Davy Jones' Locker (1995) - full transcript
This heartwarming musical combines the charm of marionettes with the wizardry of today's most innovative filmmaking. Full of original songs, this dazzling masterpiece transports you to a world of magic & wonder. Join Joey as he falls into his own dream and adventure on the high seas. Meet pirates, a beautiful mermaid, magic of dancing books and a legendary undersea pirate king himself, Davy Jones.
(crowd chattering)
(singers and musicians warming
up)
- Okay everybody, one minute.
One minute.
- One minute?
One minute for what?
- The show, the show!
- Oh, the show!
The show!
- Places, everybody.
Places please.
- [Man] And where do
you think you're going?
Oh no, you work down there.
- You work down there,
you work down there.
Grown ups, hmph.
- 10 seconds, 10 seconds.
Stand by.
Ready?
- Yeah.
- Stand by.
House lights to half.
And cue.
(serene music)
- Rich, we're gonna be rich!
I tell ya, when I win this
sweepstakes,
we'll be rich, rich,
filthy, filthy rich.
- Well, not too filthy, I hope,
dear.
I just took a bath.
Besides, rich won't make you
happy,
but happy makes you rich.
- Huh?
- I have you, Joey, and a
wonderful home.
I feel I'm already rich.
- Yeah, but how'd you like to
win
a million dollar sweepstakes to
boot, huh?
A little money to make you feel
sunny?
- Well dear, if it'll make you
happy.
- Make me happy?
Why, you'd be able to have
anything in the world you'd
want.
- You don't need a lot of
money for the important things.
- Name one important thing
that don't cost money.
(smooches)
Nevermind that.
I said name one--
(smooches)
Will you please stop that?
And name one--
(smooches)
Now, cut that out.
- Well, that's three, anyway.
- Three what?
- Three kisses, dear.
Would you like three more?
- No, no, no, no, now wait.
(smooches)
Wait a minute.
(clock chiming)
- Oh my, I'll be late for
my meeting at the school.
(groans)
- Aren't you forgetting
something?
- Huh?
Oh, so I am.
- No, no, not that.
- Oh, I'm sorry, dear.
(smooches)
- You should be.
- I almost forgot.
- How can you forget
something as simple as a kiss?
- It must've been your million
dollar sweepstakes, dear.
- My million dollar sweepstakes.
How can a sweepstakes be
more important than...
My million dollar sweepstakes!
I almost forgot.
The post office.
I gotta mail this before they
close.
- So long, dear.
- Joey.
Joey!
Joey, I need you to mail a
letter.
- I hope you like it, Joey.
- What is it?
- It's a book.
- Ew.
I hate books.
- I don't know what I'm
gonna do with that boy.
I don't know what's the matter
with him.
Wish we'd had a girl.
Joey.
- Hi Dad.
- [Dad] Didn't you hear me
calling you?
- Huh?
- I've been yelling at
the top of my lungs.
Here, I want you to take
this to the post office
before it closes
- What is it?
- What is it?
It's the key to our future's
what it is.
- You got a job?
- This is better than a job,
son.
This is a sure thing.
Here, look, look, look.
- Another sweepstakes?
Oh, but Dad, you did that
already.
- That was last time.
Look ahead, son.
Be positive.
Here.
Look, look.
Look at this, will you?
Take a look at this.
- This looks like a treasure
map!
- Our treasure map, son.
Just think of it, ours.
Think of the riches that
lie in store for us.
A new car, a mobile home,
a trip to Disneyland.
Look, son.
A million dollars in cash.
Think of it.
A million smackers.
- Oh, I don't know, Dad.
- Well what don't you know, huh?
We'll have all the things in the
world!
- Do you really think we need
all that?
- Need?
What's need got to do with it?
Stuff, son.
Look at all the stuff we'll
have.
We'll have so much stuff.
- I can still keep my room,
though.
I mean, you wouldn't have
to put any of the stuff
in my room, would you Dad?
I mean, I have all my models
that I worked so hard on
and everything, and I...
- Oh, that's your problem, Joey.
You're too much of a dreamer.
Models, models.
This is the real world, son.
Now stop dreaming and get this
letter to the post office.
- But Dad, I was just in
the middle of gluing...
Dad, be careful.
It's still wet.
- What was that?
- Dad, you broke it.
- Oh, next thing you'll be
telling me
there are people in there.
Now look, take this letter.
Mail it, now!
(yelling)
- Shiver me timbers, right
through me looking glass.
(chuckles)
I don't know how you did it,
laddy,
but it's so nice to see you drop
in.
(chuckles)
And now, you do have the map,
don't you?
- The map?
- What you have on you.
- It's not a map.
I'm gonna mail this for
my dad, it's a sweepstake.
- Sweepstake, flame steak, grub
steak,
be that as it may,
just hand it over.
