It was his love for Elizabeth Swann that brought Jack Sparrow back to a doomed ship, what made him sacrifice his own safety. But Jack is still tight lipped about his feelings or intentions. Ironically, Jack is acting so different and not scampering for the last longboat, the one he came back in.
Take into consideration I had no idea what AWE would be like, this was penned before it came out, but at the time the camps formed between J&E and W&E, it brought up some interesting theories…here was mine… :)
Jack Sparrow’s Love for Elizabeth Swann (circ. 2006-2007)
In the first movie when Jack saves Elizabeth from drowning he grabs her body next to his. Jack is clearly physically attracted to her and even more when they are in very close proximity, he is especially enjoying the close, physical contact when he has her dress him, all the while taking long furtive and calculating glances at her, finally surmising she is indeed a beauty by the grin of appreciation spread across his face, to which Jack laughs when Norrington is aware of exactly what is on Sparrow’s dirty mind.. The look of lust as he wants to ravage her and the gloating glance he casts to the commodore is priceless. But as Jack escapes he consults with Elizabeth when she says he is despicable, that they saved each other’s lives and now they are square, the tables are even.
Cast away on the Rum Runners Island they are thrown together all alone. Elizabeth clearly has Jack idolized as she has confessed many times that she has read about pirates and him in particular. Elizabeth marvels at his abilities to defeat his foes in such a way that he has become a legend to all at this point and she is quietly enamored of him and the feats of piracy he has been so victorious. It even shows expressly when Elizabeth exclaims in her line of chasing him about how clever he is, that Jack should know how to get off this island because he had done so once before. Her very loud and exasperated cry as she is hot on his heels yelling,
“But you’re Captain JACK SPARROW!”
Elizabeth says this as if to remind Jack of how great he really is and how she actually believes in that fact of how amazing he is at virtually every undertaking Jack takes to task..he should know how to do this! However, he is still only a man and a rouge so being alone with him on this island as it is getting darker is making Elizabeth nervous. If they do not get off that island, she is going to have to figure out a way to keep her virtue. Elizabeth is not stupid and had caught the wolfish peers Jack had given her already up to this point, and they were not stopping either, no matter what their conversation consisted of. Sparrow always managed to get a quick peek of her body in that thin shift.
Through both movies you will find that Jack lies to everyone, answers to no one, and completely uses anyone for his purposes. He is shameless! But when really called on the carpet by Elizabeth, Jack is compelled to respond – even when he doesn’t want to. A driving force of accountability he feels humbled only by Elizabeth. Jack allows himself to be real and vulnerable to her, even though it is fleeting and he hates to put a crimp in his legend status, he exposes his real self to her.
When Elizabeth corners him after catching up to his long legged strides to keep away avoiding her and the questions, it is plain to see he does not want to discuss it at all, not willing to brag about this particular escapade as he usually does with all of his own adventures. Elizabeth asks Jack how he escaped the island the last time, he is clearly uncomfortable and broken, so he tells her the truth.
The normal way Jack Sparrow usually handled telling any stories about his escapades–Jack made himself grand to everyone. But suddenly Jack Sparrow is struck dumb, and he stares at Elizabeth as if he wants to kiss her right then and there. The impulse and attraction is strong to kiss Elizabeth and he actually pushes her back a bit and leans forward, as if he is just about to kiss her. Why would he do that unless she was all over him and he was getting hot and bothered, or the attraction was so strong that when they were eye to eye something in Elizabeth’s closeness to him had triggered such a comfortable and familiar feeling. He wanted her, and Jack was comfortable enough to even try kissing her. But, something in her eyes maybe told him that she would let him, the attraction between them so immense that it was bigger than both of them for those few crackling moments.
But Jack stops short of himself and lets go of her arms, and pulls back with a sudden and powerful jerk of his body. He takes measure of his actions and pulls back so he does not take offensive maneuvers towards Elizabeth. And stranger yet, this feeling he experiences with Elizabeth, it allows Jack to let down his defenses, to be vulnerable and real with her; honest. It is almost painful for him to admit, as he tells her in an almost disgusted tone. This harkens to reference his own ridiculous and fantastical stories he tells about himself, with Elizabeth he was honest. Jack Sparrow must really respect or care for Elizabeth in order to be so candid with her, but still feeling too exposed, Jack then dashes off to avoid further embarrassment. As she berates him for being a liar on how he bragged of his heroic deeds, when he was a sham. Jack was on the beach getting stinking drunk for three days…hardly anything one would call noteworthy for a living legend. Jack takes the verbal beating from her even though he did not like it. He did not like disappointing her so to finally shut her up, Jack falls back on the comedy routine and says with a witty but sarcastic phony ‘welcome to the Caribbean’ and shoves the bottle of rum in her hand so that she will get drunk and leave him alone.
So still left with the idea she was going to be spending a night alone with a man on an island, and now he was drinking the rum, Elizabeth had a plan. She would protect her virtue by ensuring that Jack had more to drink than her and he would pass out and forget about any plans of debauchery Sparrow might have had up his sleeve. A red blooded pirate who frequented brothels, he was also known for his being a ladies’ man, something that mystified Elizabeth since she was an innocent. All she had to go on was what she heard by the way of the maids chit chatting in the mansion.
