HI GUESS WHO WANTS TO TALK ABOUT THIS GIFSET.
It’s me. I want to talk about this gifset.
Sit down and stay for a hot minute. This is will be image heavy because I like my sources. Very little of my own Jack Sparrow is headcanon because there’s a shit ton of canon that back up Jack’s actions for, just about everything really. It’s good fun. I’ve been doing this for six years. I know Jack Sparrow better than I know myself.
But nevermind that, let’s start this thing.
Remember Dead Man’s Chest? That was a good movie. There was a kraken, remember the kraken? Jack got eaten by it. And died tragically. Fun times all around.
But there’s this one scene, right? Where Jack and Will go to Tia Dalma’s so that they can ask the whereabouts of the key to Jones’s chest, because Jack’s compass is being finicky? And in that scene, Jack is touching all of Tia Dalma’s things, because Jack is a pirate and Jack is a thief and Jack is a kleptomaniac. And in that scene, Jack steals a ring. We remember this, yes?
Here are some screenshots, in case you forgot:
(There’s another meta in here somewhere about how much Jack Sparrow loves jewelry, and another meta all together about Jack picking up and holding Hector’s hat, but let’s stay focused here, guys.)
So Jack sees this ring, and he takes it, and Tia Dalma is (probably???) none the wiser.
So let’s skip forward a few years, onto On Stranger Tides. There are mermaids. There’s talk about the Fountain of Youth. And there’s Angelica, whom Jack kind of has a thing for but doesn’t want to admit. Feelings, and all that, you know? 0/10, Jack definitely would not recommend.
Jack and Angelica dance. And here, from the original script:
Because Tia Dalma never does anything for free, Angelica traded her ring in order to get information about the Fountain of Youth. And that ring must have had a lot of sentimental value, if Calypso considered it payment enough to trade for information about immortality.
Then, who knows how long after, Jack Sparrow comes along, sees it, realizes it belongs to Angelica, and steals it. Then, a few years later, Jack meets up with her and, does not keep her ring. He gives it back to her.
This is so important, you guys, because Jack Sparrow is a selfish, horrible man. There are three things that Jack Sparrow loves and they are: himself, his ship and the sea. His actions are only done in the benefit of himself, or if you want to stretch things, his crew and his ship. So the fact that he would willingly give up something he stole, something he considers his, is worthy of so much more than a simple gifset and caption.
Let’s contrast this, yeah? Remember that very same scene in Dead Man’s Chest, where Tia Dalma gives Jack a jar of dirt? And this exchange happened:
JACK: Dirt. This is a jar of dirt.
TIA DALMA: Yes.
JACK: Is the... jar of dirt going to help?
TIA DALMA: If you don't want it, give it back.
JACK: No!
You guys, Jack Sparrow did not want to give up a jar of dirt. A. Jar. Of. Dirt!! A jar of dirt that Tia Dalma shoved at him and then asked back for five seconds later. And Jack said no.
But he gives Angelica’s ring back to her, of his own prerogative. After he’d been wearing it for years. She didn’t ask for it back, she didn’t know that he had it. But he offers it up, and puts it on her.
The first item he ever stole for someone else.
And let me tell you, it’ll probably be the last.
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