The
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is a
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in the Pirates of the Caribbean film trilogy. The monster made its first appearance in
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as an
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portrayed through
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. Although a creation of Industrial Light & Magic for
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and designed by the film's producers, the Kraken is heavily based on the
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creature featured in nautical lore
by the same nameKraken are legendary sea monsters of gargantuan size, said to have dwelt off the coasts of Norway and Iceland. The sheer size and fearsome appearance attributed to the beasts have made them common ocean-dwelling monsters in various fictional works...
.
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also became the first studio to produce this mythological creature using
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. The Kraken makes a final small, though symbolic, appearance in the final film in the trilogy,
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.
In the films, the Kraken is a sea creature of monstrous proportions that is controlled by
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, supernatural ruler of the ocean realms. When commanded, it destroys anything Davy Jones desires. The Kraken is used often by Jones to destroy ships that threaten him. One of the Kraken's most powerful weapons is fear, which can be used to keep a foe at bay, eliminating the threat altogether.
Film production
There are different pronunciations of Kraken.
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(who plays Mr. Gibbs) was the first to pronounce it as "Kra-ken," and so the pronunciation was adopted on set.
During the filming of the attacks,
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(
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) divulged that "the Kraken, at the moment, is just
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, the director, running around, going, 'I'm a tentacle. I'm a tentacle. Be afraid.'"
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worked with Industrial Light & Magic to create the scenes for the film involving the Kraken. When filming the attack on the
Edinburgh Trader, they used the ship as a set in shallow waters. Many more
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were digitally added on board the ship, and others were digitally replaced for complex shots. When the time came to film the
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for a total of 60,000 pounds and crushed down onto the set. To prepare for this event, most metal and the masts were removed, because the metal would prevent the ship from satisfyingly breaking in half while the masts would prevent better camera close-ups. Furthermore, the interior middle of the ship was lined with cables of explosives to blast the wood apart in the air. After the shot, other men were filmed on another blue tilting set and digitally added on deck.
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, Visual Effects Supervisor, confessed that it was extremely complex to add the Kraken's tentacles between all the environmental effects of water and wood debris.
When the time came to film Jack Sparrow in front of the Kraken's
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,
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's stand-in, Scott Sener, was used to experiment with what worked best with the slime at their disposal (which would represent the
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of the Kraken). The slime was spattered about him with jets of air. For the actual filming,
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was spattered with the slime and acted his part without any representation for the Kraken. It was afterward digitally added along with sound, tentacles, and other
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.
Background
Nothing is revealed in the films about the Kraken's origins. What is known is that after
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cut out his heart and became the feared and mutated sea ruler, he presumably found the Kraken and came to command it. Since that time, the Kraken was used by Jones to destroy ships that blocked his path or those that carried potential crew members for his supernatural ship, the
Flying Dutchman. In
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, it is summoned by the men of the Flying Dutchman turning a
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that drops a large, wooden mechanism into the water creating something similar to a
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, reverberating across the water supposedly for miles.
It is also known that this Kraken was the last of its kind.
Dead Man's Chest
The Kraken first appears in
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, brought to life using the most advanced
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(CGI) from Industrial Light & Magic.
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, who seeks Jack Sparrow's soul to recoup a debt, dispatches Bootstrap Bill Turner to deliver Sparrow the
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and announce that Jones' "terrible
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" is stalking him. When a Turkish sailor retrieves Sparrow's lost hat from the sea, he unwittingly calls the Kraken. A large green mass silently rushes toward the fishing boat; moments later, the monster violently yanks it underwater in mere seconds. After the Kraken attacks another ship,
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boards a wreckage after Jack Sparrow deceives him into believing it is the
Flying Dutchman; the surviving crew members have been left psychologically traumatized by the Kraken's attack.
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later summons the Kraken to destroy the
Edinburgh Trader, a merchant ship that rescues
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. The Kraken smashes the vessel in half with two of it's massive tentacles, killing nearly all the crew. While he is momentarily submerged underwater, Will briefly glimpses the gargantuan monster.
When the
Flying Dutchman falls behind the
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during a chase, Jones calls upon the Kraken to finish it off. The Kraken glides its tentacles up the
Pearl's hull. Based upon his previous experience aboard the
Edinburgh Trader, Will quickly devises a strategic defense and orders the crew to fire the deck guns into the monster's tentacles, severely wounding them and forcing the Kraken to momentarily retreat , but returns and smashes the cannons.
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then has kegs of gun powder, rum, and other combustibles loaded into a cargo net and hoisted aloft. When the Kraken returns, Sparrow shoots the barrels, blasting the monster's tentacles in the resulting explosion: the wounded Kraken again withdraws .
Sparrow, knowing the Kraken would attack again, then orders the crew to abandon ship . Realizing that the Kraken is only hunting Sparrow, Elizabeth uses trickery to chain him to the mast, then escapes with the crew . The Kraken makes its final assault, with Sparrow's sword pointing at it; he chants a phrase, after which the Kraken drags Sparrow and the
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to Davy Jones' Locker.
At World's End
The Kraken is briefly seen in the film,
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End; but it has been killed by Davy Jones under Lord Beckett's command. Beckett feared that Jones, being a
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, might command the Kraken to attack the East India Trading Company armada. Jones, threatened with having his heart stabbed, did as commanded. The action profoundly affected him, however, as seen in his facial expression when Beckett reminds him about the killing. Jones even plays a sad tune on his
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for his dead
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, and also for his lost love, Calypso . It is never revealed how Jones killed the Kraken.
