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  • Cap'n' Jack: The only rules that really matter are these...

  • What a man can do, and what a man can't do.

  • Jono: His mission statement is that he's egocentric and his worth is derived from personal gain, power, and pleasure.

  • Alan: And plundering his weasely black guts out.

  • Jono: And none of that is helping other people.

  • It is literally all about what he wants to get out of life.

  • I don't care how this is going to affect other people.

  • I don't care what the law or the rules are.

  • I'm going to do what I want to do.

  • Will: You cheated.

  • Cap'n' Jack: Pirate.

  • Jono: Everybody knows he's an eel. Everybody knows he's going to hurt them.

  • He's going to do what's best for him.

  • But he's just so charming...

  • Alan: He's so charming, he can sometimes get away with it.

  • Norrington: You are, without doubt, the worst pirate I've ever heard of.

  • Cap'n' Jack: But you have heard of me.

  • Jono: Hello and welcome to Cinema Therapy.

  • I'm Jonathan Decker, licensed therapist and I love movies. This is...

  • Alan: Alan Seawright, professional filmmaker who needs the therapy.

  • Jono: And today we are diving into one of our Psychology of a Hero episode.

  • Alan: Would we call him a hero...?

  • Jono: Anti-hero.

  • He's not a full on villain.

  • Alan: It's definitely not Villain Therapy...

  • Jono: But he's not especially a Good Guy™.

  • Alan: Psychology of an Anti-Hero.

  • Jono: Yeah. There we go.

  • Captain Jack Sparrow.

  • Damn you, Jack Sparraaaaaaaa!

  • Jono: What a great first film.

  • Alan: Yep.

  • And there are some other films, too.

  • Cap'n' Jack: Welcome to the Caribbean, love.

  • Jono: And some of you are deeply hurt because you love them all.

  • And you know what? Good for you.

  • Alan: That's great.

  • Jono: I'm very intrigued by Jack as an example of...

  • He starts as a side character, he becomes a protagonist.

  • I would diagnose him with antisocial personality disorder,

  • which is usually something that you would diagnose a villain with.

  • Like, just how movies are made.

  • Cap'n' Jack: Oh, bugger...

  • Jono: When I talk about antisocial, most people say that, like, I'm antisocial.

  • What they mean is they don't like to socialize or they're introverted.

  • Alan: They're introverted. That's different.

  • Jono: But when psychologists say antisocial, they're talking about behaviors that are

  • impulsive, reckless, criminal,

  • and have a high disregard for the feelings, or outcomes,

  • or how it affects other people.

  • Alan: They're called filmmakers.

  • Jono: So we're going to take a look at Jack's trajectory across the films

  • and see if someone with antisocial personality disorder

  • can learn any sort of accountability to other people, or empathy, et cetera, et cetera.

  • Cap'n' Jack: Look.

  • An undead monkey.

  • Alan: That is a great question because, famously, Jack Sparrow...

  • Doesn't.

  • Jono: And here we go.

  • Alan: This is maybe the greatest character introduction of all time.

  • If it's not the best one, it's in the top ten.

  • Because it's this big, epic, sweeping...

  • The shots, and the score, and the stuff. And...

  • Here we go. And it's a big hero...

  • Oh, puddle...

  • Come on!

  • I've seen this so many times and it's still funny.

  • Jono: Oh, it's so good.

  • Jono: And... Alan: Sorry, I have to cut you off again.

  • jono: Wha...?

  • Jono: Oh, this... Alan: Because we're... Okay, what's happening?

  • Oh, it's the big epic hero.

  • Okay, he's coming in.

  • And this...

  • Do you know how much work,

  • and how many tens of thousands of dollars they spent on that joke?

  • That was a $50,000 plus joke.

  • Jono: Worth every penny.

  • Alan: And it was worth every penny.

  • That was a... That's worth $10 million.

  • I mean, the... Like, $10 million of the box office

  • was just him... whoop. And then just... meep, meep, meep.

  • Like, and my favorite, favorite, favorite piece about that,

  • Alan: is the character building that it does. Jono: Yeah.

  • Alan: He's in a crappy little boat and it is sinking.

  • Everything is going wrong and his arrival is just like, I planned this.

  • Jono: Yeah, well, he arrives like a boss, like this is...

  • He... Like, he's on top. Like, he's just as proud of this, as if he were...

  • Alan: I am Captain Jack Sparrow.

  • Cap'n' Jack: Savvy?