- But...
Who are you?
Where am I?
- I am, that is, we are pirates.
I'm Captain Barnacle,
and this the S.S. Barnacle.
Now give me that map.
- Captain,
I was just wondering...
(grunting)
- After him!
- Grab him, mates!
- Come back here, you little
varmint!
- Which way'd he go?
- He went that way.
- Thank you.
- I've got him.
- You haven't got him,
you've got me, you idiot!
- Giant eyeball, dead ahead,
sir!
(yells)
(yelling)
- Bullseye.
(chuckles)
As I was saying, laddy.
Avarice in Wonderland.
Oh, and I'm so tired of being
poor.
(sobbing)
There's nothing sadder than a
poor pirate.
We've been scraping to
make ends meet for so long.
A pirate gig at last.
So good of you to afford
us this opportunity, laddy.
- It's not a treasure
map, it's a sweepstakes.
Can't you read?
- Read?
Read?
We're pirates, laddy.
(laughing)
I've heard of singing
nuns, but reading pirates?
(laughing)
And besides, who needs to read
when we've got your treasure
map?
Plain as the nose on my face.
Why, look here, lads.
You are here, the treasure's
here.
- But captain, that X is not on
the land,
it's in the water.
- That means the treasure's
sunken
in Davy Jones' locker.
- Davy Jones' locker?
- All we've got to do is plot a
course
for 30 degrees latitude
by 29 minutes fortitude.
We want to go where I put
all the holes in the map.
So, set the sails,
man the mizzenmast, back the
oars,
up the anchor, down the poop
hatch!
Do the dishes!
- Do the dishes?
- I don't know, you're
pirates, for gosh sake,
you know what to do.
So do it!
- Aye aye, captain.
♫ Blow mates, blow
♫ The wind is up the sails
though
♫ All away
♫ Yuck, that ocean spray
♫ Yo he ho
♫ We follow where the winds blow
♫ Yo ho hum
♫ The question is how come?
♫ I'm Barnacle the buccaneer
♫ From the time the sun has
arisen
♫ I work to see the riggen's
rigged
♫ And the mizzenmast ain't
missing
- I'm Shantyman.
- Pegleg.
- I'm Patch.
- And I'm a twin.
- Hey, me too.
♫ And you boy, are our prisoner
- And it's very nice to meet
you.
♫ Blow mates, blow
♫ The wind is up the sails
though
♫ All the way
♫ Yuck, that ocean spray
♫ Yo me ho
♫ We follow where the winds blow
♫ Yo ho hum
♫ The question is how come?
♫ They see my ship upon the seas
♫ And all the folks admire it
♫ It ain't much of a life at
ease
♫ Life's lonely as a pirate
♫ Let's be clear, those sailors
fear
♫ Our yo hos and ahoys
♫ Underneath these broken teeth
♫ We're all still little boys
♫ Blow mates, blow
♫ The wind is up the sails
though
♫ All away
♫ Yuck, that ocean spray
♫ Yo me ho
♫ We follow where the winds blow
♫ Yo ho hum
♫ The question is how come?
♫ The question is how come?
♫ The question is how come
- How come?
- Well now, laddy,
now you're getting personal.
- Captain, we're making sail,
but what's our destination?
- The treasure, matey.
The treasure.
(yelling)
♫ Blow mates, blow
♫ The wind us up the sails
though
♫ All away
♫ Yuck, that ocean spray
♫ Yo me ho
♫ We follow where the winds blow
♫ Yo ho hum
♫ The question is how come?
♫ The question is how come?
♫ The question is how come
(arguing indistinctly)
- [Barnacle] Will you
two please pipe down?
- X ho!
- Say what?
- X ho.
X ho!
- What was that?
- Stop the boat, we're here.
(yelling)
- You make me seasick, the way
you drive.
Now, get a gaff hook and haul in
that X.
- But captain, then how
are we going to know
where the treasure is?
- Because, you bleeding idiot,
we already know where it is.
(grunting)
As soon as we do that,
we'll be the only ones
who know where the treasure is.
- [All] Oh.
(chuckling)
- Who swims?
- Not I, captain.
My leg would float.
(scoffs)
- Where's what's-his-name?
- Oh, what's-his-name is down
below, getting ready, captain.
- Ah, good.
Oh good, good.
You're here, Shantyman.
Now, here's what you need to do.
We will tie a line to you.
We want you to swim down,
find the treasure, tie a rope
around it,
yank on the line, and we'll pull
you up,
with the treasure.
- Yeah, uh huh.
But captain--
- What!
- There's just one thing.
- What's that?
- I can't swim.
- What?
You can't swim?
- I was just gonna take a dip.
I wanted to wash the sunscreen
off.
(groans)
- What about you two?
- Who two?
- You two?
- You want to tell him?
