[squeaking]
[ducking]
[laughter]
You could do that all day, and I would love it.
We're on our third movie, and we just said, "How do we keep it unexpected?"
We said, "Let's just get weird."
[bleating]
Jack Sparrow is commanding a ship of a hundred Jack Sparrows.
It's what we call the multiple Jack sequence,
where Johnny plays many versions of Jack Sparrow.
Haul!
Haul the sheets handsomely. Scandalize the lateens.
It's like slicing him up into a pie in a way, you know?
The major ingredients of that person, you know, have been separated.
So you get the extreme version of fear,
rage and aggression, anger. It was a great challenge.
We have lost speed and, therefore, time.
Precious time, which cannot be recovered once lost.
Do you understand?
It's just keeping a line on what particular version of Captain Jack,
keeping a handle on that and making it different.
Help-
Johnny played himself in many ways.
So you had to rehearse the entire sequence, character by character,
and then lay in the different Johnnys or different Jacks.
Four goes, five, six and...
Initially it was shot with another actor reading the off-screen line...
The other Jack lines.
So the rhythm could be determined with another actor.
- Mr. Sparrow? - Aye, cap 'n.
What say you about the condition of this tack line?
What was really helpful was on the day
when they were able to do this kind of ghost mix
where you see the two Jacks interact. And they add the third,
and the image fades. But you see the interaction between the three.
When you see it's working, it juices you up.
Let's try one more.
- [man] Action. - Tedious.
- Inch back a little bit on your mark. - [man] Sound speed.
Action.
- Tedious. - Let's do one more real quick.
Cameras are just repeating the same move over and over.
It takes forever.
That goes in the record books as one of the weirder days.
He has the opportunity to be a bunch of different characters in this.
And he has to... has these voices that he's constantly responding to.
So even makes him more engaging that you get more and more of Jack.
Slacken braces.
Aye, captain. Slacken braces.
Step lively.
Gore and Johnny had so much fun coming up with these little vignettes
of the multiple Jacks in this sequence.
Chicken man is one of our favorites, I think.
[squawking, clucking]
He has balance issues.
Not very subtle.
- There are 12 identical Jack Sparrows. - This is Jack.
Jack Sparrow three.
We had eight or nine of them walking around, identically dressed.
- It wasn't distracting at all. - Jack Sparrow.
- No, I'm Jack Sparrow. - I'm sensing a lot of déjà vu.
It's also quite funny to be on the lot when they're shooting this scene
because they had about ten or 15 guys dressed up like Jack Sparrow.
- Captain Jack Sparrow. - Jack Sparrow.
I'm Jack, farthest from the camera.
You could walk onto the stage and think you were going crazy.
This is going a little... [babbles]
- I'm Jack - I'm one of five Jacks.
I'm Spartacus.
One of our three versions of multiple Jacks in the story
is the two little Jacks on the shoulder of Johnny.
We created a large dreadlocks set which was, in essence, his wig.
When Gore told me about the dreadlocks set, it sounded like a really cool idea.
We did a number of different versions of beads and hair until we got it right.
If you'd lean out and kick your feet in one of those kind of things.
You know what might sell it best is rotation.
This way Johnny had a dreadlock to interact with.
He can actually push... At times he wanted the little Johnny
to push through dreadlocks, to appear.
He'd be hanging from a dreadlock. He'd be swinging.
I feel good. I like it.
- The immortal Captain Sparrow - Oh, I like that.
All the reactions had to be quite different.
Different levels for all these different characters that I played.
I enjoyed it. I mean, it was a lot of fun to play.
Gentlemen, I wash my hands of this weirdness.