The beauty of the “I've got a jar of dirt” moment
We can imagine that Johnny Depp was probably given a lot of freedom on the set of the following Pirates of the Caribbean titles, given the enormous success of the first movie of the Pirates series. The scene above confirms our suspicion: The hilarious “I've got a jar of dirt” singsong moment from Dead Man's chest was improvised by him. The reaction he received from the actors around him was authentic. You can see Orlando looking directly into the camera for a split second, expecting the director to say, “cut!”