Sparrow kept himself busy drinking rum and building a very large bonfire on the beach, which served as heat, lighting, and a very romantic atmosphere to make a pass at Elizabeth. The more Jack drank the more relaxed he became, feeling looser so that his morals seemed to be less of a concern, particularly about Elizabeth’s status as a virgin and lady. If he could persuade Elizabeth into a sexual tryst, all the better to pass the time with an even more pleasant pastime. Jack was not one to force a lady into a sexually compromised situation, but he was one hell of a conversationalist and charmer of women, so Sparrow was able to pry his way into many a tight knickers byway of his charismatic ways and romantically persuasive charms. And she was very cozy leaning up against his chest, arm about her shoulders.
If Jack Sparrow could be called anything, he was absolutely smooth, suave, knew how to touch a woman, and he was leading Elizabeth on this path with such subtlety, that she had to shake herself up, right up to her blonde head of hair, to snap out of the assumed lull she caught herself circumbing to. Jack was so good at what he was doing, keeping her relaxed and calm, but never letting her forget that they were alone in front of that fire, man and woman. His deep voice was enticingly intimate and inviting, touching Elizabeth with a soft placement of his hands in neutral areas that appeared non threatening, building that line of trust all the more and keeping her, entertained with stories and receptive. Jack Sparrow did not dare make any moves for a very long time, so that Elizabeth began to trust Jack assuming she must have been wrong.
Later on as they sat by the cozy fire on the beach, drinking rum and singing and dancing the night away in pleasant company, it was not too much longer that Jack had the urge and wanted to kiss Elizabeth. They were talking still and in close proximity, to which at one point Elizabeth was so relaxed that she had fallen into his one shoulder and remained there laughing against his broad chest. Elizabeth was so comfortable as she spoke to him, even though she kept her guard up, she had no cause for alarm for Jack was making such subtle maneuvers which yet to call planned debauchery. It would have been easy enough for him to deny because they were so sociable.
Elizabeth was so comfortable that Jack finally thought he had her in the bag. With a very slick maneuver, his arm dropped out of nowhere, draped around her shoulder. Coiling it like a snake and hugging into her, Jack was making ready for a kiss. Elizabeth caught the move of course and warned him, and all through the chastisement, all Jack did was ready his mustache to each side, parting it so to prepare kissing her with a clean palate. He did not seem very concerned with her complaint.
His plans for a kiss are diverted by Elizabeth’s idea to go through a series of toasts to get Jack drunk so she could make the clean get away. While he was out, she could start to build an even larger fire to use as a signal. But clearly there was an attraction between them that neither could deny. Had they acted on it, their lives would have altered drastically right then, but If they did not know it at this point, they were falling in love with the other and in utter denial. A refusal to admit what they felt for the other, how much they hungered for the other, and once they came back to reality and the real world, it was dropped. Jack is base in his sexual desire for Elizabeth, and has not yet become aware of how drawn he is to her and why…not yet.
We gain a bit of insight of the tender hearted and romantic side of Jack Sparrow when he and William are following Barbossa. Jack to get his ship back, and Will enlisting Jack to help him rescue Elizabeth. When they come to the Isle de Merta, Jack gets a good look at Elizabeth from afar as Barbossa is accosting her and flatly tells Will,
“Not all treasure is silver or gold, mate.”
Maybe Jack is alluding to the grader scale of life, love–or the fact that he had placed that much value on Elizabeth and her beauty, and that she should be far more important to William than his current obsession with gold. Jack could understand that the love of a woman was far more a better prize to seek in his life. Had he meant Elizabeth was to be for William though, or had Jack already analyzed how he felt and decided that Elizabeth seemed to be the woman for him, in spite of Turner being the man who seemed to have Elizabeth’s focus as a fiancé. Jack would have to put up a wager of time to wait and see how his prospects panned out. And of course on Rum Runner’s island he did try, but Elizabeth was too clever and got him drunk. On the ship he noted how she got the better of him and admired her for it, also expressing that they were ‘two peas in a pod,’ that they were that much alike..
Jack saves Elizabeth’s life again from Barbossa’s bullet, shooting his long term first mate turned mutiny, to save her life. As he protected her from flying bullets on the two ships battling next to one another, He forced her out of the way from getting shot. So that was three times Jack Sparrow had saved her life….a very precious commodity indeed. When they are captured by the Royal Navy, just after he saved Elizabeth’s life by killing Barbossa, when he sees that Will said all the wrong things to Elizabeth at that time, he was wise enough to slither up next to Will and say,
“If you were waitin’ fer the opportune moment….that was it.”
Will had “blown his opportune moment” with Elizabeth. For someone who was eyeballing treasure in the background and tossing it about with a haphazard care, Jack Sparrow was certainly keen to spot what was going on between Will and Elizabeth, and the underling outcome that followed when Elizabeth bolted off upset. As per usual, Jack hides his true feelings to all, maybe even himself as his sad eyes watched in Elizabeth’s wake storming out of the cave.
At the end of the movie before Jack escapes, he turns to Elizabeth with a soulful expression and regretfully says in a loving coo,
“Elizabeth, I’m sorry, but it jus’ would never 'ave worked out between us, darling…..Good bye.”
And with that his exit as a last comment to William of 'how grand his hat was’, like a buffoon but really clever as a fox, Jack Sparrow went over the side of the fortress and plummeted down to the Bay, where he dove earlier to save Elizabeth from drowning, a very apropos ending to the cycle of how and where Jack and Elizabeth first met.
When Jack had said that to her, Elizabeth looks at him as if he is nuts, but where did that idea of his come from? Where did Jack Sparrow get the notion that there was ever a chance of he and Elizabeth being a couple? Was this merely a ploy to divert his true intentions of escape, or was there some foundation for him saying even something to entertain? Jack was obviously infatuated and smitten with Elizabeth, but her constant spurning of him and asserted claim that she had love for Will Turner, had convinced Jack otherwise. Their pairing was not meant to be. Was it blatant ego on Jack’s part to think she was smitten with him? Was it clever foresight? Or was he smitten with her and just assumed she would be with him automatically as other women had been in the past?
