world used to be a bigger place we'll still assignment it's just blessing it [Music] if there is one movie we all get to have that we can enjoy without question one movie we can thoroughly love despite all logical reasons as to why we shouldn't for me that movie would be parts of the Caribbean at Worlds and see even though I acknowledge that this film isn't a masterclass in plot like Dead Man's Chest or in general not nearly as strong as dead man's chest I just don't care Oh some of the character intros are a bit too long or even self-indulgent but I don't care oh there are a couple too many subplots going on at once don't care oh they dig a bit too deep into the lore to the point of it all becoming overly convoluted but overall whatever totally reasonable criticism against this movie you throw at me the only outcome there's ever gonna be is that we're gonna have a problem mate but if you on the other hand come to me for smaller personal reasons to why this movie is freaking fantastic I can keep going and going going until we get to the point where I'm pulling them out of my private parts the set design and production value as a whole is second to none the CGI still shines today the music is legendary all the characters have their own active goals and motivations that exist in direct conflict with one another we even get a great friendly rivalry between Jack and Barbosa which is the one thing we didn't get in the last entry just in general I'd say at World's End is murder and funnier and more enjoyable than most smart funny enjoyable movies out there there's not many guys lifetime I have the more money that said since subjective views on movies don't really carry any value for today we're gonna try to push aside my smaller personal views and instead focus on the one bigger aspect of Admiral's and that truly does function incredibly well objectively speaking that being the 20 minute action set piece sequence at the very end where the Black Pearl finally goes one-on-one against the flying dutchman in a storm of all storms because even if you dislike this movie for the most reasonable reasons this ending finale battle is still regardless a perfect example of a masterfully constructed action sequence that everyone can enjoy which it pulls off by succeeding at the four cornerstones of action that all action sequences should aspire to succeed at memorability audience investment power and impact as well as emotion and so in order to see what I'm talking about here as well as for a brief moment returned to a better place in time where Jack Sparrow was still alive and well let's sail right into this epic masterful Maelstrom battle and find out what exactly it is that makes it so masterful here's how to create the ultimate action set piece the very first thing you need to do when building an action set piece is to make sure it doesn't end up becoming the bland mundane kind that the audience can just shrug off and forget about right after it's over because forgettable is the last thing you want to remove it to be remembered for and the way to accomplish this is by placing the sequins in the right setting like I already mentioned the crux of this finale battle is that we have the Black Pearl finally facing off against the flying dutchman one-on-one but since we've already had a bunch of different ship battles in this franchise alone before that's not really a distinguishable or special enough of a sequence in of itself for anyone to remember and so what if the filmmakers here add to it to combat this issue oh yeah [Music] just by its very nature I'd say this Maelstrom setting is freaking awesome tacular lee effective because not only does it automatically raise the inherent feeling of the sequence to the highest most epic of levels it also allows for some really cool visual aesthetics but the most important aspect about setting this panel in the middle of a maelstrom is the fact that the Maelstrom setting is the thing that makes the audience remember the battle because there is nothing like it that exists in any other movie in existence because in essence this Maelstrom setting is like a snapshot thumbnail that plants itself in the audience's head in a way that makes the audience remember it you remember the revolving hallway in Inception you remember the downtown shootout in heat the Train brawl in spider-man 2 the heroes versus heroes Airport battle in civil war as in you remember back to the sequences through the setting be that the environment or situation or mood or whatever and no matter what kind of action sequence you're building you always need to look for that right special distinguishable signatory snapshot setting to place it in this might sound pretty obvious but you'd be surprised how easy it is for writers to just come up with the crux of the action and then leave it at that and unless you want your sequence to have the same fate as that one other movie action sequence I can't use as an example here because I don't remember it you need to put in that extra effort a sheep versus sheep battle could exist in any pirates movie but a sheep versus sheep battle taking place in the dead epicenter of a maelstrom can exist only in at World's End and that's the way your brain stores it up the second thing your action needs to do is always keep the audience invested enough in a way that they actually care about what's happening which at Will's end accomplishes by the use of character moments see in this epoch males from set pieces like in most others there's quite a few shots of more generic action were a bunch of characters to sprite and swing swords at each other and a school and exciting as that can be alone it very easily still quickly grows tiring and makes the action seem like meaningless noise in a way that distances the audience from it because in essence it's just a bunch of people pointlessly whacking at each other with swords and we don't care and in order to keep us caring and feeling invested the movie trickles a big bunch of moments throughout this entire sequence where characters have to make choices and actions to develop or reaffirm their own personality and relationships or to push the plot forward for example instead of having Jack jizz aimlessly run around waving his short for 20 minutes the movie constantly places him at the roadblocks which he has to maneuver through by showing us who he is he escapes the brick like the master escapist he is he goes to get Davy Jones's chest in his signatory weedy scoundrel matter and when he gets ambushed by Jones and his crew at a roadblock that he can't seem to possibly overcome what does he do he overcomes it not only is this flying bird moment really freakin awesome it also builds character and a plot it once again highlights Jack's daring ability to escape any situation as well as his ingenious foolishness when we realized that by doing this he was able to lure Jones out to him alone which is just what he needed and at the same time it also gets him one step closer to the ultimate finish line of getting the heart when he uses this opportunity to steal the key away from Jones in other words these action events aren't just meaningless pointless noise but instead there's