- Oh, no, you better tell him.
- I'm not gonna tell him.
He'll get mad.
- Well then let's tell him
together.
- All right.
- Our mother never taught us how
to swim.
- You twits.
- That's twins.
- What about you?
- Oh, captain, well,
much as I would consider
it an honor and a privilege
to risk certain death in a
watery grave,
my place is here by your side.
- Well, we need someone
to go over the side.
Ah, all right, men.
Line up.
Now, any man who feels brave
enough
and courageous enough to
volunteer
and go down and get the
treasure,
signify and take one step
forward.
- Uh oh.
(chuckles)
- Laddy.
So good of you to volunteer.
- Huh?
But I was in the minnows
in my swimming class.
- I like a brave lad.
Oh yes, yes, yes.
Now, all we're going to do, lad,
is tie a line around you.
Just go down, get the treasure,
tie a line around the treasure
chest,
then we'll haul you and
the treasure back up.
Three cheers for the brave lad,
Joe.
- [Joey] But I always use a nose
clip!
- Hip hip, hooray!
Hip hip, hooray!
Hip hip, away!
(splashes)
(wailing)
- You call that scary?
I've heard foghorns that
were scarier than that.
- So you can do better?
Go ahead, make my day.
(wailing)
- Will you two knock it off?
I'm trying to eat here.
- You with the food, always with
the food.
If you weren't dead,
you'd be big as a house.
A haunted house.
(laughing)
Oh.
So nice of you to drop in.
- What, he's sitting there?
He can't sit there.
Nobody can sit there.
That's Davy's chair.
(piano playing)
(laughs)
Well, well, well.
Methinks we've got a live one
here.
Tell, tell, tell, tell, tell.
Don't he know he's
sitting in Davy's chair?
Who, who, who
is the ruler of this undersea
zone.
Doesn't he know who the king is?
It's Mr. Davy Jones, yeah.
- You could have at least called
first.
(burps)
He's losing air.
- Whoa, horseys, whoa.
Now give my horseys a drink,
and watch out, the last
time you dented the shell.
- I'd like to welcome our ghost
of honor,
ruler of the undersea, Mr. Davy
Jones.
- Do you have to do that
every time I come in?
- Huh?
All right.
- What, who's this?
Excuse me.
Excuse me, but you're sitting in
my chair.
He doesn't seem to get it, does
he?
I hate these new ghosts.
No sense of tradition.
- But excuse me, sir.
He's not dead yet.
- He's dead if I say he's...
(moaning)
Oh my.
You know, you're right.
Why does this always happen to
me?
All right.
I'm gonna have to use my
magic to save this laddy.
Up and down, and all around,
I'm gonna give you the
juice so you don't drown.
♫ He's Davy Jones, king of the
undersea
♫ Davy Jones, king of the
undersea
♫ Davy Jones, king of the
undersea world
- Shut up.
- Yeah, knock it off.
- Where am I?
- Well you're not in
Philadelphia, that's for sure.
(laughing)
You're in Davy Jones' locker.
And you're sitting in my rocker!
(laughs)
- Davy Jones' locker?
The ghost king that lives under
the sea?
But that's just a myth.
That's just a story.
- Do I look like a myth?
(grunts)
I'm Davy Jones.
I'm king of the undersea.
♫ He's Davy Jones, king
of the undersea world
Will you shut up!
Doesn't strike a chord, huh?
You know how long I've
been under here, laddy?
Centuries.
This is my undersea domain,
and this is my locker.
- Locker?
- The whole sea's my locker.
- But how can I breathe?
- Because I gave you the
juice to breathe, kid.
Now tell me, laddy.
What are you doing in Davy's
place?
- I came down to get the
treasure.
- Oh, it's treasure you want?
(laughs)
Here, how about these three?
♫ He's Davy Jones, king of the
undersea
♫ Davy Jones, king of the
undersea
♫ Davy Jones, king of the
undersea world
Can't you see you died once
already?
Give it a break.
Now who sent you?
- The pirates.
- The pirates.
The bane of my existence.
But you know, I'd be
awfully lonely down here
if it weren't for the pirates.
How about a drink, laddy?
- Oh, no, thank you, Mr. Jones,
but I think I've had enough
to drink for the day.
- Well then, if it's the
treasure you want, laddy,
follow me.
(playing piano)
♫ What does Davy have in mind?
♫ Should've known it all the
time
♫ Joey will never be the same
♫ As he walks down the pirate
hall of fame
♫ Rich beyond all his dreams
♫ Gold ain't always what it
seems
♫ Davy knows what's behind that
door
♫ Will change Joey's life
forever more
After you've experienced
the treasure, laddy,
you'll never be the same again.
- But it's not for me,
it's for the pirates.
- Ah, yes.
But perhaps they'll share
some of it with you, my boy.
