!” As the movie goes it is a fight for Jack to stay away from Davy Jones and his Cracken. Jack decides to get the heart that lies within the chest that is hidden on an island somewhere.
Davy Jones is evil but yet has his concerns too. He has moments of sadness in which he thinks of his lost love —unknown to the audience.
Davy Jones also plays a “mean” church organ that is installed in the Flying Dutchman. Will Turner had to stay on his ship until the payment for Jack Sparrow’s soul be made in full. But while on the ship Will finds his father who has been missing for years….Ole’ Boot Strap William Turner, as member of Davy Jones crew.
Will determines to get his father away and let him be free from his debt to Davy Jones. However, as the movie triology progresses, the turn of events for Will Turner, the “pup” of Boot Strap William Turner finds out that his desire to save his father’s very soul becomes sticky. He may loose more than he gains.
Davy Jone’s Cracken had its own unique personality as well. The cracken attacked many ships and broke them in half. But when the cracken finally got its tenticles on the Black Pearl, it gently took Jack Sparrow, who had been through a turn of circumstance and handcuffed to the main mast of ship by Elizabeth, who had wavered in her like, hate, love, and attraction –into finally deciding to save everyone including Will Turner by making Jack Sparrow stay on the Black Pearl at the end of the movie and go down with his ship.
But what made the cracken have a unique twist is how it handled its aquiring of the pirate and his ship.
Instead of breaking the Black Pearl in half, the cracken gently rolled the ship over after if swallowed Jack and turned the boat over and then took it gently to Davy Jones locker, where we meet up with Jack in the final of the three pictures of ” Pirates of the Caribbean – At World’s End.” It was masterfully made, and every bit if attention was given to detail.
The best part of the end of DeadMan’s chest, was how angry Davy Jones got when he realized that the chest did not hold his heart!!!! He screamed ,”JACK SPARROW!!!!!!”
The most exciting part of the end of this second movie was how Captain Barbosa was raised from the dead by Diadalma the Obia (witch craft woman—whose role is stronger than the audience at that time is aware) to assist in getting Jack Sparrow and the Black Pearl from Davy Jones locker.
I will discuss how much I truly enjoy Captain Barbosa and even Elizabeth, the monkey, the dog with the keys, and many other of the characters in this my favorite trilogy of movies.
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Till next “Pirates of the Caribbean” post:
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