  • Jono: Always with his... His personal...

  • Jono: I don't want to say dignity, but always with his pride intact. Alan: Yes.

  • Jono: You know, I don't... I don't think dignity is the word for Captain Jack. Alan: No, he has none.

  • None of that.

  • Jono: So let's get back to antisocial personality disorder.

  • He's going to give it to us in his mission statement, what he's all about.

  • Jono: I love a good mystery.

  • Like Jack solving the mysteries of Davy Jones' locker.

  • Alan: And uncovering family secrets, like Will finding out the truth about his dad.

  • Jono: And finding things, like how Jack finds the Black Pearl over and over.

  • Alan: And over.

  • Alan: That's why we're loving June's Journey.

  • It is a hidden object mystery game with a murder mystery, family secrets, and a whole lot more.

  • Jono: This episode is sponsored by June's Journey. It's a mobile game that's free to download.

  • Alan: I love this game. The art style, the 1920s esthetic.

  • It is a hidden object game, so obviously you're going to be looking at the art a lot.

  • So it's nice that it's good.

  • Also the remodeling aspect, like, you're improving the grounds of your mansion

  • and, like, updating it. It's a... It's weirdly satisfying.

  • Jono: Right? Because you're like, I'm supposed to be solving a murder, but while I'm here...

  • Alan: While I'm here... Jono: I'm going to redecorate.

  • Alan: Let's get some new garden furniture.

  • Why do I love this?!

  • I do, though.

  • Jono: So I like to play in between my therapy sessions.

  • I have 5 to 10 minutes just to kind of, like, recharge and reset my brain.

  • And so I like to pull it up, pick up where I left off,

  • and I feel relaxed, I feel engaged, I feel distracted in, like, all the right ways.

  • So when I see my next therapy client, I'm like, Okay. Reset. Let's do this.

  • Alan: I like to play when I'm on set and I'm supposed to be talking to the...

  • the gaffer and the electricians.

  • I just ignore them and pull up June's Journey.

  • It is really Zen, helps clear your mind of thought,

  • except... solving a murder.

  • Jono: Download June's Journey for free by clicking the link below in the description.

  • June's Journey is available on Android and iOS mobile devices,

  • as well as on PC through Facebook Games.

  • Murtogg: What's your name?

  • Cap'n' Jack: Smith.

  • Or Smithy, if you like.

  • Mullroy: What's your purpose in Port Royal, Mr. Smith?

  • Murtogg: Yeah. And no lies.

  • Cap'n' Jack: Why then...

  • I confess.

  • It is my intention to commandeer one of these ships,

  • pick up a crew in Tortuga, raid, pillage, plunder, and otherwise pilfer my weasely black guts out.

  • Murtogg: I said no lies.

  • Mullroy: I think he's telling the truth.

  • Murtogg: If he were telling the truth, he wouldn't have told us.

  • Cap'n' Jack: Unless, of course, he knew you wouldn't believe the truth,

  • even if he told it to you.

  • Alan: Incredible, incredible performance from Johnny Depp.

  • Those two guys don't get enough credit because you can't sell that joke

  • without them being like, What...? He wouldn't have told us.

  • It doesn't work without them.

  • Jono: The first Pirates of the Caribbean has what I call the Dark Knight problem.

  • In that when you see The Dark Knight, you're so honed in on Heath Ledger

  • because it's such a unique, legendary performance right out of the gate

  • that you don't really pay attention to... Aaron Eckhart is really good in that movie. Alan: Really, really good.

  • Jono: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Michael Caine, Christian Bale, like, Morgan Freeman, everyone's killing it.

  • But Heath Ledger is just so... BOOM

  • Alan: He's so spectacular that you don't pay attention to anything else.

  • Jono: Yeah. Pirates of the Caribbean... Everyone thinks of Johnny Depp.

  • Everyone's brilliant in that first film.

  • Alan: Everyone's very good in the first movie.

  • Jono: I will go to bat for Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley, especially in that first film.

  • They have great chemistry and he... You need a perfect...

  • When I say straight man, I'm not talking sexuality. I'm talking comedic.

  • You need a straight man foil for all of Captain Jack's weirdness.

  • Alan: Because if you've just got weirdness and then nobody reacts,

  • it's like, Well, I guess this is normal.

  • Jono: It's wonderful.

  • But his mission statement is that he's egocentric,

  • and his worth is derived from personal gain, power, and pleasure.