- Well, that's okay.
Besides, my mother always says,
"rich won't make you happy,
but happy makes you rich."
- Ah.
Your mother is a very wise
woman, laddy.
A very wise woman indeed.
- Books?
- You see, laddy, these
are the real treasures.
- But sir, I...
- There's a book here I'd like
you to take a look at, I...
Where is it?
It was just here a minute ago.
Oceana?
Oceana?
- [Oceana] Coming.
- Please, what happened
to the book that was here?
- Anna?
- Close, son, close.
Oceana, the beautiful mermaid of
the sea.
- Well I was just fixing it.
You've opened it so many times,
it's gotten a little
worn around the edges.
- Are you really a mermaid?
(laughs)
- Why, yes.
- Well, here you go, laddy.
- But sir, this is just a book.
- Just a book?
- Just a book!
Laddy, this is a magic carpet
to take you wherever you want to
go.
It's a tool, to teach you to
build
anything you want to build.
It's the key to the
treasures in your heart.
♫ Books are the key,
♫ The treasure's your heart
♫ Read and the treasure chest
opens
♫ Open me, here look, Guinevere
♫ And all of her knights
in all of their gear
♫ Page after page, it's
here on these pages
♫ Oh what a joy to read
♫ I tell a tale of men who sail
♫ In mad pursuit of a great
white whale
♫ I make models floating in
bottles
♫ Oh what a joy to read
♫ Open me there and hold your
chair
♫ I'm dropping you in Trafalgar
Square
♫ Where's Kathmandu?
♫ Page 72!
♫ Oh, the boy can read
♫ When you hook your fingers on
a book
♫ Before your hand is curled
♫ Halfway around the world
♫ Books are the key,
♫ The treasure's your heart
♫ That's not the treasure chest,
this is
♫ Here there's no loss
♫ Pirates can't steal
♫ What's in your heart
- I love books.
- Well, there you go then,
laddy.
Read it and reap.
- But what about the pirates?
- They're gonna love this book.
- But I--
- No no no no no, no buts about
it.
I'm telling you,
you have no idea what
they're gonna do to you.
All right.
I'll see you later.
Goodbye, laddy.
Read it and reap, laddy!
- I hope this works.
(seagulls cawing)
- There he is, captain!
There he is!
- Where?
- Three branch off the starboard
bow!
- Quick, mates, throw him a
line.
Reel him in, mates.
Reel him in.
(laughs)
Welcome back, laddy.
Welcome back.
We didn't think you were going
to make it.
How'd you stay down that long?
- Well, it was...
It was very interesting.
There was a mermaid, and I met
Davy Jones.
(laughing)
- Excellent, excellent, yes,
laddy.
That's very good.
Oh, Davy Jones, yeah.
Get him an aspirin, he's
suffering from the bent.
The deep sea sickness.
A light touched.
Now, about the treasure, laddy.
- Oh, yes, the treasure.
Yes, I got the treasure, and
it's...
- Well where is it, laddy?
Where is it?
- The treasure?
It's...
Why, it's down below.
- Down below?
- It was, then I brought the
treasure up.
- Oh, I knew he could do
it, I knew he could do it.
That's my lad, that's my lad.
I knew you wouldn't let us down.
Well, let's see it, laddy.
Let's see what you've got.
- Here it is, sir.
- What's this?
- Well, it's a book.
- Oh.
(laughing)
He hid it in the book.
Good one, laddy.
It's in the book, it's in the
book,
he hid it in the book.
It's in the book, it's in the
book,
he hid it in the book.
(laughing)
- But captain, captain look,
there's nothing in this book but
pages.
It's all pages.
It's just paper.
- Oh, I knew this wasn't going
to work.
- What?
Just paper?
What kind of a...
(growling)
Laddy, we trusted you,
but all you brought us
was a bleeding book?
(growling)
You traiter.
You'll die for this,
you little rascal you.
- Captain, captain.
- Don't bother me, I'm killing
the kid.
- But captain...
- Don't bother me when I'm
working.
I've got a sword in my
hand, it's dangerous.
You never talk to someone when
he's got a sword in his hand,
someone could get hurt.
- But killing this kid...
- Now don't bother me.
- But it's you in the book.
- What, what am I doing in
there?
- Well, look.
- Why, it is me.
I mean, well, the hair's all
wrong,
but it's me.
- But what does it say, captain?
- What does it say, what does it
say?
- Well, well, it says...
It says...
I don't know what it says.
I can't read.
- Well, I can read, sir.
I can read it to you.
- Well then, tell us,
laddy, what does it say?
- [Pirates] Yeah, what's it say?
- It says right here,
this is Captain Horatio
Cornelius Barnacle.
- Why, it's my
great-great-great-granddaddy,
the greatest pirate of them all.
