Yes, but it's more than that. Actually, if you watch COTBP, the scene in which Jack salutes the hanging pirates next to the sign that says: Pirates, ye be warned is subtle foreshadowing for not only his fate at the end of COTBP, but also the fate of the pirates in this scene in AWE.
Also, the song isn't something nice. It serves a purpose to call the Bethern Court together.
Here's the next part of the script. Here's what's really interesting. Notice that it's Elizabeth who's taken up the call. Foreshadowing her choice to turn pirate during the course of the film.
513 A PAUSE, then.... a WOMAN'S VOICE out of the DARKNESS....
ELIZABETH
The bel has been raised from it's watery grave...do you hear it's sepulchral tone?
A small boat emerges out of the glom. Elizabeth moves it with a long pole through a maze of pylons. We are --
514 EXT . SINGAPORE - HARBOR - NIGHT
Junks crammed together around ramshackle docks. Criss-crossing shadows from hanging lamps.
UNDER THE DOCKS, Elizabeth moves past raised platforms, sees:
an OLD LADY crouches, gutting fish...an ARTISIAN blows glass over a coal fire...a LAUGHING BOY outsidea FIREWORKS SHED lightsa pinwheel; it spins, sparks flying --
The SHADOW of a monkey races past. Elizabeth's apprenhension grows. It's all weird, surreal. She keps singing--
ELIZABETH
A call to all, pay head the squall --
515 EXT. SINGAPORE - DOCKS - NIGHT
On the dock, Elizabeth ties the bow line.
ELIZABETH
-- and turn your sail toward home! Yo ho, haul together--
EAST INDIA COMPANY MEN, including MERCER, approach. She reties the line as they pass. Then resumes the song.
ELIZABETH (CONT'D)
Raise the colors high! Heave ho --
HUANG
-- thieves and beggars, never say we die.
THREE GUARDS apear out of the darkness of a huge sewer pipe. Thier leader is is TIA HUANG.
HUANG
A dangerous song to be singing for any who are ignorant of it's meaning. Particularly a woman. Particularly a woman alone.
BARBOSSA
What makes you think she's alone?
The GUARDS turn. BARBOSSA stands behind them smiling.
HUANG
You protect her?
ELIZABETH
What makes you think I need protection?
HUANG shouldn't have turned away: her knife is at his throat.
BARBOSSA
Your master is expecting us.
(to Elizabeth)
And an unexpected death would cast a slight pall on our meeting.
Elizabeth lowers the knife.
HUANG
You're Captain Barbossa.
BARBOSSA
Aye, and she be Elizabeth Swann. And Sao Feng offered us safe passage.
HUANG
For as long as it suits him.
Huang turns to lead them away, stops, holds up a hand.
East India Company AGENTS go past. Huang gestures 'follow me' and leads them toward the huge sewer pipe--
Originally posted by savvysparrow
Yes, but it's more than that. Actually, if you watch COTBP, the scene in which Jack salutes the hanging pirates next to the sign that says: Pirates, ye be warned is subtle foreshadowing for not only his fate at the end of COTBP, but also the fate of the pirates in this scene in AWE.Also, the song isn't something nice. It serves a purpose to call the Bethern Court together.
You took the words out of me mouth. Good job!
Exactly, him facing the gallows and narrowly escaping it. And it foreshadows on a possibility on what would happen to the pirates.
Beckett: All of you will fight, and all of you will die.
Notice the development in the characters in this particular scene with Elizabeth.
First, the pirates in the previous scene start the call to get the Betheren to meet. Elizabeth finishes their call and spreads the word to Singapore. I think that holds significance because it may explain why it is Elizabeth is elected Pirate King at Shipwreck Cove.
Also, she has a great line: What makes you think that I need protection?
Her transition from girl to woman in the films is actually remarkable to watch. I would surmise that DMC is adolescents for her, AWE marks the beginning of adulthood. She no longer needs protection from the world, or a hero to save her.
It's like the scene with Will and the wedding dress; he realizes that she can take care of herself.
Also, notice that Huang turns his back to Elizabeth and she pulls a knife on him. I think that's indicative of Elizabeth's nature. You can't turn your back on her....sound familiar?
516 EXT. SINGAPORE - BRIDGE - NIGHT
The Esat India Company Agents keep a look out. DROP DOWN to the water below --
IN THE WATER, a dozen or so COCONUTS float lazily with the current. And then one rises up -- he top of PINTEL'S head. Others rise out of the water, coconut shells worn like helmets by GIBBS, RAGETTI, COTTON and MARTY.
They carry oilskin bundles, take out large rasps, wait, poised to file through the bars of a metal grate --
517 ON THE AGENTS: as the wheels SQUEAKING, turn to see:
TIA DALMA, pushing a cart carrying a bird cage with twittering canaries; potions, bottles and bags of flour. Cotton's PARROT perches atop; JACK THE MONKEY turns the crank of an ORGAN --
518 BENEATH THE DOCK...Gibbs and his crew begin filing through the grate, the noise covered by the music --
519 EXT. SINGAPORE - BATH HOUSE - NIGHT
As Huang leads Barbossa and Elizabeth toward the door of a low-slung, decripit bath house. The two confer in whispers:
ELIZABETH
Have we heard anything from Will?
BARBOSSA
The whelp is more than capable of taking care of himself. But you, in the presence of Soa Feng, you'll be wanting to show a bit more diffedence than is your custom.
ELIZABETH
He's that terrifying, is he?
BARBOSSA
he's much like myself, absent my merciful nature and sense of fair play.
Huang raps out a signal on the door. A slit opens, eyes scan him, the slit closes, the door opens --
520 EXT. SINGAPORE - UNDER THE DOCKS - NIGHT
Pintel and Ragetti keep filing -- until suddenly the music STOPS. Ragetti files one stroke to many, oops --
521 ON THE DOCKS, one of the agents regards the Monkey, holding it up with the tip of his sword. The other pokes at the cart.
AGENT
(to Tia Dalma)
You can't be here.
Tia Dalma lifts her face -- they see she is BLIND.
TIA DALMA
Your mother always knew it be you who threw the linens down the well. But she forgave you for it.
AGENT
How did you know that?
TIA DALMA
The canaries.
She grins a black teeth smile. The Agents jump back. Jack the Monkey goes back to grinding, the music picks up --
522 BELOW, Pintel and Ragetti return to sawing --
Originally posted by savvysparrow
Notice the development in the characters in this particular scene with Elizabeth.First, the pirates in the previous scene start the call to get the Betheren to meet. Elizabeth finishes their call and spreads the word to Singapore. I think that holds significance because it may explain why it is Elizabeth is elected Pirate King at Shipwreck Cove.
Also, she has a great line: What makes you think that I need protection?
Her transition from girl to woman in the films is actually remarkable to watch. I would surmise that DMC is adolescents for her, AWE marks the beginning of adulthood. She no longer needs protection from the world, or a hero to save her.
It's like the scene with Will and the wedding dress; he realizes that she can take care of herself.Also, notice that Huang turns his back to Elizabeth and she pulls a knife on him. I think that's indicative of Elizabeth's nature. You can't turn your back on her....sound familiar?
I remember they had a different script on COTBP, when Barbossa is warning Jack about Liz.
Thats actually kind of funny how elizabeth says exactly what jack told her in Pirates 1
In p1
Jack: Elizabeth it would have never worked between us love , im sorry.
in p2
elizabeth : Things would have never worked between us.
jack: You keep telling yourself that love.
btw : i didnt fall of the face of the earth for those who knew me
