Let's Not Forget Sparrow

This is not the more structured and serial posts on Pirates of the Caribbean I mentioned before, this is just an afterthought to the post on the Weasley twins and The Mask. Jack Sparrow, especially as a sea-farer, is very much an Odysseus character (from Homer's The Odyssey), the ultimate tactician and definitely having a gift for the "cunning" in a good way. One of the best scenes for this was actually deleted: When he and Elizabeth are marooned on the island she confronts him with, "I can't believe you were going to tell him (Barbosa) about Will in exchange for a ship!" and he replies, "In fact, if you must know, I was going NOT to tell him about Will ... in exchange for a ship, Because as long as he didn't know about Will I still had something to bargain with, which now none of us has ... thanks to bloody Will!" The idea of the ellipses there is to try to convey the sense of it as spoken, which is NOT "I wasn't going to do ANY of that" but rather that "I WAS indeed going to try to bargain for the ship, but what I was going to try to bargain with wasn't telling him, but rather holding out on telling him ... and of course the part he wouldn't know was that I intended to hold out forever and never tell him. But I would have the ship by then.") NOTE: There is also, in the deleted scenes, an uproariously hilarious improvisation scene between Jack and the cursed Pirates when they find him in the cave and he says "parlez" and the "hello poppet" pirate says "damned to the depths whatever mutton-head came up with parlez!"- Depp has a brilliant improv on the French (including a line he stole from Mary Stuart Masterson's dialogue in Benny and June, in which Depp and Masterson co-starred, about raisins being humiliated grapes). That scene alone is worth buying the DVD.