After Jack Sparrow is rescued from Davy Jones' Locker, he proclaims his desire to become "Captain Jack Sparrow, the last pirate" . When Sparrow and
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go ashore for fresh water, they find the Kraken's dead carcass washed up on the island's beach, a notable
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in its dead eyes . Observing Jack's reaction as he surveys the dead monster, Barbossa tells him that being the last of anything means that eventually there will be none left at all. Jack finally realizes the enormity of
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's threat to exterminate all pirates, and he agrees to attend the Brethren Court on Shipwreck Island with Barbossa, while stating the world's still the same, but there's just less in it.
Use and symbolism in the trilogy
The Kraken symbolized
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' power and influence over the ocean: Jones is referred to as "the devil of the seas" and the Kraken's tentacles were the devil's grasp. At the conclusion of
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, it is the Kraken that takes Jack Sparrow to Davy Jones' Locker, thus leading to the events in
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End; note that
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never attempted to kill Sparrow by his own hand, which, being a skilled swordsman, he could easily have done, as seen in
At World's End. The Kraken's death in the third film symbolizes piracy being purged and the fact that it does not fit into Beckett's world of industrialization and
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. The Kraken was the last of its kind, doomed with no purpose other than serving Davy Jones. Its death forces Jack to realize that there is little nobility or purpose in becoming the last of his kind [pirate]. The sand's blackness further symbolizes how the Brethren Court will be faced with its own "extinction" should they fail to unite and take action against
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's threat. It should be noted that the producers figured the Kraken was a sense of inevitability, since no matter where the target goes the Kraken will always follow.
The short, but symbolic, scene with the dead Kraken shows that it is an important character in the series. It represents being at "the world's end", both a literal and figurative place where the characters find themselves.
Physical Characteristics
The Kraken was designed by the producers of
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, and then was brought to life by technicians at Industrial Light & Magic. Its body resembles a massive,
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-like
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. In the
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,
Pirates of the Caribbean: A Visual Guide, a profile view of the Kraken is seen, with a ship for scale. The second edition,
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Complete Visual Guide, states the Kraken to be as long as ten of that ship. The book also depicts the Kraken as a
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-like beast, with a ring of tentacles at the base of its
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and a long, sharp
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similar to a squid (this could be used to keep it at level with the ship underwater). The fictional monster has also large round eyes with orange irises and black pupils . Interestingly, the eyes seem to show pain, most likely from when Jones had to kill it, although it could also be the Kraken's default expression. The Kraken in this shot does not look as big as the given photo from the visual guide.
Its massive, sucker-lined tentacles are said by Mr. Gibbs to, "suction your
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clean off". The suction disks are powerful enough to pull down a ship from its underside and have contorted a human's face to the point of leaving it smothered by its own skin in
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. The Kraken also uses these powerful suckers to silently pull itself along the rocks lying on the oceans' bottom, much as does an
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. After the Kraken's
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s were severely damaged by
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and an explosion during the assaults on
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, it resurfaced with its wounds appearing healed . It is unclear if the Kraken has the ability to instantly regenerate itself or if it was using different tentacles. It is also notable that the Kraken has two forearms significantly larger than the others, like the hunting tentacles possessed by squids and cuttlefish. The beast employs these to crush ships. The weight of the two tentacles can split a ship along its width.
When it revealed its mouth to character Jack Sparrow, it resembled a
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; the interior is lined with over six sets of spiked, razor-sharp teeth and its breath emits a reeking odor of "a thousand rotting corpses". Jack, however, is not at all daunted by the foul breath claiming it is "Not so bad," and deliberately leaps into the Kraken's jaws, trying to kill it.
Summoning the Kraken
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, ruler of the seas, summons the Kraken to destroy vessels. On-board his ghostly ship, the
Flying Dutchman is a massive capstan with a carved Kraken on the top, the so-called
Kraken's Hammer. To call the Kraken, the crew rotate the
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clockwise, lifting it to its highest point. It then slams down, blasting shockwaves through the ocean, thus summoning the Kraken. One shockwave usually does the job unless the Kraken is farther away. The Kraken Hammer is seen again in
At Worlds End, still aboard the
Dutchman; though broken and unusable, it is still able to rotate, as shown during Sparrow and Jones' duel. The lines chanted by Davy Jones as the Kraken is summoned ("...And let this day be cursed by we who ready to wake...The Kraken!") are similar to the lines from the
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:"May those who curse days curse that day, those who are ready to rouse Leviathan"
The Kraken attacks anyone marked with the Black Spot , which is delivered to its victims by
Flying Dutchman crewmen and can only be removed by its captain,
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. According to the writers' commentary on the
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DVD, those marked with the Black Spot are taken by the Kraken to Davy Jones' Locker, where they must experience their worst fears for eternity. When pirates see the black spot, they say "Black spot! Black spot!" Then they turn a full turn while brushing themselves off and spit. This represents their fear of what the Black Spot denotes.
Methods of attack
The Kraken attacks by stealthily approaching a ship, slithering its tentacles up the hull's sides, and gripping tightly, yanking it underwater. If the crew can fight back, the Kraken smashes the hull and masts with its tentacles, probing the decks and holds with its sensitive suckers seeking out its prey . The destruction is catastrophic, and its two forearms are so powerful it can easily rip a ship apart in mere seconds. Davy Jones uses some, but not all, these attacks to acquire new crewmen for the
Flying Dutchman. As he surveys one wrecked ship's survivors, he offers them an opportunity to delay their final judgment by joining his crew for 100 years. Those who refuse are killed and thrown over-board . A somewhat notable aspect is that the Kraken displays a degree of intelligence. When it was hurt by the Black Pearl's cannons, it was sure to get rid of them when it attacked them again.
Kraken attacks often leave the survivors, if any, psychologically damaged by traumatized and deranged. In one case, a survivor is left without a face, it having been contorted by the suckers. Also, the Kraken appeared to have eaten at least six of the crew-members of the Edinburgh Trader.
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