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• So locations wouldn't have to be revisited by the crew, some scenes were filmed during the filming of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006).
  
  
• The character, Tai Huang, the leader of Captain Sao Feng's crew was played by actor Reggie Lee. Lee was earlier seen as "Headless", the cone-shell headed member of Davy Jones' crew in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) - best remembered as the pirate/creature whose head is knocked off by a coconut thrown by Jack Sparrow, after which the decapitated head tries to direct its body around by telling it which way to look. Headless makes a short appearance in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) during the Maelstrom battle scene; Jack shoots the chest out of Davy Jones' hand. The chest then falls on Headless's head, and he stumbles backwards and falls overboard. This places both of Reggie Lee's characters on two different ships that are both present at the final battle.
  
  
• Filming started without a finished script.
  
  
• Keith Richards agreed to appear as Jack Sparrow's father and the keeper of the pirate code. He has been noted as a primary influence on Johnny Depp's performance as Jack Sparrow, and has been pursued for an appearance since the first installment of the series.
  
  
• The crew built a sixty foot replica of the front half of the Black Pearl on the back of a semi trailer in the salt flats of Utah for a shoot with the Shadow of the Pearl. The shoot was scheduled for 19 days, it took 4.
  
  
• The cast and crew filmed off of the coast of Southern California in the South Bay Area around the last week of August 2006. The Black Pearl could be seen sailing to and from port from the Palos Verdes Estates and Redondo Beach pier. The stars of the film would take time off from shooting to meet fans and sign autographs.
  
  
• The series has a rather inconsistent naming concept in Germany: The first film was named "Fluch der Karibik" (lit. "Caribbean's Curse"), the second "Pirates of the Carribean - Fluch der Karibik 2" (although early posters showed the more literal "Fluch der Karibik - Die Truhe des Todes") and this one "Pirates of the Carribean - Am Ende der Welt".
  
  
• Release prints were delivered to theaters with the fake title "Rummy 3".
  
  
• The scene in which Barbossa, Elizabeth, and Jack confront the representatives of the East India Company just prior to the ship battle is an homage to the "spaghetti western" style of director Sergio Leone, particularly in the gradual approach and use of alternating extreme closeups of the characters' faces, as well as the choice of music, which is reminiscent of the Harmonica theme from C'era una volta il West (1968).
  
  
• The character of the pirate lord Mistress Ching is likely inspired by the real-life Chinese pirate Cheng I Sao (or Ching Yih Saou), who controlled the South China Sea with her large pirate fleet in the early 1800s.
  
  
• The scene in which Jack the Monkey is shivering was accomplished by the concerted efforts of the special effects and animal training departments. The effects guys made a small wooden barrel with a vibrating plate on top. The animal trainers taught the monkey to sit with her arms crossed on the plate.
  
  
• There was an actual council of pirates at one time in history. The Brethren of the Coast were a loose coalition of pirates and buccaneers, active in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico. They had a base on the island of Tortuga, off the coast of Haiti and in the city of Port Royal on the island of Jamaica. The Brethren were originally French Huguenots and British Protestants, but their ranks were joined by other adventurers of various nationalities including Spaniards and African sailors.
  
  
• When the pirates bring out the book of the Pirate Code, Ragetti says they are the rules first set down by "Morgan and Bartholomew." This is a reference to the great pirates Henry Morgan and Bartholomew "Black Bart" Roberts. Henry Morgan was a pirate renowned in his day for the taking and sacking of several supposedly impenetrable treasure towns, including Portobello, which was the Fort Knox of its day. Roberts, though less famous, was on a par with Blackbeard and Captain Kidd for successful ventures, and known for his fondness for fine clothes and jewelry (thus serving as an archetype of the pirate image popular today); he was also one of the first known pirates to develop a code of honour to be followed by his crew on pain of death. The Pirate Code referenced throughout the trilogy features some of the precepts from this article. However, as Roberts was just six years old when Morgan died, the likelihood of their having been acquainted is somewhat small.
  
  
• Captain Barbossa can be seen wearing an Eagle Scout ring in several sequences. This ring signifies that some one in Boy Scouts has earned the highest rank known as Eagle.
  
  
• The flags hoisted by the pirate fleet are based on actual flags of real-world pirates. We see (in no particular order) the flags of: Christopher Moody (red flag with a winged chalice, arm & knife, and skull on crossbones), Thomas Tew (an arm with a cutlass), De Vranck (a man clubbing a skull & crossbones), Bartholomew "Black Bart" Roberts (a man dancing with a skeleton who holds a spear), and Edward Low (a red skeleton). The flag hoisted by the Black Pearl is that of John "Calico Jack" Rackham (a skull and crossed cutlasses).
  
  
• This is the first ‘Pirates’ movie where Ragetti and Pintel actually have their names said.
  
  
• Is the only one of the three movies to portray that common pirate stereotype; the eye patch.
  
