Pirates of the Caribbean: Tales of the Code: Wedlocked

Based on the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, Wedlocked featured Scarlett and Giselle in what Byrkit called “a chance for the wenches to have their own wacky moment.”

The story was based on the Pirate Code Book and recalled the original Disneyland ride, primarily the well-known auction scene, while also conceived to be a prequel to the first film,

The Curse of the Black Pearl, explaining just why Jack Sparrow’s boat is seen sinking at the start of the film and why the girls were so upset with him.

Tales of the Code: Wedlocked was shot in late 2006, with sets constructed at Walt Disney Studios that were fresh from shooting the third film, At World’s End.

While working on the feature film as the conceptual consultant for Gore Verbinski’s Pirates trilogy at the time, Jim Byrkit had the notion to make a short film; he envisioned something based on the Pirate Code and began working with writers Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio to develop a script.

In 2011, Disney/Buena Vista announced that the home-video release of the fourth film, On Stranger Tides, would include the “Pirates of the Caribbean Four-Movie Collection,”

a 15-Disc packaging that included Wedlocked as a bonus feature. The set was originally released on October 18, 2011, before becoming more widely available on the Internet later.

The scene dissolves to a shot of Shipwreck City, brimming with lantern lights and docked ships at night.

In an anteroom there is a standing mirror, oval shaped with a wooden frame, where Scarlett looks at her reflection. Lit by candlelight, she sees herself as a vision of beauty while she tries on her bridal veil, until she notices her rival Giselle, also primping on the other of the mirror.

Upon meeting one another, they both reveal that they’re getting ready for the same wedding. Giselle describes her groom as having dreamy eyes and speaking “fancy words with lots of syllables,” while Scarlett says her groom is a cap’n and “men all over the world speak his name.”

By this point, both wenches lift their hands, each displaying identical engagement rings as they simultaneously reveal one name: Jack Sparrow. Scarlett and Giselle’s faces fall as they figure out that Jack deceived the both of them.

Suddenly curtains rise to thundering applause, revealing a roomful of love-starved and lusty pirates, all with hopeful smiles. Behind Scarlett and Giselle are more brides, wenches of various sizes and shapes, some tall and skinny, all wearing wedding gowns.

Both ladies stare out at the pirates, while a lively four-piece pirate band play their instruments. Above the band an “Auction—Take a Wench for a Bride” banner is lifted into place.

Scarlett and Giselle glance around until Oona, an older wench sporting an eyepatch, pops from behind and smiles bright: “It’s the ‘appiest day of a girl’s life.”

A whirlwind of a man appears, known as the Auctioneer, smiling as he presents the wenches, including the bewildered Scarlett and Giselle.

When the two ask of Jack’s whereabouts, the Auctioneer gestures to Giselle, giving her a flower bouquet as the first wench to be bid upon. After an old pirate gives a bid of only five pieces of silver, an insulted Giselle reacts angrily to the bid.

Scarlett mockingly says “Five” as the Auctioneer continues the bidding. Giselle looks at Scarlett, who is smiling come-hither at the pirates, displaying a bit of leg as the auction continues. The Marquis D’avis bids 20 pieces for Scarlett, referring to her as the “redhead”.

Seeing that Scarlett is a very profitable venture, with the bid having gone up to 40, the Auctioneer took the flower bouquet from Giselle and gives it to Scarlett as a Drunk Pirate chants “we wants the redhead!”

Scarlett blows a kiss to the bidding pirates before Giselle “advertises” for the highest bid. She emphasizes her cleavage before striking a pose, in which Nigel bids ten for “the one with the flaxen hair”, but loses when Slurry Gibson bids 50 for the “redhead”.

However, Giselle stated that she was “egre-G-iously” underbid upon, upon Atencio’s bidding fifteen for the “not redhead” while the Drunk Pirate bids 60 for Scarlett. It was then that the Marquis D’avis immediately bid 70 for Scarlett.

Soon, both Scarlett and Giselle shove each other before wrestling, pulling hair, catfighting. The pirates laughed as the two wenches fought one another, the band’s music continued to play as other wenches try to restrain Scarlett, who was biting on Giselle’s leg.

