meevist:

My friends and I went to see On Stranger Tides today (GREAT MOVIE, everyone go see it - Penelope Cruz is, like, the hottest thing ever) and we got onto the topic of that one kid that kept showing up. You know, that one blonde kid with the pirates who never seems to really do anything but still gets his fair share of reaction shots. Well, if the canoe has taught me anything, it’s that close-up reaction shots are always significant. This kid is no exception.

Why? Because he’s Bootstrap Bill Turner.

We never get a full backstory of Will Turner’s father. By the end of the trilogy, we only know that he was a pirate, previously sailed with Jack on the Black Pearl and ended up sailing on the Dutchman with Will at the end. We never get a picture into his childhood or his life before the Black Pearl. Bootstrap was also the only one of Jack’s crew to not participate in the mutiny lead by Barbosa against Jack. This could be because Bootstrap knew Jack from the expedition for the Fountain of Youth and therefore gained respect for him not many other crew members would have aside from Gibbs, who also accompanied him on the expedition.

Now here’s where it gets tricky. If this theory is to be legitimate, On Stranger Tides would have to happen between 20 and 25 years before The Curse of the Black Pearl. It could work if the issue of aging wasn’t so complicated. The theory my friend and I came up with is this: Jack was the only one who came in contact with the water from the Fountain of Youth other than Blackbeard and Angelica, who drank it. Jack touched it, and while this did not grant him eternal youth or anything so grandiose, it could have slowed how quickly he ages physically, letting him look relatively the same for longer periods of time than most people. This would explain how he still looks about the same in TCOTBP as he does in OST. This would also make him quite a bit older than he looks in the trilogy, but considering the amount of myth and mystery surrounding him in the series this would hardly be anything too new. The other recurring characters who showed up in OST, like Gibbs and Barbosa, would not have changed as dramatically with age because Jack is younger and would have shown more signs of aging than them. They may have also been affected by being in the presence of the Fountain, as well, and had their aging process slowed down slightly. 

Granted, this isn’t a solid theory, it’s just what my friends and I came up with when I started wondering what the significance of the blonde kid was supposed to be. But I quite like this thought, seeing as Bootstrap Bill has always been a subplot in the PotC movies.

By the way, my fellow conspirator on this headcanon is Aubrey. Thank you for putting up with my sexual frustration over Penelope Cruz all day

 interesting….

disneyshalfmysoul:

     Will is a funny character.  I already said that Elizabeth’s only weakness was her love for people.  With Will it’s not quite the same.  His only strength is his love for his dearest Elizabeth and his long lost father whom he is reunited with in Dead Man’s Chest. Now just think about this for a moment.  Everything that Will ever does in all of the movies is for one of these two people, nothing is for him, or Jack, or the monkey Jack, or because is his hearts true desire.  If he didn’t love Elizabeth and his father really had died he would just be a useless, naive lump lying in the corner of a blacksmith shop getting nowhere in life because his master still takes all the credit for his handy work.

Will is not selfish in any way.  When he is on a mission to save someone he is always so courageous, fearless (more or less) and unbelievably devoted.  Will has such a tender heart.  I’m glad love is the only thing that really drives his actions compared to what drives the other characters (money, desire, selfishness, rum). 

Despite everything I love about Mr. Turner here, I still wish I could see more of his personality, his likes, dislikes, interests.  I don’t want to date him I just want to know.  You get all the information about the other characters, why not Will?

musicalmolls:

Jack Sparrow: Can’t let you do that, William. ‘Cause if Jones is dead, who’s to call his terrible beastie off the hunt, eh? Now, if you please. The key.
Will Turner: I keep the promises I make, Jack. I intend to free my father. I hope you’re here to see it.
Norrington: I can’t let you do that, either. So sorry.
Jack Sparrow: I knew you’d warm up to me eventually.
Norrington: Lord Beckett desires the contents of that chest. I deliver it, I get my life back.
Jack Sparrow: Ah. The dark side of ambition.
Norrington: Oh, I prefer to see it as the promise of redemption.

old-new-borrowed-and-blue:

thebeautyofsolitude:

[Johnny Depp → requested by thenextjourney, littlecupofjoe, poisoneveryone, and katieshmatie]
[Favorite Role → Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of The Carribean]

 love this ♥ Pirates

Great! now at least three people agree/think the same. 

I’m still not “ready”to watch the fourth movie. Some day…

vipvictor:

I still gotta watch the 4th!

Mine, too. POTC1 and POTC 3 are almost equally my faves, with the first still a bit more fave, since it was the first one! And before seeing the fourth movie, I can say that POTC2 is my least favorite. 

1. Curse of the Black Pearl 
2. At World End 
3. Dead Nan’s Chest 

elizabeththepirateking:

At the end of Dead Man’s Chest Will thinks Elizabeth is in love with Jack, and that she’s heart broken because he’s dead. What he doesn’t know is that she’s saddened that she just killed a man she didn’t need to kill. He mistakes her look of guilt for a look of sadness and heartbreak over a man she loved. But even though Will is surely heartbroken himself, he’s willing to do anything to bring Jack back to make her happy. That’s true love right there. 

thestars-themoon:

“You want pain? Try wearing a corset!”

thestars-themoon:

“Drink up me ‘earties, yo ho!”