OHHHHHHHHHHHH! I knew I should have stayed! Thats what I told Todd was gonna happen when we were waiting outside for his wife! :hair:
Yes, when Will comes back at the end, it’s forever. The curse is broken.
Here’s what Terry Rossio said on wordplayer.com, which is Ted Elliot and Terry Rossio’s website:
But to clarify one point: Davy Jones, as Captain of the Flying Dutchman, is cursed to set foot on land only once every ten years … unless he finds a love that is true to him. Hopefully that rule will be made more clear in the third film.
If the person Jones had been in love with had been true, and waited for him, and stayed in love with him for ten years, upon his return to land his curse would have been lifted. That’s a big part of the reason why Jones is so bitter and cruel. He had a chance to lead a normal life … but his lover was fickle.
Just thought I’d throw that out there, since most the arguing is over rules that are incorrect to the film.
From:
http://www.wordplayer.com/forums/moviesarc08/index.cgi?read=98135
There’s another post where he laments that the lines explaining this were (once again) cut out of the movie, but it hasn’t been archived yet, and is currently unaccessible as the board takes a holiday.
But Will didn’t die!
Yeah, I read about the writers posting that. IMO, I really don’t like that idea. It just seems too happy. I liked the idea that Will and Elizabeth’s relationship was strong enough to last with only one day every ten years. Now, if that was the case, but, you didn’t know whether or not Elizabeth waited, then, maybe it would be ok because it still had that mystery. But, she did, and if it were true, too sappy for me. So, because it’s not specifically stated in the film, unless a fourth movie comes out to prove it to be true, I’m not gonna go with it. I’m just hoping that the director or whoever decided not to include it because it leads the way to a fourth movie with Elizabeth and Jack looking for the fountain of youth. As for the green flash, I just took it to mean that anyone came back from the Locker, whether they were dead or alive.
And, lol, PaperGirl, when we left after the movie, there was a huge line and I saw so tempted to yell out that Will dies. But, I was nice. 
But the Flying Dutchman must have a Captain… so who is it if not Will?
I don’t really understand it, but I’m a sucker for happy endings, so I go along with it
what I didn’t understand was …if he can only set foot on land 1 day in 10 years … why did they not meet up at sea more regularly???
AmandaC, my thought to that is that ferrying the dead is a full time job, so he can’t leave the Locker. If he were to go back to the normal world, he’d become all fishy. And, even if it the fish-ifying process was pretty slow, he probably wouldn’t want to tempt it.
I think that Will’s father would become the captain for him so he could go back to Elizabeth.
There were two scenes that stood out in my mind. First was the beginning of the movie when the boy starts singing and everyone else pick it up. The second was Beckett’s death. Very artistic and pretty.
I kind of want to complain about the rest of the movie, but that would make it sound as if I didn’t like it when I did. It simply wasn’t what I’d hoped for.
-Caet
Okay, if Will’s father became the captain, and Will had come back from the dead… why did he still have the scar?
Wasnt the dead ferrying done in the area where they had to do that flip upside down into the water? Or am I remembering incorrectly?
You’re right.
But as was said previously, Davey Jones went fishy because he didn’t stay ‘down there’…