Why was Mr.Gibbs working on Royal ship?

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In the starting scene of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, when Governer Swann, Norrington and Elizabeth finds the young boy Will turner, Mr. Gibbs is working on that ship. He was talking to Elizabeth, like he knows her from at a least few days.

However, later in the movie , Gibbs is shown to be part of the pirate crew and a friend of Jack Sparrow.

What he was is doing on the Royal ship at that point of time?



Best Answer

Following dialogue happened between Ex(pelled)-Commodore Norrington and Mr. Gibbs in Dead Man's Chest when former approaches to sign aboard Black Pearl to latter. Duration is 01:08:26 --> 01:08:36

Gibbs: And what's your story?

Norrington: My story.

Norrington: It's exactly the same as your story, just one chapter behind.

From this we can infer that at some point Mr. Gibbs got involved with pirates in unlawful manner and got expelled from Royal Navy. After which he chose to be with pirates. Whereas Norrington was still sober enough hence one chapter behind.




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Why was Gibbs on the ship?

Gibbs was particularly unhappy to find all the rum gone during the voyage, and joined his captain in rocking the ship to escape the Locker.

Why did Mr. Gibbs become a pirate?

1 Answer. Show activity on this post. At some point in Jack Sparrow's teenage years, Jack and his father Edward Teague were captured by the Royal Navy. Gibbs, being friends with Teague, secretly helped them to escape their cells, being able to do this only because he was a sailor in the Royal Navy.

What happened joshamee Gibbs?

Ending up in London, Gibbs is arrested and is wrongly accused as Jack Sparrow. The real Jack Sparrow, posing a judge, comes to his friend's aid and gives him a life sentence instead of the expected death penalty so to get answers about the impostor posing as Jack to gather a crew.

What is Mr. Gibbs first name?

Joshamee Gibbs (often referred to as Mr. Gibbs or Master Gibbs) is a fictional character in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series. Alongside Jack Sparrow and Hector Barbossa, he is one of the few characters to appear in every film. Gibbs is portrayed by Kevin McNally in the films.



Mr.Gibbs Will Turner'a Jack Sparrow'un adadan nasıl kurtulduğunu anlatıyor| Jack'in kaçış hikayesi




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Answer 2

There was gap of eight years in between the opening scene and the rest of the movie. The most probable explanation is that Mr Gibbs was an honest sailor who befriended Jack Sparrow and turned to piracy for reasons unexplained in the intervening period of time.

Also worth noting that being a pirate wasn't always a black and white matter. Sometimes privateer vessels (authorized by their home nation to attack and claim ships of enemy nations) ended up being declared pirates because the laws and/or political landscape changed while they were at sea.

Nothing like that is suggested regarding Mr Gibbs in the movie, of course, but the point is there are lots of reasons why a man who engages in the pirate lifestyle might find himself serving on a legitimate naval vessel.

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