The film’s Will Turner is the perfect inversion of the historical reality. He starts as an honest blacksmith (lawful, land-based) and is reluctantly dragged into piracy. His father, “Bootstrap” Bill, is a nod to the real pirate “Bootstrap” (a nickname for a real sailor, though not named Turner).
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However, there a notable William Turner who lived in the maritime world of the 1600s—but he was on the opposite side of the law. The film’s Will Turner is the perfect inversion