The love story of Davy Jones (Bill Nighy) and Tia Dalma (Naomie Harris) - the embodied form of Calypso -goddess of the sea in the movie " Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" really fascinated me. In spite of Davy Jones cruel character, he has appeared to be extremely influenced by situations involving love and obsession. He fell deeply in love with Calypso (Tia Dalma).She persuaded him to be the captain of the Flying Dutchman -a ghost ship that can never go home and destined to sail the seven seas., thus ferry souls to the other world and with the curse of being able to visit Calypso once every ten years.
After his first ten years of servitude to the Flying Dutchman, he reached land only to find out that Calypso forsaken him. She betrayed him. In his grief, Davy Jones cut his own heart out and locked it in a chest vault. Having neglected his duty in ferrying souls to the other side, he became the cephalopod-like monster he is now. He then called together the Pirate Lords of the Brethren Court and together bound the goddess to a human form, Tia Dalma.
His passionate nature rarely shown, when he plays on the pipe organ while shedding a single tear over Calypso, meeting her aboard the Black Pearl in their moments of conversation, Calypso says she still has deep feelings for Jones, and explains regretfully why she failed to meet him on the appointed day, saying Jones would not have loved her if not for her uncontrollable and changeable nature. Jones says he no longer loves her. Calypso chastises him for failing to fulfill his duty of ferrying those who died at sea to the other world. It was because Jones ruined his purpose and his mind that he becomes a monster, eternally at sea.
Calypso is angry that Pirate Lords bound her into a human body and threatens to set free her anger upon them once she is released. She adds that after her release, she will fully give her love to Jones, and it appears they have reconciled their differences. When she touches Jones, he temporarily changes back into the man he once was. Before leaving, Jones thoughtfully remarks that his heart will always belong to her. Even to his death, when Will stabbed Jones heart, Jones stumbled against the side of the ship, mumbled his one true love's name on his last breath, and fell over the railing into the maelstrom below, implying that he may or may not be truly reunited with Calypso.
That was their story. What will happen next? Indeed not all stories may have happy ending.
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I would love for the story to continue! The writers built this story up between these two since the last movie and dropping poor Davy into the sea without a conclusive conclusion to the love story?! *Raven wants to strangle writers*
What happened to Davy in AWE was conclusive . . . he was finally reunited with Tia Dalma/Calypso. After all, she is the embodiment of the sea itself.
Out of all the characters in "Pirates of the Carribbean", Davy Jones is my favorite. His character is replete with a rich depth of emotion, however flawed his emotions were. He is one to which I can most relate, a flawed person, as most of us are. He is a man whose is, by almost all of his actions, cruel and unyielding.
Yet, we are shown that his anger stems from pain, as all anger does...the pain of rejection and abandonment by Calypso, a love to which he gave his entire heart. The tragedy of Davy Jones is that he let his pain and anger consume him so utterly and completely that it transformed him into a monster of a soul, corrupting him and turning him from his true purpose. Anger, like fear, can infect a man.
In the end, he is reunited with the sea, the essence of Calypso.
I would say his story is complete.
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