Captain Jack Sparrow is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the Pirates of the Caribbean film series created by screenwriters Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, portrayed by Johnny Depp. He is first introduced in the film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003). He later appears in the sequels Dead Man's Chest (2006), At World's End (2007), and On Stranger Tides (2011).
Jack Sparrow was originally conceived as a supporting character. He was
brought to life by the actor Johnny Depp, who based his
characterization on The Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards and cartoon character Pepé Le Pew. He tends to become rather frustrated whenever someone pronounces his name without the term "Captain".
The series Pirates of the Caribbean was inspired by a Disney theme park ride,
and in 2006, when the ride was revamped, the character of Jack Sparrow
was introduced to it. Jack Sparrow is also the subject of a children's
book series, Pirates of the Caribbean: Jack Sparrow, which chronicles his teenage years and the character has also appeared in numerous video games.
In the context of the films, Sparrow is one of the Brethren Court,
the Pirate Lords of the Seven Seas. He can be treacherous and survives
mostly by using wit and negotiation rather than weapons or force,
preferring to flee most dangerous situations and fight only when
necessary. Sparrow is introduced seeking to regain his ship, the Black Pearl, from his mutinous first mate, Hector Barbossa, and attempts to escape his blood debt to the legendary Davy Jones while battling the East India Trading Company.
Character creation
When writing the screenplay for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio envisioned Jack Sparrow as a supporting character, citing Bugs Bunny and Groucho Marx as influences.The producers saw him as a young Burt Lancaster. Director Gore Verbinski
admitted, "The first film was a movie, and then Jack was put into it
almost. He doesn't have the obligations of the plot in the same ways
that the other characters have. He meanders his way through, and he kind
of affects everybody else."Sparrow represents an ethical pirate, with Captain Barbossa as his corrupt foil. His true motives usually remain masked, and whether he is honorable or evil depends on the audience's perspective. This acts as part of Will Turner's arc, in which Sparrow tells him a pirate can be a good man, like his father.
Following the success of The Curse of the Black Pearl, the
challenge to creating a sequel was, according to Verbinski, "You don't
want just the Jack Sparrow movie. It's like having a garlic milkshake.
He's the spice and you need a lot of straight men ... Let's not give
them too much Jack. It's like too much dessert or too much of a good
thing." Although Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest was written to propel the trilogy's plot, Sparrow's state-of-mind as he is pursued by Davy Jones
becomes increasingly edgy, and the writers concocted the cannibal
sequence to show that he was in danger whether on land or at sea.
Sparrow is also perplexed over his attraction to Elizabeth Swann, and attempts to justify it throughout the film.
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End was meant to return it tonally to a character piece. Sparrow, in particular, is tinged with madness after extended solitary confinement in Davy Jones's Locker, and now desires immortality. Sparrow struggles with what it takes to be a moral person,
after his honest streak caused his doom in the second film. This is
mainly shown by his increasingly erratic behaviour and Jack's
hallucinations which appeared to be simply his deranged mind in the
beginning where dozens of "Jack Sparrows" appeared to crew the ship in
his solitary exile, but later the hallucinations grew more important and
there were mainly two "Jacks" constantly arguing about which path to
follow: the immortality or the mortality. The last hallucination took
place while Jack was imprisoned on the Dutchman where his honest streak
won(possibly due to not liking his sea creature-like "future" which
comedically dropped his brain and searched for it around the Brig.By the end of At World's End Sparrow is sailing to the Fountain of Youth, an early concept for the second film. Rossio has said they may write the screenplay for a fourth film, and producer Jerry Bruckheimer has expressed interest in a spin-off.
Gore Verbinski concurred that "all of the stories set in motion by the
first film have been resolved. If there ever were another Pirates of the Caribbean film, I would start fresh and focus on the further adventures of Captain Jack Sparrow."
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides was first announced on September 28, 2008 during a Disney event at the Kodak Theater.
On September 11, 2009 the title of the film was officially announced.
Gore Verbinski did not return to direct the fourth installment, and is
instead directed by Rob Marshall. The movie uses elements from Tim Powers novel On Stranger Tides, particularly Blackbeard and the Fountain of Youth but the film is not a straight adaptation of the novel.
Outside films, Jack Sparrow first appeared as a companion character in the 2006 video game Kingdom Hearts II, where he was voiced by James Arnold Taylor in the English version and Hiroaki Hirata
(who also dubbed Sparrow in the film's Japanese dubs) in the Japanese
version. Sparrow has since appeared in other video games, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow where he was voiced by Johnny Depp, the adaptation of Dead Man's Chest and various game versions of At World's End,
where he was voiced by Jared Butler with motion capture movements
provided by Johnny Paton. The character was also voiced by Jared Butler
in Pirates of the Caribbean Online, which takes place before the films.
Sparrow's backstory in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Complete Visual Guide indicates he was born on a pirate ship during a typhoon in the Indian Ocean, and that he was trained to fence by an Italian. Rob Kidd wrote an ongoing book series entitled Pirates of the Caribbean: Jack Sparrow, following a teenage Sparrow and his crew on the Barnacle as they battle sirens, mermaids and adult pirates while looking for various treasures. The first book, The Coming Storm, was published on June 1, 2006. In 2011, Ann C. Crispin wrote a novel Pirates of the Caribbean: The Price of Freedom about Jack's adventures when he worked as a merchant captain for the East India Trading Company.
A parody of him called Jack Swallows, was featured in the film Epic Movie played by Darrell Hammond
On Saturday Night Live, Andy Samberg and the rest of The Lonely Island collaborated with Michael Bolton
in a Digital Short called "Jack Sparrow" about Bolton's obsession with
the "Pirates" movies. In it Bolton dresses up as Jack Sparrow and the
character is mentioned several times in the verses.
On the TV Show So Random!
the show players of the name Jack Sparrow making Sparrow a bird in a
recurring skit. He is played by Shayne Topp. The impression has become
one of Topp's signature skits on the show.
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