Pirates of the Caribbean Facts

At World's End (Cont.)

~ 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.

~  This is the first movie in the series to portray that common pirate stereotype, the eye patch.

~ 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!"

~ Some locations wouldn't have to be revisited by the crew, some scenes were filmed during the filming of PotC Dead Man's Chest.

~ 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 famous "piece of eight" was a coin that was marked with indentations dividing the coin into eight segments with two of the segments comprising a quarter of the coin. These segments could be broken off to make change. Each segment was called a bit. To this day a quarter is often referred to as "two bits", a half dollar as "four bits" and 75 cents as "six bits".

~ 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.

~  Chow Yun Fat relished his role as Sao Feng, and would often assist the crew in improving the set and to make his performance work better.

~ In Davy Jones's locker, Jack's compass is unable to work. This is because the magic is unable to pinpoint Jack's desires to one thing.

~ 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), Edward "Blackbeard" Teach(a skeleton holding a spear stabbing a red heart) is barely shown just before the flag of Bartholomew Roberts is hoisted, 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).