  • Alan: And plundering is weasely black guts out.

  • Jono: I mean, he lifts off in rapid succession what he's all about. Alan: Yeah.

  • Jono: And none of that is helping other people Alan: No.

  • Jono: Or behaving in a way that is at least responsible to other people. Alan: Right.

  • Jono: It is literally all about what he wants to get out of life,

  • which is, you know, the pirate's code and the pirate's life.

  • But if we're looking at this individual character, it's an issue.

  • Will: My father was NOT a pirate.

  • Cap'n' Jack: Put it away, son.

  • It's not worth you getting beat again.

  • Will: You didn't beat me.

  • You ignored the rules of engagement. In a fair fight, I'd kill you.

  • Cap'n' Jack: And that's not much incentive for me to fight fair then, is it?

  • [It's called a boom for a reason...]

  • Cap'n' Jack: Now, as long as you're just hanging there, pay attention.

  • The only rules that really matter are these...

  • What a man can do, and what a man can't do.

  • Jono: What?

  • Alan: It's just so much fun.

  • "Not a lot of incentive for me to fight fair".

  • Like... No, there isn't.

  • Jono: It's like, "You cheated". And he goes...

  • Cap'n' Jack: Pirate.

  • Jono: And we see when he's talking about the rules of engagement.

  • Like, Jack doesn't care about legal or ethical behavior.

  • Alan: No.

  • Jono: And once again, you could say, Well, that's just a pirate.

  • But in the real world, that is a sign of antisocial personality disorder.

  • I don't care how this is going to affect other people.

  • I don't care what the law or the rules are.

  • Jono: I'm going to do what I want to do. Alan: Right.

  • Jono: It's part of what makes him so refreshing because that's not heroic in the slightest.

  • That's not what we look for in our heroes.

  • Which is also why in the first film, Will's the hero.

  • Alan: Oh, Will is absolutely the hero. Like, he has an arc, he learns he grows.

  • Captain Jack Sparrow starts...

  • The beginning of the movie, he wants the Black Pearl

  • At the end of the movie, he wants the Black Pearl.

  • Nothing changes. There is zero growth.

  • The only thing that happens is events along the way to him getting the Black Pearl.

  • Jono: Yeah.

  • Alan: That's it.

  • Jono: Yeah.

  • Cap'n' Jack: STOP BLOWING HOLES IN MY SHIP!

  • Jono: Something that we see that denotes antisocial personality disorder

  • is Jack has a lack of concern for the needs or feelings of other people.

  • Alan: Anyone.

  • Jono: And a lack of remorse when he screws them over.

  • Alan: Yep.

  • Man, it is stunning to me how well these visual effects still hold up.

  • Alan: "Oh..."

  • Fishface: You have a debt to pay up.

  • You've been captain of the Black Pearl for 13 years. That was our agreement.

  • Cap'n' Jack: Technically, I was only cap'n' for two years.

  • Then I was viciously mutinied upon.

  • Davy Jones: Then you were a poor captain, but a captain nonetheless.

  • Have you not introduced yourself all these years as "Captain Jack Sparrow"?

  • Jono: Bill Nighy is amazing.

  • Cap'n' Jack: You have my payment. One soul...

  • Alan: Bill Nighy is one of the greatest.

  • Davy Jones: One soul is not equal to another Jono: "He's already over there".

  • Cap'n' Jack: Aha! So we've established my proposal is sound in principle.

  • Now we're just haggling over price.

  • Jono: So he abandoned Will.

  • Alan: "And now we're just haggling over price".

  • Davy Jones: Price...?

  • Cap'n' Jack: Just how many souls do you think my soul is worth?

  • Davy Jones: One hundred souls.

  • Three days.

  • Cap'n' Jack: You're a diamond, mate.

  • Send me back the boy. I'll get started right off.

  • Davy Jones: I keep the boy. 99 souls.

  • But I wonder, Sparrow...

  • Can you live with this?

  • Can you condemn an innocent man, a friend...

  • to a lifetime of servitude in your name while you roam free?

  • Cap'n' Jack: Yep, I'm good with it.

  • So, shall we seal it in blood?

  • Jono: So at the end of the first film, Will risked his neck to save Jack.

  • Alan: Yeah.

  • Jono: And Jack is grateful because Jack doesn't want to die.

  • Alan: Right.

  • Jono: But he's not that grateful.

  • Alan: Not grateful enough for it to change anything.