(laughs)
What is this book, laddy?
- Why, it's the Who's Who in
Piracy.
- Oh.
Now that makes me feel rich.
And to think, my
great-granddaddy
is in the Who's Who in Piracy.
- It says born 1760, died 1815.
Captain Horatio Cornelius
Barnacle
was really a kind of minor
player in the pirate game,
and he was also associated
with such other crooks
as Blue Beard,
Green Beard,
Black Beard,
Purple Beard...
(laughing)
- It makes a man feel rich
to know that his ancestors
had been recognized for the
greatness that they'd done.
The ships they sunk, the
pillaging, the plunder,
the lives they've ruined,
the treasure that they...
The treasure.
(grunts)
But that's why we're here.
And who's going to get the
treasure, Joey, my lad?
- But I just came out of the
sea.
- Just again laddy, think
of this as a sea-quel.
(laughing)
- But, are you sure you want me
to--
- Leave that book here.
- You know, I might not come
back up,
and then you'd have no one to
read--
Nevermind!
(splashes)
Mr. Jones, Mr. Jones.
- Ah, my boy.
Taking a liking to this, are
you?
Well I can't keep you breathing
down here forever, you know.
- But Mr. Jones, sir, the book.
- Ah, they liked the book, did
they?
- They liked the book,
but they want the gold.
- The gold, eh?
If you give a man a doubloon,
he'll spend the doubloon.
But if you teach him how to find
gold,
he'll be rich forever.
Here, laddy.
Take them this book.
This'll make them happy.
- Huh?
How to find buried treasure?
- You give a man a loaf of
bread, you feed him for a day.
But you teach him how to fish,
and he'll be fat forever.
Read it and reap, laddy.
Read it and reap.
- Why do I feel I've been
through this?
(playing accordion)
- I'm back.
- Ah, laddy.
Did you get the gold?
- No, no, but I got this book
that teaches you how to find
gold,
and Davy Jones said that
if you find the gold,
you'll be fat, I mean,
if you have the fish,
if you teach a fish how to
swim, they'll be fat forever.
(growls)
- Are you calling me a fat fish?
- Nevermind!
(splashes)
- Not bad.
- Fancy diver.
- Much improved.
(sighs)
- I've been waiting for you,
laddy.
- Ain't that the truth.
Give them a claw, and they
want the whole lobster.
- It always comes to this,
doesn't it?
- Always has.
Always will.
- I can't do this again.
I come up there with
another book, I'm dead.
They'll kill me.
If I can't go back up with the
gold,
I can't go back up.
I'll have to live here with you.
And Oceana.
That wouldn't be so bad.
- No, Joey.
This is not your world.
- But--
- Pirates are pirates, my lad.
I've given them a chance
to redeem themselves,
but ah well, if it's the gold
they want,
then it's the gold they shall
have.
Take it to them, laddy.
It's theirs.
- The cares of the day
just seem to float away
when I bathe in gold.
If we could only package this
stuff, we'd make a fortune.
- But captain, you're
sitting in a fortune.
- Ah, but you can never have too
much.
Remember, mateys, nothing
exceeds like excess.
(laughing)
- Oh boy.
- My towel please, Pegleg.
- Here you are, captain.
- Thank you.
- It's my pleasure.
(laughs)
- It was a wonderful experience.
But now, there's work to be
done.
- Wait wait wait.
- No no no.
No no no no no, captain, no.
No work gets done before we get
our gold.
- Here here.
- Ah, but mateys.
Look.
There's more than enough for
everyone.
- Then let's get our more than
enough.
- I want my cut.
- I want my share of more than
enough.
- How much would my share of
more than enough be, captain?
- Well, let's see.
There's more than enough,
divided by the captain's share,
which comes out to be a
little bit less than, well...
Something.
Bah.
- But captain, you said there'd
be
more than enough for everyone.
How come I'm winding up
with a little bit less than
something?
- Because everyone winds up
with a little bit less than
something.
And then you die.
And besides, I'm the captain,
matey,
and you're something else.
And if you're something else,
then anything that you would
have on you would be less.
(laughs)
- Oh.
♫ Less than that
- [Pegleg] Watch out below!
♫ That gold, sir, give me that
gold
♫ I want it, you want it, we
want it
♫ Nothing's just like gold
♫ You'd be strobed, sir, minute
and row
♫ Beautiful, beautiful,
beautiful
bags of gold, gold, gold
♫ Deciding, dividing up each
share
♫ Deciding, dividing, let's be
fair
♫ Look at these coins
♫ Shine, glitter, and flash
♫ Always something warm in
a swarm of cold hard cash
♫ Jingle and clink,
♫ Boys, jingle and clank
♫ Listen and behold,
such a mountain of gold
♫ And walk the plank
♫ Deciding, dividing up each
share
♫ Deciding, dividing, let's be
fair
♫ Dividing, deciding, lots of
gold
♫ Give me that, give me that,
give me that, give me that
♫ Give me that, give me
that, give me that...
