Analyzing Evil: Davy Jones From Pirates of the Caribbean

Welcome everyone and welcome to episode fifty-six of Analyzing Evil! Our feature villains for this video is Davy Jones from Pirates of the Caribbean. I hope you enjoy, and thanks for watching. If you have any feedback or questions feel free to let me know below!

The song in this video, Gregorian Chant by Kevin McLeod was provided by the YouTube audio library.

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[thegunslinger]

"Life is cruel.... Why should the after life be any different!". A very underrated performance. Bill Nighy said this was his most difficult role he ever played. Because he found it hard to take himself seriously. When he was wearing "pyjamas with white dots all over you." As he described it.

[legofan]

Something I wanted to mention: This was cut from the movie, but it was revealed that Jack freed 100 slaves (that Cutler Beckett had ordered him to deliver), which led to him being branded as a pirate, Beckett burning down his ship and sending it to the depths. This leads to Jack asking Davy Jones to raise his ship up again, turning it into the Black Pearl.

Fast forward to PotC 2 where Jack asks Davy Jones how many souls his soul is worth, and Davy Jones, in his cruel fashion, tells Jack that his soul is worth 100 souls. The same number of souls that he freed would now be enslaved to ensure HIS freedom. Really brilliant and I'm very sad that they cut this part out, it was great for Jack's character while also showing how cruel Davy Jones could be.

[XFryX]

Davy Jones is such a charismatic and relatable character. And the CGI is insane. And the actor Bill Nighy did such a good job giving Davy a personality and emotion. Brilliant character.

[andyn]

THIS is how you do CGI. I was a kid when I first saw Davy Jones on screen, and I was absolutely blown away. To this day, I’m still stunned how good he and his crew look given the time. The first Pirates movie has some kinda gross looking early 2000s CGI, but 2 and 3 just scream quality. If only Disney could have constrained themselves and left the franchise as an epic trilogy

[jajr]

Pretty off topic, but this is some of the best CGI i've ever seen. I just look at Davy Jones and my brain tells me it's real.

[tomgjgj]

Love the theory about the Golden Age of Piracy being caused by this pact with the godess of the sea. Historically, many at the time said that the pirates had done a deal with the Devil to control the wind and tides.

[Joesmho]

Always thought it was cool how his tentacles would writhe the more angry he gets. Overall he’s one of the dopest villains design wise. The other pirates are also genuinely horrific.

[dylanmonstrum]

"When he's not masking his pain with violence or cruelty, he distracts himself with his organ"
Hey me too!

[bb-ihhg]

Davy Jones and Calypso's story is so much more interesting than most love stories. Wish they'd given us more.

[chosenpawn]

"Ten years, I devoted to the duty you charged me. Ten years, I looked after those who died at sea, and finally, when we could be together again, you weren't there."

"Why weren't you there?"

[orarinnsnorrason]

Davy Jones is a great villain. He might seem simple at first glance but as the story unfolds we uncover multiple layers, like peeling an onion. I wish we had more characters like this in this day and age.

[majortom]

Nobody EVER points it up but, vile eye always syncs the "hello everyone" to the villains talking for the intro and it's really damn funny.

[uberfeel]

Davy Jones is the darth vader of pirates of the caribbean. His theme song is extremely good for a villain

[Swissswoosher]

Davy Jones probably falls into the category of tragic villain.

He wasn’t always that way and is basically a love-sick, heartbroken man who repressed these emotions with rage and cruelty. This makes it so tragic.

I also hold Calypso partly responsible as she promised she’d meet him for that one day and then ditched him. “It’s my nature” isn’t really an excuse.

His story is perhaps one of the best character stories in PoTC.

[seanflanagan]

Bill Nighy absolutely killed it in this role. Hugely underrated actor

[breakingbenjamin]

I like how Disney made Davy Jones an actual terror in the franchise. Sailors talk about him all the time and Disney delivered in terms of why Jones is feared.

[Ididitlikethis]

Fun Fact: Davy Jones hat is meant to resemble demon horns.

[jakek]

"Loving an immortal being is not without its problems"

Words of wisdom Lloyd my man

[amandac]

3:10 Right on point, his love for the sea was able to manifest the mythical embodiment of the sea to come to him and I love how Jones as a character symbolises many other sailors at the time who fell in love with the sea to the point that they become one with it (his physical form shifting to an octopus). When Davy Jones gets angry at calypso for not keeping the promise to reunite on land after 10 years of fulfilling his duty to her and with her responding that “it’s in her nature” I saw it as the fact that many sailors must have believed with the amount of time and devotion they spent at sea that they could predict it and trust it, that they had bonded with it, therefore leading to their ultimate demise of dying at sea because in truth you can’t tame the sea. You can’t ask it to be calm or wild when you want to be. Thus in my eyes, Davy Jones as a character is the symbolism of the betrayal and hurt most men at sea must have felt in those final moments when the one thing they loved betrayed them. This role was made even more perfect by how Bill Nighy portrayed such a complex personality. Jones wasn’t the typical misunderstood character, in fact everyone in the movie knew why he was the way he was and what affect Calypso had on him and yet he still chose to be cruel because he is cruel, I like it cause a villain doesn’t have to be a misunderstood hero who corrupted himself he can be just ordinarily cruel and still be memorable. Wonderful video on one of my favourite villains, really enjoyed watching this :)

[thecaliforniaone]

I always saw Davy Jones as the personification of a heartbreak