In the second movie’s start, the crew sees that Jack Sparrow is greatly “vexed”, distracted, depressed, remote and not acting at all like himself. And what Gibbs says; “what bodes ill for Jack Sparrow bodes ill for us all!” so it effects the rest of the crew members. Treasure has not been found for a long time and the crew presses him for action. Sparrow enlists them to search for the key of Davey Jones’ chest–but not telling them his time is up and he needs to pay off his debt or will go with the Black Pearl to the Locker. Jack has lost his heading and his compass does not work or show him what it is that Sparrow wants most in the world. In fact, ever since he met Elizabeth Swann this issue became evident, meaning Jack was in a quandary. His usual desire was treasure, then rum….but something is seriously bothering Sparrow. And this is in line with after meeting Elizabeth. What does Jack Sparrow want most in the world? It has not been treasure because the crew complains they had not done any descent pirating, which is most likely since they left Port Royal and Swann. The notion Sparrow muses to himself all alone in his cabin, Jack drowns himself in rum and cannot fathom what’s the matter. In fact, this is in direct relation to the callback of Elizabeth as Jack laments in a sorrowful tenor,
“Why is the rum always gone?”
Rum―the direct call back association to Elizabeth (also admitted in DVD by Ted and Terry writers, Jack is missing Elizabeth). She is now gone from his life too, and therefore Sparrow is morose and depressed that he does not have Elizabeth in his life to cheer him. Later on when he first sees her in Tortuga, Jack immediately tells Gibbs to hide his bottle of rum! Rum subconsciously reminds him of her. How they drank together on the island. Seemingly remorse Jack is secretly pining for Elizabeth.
Elizabeth is in jail and she is imprisoned for helping Jack escape. Will tells her he is going to go find Jack and come back to rescue her. Elizabeth says
“I have faith in you–BOTH of you.”
Why did Elizabeth feel compelled or the need to reiterate on Jack’s behalf, faith in HIS good intentions of saving her…..in Will’s face? Helping Jack just got Elizabeth put into jail in the first place. Why did it just come out to include that Elizabeth knew Jack would make good on her account as well, because he saved her life three times already? Why did Elizabeth feel that was true of Jack, or have the need to make Sparrow look good to her fiancé, to profess her sentiments that way? Was she thinking about Jack? And who was she thinking about when she sat in the rain at her failed wedding? Nobody really knows.
When Will finds Jack captured by the natives and tells him about Elizabeth facing the gallows because of him, Jack’s face clearly shows he is upset, as soon as he hears her name, those eyes divert to the side in thought, and yet he cannot get out of his present circumstance. Jack quickly whispers to Will to,
“Save me!”
Jack seemed very perturbed upon hearing of Elizabeth being in a dank prison prepared to hang for rescuing him. Once content on a move on how to help her, Sparrow now seemed fixed on his intention is to get himself out of this fix this error, to go save Elizabeth. Yet on the ship, when Will tells Jack to get to Port Royal with all haste, Jack gets huffy and tells Will he should have tried harder to keep her out of trouble, on permanent watch, perhaps lock her up somewhere. He is clearly upset that she is still with Will. Jack is resentful to help another man keep Elizabeth when he himself cannot have her, or keep her safe from harm. Why should Elizabeth be in Turner’s arms–not his? Jack also has a habit of when talking to Will he refers to Elizabeth as
“what’s her name” and “yer bonnie lass.” or “yer dolly bell, mmm……what’s 'er name.”
Surely Jack knows Elizabeth’s name but attempts to keep a frigid front of a memory lapse, is he working hard on hiding his true feelings or interest in her? Acting as if he cannot even recollect her name, stammering out those unknown references instead to prove a point to others she is unimportant. Jack Sparrow must be smitten or he would not try so hard and continue to mask his true feelings. But Jack cons Will into taking on his debt to Davy Jones on his behalf. A way to get Will out of the picture between him and Elizabeth? A means so he is free of the Locker to pursue Elizabeth all for himself?
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When Elizabeth goes to Lord Becket’s home to steal the papers of clemency, Cutler snidely remarks to her,
“You’re certainly going through a lot of trouble for securing Jack Sparrow’s freedom.”
That was pretty much off the wall, but evidently Beckett saw through the ruse and somehow knows about the mutual attraction between them. Elizabeth insists they are not for Jack, but ironically enough, later on they DO wind up in Jack’s possession by her handing them over to him. Lord Becket also hints that her interrupted marriage may also be a fortunate twist of fate for her. He recognizes Elizabeth is probably glad the wedding was halted to Will. It may have well been a wave of gifted fate indeed. Was Cutler insinuating that Elizabeth was undermining as well to avoid her wedding day and night?
In Tia Dalma’s cabin, Jack is uncommonly quiet here. When she is surprised and asks Jack if the compass does not lead him to the chest (what he wants most in the world), he boyishly shrugs off the question, refusing to answer her. She realizes instantly that,
“Jack Sparrow does not know what he wants, or does he know but loath to claim it as his own.”
So the word “IT” in that line has got to be Elizabeth. That is a direct implication that Jack now KNOWS he is in love with Elizabeth and wants her, but all this time he has been vexed about it, because he does not know how to handle it, or what to do to make her his…or if he wants to really claim Elizabeth and make her HIS OWN. That would mean taking her from William. Very key line here.