♫ Gold
- [Shantyman] I can't move.
- [Barnacle] Of course you can't
move.
Pick the gold out of your
pockets.
- Well, I'm not going to do
that.
I've got the gold.
Why would I give up the gold?
- Because you can't move.
- Well, there's got to be a--
- This isn't any fun.
I've got all this gold,
and I can't do anything.
- I thought being rich would be
fun.
I'm just sitting here in the hot
sun
on the deck of this darn ship,
and I can't do nothing,
I can't go nowhere,
I can't move, nothing.
- Yeah, but you're rich.
- My pockets are full,
but my heart is empty.
What can I do to fill up my
heart?
- I don't understand this.
It wasn't two hours
ago we were all up here
and we were happy.
And now we're filthy
rich, and we're miserable.
Well, what were we doing?
- Joey was reading us a story.
- Uh oh.
- Joey can read us a story,
we'd be rich and we'd be happy.
- [Pirates] Read us a story,
Joey.
- This is Who's Who in Piracy.
- Oh, not that one, we've heard
that one.
(groans)
- But this is the only book I've
got.
- What we need is, we need
books.
- Lots of books,
enough books so we never have
to hear the same story twice.
- Books, books, books,
books, books, books, books.
- Joey.
Your job is clear.
- But I just--
- Just again, laddy.
- I'm going, I'm going.
Just never happy, more more
more,
they want the gold, you get them
the gold,
now they want the books,
it's like these guys are never
satisfied.
And tell you, what's it gonna be
next?
- Joey.
- Don't.
Even.
Think about it.
(yelling)
(splashes)
- Books.
- Books?
Oh, they took my gold, and
now they want my books?
They've got all the riches in
the world.
- But it hasn't made them happy.
- Well I can't make them happy,
laddy.
They have to learn to do that
themselves.
- But there must be something we
can do.
I mean, there must be
some way to work this out.
If I go up there empty-handed,
that's it, I'm finished.
- Ah.
But you know, I might have a
thought.
- You do?
I mean, you might?
- A proposition, you might say.
- A proposition?
- Aye.
Perhaps even a golden
proposition.
(giggles)
- Gold?
Gold, for books?
Why, that's piracy.
- Yeah.
And who would know more
about that than you, captain?
- Shut up, you.
Don't interrupt me while I'm
extolling.
This is the most cutthroated
thing
I've ever heard in all my days,
since the lass and the
cutthroat.
I will not have others do unto
me
as I do unto them.
I'm the pirate in this thing.
Has he no ethics?
Can you imagine?
This guy's as bad as a bank.
He wants us to throw over our
gold in exchange for books.
Well, we know what the
answer to that will be,
don't we mateys?
- I want my books.
- Me too, I want my books.
- But you can't, we've agreed.
- Well, they could always send
away
for a correspondence course.
- A what?
- A correspondence course.
Where you send away, and
they send you lessons,
and you can learn how to read.
- Argh.
Are we gonna let this
lily-livered codfish,
this geriatric undersea
pumpkinhead,
this tyrannical pirateer push us
around?
And take our gold?
What's it going to be, men?
Are we pirates, or are we
bookworms?
Ah, I knew you'd go along with
me, men.
What are you doing?
- Look, I can make it skip.
- All right, mates.
Let her rip!
- Now look what you've done.
- Joey.
Read us a story, lad.
Please, read us a story.
(groans)
- The damage is done, my boy.
The damage is done.
- Okay.
- Ah, the lad's going
to read to us, mates.
Oh, get out of my way.
- I can't see.
- Shantyman, get off of my head.
- Hey, I was here first.
- No, I was.
- No, I was.
- No, I was.
- [Twin] No, I was.
- Ow.
- Ow.
- That's using the old peg.
(clears throat)
(shushing)
- I want to hear the story.
- The name of this book
is Treasure Island,
by Robert Louis Stevenson.
This is a story about pirates
in search for treasure.
- Lived it.
- Been there.
- Done that.
- It's about a kid who becomes
the owner of a treasure map
that leads them to a
fortune in stolen gold?
- Yeah.
- Mates.
- What?
- There's a storm coming
in from the southeast.
- Aww.
(thunder crashes)
- Man the mizzenmast.
Tuck the sails.
Back the yacht,
and put a pot of coffee on the
heat.
You know about addition and
subtraction
and all those things now, don't
you?
- Huh?
- Well lad, come with me,
because I have to go down
below and count my gold,
I mean, tally my lobsters.
- You mean, we're leaving?
I've got to say goodbye to
Oceana.
- Who's Oceana?
- Well, she's the mermaid.
