The genre was all but dead when Disney adapted one of their theme park rides into a movie, breathing new life into it. So why is the jolly swashbuckler character still pervasive in popular imagination? Well, the widespread romanticising of pirates can be traced back to the popularity of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, which spawned a genre of pirate novels, which were later made into pirate movies, which in turn gave rise to comic books and Halloween costumes. Pirates were (and still are) violent, desperate thieves who terrorised the high seas. Let’s be real, they’re family films, and the real-life antics of pirates is far, far from PG certificate family fare. And anyone looking to the movies for historical accuracy will be sorely disappointed.įilms often take creative license to deviate from historical fact, and the Pirates of the Caribbean movies are no exception. What we think we know about these sea dogs comes mostly from literature and Hollywood - the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, most recently. We all know that pirates were loveable rogues with pet parrots, a thirst for adventure, and a penchant for cheeky colloquialisms like “Ahoy, me hearties,” right? Well, not quite.
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