Jack does not really react to what Tia Dalma says about him and ignores her comment–BUT he doesn’t refute her statement either. This is characteristic of what Jack does - gets glib and hides his true feelings or frailties. He tells no one of his inner workings so what is it or who does Jack want to make his own? Jack lingers in the background appearing disengaged and stealing trinkets, randomly tinkering about as Tia Dalma tells the story of Davey Jones. The crew cannot figure out the riddle of Davey Jones when she says,
“What vexes ALL men, indeed?”
Jack is swift to briefly come out of the background. Appearing perplexed, Jack snipes quite adamantly
“A WOMAN!”
The answer seemed quite obvious to Jack. Was it possible that it was from his first hand experience of feeling heartache and being vexed about Elizabeth? Is this paralleling Jack’s problem to Davey Jones falling in love? The story resumes on how Davey Jones fell in love with an untamed woman as wild as the sea, a woman who broke his heart, but he never stopped loving her. Davey Jones never stopped loving her even though the pain was so terrible, but not enough to cause him to die. So, Davey Jones carved out his own heart and put it in a chest hidden from the world - to protect it forever from the heartache this woman caused him. This sequence is the real key to Jack’s present dilemma and his future fate, for it is cleverly suggested that Jack WILL fall in love if he is not already, and die for the woman his heart yearns for. He will pay the full price for his love, unlike Davey Jones who avoided death.
When Elizabeth catches up to Jack at Tortuga, she claims
“I am here to find the man I love!”
Elizabeth does not name William Turner’s name (as the MAN she loved―is it Jack?) and at first by appearance he did not recognize her in those men’s clothes or her voice. Jack’s defensive retort thinking a lad was after him and said rather swiftly,
“I am deeply flattered son, but me first an’ only love 'tis the sea.” Then giving Gibbs the silent hook to carry on and get on the ship fast.
Elizabeth calls out his name and Jack stops on a dime, turns about at the sound of the now recognizable voice. Jack whirls about and turns on the charm, flashes a big beam of surprise as he eventually recognizes who it is, but knowing the trouble he is in with Will and how he always answers to Elizabeth, no matter what she calls him on, Jack is usually honest with her, but his reaction was swift..
“Elizabeth!”Jack quickly turned to first mate, Mister Gibbs and then added under his breath with a softer tenor, “…hide the rum!”
Jack surly knew that Elizabeth would chastise him for drinking it or having so much on board for they just stocked the ship.
In fact, Jack as usual, is always concerned about having to answer to Elizabeth on his ill behavior, or when she calls him on the carpet. Jack’s unsettled about seeing her and in a typical demeanor turns to a knee jerk reaction of using lewd humor. Jack quickly reverts to a flippant, sexual, mode. He proposes that,
“You do not look good in these clothes a 'tall, it should b’ a dress or nothin’. I happen t’ 'ave no dress in my cabin.”
As she pulls Jack to get serious, he explains to Elizabeth the way his compass works– I love the way he looks at her eyes and grazes down to her lips in this sensual scan, as if Jack wants to kiss her he says;
“This compass doesn’t point north, it points to the thing you want most in this world.”
When he says that line to her, it is supposed to mean how she is to find Will, or realize that it is HIM that Elizabeth wants? Jack’s face changes a bit and prompts her with a curious expression of destiny on his face, and uses a profound tone to his voice, especially when Jack’s expression changes and softly asks back when she says 'all I want is to find Will"….
“Are you certain, is that what y’ really want mos’?”
She already said Will was what she was looking for and wanted most, why was Jack asking for her to reconsider? I absolutely think Jack was trying to guide her into understanding that she really wanted HIM.
He says it mysteriously, almost as if he is trying to mystically guide her by implying or impressing it upon her - hoping Elizabeth would wake up and realize she wanted Jack and was destined to be his. You see this in the way Jack closely searches her face while waiting for a reply to his subliminal suggestion. This would also end Jack’s torture and longing for Elizabeth. Up till now, she seems repelled by him. To have his heart’s desire come true, for Elizabeth to love him back would be a wish come true. But Jack is not quite sure of his own feelings yet, or has not figured out why the compass does not work for him at all. He is just being totally spontaneous and self serving. If she finds the chest of Davey Jones’ heart, Jack has a bargaining chip with Jones when his time is up. But what if she HAD gone into Jack’s cabin where no dress was waiting? I do not think Jack would have thrown her out! Elizabeth clearly melts when she is with him and softly says,
“Oh, Jack. Are you telling the truth?”
It appears she does have genuine affection for Jack, the soft sweet way she said his name and peers at Jack in a flirty manner. Their chemistry is remarkable. Every time she thinks lovingly of Jack the music changes to her melody, in every scene with him that is tender.
On the ship, Jack clearly displays his jealousy when learning of Elizabeth’s encounter with Lord Becket. Once he finds out she actually saw and spoke to Lord Becket in person to get these clemency papers, Jack vehemently cross examines Elizabeth. His jealousy is fanned by the notion of knowing Beckett, and what on earth did Elizabeth have to do in order to obtain these letters of marqe, when even William could not get hold of them? In his wily mind, Jack assumes Elizabeth had to use her feminine wiles and starts to inquisition her with that sex theme running in the back of his mind. In a cocky tone he taunts Elizabeth suggesting why is it that Will went there too and came out with his honor, but Elizabeth went there and came out with the actual prize. He insinuates she lost her honor with Lord Becket. Elizabeth nervously backs up from his inquisition and says that she used “Persuasion.” Jack fires back with sarcasm and a clearly jealous demeanor as he insinuates sexual play by adding,
“FRIENDLY?”