  
• In Italy, the first movie was named "La maledizione della prima luna" (meaning "Curse of the First Moon"). The second taking partially the original brand was named "Pirati dei Caraibi: la maledizione del forziere fantasma" (meaning "Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the ghost Chest"). The third movie finally translated correctly "Pirati dei Caraibi: ai confini del mondo".
  
  
• WILHELM SCREAM: Heard in the Singapore battle when the fireworks shack explodes, and during the battle in the maelstrom one is heard during an explosion.
  
  
• The Jolly Roger Jack flies from his dinghy at the end of the film is a variation on the one flown by historical pirate Henry Every.
  
  
• The Green Flash is a real but very rare optical phenomenon during sunrise or sunset that is best observed at sea. It is caused by the refraction of light in the atmosphere, amplified by a mirage.
  
  
• The name "Barbossa" might have been derived from the real Turkish pirate "Barbarossa". Barbarossa, also known as "Redbeard" was once a pirate in the Aegean and the Mediterranean seas before he became a fleet admiral of the Ottoman Empire navy.
  
  
• When the screen goes black as the crew fall over World's End, the ghostly music and voices heard are directly from the Disneyland ride. Most noticeable is Paul Frees' voice of the skull and crossbones that infamously warns passengers "Dead men tell no tales!"
  
  
• The film is the first in the series in which Capt. Barbossa's first name, Hector, is said. Interestingly, the writers did not initially plan on giving the character a first name: on the commentary for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), Johnny Depp jokingly said that Barbossa's name was Hector; this comment was misinterpreted by fans to be the character's actual name, and thus left the writers to feel that they had no choice but to include it in the series.
  
  
• Jack the Monkey was played by two monkeys - Chiquita and Pablo who replace the two monkeys from the first film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003). Tara and Levi played the part of "Jack the Monkey" in the first Pirates film.
  
  
• The Black Pearl itself, while docked in San Pedro Harbor, was used to film an ad for the movie and a contest called "Party on the Pearl". Using some of the movie's cast, the ad starred Martin Klebba, Spencer the monkey, David Blue and Jeremiah Hu.
  
  
• During Jack Sparrow's monologue to the pirate council, he is heard to remark "Res ipsa loquitur", a term used frequently in the writings of the late Hunter S. Thompson, a close friend of Johnny Depp.
  
  
• Jack Sparrow, Johnny Depp's character, waits a whole 33 minutes before making his on-screen entrance.
  
  
• Hans Zimmer stated in an interview that he wrote the music for the films as if he was scoring a "biker movie", and that during the process he substituted the ships for motorcycles in his mind when viewing the film.
  
  
• The most expensive film ever made, not adjusted for inflation. The budget ran at $300,000,000.
  
  
• The song that Captain Teague (Keith Richards) plays on his guitar at the Brethren Court is "Spanish Ladies," the same song that Robert Shaw's character repeatedly sings in the movie Jaws (1975).
  
  
• Prior to dissolving into a swarm of crabs, Calypso shouts an incantation which in the script reads: "Malfaiteur en Tombeau, Crochir l'Esplanade, Dans l'Fond d'l'eau!". This roughly means "Across all the waters, find the path to he who wrongfully entombed me", evidently referring to Davy Jones.
  
  
• The animators completed the VFX in five months.
  
  
• Industrial Light & Magic created 750 VFX shots in the film, while Digital Domain created 300 VFX shots for the film.
  
  
• As all the shooting required in the Caribbean had been conducted in 2005, filming went on at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah and the Californian coast.
  
  
• The Singapore city was constructed out of 40 buildings within a tank that was 24 metres long, 40 metres wide and one metre deep. Since not much is known historically about 18th century Singapore, the filmmakers based the set design on Chinese/Malaysian cities of the same period, and also worked in an Expressionist style.
  
  
• According to Gore Verbinski, the Singapore scenes were intended to parody spa culture: a naturally humid atmosphere was achieved with a careful combination of lighting equipment and gallons of water, and fungi were allowed to grow within the set to enhance the mood.
  
  
• The crew shot at Niagara Falls for the World's End waterfall scene.
  
  
• The climactic sea battle was shot in an air hanger at Palmdale, California, where the cast had to wear wetsuits underneath their costumes on angle-tipped ships. The water-drenched set was kept in freezing temperatures to prevent bacterial infection.
  
  
• The scenes in Davy Jones' Locker were shot at Utah, and a monochromatic style was used to represent its antithesis from the usual colorful environment of a pirate.
  
  
• The film's running time was originally three hours, and even though Jerry Bruckheimer claimed the long running time made the final battle work in terms of build-up, he decided to cut it down by twenty minutes.
  
  
• Hans Zimmer composed eight new motifs including a new love theme for the film's soundtrack. He scored scenes as the editors began work, so as to influence their choice of cutting to the music.
  
  
• According to Gore Verbinski, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) was a character-driven film and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) was a plot-driven film, so to make the whole saga work he wanted to make this film a combination of both plot and character.
  