- Oh, yes, yes.
No no, lad, I'm sorry,
there's no time, we've got to
set sail.
We're sitting ducks in this
lagoon.
- I have to say goodbye to
Oceana.
We wouldn't have any of
this if it weren't for her.
- Laddy, I'm sorry.
- I've got to say--
- But laddy, we can't wait!
- Oceana.
Oceana.
Oceana.
Oceana.
- Joe.
- I thought I would never see
you again.
- I'm here, Joe.
- Oceana, there's a
horrible storm up above.
The pirates have to leave,
and I have to leave with them.
But I couldn't go without
saying goodbye to you.
- I'll miss you, Joe.
- I'll miss you too, Oceana.
I don't want to leave.
- But you must.
- Couldn't you come back with
me?
- I don't think so, Joe.
The sea is my home.
- But I don't want to say
goodbye.
- Nor do I.
But we must.
♫ Have some faith we'll meet
again
♫ When, Oceana, tell me when
♫ When your eyes open
♫ And the spell is broken
♫ Thanks to you I've learned the
key
♫ Books, yes do tell them all
for me
♫ Make it well spoken
♫ So the spell is broken
♫ What will we do without him?
♫ We used to rob and steal gold
♫ He taught us all what's real
gold
♫ He can barely swim
♫ We mustn't go without him
♫ He brought us up the knowledge
♫ I'm going back to college
♫ And all this thanks to him
♫ Have faith our paths will
cross
♫ You said that here I'd feel no
loss
♫ Sir, we mustn't lose him
♫ Let's teach how to love like
this
♫ Feeling how much there is to
miss
♫ Go now please
♫ I'll try, I'll try
♫ No, that's the ocean in my eye
♫ We'll talk more, dear Joey
♫ When you're awake
Now go, before it's too late.
- All hands, prepare to
raise anchor and make sail.
We've got to warn the boy.
(clinking)
- They're signaling you, Joe.
You must leave now.
You haven't any time left.
- I won't leave you, Oceana.
I won't.
I won't, I...
- Oh no, the spell.
The spell that enabled
you to exist in our world
is wearing off.
You must leave, Joe, you must.
Or you'll drown.
Goodbye, Joe.
Goodbye.
I'll never forget you.
- [Barnacle] Got you, laddy.
- Oceana.
- [Barnacle] I got you.
- Oceana.
Anna.
Anna.
Anna.
- [Anna] I'm here, Joe.
I'm here.
- [Joey] We made it.
- [Anna] Who did, Joey?
- All those books.
- Are you all right?
- Huh?
Anna.
What are you doing here?
- Are you okay, son?
- The letter.
Dad, I didn't mail the letter.
I'm sorry, I let you down.
- That's okay, son.
You didn't let me down.
The riches of my family
are worth more to me
than all the gold in the world.
- Gold!
Dad!
I know where there's all
the gold in the world!
- Son, why don't we go
upstairs so you can lie down
and get some rest.
- You've taken a terrible fall.
- Oh, I'm fine, Mom.
Honest.
- Well, I'd better get going.
- Anna, can I call you later?
- Sure.
Bye.
- What do you say, son?
- Okay, Dad.
- [Mom] What's this, dear?
- Oh.
That's the book that Anna gave
me.
- Why don't you read it, dear?
And maybe it'll help you fall
asleep.
- I love you, Mom.
I love you, Dad.
- We love you too, son.
- Davy Jones' Locker.
Dear Joey, don't ever
let go of your dreams.
Love, Anna.
Once upon a time, long, long
ago,
there lived a pirate king under
the sea
whose name was Davy Jones.
Davy was the richest of
kings, not only for his gold,
but for all his golden books as
well,
which he treasured more
than all the possessions
in the world.
When he read his books,
(yawns)
Davy could imagine all the
places he'd never been,
and this made him happier than
all the gold in the world.
(serene music)
♫ Open me, here look, Guinevere
♫ And all her knights in all of
their gear
♫ Page after page, it's
here on these pages
♫ Oh what a joy to read
♫ I tell a tale of men who sail
♫ In mad pursuit of a great
white whale
♫ I make models floating in
bottles
♫ Oh what a joy to read
♫ Open me there and hold your
chair
♫ I'm dropping you in Trafalgar
Square
♫ Where's Kathmandu?
♫ Page 72
♫ Oh, the boy can read
♫ When you hook your fingers on
a book
♫ Before your hand is curled
♫ Halfway around the world
♫ Books are the key,
♫ The treasure's your heart
♫ That's not the treasure chest,
this is
♫ Here there's no loss
♫ Pirates can't steal
♫ What's in your heart
♫ What will we do without him
♫ We used to rob and steal gold
♫ He taught us all what's real
gold
♫ He can barely swim
♫ We mustn't go without him
♫ He brought us up the knowledge
♫ I'm going back to college
♫ And all this thanks to him
♫ Have faith our paths will
cross
♫ You said that here I'd feel no
loss
♫ Sir we mustn't lose him
♫ Let's teach how to love like
this
♫ Feeling how much there is to
miss
♫ Sir we're not to miss him
♫ Go now please
♫ I'll try, I'll try
♫ No, that's the ocean in my eye
♫ We'll talk more, dear Joey
♫ When you're awake
- [Joe] People often ask if
a marionette is a puppet.
