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* So, is Angelica really the Blackbeard's daughter or not? The film didn't make it clear enough to me.
** Yes, she is. She was willing to die for him, remember? If she wasn't his daughter, why would she do that?
*** If she believes she is. That she believes she is doesn't prove she is.
** It's teased near the beginning that she's not, but for the bulk of their interactions it's made pretty clear that, at the very least, she believes it and he believes it. I suppose it's possible that she's not, but from what I took out of it Blackbeard and Angelica are indeed father and daughter.
** We know that Angelica sincerely believes that Blackbeard is her father. Blackbeard either believes or doesn't, either interpretation is supported. She may or may not actually be his daughter, again either interpretation is supported. Without some magical 18th-century equivalent of a DNA test, there's no way to know for sure. However, whether she is or isn't is ultimately irrelevant to the story. All that's really required for the story to function is that she believe it, and she clearly does. Whether Blackbeard does or not is also irrelevant... either he's evil enough to sacrifice his own daughter, or he's evil enough to play on some poor girl's belief to get her to sacrifice herself for him, and both are entirely in keeping with his character.
* If Davy Jones wanted his heart-chest safe from mortals, why not just bury it deep underwater where nobody could possibly get it (with the technology of the time, that is)? Or at least under something more secure than two feet of sand and a box full of old papers.
** Ah, but was Jones really hiding the chest from his enemies, or was he putting the heart in a place where ''he'' wouldn't have to deal with it? Remember, this is the man (er, squid) who called his heart "that infernal thing", and his motive for tearing it out in the first place wasn't to make himself immortal, but to make himself unable to feel.
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