  
• The pieces of eight, as seen in the film, are: Ragetti's wooden eye (Barbossa), a playing card (Armand the Corsair), a cork (Captain Vanillueva), a pair of tongs (Mistress Ching), a silver fork (Gentleman Jocard), a tusk fragment (Shri Sumbhajee), a monkey's paw (Sao Feng, later Elizabeth Swann), and an actual piece of eight (Jack Sparrow).
  
  
• During filming, Johnny Depp practiced singing for his next role as Sweeney Todd.
  
  
• Calypso is cited by Davy Jones in this film to be a heathen god. This brings the saga full circle, as in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) Captain Barbossa mentioned heathen gods.
  
  
• Johnny Depp thoroughly enjoyed working with his co-star Geoffrey Rush in the first film, and was pleased to get more screentime alongside him: "We were like a couple of old ladies with knitting needles!"
  
  
• Yun-Fat Chow relished his role as Sao Feng, and would often assist the crew in improving the set and to make his performance work better.
  
  
• A "piece of eight" is a silver coin used as currency in the 18th century. In the film, the "piece of eight" is a relic that identifies a captain as one of the nine Pirate Lord of the Brethren Court. Jack Sparrow's piece of eight is the only one that is in fact an actual piece of eight: it's the coin seen dangling on his bandana (seen only when Barbossa cuts it off).
  
  
• Sao Feng compliments Elizabeth saying she is "more than meets the eye." While a common statement, this was the slogan of Transformers (2007), which ILM worked on after this film (and by extension Hans Zimmer, who worked with Steve Jablonsky on the film).
  
  
• Cutler Beckett's comment of "good business" is a reference to The Godfather (1972), where Virgil Sollozzo (also a businessman who sets off a war) uses the same line.
  
  
• Director Gore Verbinski assisted composer Hans Zimmer on composing the musical score for the film. He and Zimmer collaborated on the "Hoist the Colours" song; and Verbinski played the guitar in the parley scene.
  
  

• SPOILER: At the end of the film, Barbossa suggests to his crew that they go looking for the Fountain of Youth, but is prevented from doing so, since the relevant portion of the map has been stolen. Next, we see Jack Sparrow in his dinghy, turning the rings of the map to form a chalice and the (assumed) location of the Fountain of Youth marked by an X. Ironically, the X on the map is too far south and west to be either Orlando (wherein lies Disney World, home to the original "PotC") OR St. Augustine (where Juan Ponce de Leon landed looking for the Fountain). Judging from its position on the map (and remembering the relative inaccuracy of the mapping techniques of the day), the X lies over the Everglades, roughly 30 miles southwest of Lake Okeechobee.
  
  
• SPOILER: In the scene toward the end back at Tortuga when Jack figures out that Barbossa stole his ship and gets slapped by the two women, Scarlet and Giselle, look at Jack’s waist. He has his "mum" tied around his belt (the shrunken head).
  
  
• SPOILER: After the credits, there is an extra scene that shows Will and the Flying Dutchman returning to the island, where Elizabeth is waiting for him with their 9-year-old son (he can't be 10 unless he was born the day Will left).
  
  
• SPOILER: The sword that Will made for Commodore Norrington in the first movie has an interesting role throughout this one: Becket returns it to Norrington upon his assignment as Admiral; Norrington stabs Davy Jones with it as his answer to Jones' question "Do you fear death?"; Jones takes it ("Nice sword!") and uses it in the final battle; Sparrow knocks it from Jones' hand during the battle to the deck of the Dutchman, where it is found by one of Beckett's soldiers; while admiring it, this soldier is killed by Jones, who takes it back, and later uses it to stab Will Turner through the heart. The sword is last seen in Will's chest as his father goes to remove his heart for the Dutchman's chest, but it has been rumored that when Will and the Dutchman return, Will has this sword at his waist, and this is the sword in the sand on the beach (along with Elizabeth's) at the end.
  
  
• SPOILER: The farewells Elizabeth receives from the pirates echo their greetings/farewell in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003):
  - Ragetti, who met Elizabeth with "'Ello poppet," says "'Bye poppet" to her;
  - Captain Barbossa who first thought Elizabeth was "Miss Turner," calls her "Mrs. Turner"
  - and Elizabeth tells Jack Sparrow it would never have worked out between them, which Sparrow had earlier told her.
  
  
• SPOILER: While both Captain Barbossa and Will Turner thank Jack the monkey for saving them, Elizabeth thanks Jack Sparrow for saving Will.
  
  
• SPOILER: The end of the film shows Jack Sparrow in the same position as at the beginning of the first film: aboard a small ship in the ocean sailing towards a destination, in search of a fabled artifact...
  
  
• SPOILER: Captain Barbossa can only say "Sparrow..." when he discovers he has been tricked at the end of the film, as opposed to Davy Jones bellowing it out when he meets the same fate in the previous film's end.
  
  

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