Giselle hits Scarlett repeatedly as her leg was bitten until they both freeze, looking out toward the pirates, who all stare, slack-jawed, enthralled. And then, after a moment, cacophony as the pirate band played another tune.

A clamor of offers was led by the Marquis D’avis, who bid 200 for the pair, while the Auctioneer offered them as a lot. As the men continued with their bids, Scarlett and Giselle react at the upturn before Giselle shoves Scarlett, and they start wrestling again.

A group of poor pirates break a knot of discussion and Atencio steps forward to bid 400, proudly saying they formed a corporation. The Marquis D’avis bid five hundred as Scarlett and Giselle continued fighting, while being restrained by other wenches.

As the bid went up, Atencio’s corporation confers about the Marquis D’avis’ next bids, going up to 617. Joining in, Nigel immediately bidded a goat, which caused Atencio to emphatically add a goat to their bid.

The Marquis D’avis made the final bid of 700 pieces of silver and two goats, which the Auctioneer gladly accepted, while the corporation is deflated.

By this point, Scarlet and Giselle both stopped fighting and are ecstatic; Giselle loved the money, and Scarlett loved that they have goats.

However, the Auctioneer slams wrist shackles on the wenches before correcting them by saying he is rich and has the goats, stating that he owned them in a fair one-hundred percentage. Although the Auctioneer explained,

Scarlett and Giselle insisted they’re not property. The crowd riles at this, with grunts of concern from the room of pirates: “Are the girls for sale or not?” As the pirates pull out their pistols, ready to kill,

the Auctioneer tries to appease, stating he traded them fair and square as per the Pirate Code. The Auctioneer gestures too close to the Code Book for Mungard’s liking, causing him to swat away the Auctioneer’s hand before the imposing,

Stern-faced court guard reminds the pirates that the Code was the law. Mungard draws his pistol in saying “woe to anyone who shows it any disrespect.”

Tensions are high before Giselle cleared her throat to ask the Auctioneer if he owned the stocking that she wore (which she removed, causing hoots from the crowd and the Drunk Pirate not containing his lust) or a song she might sing, both of which the Auctioneer asserted.

After that, Giselle walks up and slaps Mungard full in the face. Angry, Mungard points his pistol at the Auctioneer, who passes the shackle key to Nigel. Mungard follows the key with his pistol, whoever had it was in trouble.

And so the key is foist from Nigel to Atencio, to the Marquis D’avis, who finally tossed the key to the Auctioneer, who again faced Mungard’s pistol. Immediately afterwards, the Drunk Pirate accidentally fired his pistol.

The crowd ducks and yells as Mungard turned around with his pistols. Scarlett and Giselle sneak away while the Auctioneer holds up the Code Book to defend himself while saying this was the doing of one man: Jack Sparrow.

Upon hearing the name Sparrow, Mungard turns around asking “Where?!” before he fires his pistol and shoots straight at the Auctioneer. Wenches then scream as the bullet hits the Code. The Auctioneer, still holding up the Code Book, tumbles back to the ground.

All the pirates, including Mungard, freeze in shock. Pirates step up warily, dreading what they will see, and look down toward the Auctioneer’s body at the Code Book—now with a bullet in it.

The room is filled with hushed murmurs as the pirates are terrified of Mungard’s act of having shot the Code, with one pirate saying “Captain Teague’ll have his head.” Despite this, Mungard takes charge by ordering the pirates to get the Auctioneer taken out of there.

A group of men, including the Auctioneer’s assistant, helped get the Code off of a dazed Auctioneer, who said he had a consignment of Peruvian llamas due in a fortnight.

As the Auctioneer is lifted by the arms, Mungard then ordered the Code to be locked up and warned the crowd of pirates that if any of them speak a word of this, that he would have their tongues.

Every pirate stared at each other until Cotton, and his parrot assured Mungard that “mum’s the word.”

Outside, Scarlett and Giselle made their getaway from Shipwreck Cove, both vowing that the next time they see Jack Sparrow, they’ll be “re-acquainting him” with the palm of her hand.

Scarlett also revealed that she took out four nails that went on Jack’s boat in case he had cold feet on their “wedding”. Jack Sparrow is then seen trying to get water out of his boat.

Meanwhile, the Pirate Code Book was carried towards a chest, by the Auctioneer’s assistant and another pirate. The Code was then closed in the chest.