Geoffrey Rush: Barbossa
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Barbossa : How the blazes did you get off that island?
Jack Sparrow : When you marooned me on that god forsaken spit of land, you forgot one very important thing, mate: I'm Captain Jack Sparrow.
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Barbossa : For too long I've been parched of thirst and unable to quench it. Too long I've been starving to death and haven't died. I feel nothing. Not the wind on my face nor the spray of the sea. Nor the warmth of a woman's flesh.
[steps into moonlight becoming a skeleton]
Barbossa : You best start believing in ghost stories, Miss Turner... you're in one!
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Elizabeth : Captain Barbossa , I am here to negotiate the cessation of hostilities against Port Royal .
Barbossa : There are a lot of long words in there, Miss; we're naught but humble pirates. What is it that you want?
Elizabeth : I want you to leave and never come back.
Barbossa : I'm disinclined to acquiesce to your request. Means "no".
Elizabeth : Very well. I'll drop it.
[dangles medallion over the sea]
Barbossa : Me holds are burstin' with swag. That bit of shine matters to us? Why?
Elizabeth : It's what you've been searching for. I recognized the ship. I saw it eight years ago on the crossing from England .
Barbossa : Did ya, now?
Elizabeth : Fine. Well, I suppose if it is worthless then there's no point in me keeping it.
[it drops a bit, the pirates lunge forward]
Barbossa : No! Ah.
[chuckles]
Barbossa : You have a name, Missy?
Elizabeth : Elizabeth... Turner. I'm a maid in the Governor's household.
Barbossa : Miss Turner...?
[turns to face the pirates]
Pintel : Bootstrap.
Barbossa : And how does a maid come to own a trinket such as that? Family heirloom, perhaps?
Elizabeth : I didn't steal it, if that's what you mean.
Barbossa : Very well, you hand it over and we'll put your town to our rudder and ne'er return.
Elizabeth : [she hands it over] Our bargain?
[Barbossa walks away from her]
Bo'sun : Still the guns and stow 'em, Signal the men, set the flags and make good to clear port.
Elizabeth : Wait! You have to take me to shore. According to the Code of the Order of the Brethren...
Barbossa : First, your return to shore was not part of our negotiations nor our agreement so I must do nothing. And secondly, you must be a pirate for the pirate's code to apply and you're not. And thirdly, the code is more what you'd call "guidelines" than actual rules. Welcome aboard the Black Pearl, Miss Turner .
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Barbossa : Ten years you carry that pistol and now you waste your shot.
Will Turner : He didn't waste it.
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Barbossa : [talking to Will Turner] Who are you?
Jack Sparrow : No one. He's no one. Distant cousin of my aunt's nephew twice removed. Lovely singing voice. Eunuch.
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Will Turner : She goes free.
[points pistol at Barbossa]
Barbossa : What's in your head, boy?
Will Turner : She goes free!
Barbossa : You've only got one shot, and we can't die.
Jack Sparrow : [whispered to Will] Don't do anything stupid.
Will Turner : You can't. I can.
[points gun at himself]
Jack Sparrow : Like that.
Barbossa : Who are you?
Jack Sparrow : [to Barbossa] No one. He's no one. A distant cousin of my aunt's nephew twice removed. Lovely singing voice, though - eunuch.
Will Turner : My name is Will Turner. My father was Bootstrap Bill Turner. His blood runs in my veins.
Ragetti : He's the spitting image of ol' Bootstrap Bill come back to haunt us.
Will Turner : On my word do as I say, or I'll pull this trigger and be lost to Davy Jones' Locker.
Barbossa : Name your terms, Mr. Turner.
Will Turner : Elizabeth goes free.
Barbossa : Yes, we know that one. Anything else?
Jack Sparrow : [points at himself] Me!
Will Turner : And the crew - the crew are not to be harmed.
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[duelling with Jack, Barbossa suddenly throws away his sword]
Barbossa : You can't beat me, Jack!
[In reply, Jack stabs him with his sword. Barbossa simply sighs, pulls the blade out of his body and stabs Jack with it. He smiles as Jack totters - but is shocked when a shaft of moonlight turns Jack into a cursed skeleton of his former self...]
Jack Sparrow : [examining his new form] That's interesting...
Jack Sparrow : [to Barbossa, an Aztec coin dancing on his fingers] I couldn't resist, mate...
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Barbossa : So what now, Jack Sparrow? Are we to be two immortals locked in an epic battle until Judgment Day and trumpets sound?
Jack Sparrow : Or you could surrender.
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Barbossa : So you expect to leave me standing on some beach with nothing but a name and your word it's the one I need and watch you sail away on my ship?
Jack Sparrow : No. I expect to leave you standing on some beach with absolutely no name at all, watching me sail away on *my* ship, and then I'll shout the name back to you. Savvy?
