Davy Jones (Pirates of the Caribbean)
| Davy Jones | |
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Bill Nighy as Davy Jones in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
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| Gender | Male |
| Profession |
Captain, Flying Dutchman Flagship captain of Beckett's E.I.T.C. Armada Guide for souls lost at sea (abandoned) |
| Brethren status | Involved in the 1st Court |
| Ship(s) served on | Flying Dutchman |
| Weaponry | Left hand claw Single-handed broadsword, DMC Norrington's Smallsword, AWE. |
| Ships attacked |
Edinburgh Trader |
| Appearance(s) |
Dead Man's Chest At World's End |
| Portrayed by | Bill Nighy |
Edinburgh Trader
Black Pearl
Empress
Endeavor
Various unnamed ships
Davy Jones is a fictional villain character in the Pirates of the Caribbean feature film series, who first appears in the second film, Dead Man's Chest and returns in the series' third installment, At World's End. He is the captain of the Flying Dutchman (based on the feared ghost ship of the same name featured in nautical lore), roaming the seas in search of souls to serve upon his vessel for a century. In the story, his original purpose was to carry souls of those who died at sea from this world to the next on his vessel. He was charged with this noble and just duty by his one true love, the sea goddess Calypso. For every ten years at sea he could spend one day on land to be with her. Ten years after first being charged with the duty, Jones prepared to be reunited with his true love, but was heartbroken and enraged when she did not appear. Unable to deal with the sadness of Calypso's betrayal, Jones, through some unknown supernatural means, ripped out his heart and locked it in a chest, burying it on the plague island Isla Cruces. This chest became known as the "Dead Man's Chest", thus becoming the primary object being sought after in the second film. Jones then abandoned his past duties, and instead returned to rule the seas as a tyrant with a damned crew bound by oath to serve aboard the Dutchman for one hundred years each. Because Jones and his crew broke their oath on the Dutchman to ferry lost souls, a curse slowly transformed them into sea monsters as their physical appearances matched the darkness inside of them.
The computer-generated imagery used to complete Jones was named by Entertainment Weekly as the tenth favorite computer generated film character in film history, only behind King Kong in 2007. The work on Davy Jones by Industrial Light and Magic earned them the 2006 Academy Award for Visual Effects for Dead Man's Chest.
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