  • Jono: No. Because we see here, like, he sends Will to take his place.

  • And then when the things... when the fortunes change,

  • he's like, Well, maybe I can get Will back and manipulate...

  • You know, he would be miserable if he were married. So just let him come back.

  • But if it's going to be his neck or Will's, it's just Will's.

  • Alan: Yeah.

  • Jono: Even though Jack's the one who has the debt to pay,

  • Jack's the one who basically made a deal with the devil,

  • and he's willing to sell out his friend.

  • That, my friends, is antisocial personality disorder.

  • Alan: Oh...

  • Jono: It doesn't always take the form of, I am not willing to do any sort of good in the world.

  • It can take the form of, Yeah, I'll do right by somebody,

  • as long as it doesn't cost me too greatly or as long as I can get something out of it.

  • Not surprisingly, this discompassionate, selfish approach to life

  • leads to interpersonal relationship problems.

  • Angelica: Yeah, you haven't changed.

  • Cap'n' Jack: Implying the need?

  • Angelica: Yes.

  • Soldier: Open the door in the name of His Majesty.

  • Angelica: You betrayed me.

  • You seduced me and you used me.

  • I was innocent to the ways of men.

  • Cap'n' Jack: You demonstrated a lot of technique for someone I supposedly corrupted.

  • Scrum: Imminent danger. Here, now, milady.

  • Soldier: Open it!

  • Angelica: I was ready to take my vows. And you?

  • What were you doing in a Spanish convent, anyway?

  • Cap'n' Jack: Mistook it for a brothel. Honest mistake.

  • Jono: See? You don't even like that movie.

  • Alan: Nope. Sure don't.

  • Can't get enough of Jack Sparrow.

  • Jono: Most of us kept going back to these reheated leftovers,

  • knowing that they weren't that good anymore.

  • But he's just having so much fun.

  • Here at Cinema Therapy, we don't really comment on controversy

  • or actors' personal lives or anyone's personal lives, for that matter.

  • The reason being, where would we stop?

  • Alan: Well, we don't know.

  • Jono: Yeah.

  • Alan: We don't know.

  • We know what's in court records, I guess, but, like...

  • Jono: So, you know, we stand for people treating each other well. Alan: Yes.

  • Jono: We stand for mental health. Alan: Yes.

  • Jono: Where wrongdoing has been done, we oppose that. But we're about the art. Alan: Yeah.

  • Jono: And so we're just going to leave it at that.

  • We later learn that he actually had feelings for her,

  • which he even has a hard time saying the word and everything.

  • Alan: Yeah.

  • Cap'n' Jack: No, no, no. Not quite all the way to feelings. More like...

  • All right. Feelings, damn you.

  • Jono: But he allowed his anti-social tendencies to get in the way.

  • His manipulation, his deceitfulness, and the fact that he just uses and discards people.

  • [slap]

  • Cap'n' Jack: I may have deserved that.

  • Jono: And he's always just using charm to get what he wants.

  • Everybody knows he's an eel. Everybody knows he's going to hurt them.

  • He's going to do what's best for him. But he's just so charming.

  • Alan: He's so charming, he can sometimes get away with it.

  • Cap'n' Jack: You know, these clothes do not flatter you at all.

  • It should be a dress or nothing. I happen to have no dress in my cabin.

  • Elizabeth: Jack...

  • Jono: Charming and likable, and it's true for the character,

  • and it's true for these people in real life,

  • which is why we so often get hurt by them over and over and over again,

  • because they're really good at pretending they're sorry.

  • They're really good at showing fake remorse.

  • They're really good at playing this role that's really got an angle.

  • Cap'n' Jack: My tremendous intuitive sense of the female creature informs me that you are troubled.

  • Jono: And it's interesting because we all love Captain Jack Sparrow,

  • Jono: but in real life, this is deplorable. Alan: Oh, none of us would want to be friends with him.

  • Jono: Yeah

  • Alan: no, he's fun to watch. You wouldn't want him in your life.

  • Ugh, terrible. You would mutiny against him. There's a reason he can't keep a ship.

  • Jono: Another trait of antisocial personality disorder is extreme irresponsibility. It's mentioned that...

  • Alan: Jack Sparrow?

  • Jono: Yeah. He owes all of the Pirate Lords money.

  • Alan: He owes everybody money.

  • Jono: He doesn't want to go. He's like, he owes all the money.