“Decidedly not!” she retorted with a snap knowing he was insinuating sexual favors was involved.
Jack assumed Elizabeth used her womanly wiles to obtain the papers and was not happy with the prospect. But why should THAT bother Jack? Unless of course he is operating from a stance of jealousy, ownership, and felt threatened now by Beckett in the picture. Jack is upset that maybe Lord Beckett had the opportunity to sample something from Elizabeth that Jack wanted only for himself.
When Jack refuses to give back the papers to her and walks away, he taunts Elizabeth mercilessly with a coy and immature response that challenges her to almost 'do to him what Elizabeth had done to Lord Beckett’ to retrieve them! If she was so good at it, Jack wanted to see for himself how she did it. Jack is so smitten at this point, it really is funny now to see how jealous he gets.
“No! Persuade me.”
She follows Jack and reminds him of her skill with a sword since Will taught her, though he appears undaunted by the threat. Elizabeth leans in up against Jack’s back, her chin nearly resting upon his shoulder as she speaks into his ear. Jack is visibly moved by the close physical contact, momentarily sighs and closes his eyes with sentiment, but quick to snap back to sarcasm. Elizabeth cannot see how he is comforted by the physical closeness of her next to him because suddenly, Jack spins about on her with a brazen leer, sinisterly confronting her with another and more sexually charged and furtive growl of,
“As I said….Persuade me.”
This leer is definitely lustful and blatant for Jack WANTS Elizabeth to flaunt herself at him. I think he may have over acted just so that he could manipulate her into that act. Flustered and frustrated, Elizabeth backs off and departs. Jack is left behind and extremely disappointed that she did not make the attempt to persuade him. Evidently Jack probably was using the papers as a ploy to coax Elizabeth to romantically engage with him. Meanwhile, Jack pouts having failed, and Elizabeth giggles to the side rail of the ship as she thinks about Jack’s jealous behavior. Commodore Norrington realizes she is attracted to Jack, reviewing their last words, his actions, and states she is thinking about Sparrow. James suggests that there was a time he would have given anything for her to look like that while thinking about him. Elizabeth writes it off merely as saying it is absurd, she "merely trusts him, that’s all”. Trusts Jack? WHY would she for goodness sake? He is still a rogue pirate playing her too! The Commodore is not convinced of the shabby excuse and laughs. Elizabeth is unsure herself of the reason and whips out the compass to test it and show what she really wants most. It is suddenly pointing to Jack standing up on the deck. She is stunned and quickly closes it perplexed. Did she really love and want Jack? She actually shakes her head 'no’ as if it cannot be possible.
Later on the ship, Jack sees Elizabeth in a sullen mood and he goes over to comfort her. Of course he professes to be highly intuitive of the female creature and their moods, now spotting that she is 'troubled’. Sweet of him to care, why should he? But in the back of Sparrow’s mind, he already has a new plot to try. So Elizabeth tells him,
“I just thought that I would be married by now, I am so ready to be married.”
She does not say be married TO WILL, but Jack quickly looks down at her body and takes it as this is her sexual frustration speaking, Jack can get that! So in a flash, Jack is ready to be the hero of the hour to fit the bill and be her remedy! Sparrow realizes that fact and seizes this prime opportunity to…..not just try to get her into bed….no, Jack Sparrow of all things give Elizabeth the ‘bum’s rush’ to the matrimonial alter with HIM. Jack swiftly, but gingerly offers Elizabeth the rum bottle, persuading her to drink some more, hoping to get her soused enough to take advantage of her even more….to further his plot to win her any way he can. You can see Jack’s devious mind desperately spinning in a race like a cunning spider as to how best exploit this moment to win Elizabeth over to his web…but as HIS WIFE????
There are moments in-between the lusty glares in this scene when he is listening to her talk about her problems, where Jack’s eyes show true love and deep affection for her, but he is so contrasted by his lust and desire to have her, that his mind is on the constant over drive to manipulate each encounter with Elizabeth to put himself in a good light and convince her that he is a worthy mate for her. He uses swift cunning by announcing that,
“An’ bein’ captain of a ship, I can perform a mar-ri-age, I can do it right here…right on this deck…..right NOW!”
Jack is not a marrying sort and has confessed to having many lovers in the past. Usually they wind up slapping his face or he is scared of how they react to seeing him for past misdemeanors he is reminded of! Suddenly Jack is in a rush to get married for a lark? He is not taking a quick tumble in the hay here, he is suggesting marriage! Marriage is something full time not a quick toss in bed. But knowing Elizabeth is a proper lady, Jack knew that she would not settle for a simple, sexual tryst. So Jack offers to wed them immediately, performing the ceremony himself! And then of course that would mean consummation of the marriage, and he would have her in his bed within the hour. Jack tries to utilize Elizabeth’s weakness and manipulate her emotional flaw. When she refuses him, Jack tries to convince Elizabeth how right they are for each other. He must have given this some thought having it so readily decided. When she refuses, Jack then goes on a campaign to convince her of how much they are alike, with the underlying theme of WHY NOT? Is he being cavalier or is he acting on desperation to have Elizabeth for his own, forever…marriage is a forever bond, especially back then.
“We are very much alike you know…you an’ I….me an’ you…..US.” he states vehemently.
