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Artisan (EITC)

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"The map is finished, sir."
"...Just the way I imagined it."
―Artisan and Cutler Beckett[src] (deleted scene)

This man was an artisan and an expert cartographer active in the 1720s. Lord Cutler Beckett of the East India Trading Company had great ambitions for the Company and had a map of the world painted on his office wall to illustrate them. By the time of Lord Beckett's arrival to Port Royal, the artisan was employed by Beckett as an expert Company cartographer[4] to make daily changes to the map. As ships brought reports of the Company's growing power and new discoveries across the Seven Seas, he painted in blank sections of the map and added new ports, countries, and towns.[2][3] The artisan was actively painting the unfinished map as Cutler Beckett spoke with Will Turner and Governor Weatherby Swann in his office, with the countries of the map were filled in, though most ports and towns remained blank.[1] His further fate is unknown.

Behind the scenes

This unidentified individual was played by an unknown and uncredited actor in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.[1] He was first identified as an "artisan" in other media, based on the film's screenplay,[5] notably the 2006 reference book Pirates of the Caribbean: The Visual Guide,[2] later reprinted in the 2007 book The Complete Visual Guide.[3] The artisan was also identified as "an expert Company cartographer" in The Secret Files of the East India Trading Company.[4]

In Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio's screenplay for Dead Man's Chest, the character did not appear in the scene between Will Turner, Cutler Beckett, and the unfinished map of the world in Beckett's office, with the artisan's first scene being when Beckett talks to Governor Weatherby Swann. After James Norrington hands the heart of Davy Jones to Beckett and the Flying Dutchman arrives to Port Royal, the Artisan, misspelled as "Artisian" twice in the scene, told Beckett of the map being finished.[5] The scene never made it to the final cut of the film but was retained in the film's deleted scene "The Map Is Finished" featured in Blu-ray releases beginning in 2011.[6]

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Visual Guide
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Complete Visual Guide, pp. 46-47: "Beckett's Plan"
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 The Secret Files of the East India Trading Company
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Wordplayer.com: PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST by Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio
  6. ↑ Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Deleted Scene: "The Map Is Finished"