  • He tries to get out of the deal with Davy Jones.

  • Zoe Saldana is mad at him because, you know, he bait and switched her and owes her a ship.

  • Just all over the place.

  • Jono: He's just doesn't follow through with what he says he's going to do. Alan: Yeah.

  • Jono: Also an antisocial PD trait.

  • Impulsivity.

  • Acts in the spur of the moment without a plan.

  • Beckett: You're mad.

  • Cap'n' Jack: Thank goodness for that. Because if I wasn't, this would probably never work.

  • Jono: He should be dead.

  • Alan: So many times over.

  • And it just...

  • Okay, listen, I don't love Pirates 2 and Pirates 3.

  • There are so many moments like that that are brilliant.

  • Cutting way wide on that shot and just having this little guy

  • with his arms and legs just windmilling and Johnny Depp just going

  • WHAAAAAAAAA!

  • Like, it's a cartoon and it's brilliant.

  • Cap'n' Jack: Did everyone see that?

  • Because I will not be doing it again.

  • Jono: I watched these all with my kids and now they they all run like Captain Jack.

  • Like this floppy thing that...

  • And other characters are often... They're wondering whether he plans or whether he improvises.

  • And it's confirmed in the 4th film in a conversation with Barbossa

  • Jono: that he does, in fact, just make this all up as he goes. Alan: I have no idea what I'm doing.

  • Cap'n' Jack: Sometimes I just...

  • Improvise.

  • Jono: Oftentimes they're skilled enough at improvising.

  • That's a big reason why they don't plan because they're so used to things just panning out their way.

  • This is made big in Pirates because Jack does stuff like that.

  • Alan: And he somehow lands on a yardarm instead of just splatting.

  • Jono: And in real life, someone with antisocial PD can start thinking, I am invincible.

  • I am invincible!

  • Alan: What would you do to help this man?

  • Is he helpable?

  • Jono: It's hard. It comes down to what you value, right?

  • So, for example, I'm somebody who values relationships and I value integrity.

  • And so if I discover that I've been acting out of an...

  • Like, outside of integrity without meaning to, then I want to make it right.

  • Or if my well-intentioned efforts to do right by somebody

  • actually end up in me hurting them, then I have motivation to shift course.

  • With someone like Jack Sparrow....

  • He doesn't have a lot of motivation to change.

  • What he values is what he's getting.

  • Alan: Right.

  • Jono: You know, he's getting a lot of casual sex.

  • Like, I'm not knocking that, but like, he doesn't want connection.

  • I mean, same as anybody, when the pain of staying the same

  • is greater than the pain of changing, then you'll change.

  • Alan: Right.

  • Jono: And so what has to happen with someone like this is

  • oftentimes it's a legal issue. Like, they're not going to have freedom

  • to do the things and pursue the things they want because they've encountered some sort of legal trouble.

  • And so a lot of them will say, Okay, how can I be more charming,

  • more manipulative, more intelligent to work the system?

  • Those that actually change, it doesn't happen with a lot of them,

  • but they start to have real connections.

  • And you might watch this and say, Well, someone's truly antisocial PD, they can't...

  • Jono: They can't truly connect with someone. But the thing is, it's a spectrum, right? Alan: Right.

  • Jono: And someone can meet all the criteria and still have enough of that in them

  • that it starts to come out.

  • Jono: Like, yes... Like... Oh my gosh...

  • Alan: What...?

  • Jono: I would do Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to challenge thinking errors

  • and behaviors that limit or hurt him, that he's not seeing. These are limiting or hurting me.

  • I would also do group therapy with people who hold him accountable strongly.

  • Alan: Ooh...

  • Elizabeth: Because you and I are alike.

  • And there will come a moment when you have the chance to show it.

  • To do the right thing.

  • Cap'n' Jack: I love those moments.

  • I like to wave at them as they pass by.

  • Elizabeth: You'll have the chance to do something...

  • Something courageous.

  • And when you do, you'll discover something.

  • That you're a good man.

  • Cap'n' Jack: All evidence to the contrary.

  • Elizabeth: Oh, I have faith in you.

  • Want to know why?

  • Cap'n' Jack: Do tell, dearie?

  • Elizabeth: Curiosity.

  • You're going to want it.

  • A chance to be admired and gain the rewards that follow.

  • Jono: Did he just exhale?

  • Elizabeth: You won't be able to resist.

  • You're going to want to know...

  • What it tastes like.

