As the Boy/Projectionist fell asleep in the booth, his ghostly or transparent doppelganger version of his resting body (via double-exposure) rose from the stool and looked through the viewing hole in the booth's wall at the projected film...a glorified sparring session," but Rocky explained that he only wanted local and "small fights, not big fights.In her shack, the priestess Tia Dalma, with the power to resurrect the dead and see into the future, asked Will, Elizabeth, and Jack'sPearlcrew about what they would do to save Jack: "Would you sail to the ends of the Earth and beyond to fetch back witty Jack and him preciousPearl?"; when they answered affirmatively, she told them: "But if you go and brave the weird and haunted shores at world's end, then you will need a captain who knows those waters" - she called upon resurrected Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) from the first film to assist them - he entered the room and asked: "So tell me, what's become of my ship?", as the film abruptly ended.The much-lauded, powerful and haunting 'buddy' war film, from a screenplay by Deric Washburn, was released in the same year as three other Vietnam War films:Hal Ashby'sComing Home (1978)Sidney Furie'sThe Boys in Company C (1978)Ted Post'sGo Tell the Spartans (1978)There was a flood of films critical of the American involvement in Vietnam following 1975 when the war officially ended - and this film appeared as one of the most controversial.