Jack attempts to sway Elizabeth off her feet with his theory that in essence, they really are a couple already they are so suited for each other. This is how Jack must really feel to spout all of this so spontaneously as he tries to corral her into marriage. Jack continues the plan by telling her she longs to be free, rash, selfish and impulsive like him. Jack is a pirate and would encourage her to be free. That eventually she will come over to his side, he knows it. Supporting his thought they are fated to be in spite of her refusal? This convincing act of impulsiveness of course, he wanted to see demonstrated by her marring him right away with no predisposition about it.
Elizabeth must be thinking about it because suddenly she asks Jack why his compass doesn’t work. Remember, it pointed to him the last time she held it and she was hoping to refute her wanting Jack by making the point the compass was damaged and incorrect. Jack indignantly says that it DOES work―He just doesn’t confess the compass doesn’t work for HIM lately; due to his wanting her. Elizabeth tells Jack, that he is a good man and will show that is in his character. That she has faith in him. This is the second time she has said this. Is Elizabeth trying to convince herself in order to justify how much she is attracted to Jack? Is she saying all of this out loud as if to create a laundry list of good characteristics which Jack already possesses so it is not in bad form for her to want a good man who has honor, and capable of doing great, heroic things, a kind of man any woman would want….even though he is a pirate..
These molds are formed and the die is cast as to their futures because each will do exactly that at the end of the picture, what the other predicted in this scene. So as they talk, the sexual tension and attraction for each other mounts. They are a hair breath away from each other’s lips in a passionate gaze and getting all hot and bothered as they draw in closer and closer, their attraction at an intensity level that it is visible. Jack gets so wound up in his own mental fantasy of having sex with her that he begins to sensuously stroke her cheek as if making love to her. Jack even drops his jaw ready for an opened mouth kiss, looming in closer still. Elizabeth is receptive, no matter what her words as she continually talks and draws her lips closer to Jack, her eyes close. Jack looms in and is about to plant that wide open-mouth kiss on Elizabeth, and WOULD have kissed her–until he sees the black spot return on his palm. Freaked over that, he abruptly stops. Elizabeth actually looks disappointed that he executed good form and held back his desires, for Jack didn’t kiss her. Instead, Elizabeth comments she is 'proud of him’ for resisting the impulse. In truth, it seemed Elizabeth really wanted Jack to kiss her first and break the barrier between them, and the disappointment is written all over her face when he did not close the deal. No matter what she said about her knowing Jack would never compromise her honor, Elizabeth wanted Jack’s kiss….undoubtedly. Ted and Terry in DVD narration say she would not have kissed him regardless, Elizabeth was only pushing Jack’s buttons. I TOTALLY DISAGREE, and that is not how Kiera acted that scene either…just examine the discouragement all over her face in that scene! She knew too, playing the part of Elizabeth, Kiera knew darn well Elizabeth wanted Jack to kiss her!!
On the island to get Davey Jones’ chest, again the compass in Elizabeth’s hand points directly to Jack standing on a sand dune. Surprised and perturbed, she laments that the compass is broken and it clearly does NOT show her what she wants the most. More of Elizabeth’s denial, really telling herself that out loud. Jack comes over and suddenly it works for him and then swirls around and points to Elizabeth - what Jack wants. At the time Jack does not grab the concept that the compass is now working for him while pointing to Elizabeth - because Jack thinks it is still under her influence, therefore Jack concludes Elizabeth is sitting on the chest. They both misread the compass.
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When Will shows up, Elizabeth rushes to his arms and kisses him. Jack is clearly perplexed and jealous. Jack is also terrified when Will tells her how Jack tricked him onto Jones’ ship. AND having wanted to see Will so much, what does Elizabeth do? She leaves Will’s arms and rushes right after Jack to confront him! The man only just showed up two seconds ago and she leaves him because the passionate impulse to fight with Jack was stronger. Again, Jack starts to wince knowing the consequences of Elizabeth’s wrath. But does she say "what did you do to Will?” no….she is upset and says, “Everything you said to me, every word was a lie!” It is not even about William at all, but the bond of trust between her and Jack having been broken…that is what Elizabeth is upset about, not that Will was tricked onto a death ship! Jack does not care what anyone else thinks about his roguish acts, he did not say a word to Will in response to dispute the accusation, but Sparrow does respond to Elizabeth about lying to her with a lame excuse *time an’ tide, luv* He answers her with accountability again, even if Jack does skirt around the main issue of William, he admits about lying to her by saying “pretty much.” As expected, she berates him for what he did to HER, and Jack takes it!
Jack responds like a little boy when she commands an answer to what he has done wrong; Elizabeth is angry because she now knows Jack lied to her. Jack fesses up, grimaces, and pouts when she reprimands him, but Jack always repents with Elizabeth–he sort of apologizes to her by giving accounts or excuses in response. And he gives her the puppy dog eyes looking for that forgiveness. Jack shows no remorse to anyone else–not even to Will. Maybe Jack did that to Will in order to force him out the way between himself and Elizabeth. Jack doesn’t let on about what he is thinking or feeling. Jack does however show his feelings to Elizabeth and let’s down his guard to be vulnerable in front of her…he is genuine and real, soft and sensitive in her presence. Only when a man is in love with a woman does he trust to show himself. When it comes to her, it matters. It matters because he loves her. Jack really does want to please Elizabeth but always messes up…but he does show remorse when she is mad at him .
