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- "Can you swim?"
"Like a fish..."
"Good." - ―Jack Sparrow and the Sentry
This man who served as a Royal Marine under the command of Commodore James Norrington of the British Royal Navy. He was most notably in service around the time of the attack on Port Royal, in which Elizabeth Swann, the daughter of Governor Weatherby Swann, was kidnapped by the crew of the Black Pearl, a pirate ship under the command of Captain Hector Barbossa. The following day, Commodore Norrington and his men were readying the HMS Interceptor to make sail and hunt down the Black Pearl, but were soon alerted to the fact that the pirate Captain Jack Sparrow and blacksmith Will Turner were seemingly commandeering the HMS Dauntless, the pride of the Royal Navy, and they took off full sail to retake the ship.[2] As the Interceptor drew up alongside its quarry, Norrington and the rest of the crew boarded the Dauntless, and they left the Interceptor empty except for the man posted as one lone sentry standing watch. In a flash, as Sparrow and Turner slip aboard the Interceptor unseen in order to commandeer it. Sparrow grabbed the sentry from behind and asked if he could swim, and when the sentry replied to the affirmative, "like a fish" he promised, Jack tossed him overboard.[1] The sentry's further fate is unknown.
Behind the scenes
Captain Jack Sparrow and the Sentry as seen in behind the scenes footage.
- "Can you swim? (the man struggles) Can. You. Swim?"
"Of course, sir. Like a fish. I grew up summers living in Dover, with my uncle --"
"Good." - ―Jack Sparrow and the Sentry
The sentry was played by Dustin Seavey in the 2003 film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.[2] In Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio's screenplay, while commandeering the HMS Interceptor, Jack Sparrow tackles the Sentry from behind, covers his mouth, and asks if he can swim while the man struggles. After Jack removed his hand, the Sentry said he could swim like a fish as he grew up summers living in Dover with his uncle. Jack lifts the man up, throws him overboard.[3] Although the scene was cut from the film, it was retained in Irene Trimble's junior novelization, where the Sentry's line was simply "Like a fish."[1]
Following the film's release, co-writer Ted Elliott wrote on Wordplay that the scene with Jack and the sentry was never filmed. His explanation was that it would have cost half a day of shooting, and including it would have slowed down the stealing of the Interceptor sequence enough to have put the audience ahead of the story and waiting for it to catch up.[4] However, Elliott's claim is contradicted due to the indications that the scene was indeed filmed, including the existence of at least one promotional image,[5] behind the scenes footage, as well as the fact that Dustin Seavey received a credit for the role.[2]
Appearances
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003 junior novelization), pp. 48-49
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
- ↑ Wordplayer.com: WORDPLAY/Archives/Screenplay - PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL by Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio
- ↑ Wordplayer.com: MOVIES Message Board: Re: Pirates of the Caribbean (the second wave) SPOILERS, posted by Ted Elliott (July 22, 2003): "There was a brief bit written after Jack and Will board the Interceptor, where Jack asks the crewman left on board if he can swim, and when the crewman replies to the affirmative, Jack throws him overboard. The problem: shooting that small bit would have cost about half a day of filming; including that scene in the movie would have slowed down the stealing of the Interceptor sequence enough to have put the audience ahead of the story and waiting for it to catch up. So it was never shot, and (for the most part) is not missed."
- ↑ Promotional image of Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow and Dustin Seavey as Sentry
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