  • Jono: It's simultaneously funny and kind of gross.

  • Alan: It's...

  • Jono: Elizabeth is doing a type of cognitive behavioral therapy here, though,

  • because Jack's never...

  • Alan: She's certainly deprogramming him.

  • Jono: The only thing that works with Jack Sparrow is baser instincts.

  • Alan: His libido.

  • Jono: Well, it's libido, and the praise and adulation.

  • He's never really considered doing the right thing

  • because it hasn't appealed to him. And what she's saying is the love,

  • the adoration and what it feels like to do the right thing.

  • Alan: That may be better than riches, which is all you've ever gotten,

  • but not very often and not for very long.

  • Jono: And also the the rewards that come with it.

  • These movies are so innuendo-heavy for a Disney film. Like, they're...

  • Alan: They're pretty filthy.

  • Jono: Yeah, they really are.

  • But what she's doing is she's planting in his head the idea that maybe there's a path and an avenue

  • Jono: that he hasn't explored yet that's worth exploring. Alan: Yeah.

  • Alan: Can I just take a moment to appreciate...

  • that I just learned from my friend that Elizabeth Swan...

  • basically seducing a dude was actually cognitive behavioral therapy.

  • Jono: Yeah, it's not a type I could do and keep my license.

  • Alan: It's... Listen, buddy, I love you. It's not a type you could do.

  • Jono Duckling: Wow...

  • How many of you think that I could?

  • Sound off in the comments below.

  • Alan: Please don't. Please, just don't.

  • No, no, definitely not.

  • Alan: We don't need that.

  • He doesn't need it. We don't need it.

  • Nobody needs it.

  • [sailor screaning]

  • Jono: And he had...

  • He'd left. In his boat.

  • Alan: That's a hero shot for you.

  • Alan: Oww...

  • Alan: You remembered before, this shot had been done to death?

  • Me neither.

  • Jono: That still works here.

  • Alan: It's fun.

  • Jono: So why do you think he came back?

  • Alan: I think Elizabeth Swan's very sexy CBT may have worked.

  • Hey, look, there's... There's hope out there for you, Antisocial Personality Disorder folks.

  • Just find yourself an Elizabeth Swan.

  • Jono: Well, he was half hoping that he could hook up with her

  • if he did the heroic thing. But I really believe,

  • like, when you see him in the lifeboat and he sees the attack happening,

  • what he's looking at is his crew and he goes back

  • and then, of course, she bait and switches him and he dies a hero's death.

  • Cap'n' Jack: Hello, beastie.

  • Alan: One complaint that people have about these movies

  • is that they were writing the script while the movie was ongoing, right?

  • Like, they'd already started shooting and they didn't have a locked script and whatever.

  • And that's a common thing that, like, when a movie is a disaster,

  • like, Oh, they were still writing it while they were going.

  • That also happens a lot in movies that are good.

  • Elizabeth: They're more like guidelines anyway.

  • Alan: Star Wars famously was a complete mess all the way through the shoot and into the edit,

  • Alan: and then later... Jono: And then they found it in the edit

  • Alan: They changed some stuff and rewrote things, and... Movies aren't done until you release them.

  • Jono: I had a different experience than you did with Pirates 2 and 3,

  • and I found that I enjoyed 2 and 3 a lot more this time than when they came out.

  • Alan: Interesting.

  • Jono: I thought the storytelling was better than I remembered it being.

  • There's still problems, but like...

  • And I especially appreciated the direction.

  • Like, I just...

  • Alan: Oh, the direction was phenomenal.

  • And I did not have the same experience you did watching them again.

  • I watched them and was like, Hey, Marvel showed us we can do this kind of thing, but it won't suck.

  • Jono: All the pirate mythology is bogged down and there's too much.

  • But as far as Jack's arc, I think it's really strong

  • because here we have somebody at the end of Pirates 2. Elizabeth betrays him to his death.

  • In Pirates 3, his crew comes to Davy Jones locker to rescue him.

  • And he says, Did nobody come here because they missed me? And nobody missed him.

  • Alan: Yeah, nobody.

  • Cap'n' Jack: Why should I sail with any of you?

  • Four of you have tried to kill me in the past. One of you succeeded.

  • Jono: Will in Pirates 3 absolutely hates him.

  • And what Jack is seeing, and this has a real life parallel,

  • If I have antisocial PD, I may think I'm special enough and charming enough

  • that I can abuse and mistreat people, and they will always be there for me.

