Why the explanation of the Black Pearl will be necessary

Will Turner wants to take control of the Black Pearl near the climax of Dead Man's Chestbut the Pirates of the Caribbean the sequel never explains why he needs the ship in the sequel. THE Pirates of the Caribbean all the sequels have their own unique problems, but the 2006 Dead Man's Chest it is mostly bogged down by complexity. There is no denying that its follow-up in 2007, At the end of the worldit also presents a complicated story, but the film's downbeat ending is its biggest problem. In contrast, a complicated plot is the main problem Dead Man's Chest faces.

Where is the 2003 original? Pirates of the Caribbean was admirable for its simplicity, Dead Man's Chest has a plot that includes more than a dozen main characters and at least five warring factions. There is Jack Sparrow, who always looks out for himself, Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann, who are close to each other but few others, Elizabeth's bitter ex-fiancee, Commander Norrington, Davy Jones and his undead crew, the chairman of the East India Trading Company. Lord Cutler Beckett and eventually even Barbossa. Within this buildup, it's easy to miss Will's specific motivations.

The Black Pearl is the only ship fast enough to take on the Flying Dutchman

The Testament Plan Aided by the Speed ​​of the Black Pearl

In the middle of the way Dead Man's ChestWill is reunited with his father, Bootstrap Bill Turner. Played by an icy Stellan Skarsgård, Bootstrap Bill is an undead sailor who escaped death by swearing his soul to Davy Jones and his cursed ship, the Flying Dutchman. Will tries to negotiate his father's release from this contract, but when that fails, he decides to take matters into his own hands. Although the sequel never makes this entirely clear, Will wants the Black Pearl, as he intends to save Bootstrap Bill from the Flying Dutchman, and only Jack's ship can outrun Jones' ship.

To complicate matters further, the Bootstrap Bill's debt to Pirates of the CaribbeanDavy Jones' best villain originally came about because of the Black Pearl in the first place. Bill was a sailor on the Black Pearl when Barbossa staged a successful mutiny and was thrown overboard to drown when he refused to join either side. As such, the former crew of the Black Pearl were technically responsible for Bootstrap Bill saving his life by signing on to work for Jones. There's poetic justice in Will using the ship to help his father escape, even though it doesn't work.

Will realizes this during the final Dead Man's Chest battle.

The Dutchman was unable to reach the Black Pearl

Things don't go as planned for Will at the end of Dead Man's Chestbut he was right to use the Black Pearl in his attempt to overtake the Dutchman. The Black Pearl could have escaped the Flying Dutchman and Pirates of the CaribbeanThe Kraken underutilized, but Jones invested more in the ship than Will realized. His father's freedom was an issue, but Jack Sparrow also owed Jones a debt, and the villain intended this to be repaid one way or another. This explains why the Kraken is only interested in killing Jack at the end of Dead Man's Chest.

This causes the quick-thinking Elizabeth to trick Jack into sacrificing himself when she distracts him with a kiss and handcuffs him to the sinking ship. However, it is too late for Will's plan to save his father. That said, it's hard to see how Bootstrap Bill was expected to make it out of the Fling Dutchman in one piece. Will appeared to misunderstand many elements of the curse that befell his father, from the conditions of his freedom to the practical function of the Flying Dutchman. While it was never canonically confirmed, Will's plan was likely always doomed.

Why Will's Plan to Release the Bootstrap Bill Never Made Sense

Bootstrap Bill was tied to the ship

While Elizabeth sacrifices Jack in Dead Man's Chest doesn't help Will's cause, his plan was probably already dead. For one thing, he depended on having a crew to help him and Davy Jones had already massacred most of the Black Pearl's crew by this point. The plan also ignored the fact that the Dutchman's crew couldn't die, meaning there was no way to stop them from chasing the Black Pearl forever. Meanwhile, Will probably didn't know that Davy Jones had the Kraken and Flying Dutchman at his disposal.

Will abandons the plan to save Bootstrap Bill in At the end of the worldand it's easy to see why. Bootstrap Bill and the rest of Jones' crew are apparently linked to the Flying Dutchman himself, and his curse doesn't appear to be something that can be lifted or changed. The vessel appears to be the problem as much as Jones's will, so there's a chance that Dead Man's ChestBootstrap Bill would not have been able to board the Black Pearl even if Will had saved him in the Pirates of the Caribbean sequence.