an actual meaningful point to all of it what we're seeing serves a purpose what we're seeing carries weight which is why we feel invested when David Jones kills Mercer it's a moment of him finally unchaining himself from the leash of the East India Trading Company when Liz and will battle on the tick it's a moment of them resolving the tense rocky relationship in form of marriage when bootstrap bill attacks Jones it's a moment of him choosing his son over his duty to the Dutchman when Tom Hanks stumbles down to all fours on Omaha Beach it establishes the truly horrible nature of war when David Jones dives after the chest it establishes that his pawn to his heart is even stronger than his hatred of Jack as in when these moments unfold they always ground and humanized the action through the characters and this way gives us a reason to care and keep caring at this point we should have at least a pretty okay fully functional action sequence and the next step is to take what we have and boost it to whole new levels of impact and power inform of payoffs in essence payoffs can be viewed as taking puzzle pieces of the story that have been set up before and placing them in their final ultimate slots in the big picture and as this movie shows they basically divide into two different categories firstly payoff moments that are set up within the sequence itself [Music] when David Jones breaks jacks or to end their fight the movie doesn't just toss the broken sword away but instead has Jack use it as a knife later on to stab Jones's heart when Jack breaks the sail to flee from Jones's crew it also sets up his ultimate escape with the sail when the ship sinks when Jack steals a pistol from a grunt to shoot the chest away from Jones he doesn't steal just some random pistol but instead and the reason why utilizing this setup payoff mentality is so crucial is because even though these moments already do have a big meaningful purpose in the sequence in of themselves building them on top of earlier moments leading up to them is what makes them feel that much more big and powerful it's what gives them that extra punch and especially when your action sequence serves as the ultimate finale culmination to your entire movie that's a feeling you want but if you're looking to really supercharge your sequence then you will also utilize the second category of payoff moments the kind that have been set up before the sequence that's it man well he's a half pin bow hinges with the right blue bridge the door will lift free offer oranges leaf Ridge Jek escaping the brick is a cool charachter beat but the thing that makes it more than just death is when you remember that the way he escapes is what he learned from will all the way back in the first movie The Wedding beat is really nice but the real impact of it comes from the fact that it finally resolves the tense rocky relationship list and will have had throughout this entire film bootstrap bill choosing his son over his binds to the ship is very impactful but even more so because his spine students been established to have grown to the point of becoming seemingly unbreakable Captain America lifting Thor's hammer is an incredibly powerful hero moment but what really gives it the punch that it has is the fact that for years we've been setting up that nobody but Thor can lift the hammer until at this moment we realized that what we've actually been setting up is that cap can lift it as a whole this entire Maelstrom sequence is like a culmination pay off reward for the Calypso subplot which has been built up for two movies worth with every click of a payoff puzzle piece falling in place there's a stream of dopamine released to the audience's brain the more payoff moments you have the more dopamine to the brain you have the bigger you build the set-piece sequence moments up to be the bigger the sequence will feel and the bigger the sequence feels the more impact and power it packs as great as our sequence so far can be the only way I'll ever become anything more than that is by basing its resolution exclusively in emotion which is done by making the resolution intimate and personal with this movie for example you'll notice that once we get to the ending stretch of the Maelstrom set-piece all the big loud action spectacle stuff completely zones out and the whole thing becomes about something much much smaller our main heroes and villain and their connection to the heart of Davy Jones this is where we have Jack and will at least give every inch of their strength to try and stop Jones from getting his heart this is when we have will attack Jones to save Elizabeth only to be lethally stabbed as a result this is when we have bootstrap bill break his shackles to the ship to help his son overall this is the part in a sequence where you force your characters to make the most deeply personal final choices and sacrifices that show who they truly are the place where Tony gives his own life to save his friends the place where James Coughlin shows he'd rather die with his head up than live with his head down or in the case of at World's End where Captain Jack Sparrow reveals the true Captain Jack Sparrow see before watching this film again for this video for some reason I always thought that the reason Jack doesn't just simply stab the heart when he has the chance is because he's selfish because he's hesitant to commit to the Dutchman but now strangely enough I finally realized that's not actually why Jack doesn't stab the heart because by this point even though there has been some inner conflict throughout the way the movie has made it very clear that stabbing the heart and becoming an immortal captain is the thing that Jack wants most for eternity as long as still the immortal captain Sparrow who are not bad let someone else dispatch Charles the model has to care for something like bring they just have the heart does seem to put a mortality a bit average and once we get to the point where Jack is ready to stab the heart and achieve his ultimate personal goal Davy Jones responds by doing this when Jones lethally stabs will he does it specifically in an effort to save his own life because it essentially places Jack in this impossible dilemma where if he does that the heart and take what he wants it means we'll will die as a result and so the real reason he's hesitant to do it is because despite the cold selfish way he has presented himself to others all this time he actually does care about will as well as was relationship with Liz which ultimately leads to him making one final choice that shows who he truly is by making will stab the heart in place of himself check essentially let's go of the thing he wants most just to save the life of this one guy he has always acted like he doesn't care one bit about in other words we have a selfish narcissist making an ultimate unselfish sacrifice for someone else and if that doesn't make this resolution and this whole sequence emotional I don't know what will if you do all these things we talked about at Worlds and doing and it's still for some reason doesn't produce a fantastic masterfully crafted finale action set piece sequence there is nothing that will [Music] [Applause] [Music]