Barbossa : But that still leaves us with the problem of me standing on some beach with naught but a name and your word it's the one I need.
Jack Sparrow : Of the two of us, I am the only one who hasn't committed mutiny, therefore my word is the one we'll be trusting. Although, I suppose I should be thanking you because in fact, if you hadn't betrayed me and left me to die, I would have an equal share in that curse same as you.
[bites into an apple]
Jack Sparrow : Funny ol' world, i'n'it?
[offers him an apple]
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Barbossa : Why thank ye, Jack.
Jack Sparrow : You're welcome.
Barbossa : Oh, not you. We named the monkey Jack.
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Elizabeth : I hardly believe in ghost stories, Captain Barbossa.
Barbossa : Aye. That's exactly what I thought when first told of the tale. Buried in the island of the dead that which cannot be found except by those who already knows where it is. Find it, we did. And there be the chest... and inside, be the gold. We took them all! Spent 'em, traded 'em and fritted 'em away, for drink and food and pleasurable company. But the more we gave them away, the more we came to realize. The drink would not satisfy, food turned to ash in our mouths, nor the company in the world would harm or slake our lust. We are cursed men, Miss Turner. Compelled by greed, we were. But now, we are consumed by it.
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Will Turner : Barbossa, you lying bastard! You swore she'd go free!
Barbossa : Don't dare impugn me honor, boy! I agreed she go free, but it was you who failed to specify when or where. Though it does seem a shame to lose somethin' so fine, don't it, lads?
The Crew : Aye.
Barbossa : So I'll be havin' that dress back before ye go.
Jack Sparrow : I always liked you.
Bo'sun : Grr...
Elizabeth : Goes with your black heart.
Barbossa : Ooh, it's still warm.
The Crew : Off you go! Come on! Get on with it!
Bo'sun : Too long!
Jack Sparrow : I really rather hoped we were past all this.
Barbossa : Jack... Jack! Did you not notice? That be the same island we made you the governor of on our last little trip.
Jack Sparrow : I did notice.
Barbossa : Perhaps you'll conjure up another miraculous escape, but I doubt it. Off you go.
Jack Sparrow : The last time you left me a pistol with one shot.
Barbossa : By the powers, you're right. Where be Jack's pistol? Bring it forward.
Jack Sparrow : Seeing as there's two of us, a gentleman would give us a pair of pistols.
Barbossa : It'll be one pistol as before, and you can be the gentleman and shoot the lady; and starve to death yourself.
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Barbossa : You're off the edge of the map, mate. Here there be monsters.
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Barbossa : I feel... cold.
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Will Turner : She goes free.
Barbossa : What's in your head, boy?
Will Turner : She goes free.
Barbossa : You've only got one shot and we can't die.
Jack Sparrow : Don't do anything stupid.
Will Turner : You can't.
[points gun at his own throat]
Will Turner : I can.
Jack Sparrow : Like that.
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Barbossa : Look! The moonlight shows us for what we really are. We are not among the living, so we cannot die, but neither are we dead.
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Barbossa : It's not possible!
Jack Sparrow : Not *probable*.
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[Barbossa pulls the bloody dagger from his chest]
Barbossa : I'm curious. After killing me what is it you're planning on doing next?
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Barbossa : You don't know what this is, do ye?
Elizabeth : It's a pirate medallion...
Barbossa : This is Aztec gold. One of 882 identical pieces they delivered in a stone chest to Cortez himself. Blood money paid to stem the slaughter he wreaked upon them with his armies. But the greed of Cortez was insatiable. So the heathen gods placed upon the gold a terrible curse. Any mortal that removes but a piece from that stone chest shall be punished for eternity.
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Barbossa : There is one way we can end our curse. All the scattered pieces of the Aztec gold must be restored and the blood repaid. Thanks to ye, we have the final piece.
Elizabeth : And the blood to be repaid?
Barbossa : That's why there is no sense to be killing you... yet. Apple?
[Elizabeth angrily knocks the apple out of Barbossa's hand and then takes a knife and stabs him in the chest, only for him to be unaffected; he pulls out the knife]
Barbossa : I'm curious: after you kill me, what is it you plan on doing next?
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[Barbossa leans in to slit Will's throat]
Jack Sparrow : You don't want to be doing that, mate.
Barbossa : No, I really think I do.
Jack Sparrow : Your funeral.
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Barbossa : I want 50 per cent of ye plunder.
Jack Sparrow : 15.
Barbossa : 40.
Jack Sparrow : 25.
Barbossa : [considering]
Jack Sparrow : And I'll buy you the hat. A really BIG one... Commodore.
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Barbossa : I suppose in exchange, you want me not to kill the whelp.
