Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[leo]

This movie was loosely based on the 1988 pirate novel "On Stranger Tides", by Tim Powers. The novel's protagonist is a pirate named Jack, but his character is significantly different from Captain Jack Sparrow.

[kristina]

Blackbeard is the only main antagonist of the franchise that does not appear, nor is resurrected in the next movie.

[chad]

This was the first movie to be released in the 4DX format in Mexico and in the Western Hemisphere, which is only available at selected Cinépolis theaters. 4DX features strobe lights, tilting seats, blowing wind and fog, and odor effects.

[kristen]

Johnny Depp said he agreed to star in this movie before "there was a script or anything."

[nora]

While filming in London in October 2010, Johnny Depp received a letter from a local nine-year old schoolgirl, telling him her classmates needed help to "mutiny" against her teachers. He turned up with almost no warning at the school in full Captain Jack Sparrow outfit, but advised against mutiny.

[caroline]

When making Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), the scriptwriters revealed that they placed the story in a thirty-year environment set loosely between 1720 and 1750. They also said that they did not intend the movies to be entirely historically accurate. However, it was revealed that this movie takes place in 1750.

[camila]

The Spanish king (portrayed by Sebastian Armesto), who also seeks the Fountain of Youth, is Ferdinand VI, whose reign witnessed the modernization of the Spanish Navy.

[kyle]

This movie makes a reference to Blackbeard's historical death, in which he was beheaded and then had his head hung from the bow of his own ship.

[michele]

The only film in the franchise in which Jack Sparrow doesn't build nor commands a ship.

[willard]

This movie employed one thousand one hundred twelve shots of computer graphics imagery, which were done by ten visual effects companies.

[carl]

Johnny Depp was deeply involved with the story design, frequently meeting the writers to show what he was interested in doing, and in the words of Terry Rossio, being "involved in coming up with storylines, connecting characters, creating moments that we would then fashion, shape, and then go back." Amongst Depp's suggestions were turning Phillip into a missionary and having a Spanish contingent following the protagonists. Afterwards, Director Rob Marshall and Executive Producer John DeLuca met the writers, and did alterations of their own, including building the female lead.

[morris]

In May 2010, Disney announced that this movie will be filmed using 3-D cameras. The visual effects, however, will be rendered in 2-D, then converted to 3-D to keep the budget lower.

[alyssa]

Sam Claflin (Phillip) and Ian McShane (Blackbeard) had appeared in The Pillars of the Earth (2010).

[darrell]

Johnny Depp bought new water proof jackets for five hundred crew members on the set, to protect them from the cold weather. He spent a total of sixty-four thousand two hundred dollars from his own pocket.

[phyllis]

This is the first "Pirates" movie not directed by Gore Verbinski.

[dustin]

Only Pirates of the Caribbean movie not to feature Orlando Bloom or Keira Knightley.

[jamie]

The Fountain of Youth set, according to John Myhre, is based on various ancient gardens from Egypt, Babylon, Greece, and Japan.

[alyssa]

Disney's Head of Production Oren Aviv said that this would "hopefully be the first of another trilogy."

[veronica]

The outdoor entrance to the Fountain of Youth is the Waikapala'e Wet Cave on the north shore of Kauai. Analogous to this movie's magical watery passage to the Fountain of Youth, the cave holds a real submerged (depending on water level) passage, through which explorers can travel, in order to reach an isolated chamber known as "The Blue Room". Some Hawaiians tell of an actual pirate treasure found hidden in "The Blue Room" by the original discoverers. The pirate treasure (if it ever existed) is gone, but the cave and chamber remain a natural treasure, still accessible to intrepid explorers.