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Boarding Musket

Boarding Musket

"We have iron here on the island. We can mine more of it. And, once the iron is taken from the ground, we will need to know how to cast it into cannons. How to make pistols and muskets."
―Amenirdis to Jack Sparrow[src]

A musket, sometimes referred to as a rifle, was a long-barreled gun. By the 16th century, they were in widespread use by military and pirates alike. Usually fired by means of a flintlock mechanism, muskets were smoothbore, muzzle-loading weapons fired from the shoulder. A musket could be fired with reasonable accuracy by an experienced shot and so they were often useful for picking off choice targets like the captain of a ship under attack, a kill which then might bring the surrender of the vessel's entire crew. Military-issue muskets were often fitted with bayonets, allowing them to be used as deadly weapons in close combat even after they were fired.

Behind the scenes

Muskets first appeared in Walt Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean at Disneyland.[1] The name "musket" was first used in the 1996 book Climb Aboard If You Dare!: Stories From The Pirates of the Caribbean.[2] Muskets were frequently referred to as "rifles" throughout the Pirates of the Caribbean series, despite muskets predating the invention of rifles, in the films' screenplays[3][4][5][6] and novelizations.[7][8][9]

As part of the fight choreography for the battle of Singapore in the 2007 film Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Will Turner was supposed to wrest a musket from the grasp of an EITC marine after being cut free from his bonds, firing it off just before Elizabeth Swann tosses a sword to him. Though the footage was shot,[10] it was not used in the final cut of the film.[11]

For At World's End, CIS Hollywood enhanced an action sequence that occurs with the arrival of the East India Trading Company in Singapore, adding smoke trails and musket blasts to practical pyrotechnics. "It's not realistic to see musket trails from flintlock rifles," said CIS visual effects supervisor Bryan Hirota. "But Gore wanted to help illustrate how our heroes were being shot at, providing enough information to make a point without the effects becoming distracting. We used combinations of digital particles, Inferno work and a bunch of muzzle flash elements that Charlie Gibson shot to help give the effects an organic feel."[12]

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ Disneyland: From the Pirates of the Caribbean to the World of Tomorrow
  2. ↑ Climb Aboard If You Dare!: Stories From The Pirates of the Caribbean
  3. ↑ Wordplayer.com: PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST by Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio
  4. ↑ Wordplayer.com: PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD'S END by Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio
  5. ↑ Wordplayer.com: PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES by Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio
  6. ↑ Wordplayer.com: PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES by Terry Rossio
  7. ↑ Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (junior novelization)
  8. ↑ Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (junior novelization)
  9. ↑ Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (junior novelization)
  10. ↑ Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End: Behind the Scenes Production B-roll
  11. ↑ Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
  12. ↑ Cinefex, issue 110 - "Into the Maelstrom"