Was there ever any resistance to the marvellous surreal scenes when Jack Sparrow was hallucinating?
I don’t think that anybody knew what we were doing. So we didn’t have any resistance. Once you have the idea of this personal hell, it is very liberating – you are not burdened by narrative as you examine the madness of Jack. You can do anything. Q: How difficult was it to do the hallucination when there are 30 or 40 versions of Jack Sparrow? A: Well you just break it down, the whole movie is difficult. You do the work, do the math and plot the shots. It is difficult, but we have a great crew and everyone contributed. Q: What talks did you have about the running time of this movie? A: Those talks were between myself and Ted and Terry, the writers. We were aware of length issues but we had all seen short movies that play long and long movies that play briskly. We picked up so many characters along the way when we were making these movies and we were not going to abandon them. We were taking the threads and continuing to weave the fabric to its conclusion. So we used the complexity as an
