Daily Dialogue — November 26, 2014

Tia Dalma: (Offering a drink to Elizabeth) Against the cold, and the sorrow. (Moving next to Will). It’s a shame. I know you’re thinking that with the Pearl you could have captured the devil and set free your father’s soul.
Will: Doesn’t matter now. The Pearl’s gone, along with its captain.
Gibbs: Aye, and already the world seems a bit less bright. He fooled us all, right to the end. But I guess that honest streak finally won out. To Jack Sparrow.
Ragetti: Never another like Captain Jack.
Pintel: He was a gentleman of fortune, he was.
Elizabeth: He was a good man.
Will: (noticing Elizabeth’s discomfort) If there was anything could be done to bring him back… Elizabeth…
Tia Dalma: Would you do it? Hmm? What would you? Hmm? What would any of you be willing to do? Hmm? Would you sail to the ends of the earth and beyond to fetch back witty Jack, and him precious Pearl?
Gibbs, Ragetti, Pintel: Aye!
Cotton’s Parrot: Aye, aye!
Elizabeth: Yes.
Will: Aye.
Tia Dalma: All right. But if you will brave the weird and haunted shoals at world’s end, then you will need a captain who knows those waters.
Barbossa: [enters] So tell me, what’s become of my ship?

— Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006), written by Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Proposal, suggested by Aamir Mirza. Today’s suggestion by Will King.

Trivia: While the script was being written, Keira Knightley suggested the scene between Jack and Elizabeth where Jack is handcuffed to the ship.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Commentary by Will: “The Pirates movies are strewn with proposals, but this one is different. If you think about it, all movies have some sort of a proposal — it’s what launches the plot and sends the hero/protagonist on his/her journey. However, in Dead Man’s Chest, one proposal is held to the very end and acts and the launching point for the third film.”