If we retain the deductible Pirates of the Caribbean for the omnipresence of Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) and the incredible stories that flow from it, the saga remains known for having put together a very large number of diverse and varied villains. The first movie (2003) highlighted the villain Captain Barbossa and his army of zombified pirates from the Black Pearl of which were part Pintel and Raghetti.
From the second opus, baptized the Secret of the Cursed Chestwe then saw another equally ugly and dangerous villain: the sprawling davy jones – played by Bill Nighy – who came to remind Jack Sparrow that he had a debt to settle (and who went through his enslavement aboard the Flying Dutchman for eternity). Whether davy jones occupied the central place of the stakes, Pirates of the Caribbean also took advantage of the second and third opus to introduce Calypso or even the East India company with, at their head, the disdainful Lord Cutler Beckett.
The East India Company is portrayed as a brutal corporation that murdered thousands, staged famines, funded rampant political corruption, and tortured and branded suspected pirates without trial. Rather than making them ugly beacons of the saga, Pirates of the Caribbean preferred to give way to supernatural villains to accentuate the fantastic character of the story. However, multiple choices would have been possible to position this Indian company in the footsteps of the villains of the franchise. Instead, they only had a tertiary place, serving just as an alliance with davy jones for the final fight At World’s End (2007).
Accentuate the role of East India Company could also have made it possible to create interesting backstory for characters that we all appreciate (The story cut from Jack Sparrow In At World’s End revealed that he only became a pirate after refusing to transport a slave ship for the company on moral grounds). It could also have made it possible to densify the political purpose of the feature film by showing a real rivalry between them and the pirates. If many thought that we were going to find a villain of this ilk in the fourth and fifth film, disney ultimately opted for the same style of antagonists – with Blackbeard for the 4th and Salazar for the 5th – even going so far as to suggest the comeback of davy jones for a sixth film. Waiting for the sequel, disney is lost between the wills of either rebooting everything, or sporting continuity.