One reason Dead Man's Chest works so well is that the stakes are personal. Jack Sparrow is trying to avoid the locker. Elizabeth might lose Will. The world is not ending and that makes the story feel bigger in the right ways.
Modern blockbusters often chase world ending stakes, but Pirates focused on the characters instead.
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