And the answer of course is yes.
They're just puppets with
strings.
The puppeteers work from above,
as you can see, on
platforms we call bridges.
While making Davy Jones'
Locker, we had as many
as eight puppeteers
operating at any one time.
Well, now you can see
how we did the water.
A very thin material known as
China silk,
and a couple of fans
blowing from underneath.
Some of the best effects
are not always high tech.
The picture is shot to
what is called playback.
The soundtrack is recorded
first,
and the puppeteers work
to what they're hearing.
♫ I'm Barnacle the buccaneer
from the time the sun has risen
♫ I work to see the riggin's
rigged
- [Joe] We keep the camera
moving as much as possible.
Marionettes are wonderful, you
know,
but they really can't do a
whole lot for themselves.
One of the things you
have to help them with
is a sense of flow and movement.
The camera goes a long way
in making that possible,
and becomes as much a character
in a way
as the characters themselves.
That fellow on the left there
is our assistant camera man
and he makes sure everything is
in focus.
Now this is called a subjective
shot,
where the camera booms up and
takes Joey's point of view.
The camera here, in a sense, is
Joey.
The underwater effect is
created by a translucent screen
lit from behind and the
ships hull is actually
a small model glued to the
screen.
Even that point of view
shot where Joey goes down
to Davey's place, well that's a
model,
no bigger than a bread box.
And that's Peter Baird
manipulating
our miniature pirate ship with a
magnet.
The model here is only
three and half inches long.
- [Man] Did you unplug the
coffee maker?
- [Man] I don't know.
- [Man] You don't know if you
did or not?
- [Man] I'm not sure, did you?
- [Man] Well why don't
you know? You never know.
- [Man] I'm asking you a simple
question.
- [Man] I plugged it in...
- [Joe] You'll notice
that Devey's seahorses
are marionettes that are being
manipulated
from below as well as above.
In this scene, we had a total
of five puppeteers operating.
- I give my horsies a drink.
And watch out!
The last time you dented the...
(mumbling)
- [Joe] That TV monitor I'm
looking at as we're shooting
the scene shows me exactly
what the camera is filming.
That's known as a video tap.
And that's what's known as
a very frustrated director.
You'll notice the puppeteers
have to watch what's going on
below and at the same time,
watch what the camera is
filming.
Their eyes have to be in
two places at one time.
It's a tricky business.
- King that lives under the sea?
But that's just a myth.
- [Joe] And again that camera
moving back
adds motion to a static scene.
The woman sitting on my left
is our script supervisor.
Now, she keeps track of
all the shots we've done
and the ones that remain.
She also has to remember where
the characters were standing,
who was doing what,
what they were wearing,
what they were holding,
who was looking at who.
It helps to have a great memory.
Especially since the scenes
are filmed out of sequence.
The one thing about puppets, you
know,
they don't remember anything.
If you're wondering why we
have Davey walking on boxes,
it's to raise him up.
That's so we can see the
wall hangings behind him.
And there's Mr. Jones getting
himself lit.
That black card is known as
a flag and flags are used
to block light or direct
light to specific areas.
No, this is not Gulliver's
Travels,
that's Peter adjusting a string
on one of the dancing books.
In fact, the sets, the
props are not only built
to scale of marionettes in mind,
even the walls of the
sets, as you can see here,
are easily removable.
And that's how the camera
can actually get into
the pirates cabin and boom
up behind the character
or even get closer to a
character.
You have to create an atmosphere
in order to life them.
So we used the smoke machine
and that helped give the
library a warm magical glow.
- [Man] Smoke is up!
- [Joe] We generally rehearse
and block a scene before we
shoot it.
Here's Davey and Joey and the
puppeteers
going through their paces.
And there's a director
who's telling his actors
to go back and do it again.
- [Child] Just a book?
- Just a book!
This is a magic carpet to take
you wherever you want to go.
It's a tool.
- [Joe] Our piano player
Slugger Ryan is actually a
(mumbles)
and he takes two puppeteers
to operate from underneath.
While watching the monitor,
one puppeteer manipulates
the hands and arms,
while the other animates
his body and mouth.
You know, I have to admit,
Slugger is my favorite Baird
puppet
and has been since my childhood.
I have a feeling you'll
be seeing him again.
♫ It's Mr. Davey Jones.