When the Kracken attacks the ship, Elizabeth sees Jack in the longboat heading for land and calls him a coward. When Jack is half way to safety, he seems torn what to do…carry on towards land or go back to the troubled Black Pearl. Jack will be safe if he reaches land and is almost there. He stops and sees the ship is under attack by the Kracken. The Black Pearl, a ship that he adored. But also this ship is now also holding the woman he loves, treasure more important than gold. Can he just sit there and let her die? Jack picks up his compass and seems surprised and amazed at what it is showing him. It had worked on the island, but he did not realize it. Now, is it finally working and showing Jack what his heart wants most? Does he follow that, or is it not working and he decides of his own accord of what to do? Writers said they wanted it to be ambiguous…to let the audience decide.
Jack goes back to the Black Pearl. A hint is Jack later says to Gibbs in front of Elizabeth,
“She’s only a ship, mate.”
So this means the ship is not really as important to him as he professed to Elizabeth on Rum Runners Island? Jack is going back to save Elizabeth and the crew. To do the right thing, to be a good man and seize the moment - even though he fears the Kracken will kill him, Jack is forced to do a heroic thing because of his feelings for her. Elizabeth had been fighting alongside of all the men, but when she goes to pick up the dropped rifle, she looks up and sees the foot belongs to Jack Sparrow, returned to the ship, and is now standing there in an actual, sun lit, heroic halo! Elizabeth smiles, relieved Jack has come back to save the day. Jack looks down at the rifle under his foot and then glances at Elizabeth. Jack says nothing to her, but is a literal vision of fearless strength. He is back to protect the woman he loves. In a suddenly feminine and submissive pose, Elizabeth sits at Jack’s feet, grasps his leg, and content to just sit there passively at his feet like a femme fatale, while he aims at the Kracken! She clings to him for dear life, and does not go back to fighting the beast or to help Will, who is caught in the net. Again Jack is saving her and living up to her dream of hero. I find this act of Elizabeth so telling and provocative in SO many ways…her submissiveness to Jack like that, when she could battle as well as any man. Think about it. Meanwhile, Will had dropped off the net to the ship’s deck, but Elizabeth still doesn’t leave Jack’s side or releases his leg until he saves everyone and the ship is somewhat secure.
When the Kracken retreats, everyone regroups. In this entire scene everyone is scurrying about the ship as what next to do. Jack is very solemn, quiet, serious, and there are no comical antics. In fact, Jack hardly talks at all in this last scene of the movie with him. It is almost as if Jack is resigned to his fate and sad. Jack knows what is coming and acknowledges the notion that he will have to die for the sake of his love. In solitude to his most recent discovery, Jack tells no one anything about his leaving the ship or why he came back. Only Elizabeth knows what he did, and suspects he will ditch.
Jack tells them all to abandon ship. Shocked that he would say this, Jack is questioned by his first mate Gibbs about abandoning the Black Pearl. This ship is Jack’s life and love, his freedom. When Jack responds, he somberly replies
“She’s only a ship, mate.”
Just like his quip to Will that ‘not all treasure is silver and gold.’ A profound and very human insight from a pirate. Something on that ship was more compelling and important to Jack than the fate of the inanimate Black Pearl or just the crew. Jack knows human life is more important than wood, in particular Elizabeth’s life. When Elizabeth responds and says that he is correct, that they all need to get to land, Jack’s glance to her is so profound and tells it all right in that look to her about what he feels and it is so compelling. It was his love for Elizabeth Swann that brought Jack Sparrow back to a doomed ship, what made him sacrifice his own safety. But Jack is still tight lipped about his feelings or intentions. Ironically, Jack is acting so different and not scampering for the last longboat, the one he came back in. He glances to the ship’s deck appearing poignant, tenderly touching the ship that he is going to go down with, as if it is his final partner staying true to him in the end, together in his final hours and moments of life…the captain goes down with his beloved ship. Jack makes no move to the longboat at all, makes no move to depart his ship. In fact, Jack turns his back on all as they leave the ship. Seemingly he is resigned to being alone, getting right with death, the final act he must perform.
Elizabeth follows Jack to thank him, even though she has an ulterior motive of wanting to handcuff him to the mast and save the rest. She feels Jack is too weak, that he still may act selfishly and go with them, which would put them all in danger once more by his mere presence. She understands the Kraken is after him. But Jack seems oddly calm and resolved, not fearful at all. As Elizabeth walks towards him she admits knowing that he abandoned the ship, and always knew he was a good man, why he came back. Jack gazes at her with such an expression of love in his eyes, as if his heart was bursting because he had done it all for HER. It is all there now without a word spoken, written into his expression, the deep emotional bond he has with Elizabeth. Jack knows what he wants most in this world, his heart’s desire―Elizabeth. The truth is exposed in his eyes and Jack is silently telling her that he is not there because he is 'a good man,’ but because he is in love with her and he had no choice. It is his love for Elizabeth that makes him appear to be a good man in her eyes.
Jack’s gaze at Elizabeth before she kisses him also reflects he finally knows what he wants–her. No teasing, no jokes, no wild gestures. Jack gazes at her adoringly–fully exposed and emotionally vulnerable. The fight and struggle to hide or run from it is gone. His last look at her is long and he drinks her in. Literally and figuratively, Jack is not loath to make it (Elizabeth) his own now. Jack is going to accept his fate - willingly pay the full price for that love–to sacrifice his own life for the woman he loves. It is the ultimate and most noble expression to lay down your life for the love of another.
As she walks closer to him, Elizabeth is suddenly stunned, she physically stops short and looks at Jack strangely, as if there is something suddenly in his face she is now aware. She reads that intensity of love and is shocked by it, the rawness and honesty of his love for Elizabeth is mapped out in Jack Sparrow’s handsome face. He is done, spent, prepared to die, and no longer hiding his feelings. Now that he is dying, it does not matter anymore…Jack loves her, plain and simple and Elizabeth sees it.
