The prison dog is probably one of the most recognizable images from the original attraction. In The Curse of the Black Pearl, Hector Barbossa and his crew of mutineers steal 882 identical pieces of legendary Aztec gold, delivered in a stone chest by Aztec rulers to Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés as “blood money paid to stem the slaughter he wreaked upon them with his armies.” Because the gold only fed Cortes’s greed, the heathen gods placed a curse upon it, and any mortal who dared to remove it (Barbossa and company) would be doomed to walk the earth neither dead nor fully living, full of unquenchable desire. Cursed by the black-hearted rogues what left it.” They derived the cursed treasure of Cortés–the basis of the first film’s narrative–from these foreboding words and from the undead skeletons manning the helm, drinking, and seeking treasure in the “Dead Man’s Cove” portion of the ride. Who knows when that evil curse will strike the greedy beholders of this bewitched treasure?” and then, “Aye, blood money and cursed it be. While screenwriters Ted Elliot and Terry Rosio were brainstorming ideas for a story that would capture the spirit of the ride, they latched onto the concept of the curse mentioned by the disembodied voice of the skull and crossbones sentry, who says, “No fear have ye of evil curses, says you? Arrrgh…Properly warned ye be, says I. Jack sings it as he sails away to search for the Fountain of Youth, and so does Will Turner’s young son as he walks to the cliff with Elizabeth to greet his father at the end.įinally, Jack’s last words in On Stranger Tides are “it’s a pirate’s life for me,” a line that seems to harken back to the use of the song in the previous films. You’ll have to pay close attention to hear the first one–a distorted instrumental version of the song plays amidst other well-known audio snippets from the ride during the momentary screen black out after the Hai Peng goes over the waterfall. “Yo Ho” is also featured three times in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End. The final reference to the song in Curse of the Black Pearl comes when Jack sings a few broken lines as he sets sail with his crew at the end. Young Elizabeth Swann sings it in the film’s opening scene as she peers into the fog from her perch aboard the Dauntless and later again with Jack Sparrow on Rumrunner’s Isle as they drunkenly dance around their campfire. The resulting classic “Yo Ho (A Pirate’s Life For Me)” can be heard three times in the first film. X wrote lyrics for the song with inspiration from Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, especially the phrase “Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum,” and George Bruns (“The Balllad of Davy Crockett” and “Love” from Robin Hood) set them to music. During the attraction’s development, Walt worried about how guests might react to some of the uncouth behavior of the pirates, so Walt Disney Imagineer Francis Xavier Atencio (better known as X) suggested incorporating a light-hearted sea shanty to tone down the more lecherous aspects of the ride.
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