Jack the monkey
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| Name: | Jack |
|---|---|
| Status: | Undead |
| Master: | Hector Barbossa |
Jack the monkey is a fictional Capuchin monkey in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. Jack was played by Tara, a 10-year-old female monkey, and Levi, an 8-year-old male. The Skeletal monkey was added in post-production by Industrial Light and Magic. He was Captain Barbossa's pet and sailed with him aboard the Black Pearl. Like the rest of the crew, Jack was cursed so that he could not die, and turned skeletal in the moonlight. According to Barbossa, Jack was mockingly named after Captain Jack Sparrow.
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[edit] Fictional Biography
[edit] Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Jack was Barbossa's pet in the first film, The Curse of the Black Pearl, and had been cursed along with the rest of the crew. The curse, which robbed Barbossa's crew of their abilities to live and die normally, also bestowed superhuman indestructibility. Jack lost this power like his crewmates when Will Turner lifted the curse. However, in an Easter egg after the film's credits, Jack was shown swimming back into the cave, where he stole an Aztec coin and thus became cursed again.
[edit] Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
A recursed Jack appears in one of the opening scenes of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. His presence on The Black Pearl (captained again by Jack Sparrow) is not explained, but Gibbs mentions that Isla de Muerta and the Aztec treasure sank beneath the sea. The monkey is later captured and bartered to Tia Dalma for information about Davy Jones.
When the resurrected Barbossa reveals himself at the conclusion of the film, Jack is once again perched upon his master's shoulder.
[edit] Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Jack has returned to Barbossa, his owner. In one scene, Jack Sparrow asks if anyone came to save him just because they missed him. When nobody raises their hand, Jack the monkey does, causing Jack Sparrow to flinch in disgust.[1]
[edit] Portrayal
Jack was played by Tara, a 10-year-old female monkey, and Levi, an 8-year-old male. The Skeletal monkey was added in post-production by Industrial Light and Magic.
According to commentary and special features on the DVD, the monkeys were sometimes difficult to work with as they were easily distracted. ("I want to stuff the monkey!" Keira Knightley jokingly exclaimed in the commentary.) Reportedly actor Geoffrey Rush, who played Barbossa, would patiently wait for the monkey to look in the direction it was supposed to, then deliver his lines. In some occasions, a water gun was used to grab the monkey's attention by squirting it a few times. It is said in the commentary that Geoffrey Rush got hit a few times by accident.
In the first movie Jack (the monkey) is seen smiling when Barbossa tells Sparrow they named the monkey after him. In the special features on the DVD it is revealed that the monkey did this purely by chance and it was not planned out in any way. A similar incident in the first movie showed Barbossa and Jack the Monkey sharing similar confused looks while chasing The Interceptor in brief scene.
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