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Davy Jones is a fictional villain character in the ''Pirates of the Caribbean'' feature film series, who first appears in the second film, ''Dead Man's Chest'' and returns in the series' third installment, ''At World's End''. He is the captain of the ''Flying Dutchman'' (based on the feared ghost ship of the same name featured in nautical lore), roaming the seas in search of souls to serve upon his vessel for a century. In the story, his original purpose was to carry souls of those who died at sea from this world to the next on his vessel. He was charged with this noble and just duty by his one true love, the sea goddess Calypso. For every ten years at sea he could spend one day on land to be with her. Ten years after first being charged with the duty, Jones prepared to be reunited with his true love, but was heartbroken and enraged when she did not appear. Unable to deal with the sadness of Calypso's betrayal, Jones, through some unknown supernatural means, ripped out his heart and locked it in a chest, burying it on the plague island Isla Cruces. This chest became known as the "Dead Man's Chest", thus becoming the primary object being sought after in the second film. Jones then abandoned his past duties, and instead returned to rule the seas as a tyrant with a damned crew bound by oath to serve aboard the Dutchman for one hundred years each. Because Jones and his crew broke their oath on the Dutchman to ferry lost souls, a curse slowly transformed them into sea monsters as their physical appearances matched the darkness inside of them. The computer-generated imagery used to complete Jones was highly praised, with ''Entertainment Weekly'' naming him as the second most convincing computer generated film character in film history, only behind King Kong from the 2005 film adaptation.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Entertainment Weekly )〕 The work on Davy Jones by Industrial Light and Magic earned them the 2006 Academy Award for Visual Effects for ''Dead Man's Chest''. The character is based on the legendary devil of the seas with the same name, according to superstition among sailors in the 18th and 19th centuries. In contrast to the historical legends, the film's Jones is a tragic villain. However, even though starting off from a sympathetic backstory, his portrayal in the films is cruel and ruthless, with actor Bill Nighy's performance a subject of critical praise as well. ==Conception and creation== Before officially casting Bill Nighy, producers also met with Jim Broadbent, Iain Glen and Richard E. Grant for the role. Like the entire crew of the ''Flying Dutchman'' (except "Bootstrap Bill"), Davy Jones's physical appearance is completely 3-D computer-generated.〔''Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest'', second disc, "Meet Davy Jones"〕 Nighy's performance was recorded using motion capture during actual filming on the set, with Nighy wearing several markers in both a grey suit and his face, rather than in a studio during post-production.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=An interview with Director Gore Verbinski ) 〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Various quotations and references )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=An interview with Bill Nighy )〕 Nighy also wore make-up around his eyes, since the original plan was to use his real eyes, if necessary to get the proper lighting, in the digital character; he also wore make-up on his lips and around his mouth, to assist in the motion capture of his character's Scottish accent.〔 Briefly during the third film, Jones appears as a human for a single scene, played by Nighy in costume. Several reviewers have in fact mistakenly identified Nighy as wearing prosthetic makeup due to the computer-generated character's photorealism.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title= Review by Russ Breimeier )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title= A review by Iloz Zoc )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Davy Jones (Pirates of the Caribbean)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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