  • Alan: I can get away with this forever.

  • Jono: And Jack has relationships with all of these characters

  • and with Gibbs and everybody. I value them, but I don't care about them.

  • I value them for what they can give me. I value them for the companionship.

  • But he loses everybody because his selfish, manipulative deceitfulness finally catches up to him.

  • He's like, Fine, nobody likes me. Everybody hates me. I'll just be immortal.

  • Alan: I'll be captain of the Flying Dutchman where nobody can leave.

  • Jono: But his conscience has been pricked by how he's mistreated everybody

  • and how he's lost everybody because they don't like him anymore.

  • And then we get to this.

  • Davy Jones: Tell me, William Turner...

  • Do you fear death?

  • Cap'n' Jack: Do you?

  • Jono: So Jack is going to save Will and Elizabeth and their relationship

  • because it serves him, because he can do that...

  • Cap'n' Jack: Heady tonic, holding life and death in the palm of one's hand.

  • Jono: And if he kills Davy Jones, he can be the new captain.

  • So, again, he'll help people as long as it serves him.

  • Cap'n' Jack: Cruel is a matter of perspective.

  • Davy Jones: Is it?

  • [Will groans]

  • Davy Jones: Ha ha ha.

  • Ha ha ha ha.

  • Alan: In a movie full of twists, that was actually one I didn't see coming.

  • And I really liked it.

  • Jono: Yeah.

  • Elizabeth: Look at me. Stay with me.

  • Jono: Well, and here's Jack. If he stabs the heart now, he can be immortal.

  • But Will and Elizabeth are separated and Will dies.

  • Alan: Oh, my gosh. Okay, ugh, just...

  • Jono: The makeup?

  • Alan: I have, like, a weird amount of trypophobia.

  • Like, the whole thing. And there's so many of the makeups in this movie. Just...

  • Just make me itchy.

  • Elizabeth: Will...

  • Jono: But this is the moment for Jack.

  • He's always done the selfish thing.

  • And in the second movie, when he shows up to save the crew,

  • it's heroic, but it's not entirely selfless.

  • 'Cause he's looking for glory.

  • Alan: The animation on all of his face tentacles, like, writhing.

  • Jono: But here he puts it in Will's hand.

  • Davy Jones: Calipso...

  • Jono: And Will's going to die and then come back as the captain,

  • and Will's going to live forever. And Jack just gave up his own immortality.

  • So when does this work? In real life, like I said, it's tricky

  • because a lot of times people with this disorder don't value relationships,

  • and so you can't motivate them with relationships, but you can motivate them with their pleasures.

  • You can motivate them with their personal gain.

  • Or you can motivate them out of fear of legal trouble or things like that.

  • In some cases, they fit all the criteria for antisocial personality disorder,

  • but there is enough desire for human connection buried deep within there,

  • which we discover with Captain Jack,

  • which is why the fourth and fifth films, while not my favorite,

  • I do like that he's more of an actual hero in those movies.

  • And the fourth one, he goes up in the lighthouse and he risks his neck to save everybody who's getting killed.

  • Right? And in the fifth film, he does right by Will Turner's son and reunites the family.

  • And Jack is more heroic.

  • To me, that's a natural extension of his arc that we see at the end of this film.

  • It does make him a little bit less interesting.

  • Alan: It does, for sure.

  • They still make $1 billion every time they make one. Maybe I'm wrong.

  • Jono: Even though the films are a mixed bag and some of you watching will say, No, they're not.

  • I love every last one of them, and good for you, but...

  • Alan: Absolutely, love them to death. That's great.

  • Jono: But we are fans of Johnny Depp's portrayal and the character.

  • Alan: So until next time...

  • Jono: But you have heard of me.

  • Alan: Why is the rum always gone?

  • Jono: And...

  • Jono: Watch m-- Alan: Really bad eggs.

  • Jono: Really bad eggs.

  • Well played.

  • Alan: We wish to thank our sponsors... No, our Patrons.

  • Jono: Melissa Miller,

  • Alan: Courtney Elizabeth Seah,

  • Jono: Sara H.,

  • Alan: Sam Watts,

  • Jono: Chris Atkinson.

  • Alan: You're all the real anti-heroes.

  • Jono: Indeed.

  • Alan: Cheers, mate.

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Cap'n' Jack: The only rules that really matter are these...

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Psychology of an Anti-Hero: JACK SPARROW

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