Jack Sparrow : No, no, no. Not at all. By all means, kill the whelp.
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Barbossa : [after Jack show up alive after leaving him on the island a second time] Its not possible
Jack Sparrow : Not Probable
Will Turner : Jack. Where's Elizabeth?
Jack Sparrow : She's safe, just like I promised. She's all set to marry Norrington, just like she promised. And you get to die for it just like you promised.
Jack Sparrow : [pauses and thinks] So we are all men of our word really. Except for Elizabeth who is in fact a woman.
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Barbossa : Haul on the main brace, make ready the guns... and run out the sweeps.
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Barbossa : And I suppose in exchange you want me not to kill the whelp?
Jack Sparrow : No, no, no, by all means kill the whelp. Just not yet. Wait for the opportune moment.
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Barbossa : Blast all to carcasses, men! Forward clear to the powder magazine! And the rest of you, bring me that medallion!
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Barbossa : We are cursed men, Miss Turner.
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Barbossa : Strike your colors, ya bloomin' cockroaches.
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Barbossa : Gents, take a walk.
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Barbossa : [When the Interceptor drops its starboard anchor and starts turning sharply because of it] They're clubhaulin'!
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Barbossa : The Medallion! She's taken it! Get after her you feckless pack of ingrates!
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Barbossa : Gents, you all remember Captain Jack Sparrow. Kill him.
Jack Sparrow : The girl's blood didn't work, did it?
Barbossa : [to the crew] Hold your fire!
Barbossa : You know whose blood we need.
Jack Sparrow : I know whose blood you need!
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Barbossa : Do you not know what this is then?
Elizabeth : It's a Pirate Medallion.
Barbossa : It's a piece of treasure of Isla de Muerta.
Barbossa : Ah, so you don't know as much as you pretend. Back when Cortes was cutting a great bloody swath through the New World, a high priest gave him all the gold they had, with one condition: that he spare the people's lives. Of course Cortes being Cortes, he didn't. He've made a great pirate, that one.
Barbossa : So the priest, with his dying breath, called on the power of the blood of his people, and put on the gold a curse. If anyone took so much as a single piece, as he was compelled by greed, by greed he would be consumed.
Barbossa : Within a day of leaving port for Spain, the treasure ship carrying the gold... something went wrong. The ship run aground, every man aboard dead, save one. He survived long enough to hide the gold ashore. Over time, the dark magic of the curse seeped into the place, making it a cursed island. An island of death. Isla de Muerta.
Elizabeth : That's all very interesting, but I hardly believe in ghost stories any more.
Barbossa : You idiot girl! It's no make believe! My crew and I, we found the gold, and we did more than take one piece, we took it all. Rich men we were and we spent it and traded it and gave it away in exchange for drink and food and pleasant company. But we found out: the drink could not state us, and the food turned to ashes in our mouths, and no amount of pleasant company could ease our torment. We are cursed men, Miss Turner, condemned, to be forever consumed by our own greed. Gold calls to UB, always, and we are driven, always to find more, and add it to the treasure.
Barbossa : There is but one way to remove the curse. All of the scattered pieces of the treasure must be restored in full, and the blood repaid. We've recovered every piece, save for this. And as for the blood... that's what we have you for. And that's why there's no sense in killing you. Yet. Apple?
Barbossa : I'm curious... after killing me, what is it you were planning to do next? Look! Look! The moonlight shows us for what we really are! We are not among the living and so we cannot die...
Barbossa : but neither are we dead! We have all the desires of the living, but cannot satisfy them! Ten years I have been parched of thirst, and unable to quench it! Ten years, I have been starving to death... and haven't died!
Barbossa : And I have not felt anything for ten years... Not the wind on my face, nor the spray of the sea... nor the flesh of a woman...
Barbossa : You'd best start believing in ghost stories, Miss Turner. Because now you're in one.
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Elizabeth : I hardly believe in ghost stories, Captain Barbossa.
Barbossa : Aye. That's exactly what I thought when we were first told of the tale. Buried in the island of the dead that which cannot be found except by those who already knows where it is. Find it, we did. And there be the chest... and inside, be the gold. We took them all! Spent 'em, traded 'em and fritted 'em away, for drink and food and pleasurable company. But the more we gave them away, the more we came to realize. The drink would not satisfy, food turned to ash in our mouths, nor the company in the world would harm or slake our lust. We are cursed men, Miss Turner. Compelled by greed, we were. But now, we are consumed by it.
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Barbossa : I must admit, Jack: I thought I had you figured, but it turns out you're a hard man to predict.
Jack Sparrow : Me, I'm dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest; honestly... it's the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly stupid.
[Jack knocks a pirate into the water, takes the pirate's sword and tosses it to Will Turner]