Elizabeth suddenly realizes this and SHE is drawn to finally kiss him. It is passionate because in that moment she stops her self-denial - she loves Jack too with the same amount of intensity. But Elizabeth is fearful and must fulfill her destiny by doing an impulsive and selfish act. Elizabeth wants to live. She handcuffs Jack to the ship while still kissing him. She faintly caresses his hand cuffed in irons as she pulls away from him. At the point of realization, of being trapped by the shackle, Jack Sparrow, the man of action and heroic valor…SAYS AND DOES NOTIHING! Jack merely looks deeply into Elizabeth’s eyes in a knowing but loving fashion. He is not mad at her, or even upset for what she has done…doesn’t even mention it or question Elizabeth as to why she did it…or try to barter a way out of it. Because Jack had long since accepted his fate.
Jack’s other hand is free and he can talk, but he elects to be passive. Jack will not take away what Elizabeth wants–his death. Elizabeth chatters on with reasons and says that she is doing this to him, but not really seeming all that cold as her act implies. Elizabeth did not strap him in chains and immediately take off to join Will. For one so eager to save her own life and go this far, she does not take off. Elizabeth stands around with Jack! She is clearly upset and on the verge of tears, feeling guilty for what she has done and explaining herself to him, even though Jack did not question why she did what she had.
Elizabeth did not want to leave him! As Elizabeth pours out her guilt as to why she needed to do this, that Jack had to realize it was the only way. He affectionately smiles at her and just listens. Jack stands motionless and silent the entire time, allowing Elizabeth to go incessantly on with chatter of explanation. He does not argue with her, or even ask why she did it or deny what she says. All Jack does is offer an understanding smile and nuzzle Elizabeth affectionately. Their lips are just a breath away from another kiss. And Elizabeth nearly kissed his lips again, as does Jack, who stops smiling for a second and leans in to complete that second kiss. But that is when she looks into his eyes and his smile fades, the intensity of his love overwhelms Elizabeth as she truly desires to kiss him again, but she fights that inclination and tells him with a sneer “I’m not sorry.”
Jack is content to stand there to visually take Elizabeth into his mind and heart for the very last time. It’s as if Jack finally has what he has been seeking–Elizabeth is there with him, Jack has her all to himself, and the fact that she kissed him once and was near to another kiss, actually proved to Jack that Elizabeth loves him too. This sort of justifies his death for her and brings comfort and the strength Jack needs to deal with his untimely death. The only word he utters with a warm jibe is,
“Pirate.”
Jack does not argue, grab her with his free hand to threaten Elizabeth to release him, or struggle or barter for release either. Did Jack ever intend on leaving the ship at all after his return? I do not think so. For he did not abandon ship with the others. Jack doesn’t grab her arm, or argue with Elizabeth to release him. He does not try to escape the irons in any way while she is still before him on the ship. These are Jack’s last and only minutes of life alone with the woman he loves, and he is spending them greedily with Elizabeth before she departs and he surely dies. Metaphorically, Jack did not want to be released of the bondage―the bondage of love Elizabeth has over him. Jack never once unlocks his tender gaze from Elizabeth even as she walks away abandoning him. This is the very element that fortifies Jack with the bravery to sacrifice his life for her. He realizes they each must play their part in fate. This is also the fulfillment of Tia Dalma’s tale about Davey Jones. Jack fell in love but the pain of this love WILL cause him to die.
Jack had his hand resting on Elizabeth’s one hip the entire time they were alone, only after she is gone and safely off the ship, does Jack try to release his cuffed hand. He makes no move to escape off that ship either, not until after Elizabeth is off the Pearl and rowing away in the longboat with the others towards safety. Jack had been terrified of the Kracken the whole time throughout the movie, plotting escaping, and conniving his way to cheat death and avoid the Kraken. Once his hand was freed from the chains, Jack could have run, jumped over the side ship to take his chances in the water, swim to the longboat or to the shore if he could manage, but he did not. Once he was free, the Kracken was there upon the ship to take it down and Jack elected to fulfill his destiny. Resolved already to his demise, Jack calmly gets his hat, says hello to the beastie and then takes a stance with sword in hand. Jack is ready to courageously face the Kracken and battle his way out to the end. He stood his ground and did the right thing. He kept the creature focused on him, and Elizabeth would be out of harm’s way. But it is sad that Elizabeth will not know Jack faced the Kracken as she would have wished, as a true and valiant hero fighting with sword in hand.
People said Jack’s character changed from the first movie to the second―and it is true. He shows more human depth and a mature side to his masculinity. Tenderness, love, vulnerability, and sacrifice for another, are fine qualities that had been added to Sparrow’s traits. It adds depth to the callous and more selfish rogue from the first film, even though there were undercurrents of attraction to Elizabeth right from the start. Jack denies this fact to others about himself, but finally understood that what ailed him all along was the secret love he harbored for Elizabeth. This is the reason why Sparrow starts off as being perplexed at the beginning of the second film. The writers also claim that was Jack’s problem, his feelings for Elizabeth had Sparrow perplexed. At the end of DMC, Jack completes the cycle and is resolved because he had concluded the emotional journey and knew that he was in love with Elizabeth. In order to save her life, Jack had to make peace with himself and switch his life for hers. After the long and tumultuous journey, Jack Sparrow now knows what he wants―he loves and wants Elizabeth Swann!
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