Prematurely revealing the natives as cannibals in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

by Sean ZdenekAugust 23, 2009August 15, 2018

Movie captions should never reveal information prematurely. In this example, the captions give away a key plot detail before the narrative is ready to do so.

Source: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, 2006. DVD. Featured captions: (speaks cannibals’ language), (cannibals’ language), (cannibals murmur), (cannibals’ language), and (cannibals’ language).

Published by Sean Zdenek

Dr. Sean Zdenek is an associate professor of technical and professional writing at the University of Delaware. He is the author of Reading Sounds: Closed-Captioned Media and Popular Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2015). View all posts by Sean Zdenek

One Reply to “Prematurely revealing the natives as cannibals in <em>Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest</em>”

Bill says:

August 23, 2009 at 6:09 pm

Thanks – I appreciate learning the fine points of captioning like this, that would not normally occurto me.

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