Dead Man's Chest Narrative Structure

In Pirates of the Caribbean II: Dead Man’s Chest the equilibrium is carried over from the last film where William and Elizabeth have fallen in love and Jack Sparrow has escaped. The equilibrium should continue that Elizabeth and William get married and they live a normal life.

However, the disruption arrives in the form of their arrest on their wedding day for helping Jack to escape. This means they’re going to be put to death. It is also mentioned that Jack Sparrow is also wanted for arrest and so the rest of the film will probably involve them trying to escape the noose whilst Jack tries to evade the authorities.

This follows Todorov’s theory seeing as the equilibrium is disrupted at the start of the film. However, it’s slightly unconventional because the disruption is at the very beginning and the equilibrium was in fact a false equilibrium at the end of the previous film.