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(SPOILER ALERT: stop readingif you haven't seen Dead Men Tell No Tales).

It isn't all Captain Jack Sparrow-inspiredlaughs from Johnny Deppin Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Men Tell No Tales.

The fifth film in the Pirates franchise features the emotional death of a key, belovedcharacter (even if he was often bad).

Captain Hector Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush), who has appeared as a villain in all five Pirates films,dramatically jumps to hisdeath to take out theclimbing pursuit of Captain Salazar(Javier Bardem).

Barbossa's plunge pulls downSalazar, who was about to kill adventurer/astronomer Carina Smyth(Kaya Scodelario).Smyth was revealed to beBarbossa's estranged daughter earlier.

So Barbossa's decisionto sacrifice his own life was a full-turn from the untrustworthy, ultimate-survivor who plagued Sparrow throughoutthe franchise. It camecomplete with Barbossa'shands-open fall in slowmotion while looking at his saved daughter.

Geoffrey Rush as, left, and Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow in 'Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.'(Photo: Disney)

"For Barbossa, we really wanted a strong emotional core to give him a great story arc like that,"says Joachim Rnning,who directed Dead Men Tell No Tales withEspen Sandberg."We fought hard for that ending. Its the fathers story. Were both dads. And we can totally relateto that."

As for the hands-open fall,Rnning says it's less Jesus savior symbol, more Die Hard.

"I would say it was more Hans Gruber," saysRnningof the famed demise of that Die Hard villain played by Alan Rickman.

As for whether this is the end of the line for Barbossa, hold off on wagering your pirate's fortune. While this death had a sign of finality, Barbossawas killed by Jack Sparrow in the first film, 2003'sPirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl and resurrected in 2006'sPirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.

"He's been dead before," says Sandberg.

Bill Nighy as Davy Jones.(Photo: Disney)

What's up with the post-credits scene?

After the final credit rolled, a scene featured a newly reunited husband and wife, Elizabeth Turner (Keira Knightley) and Will Turner (Orlando Bloom).The two are sleeping blissfully in their home after being reunited at movie's end following the removal ofWill's wretched curse of The Flying Dutchman.

But Turner is awakened by the shadow of someone approaching and the site of a strange clawed hand. That can only be the left hand of Davy Jones(Bill Nighy)whom Turner killed with a knife to the heartat the end of 2007'sPirates of the Caribbean: The World's End.

Turner awakens from what appears to be a bad dream, and all seems normal except for barnacles under the bed.

Rnning confirms that the image was of Davy Jones and the scene paysrespect to "a legendary villain in the franchise."

But the end scene suggests that Knightley (who was brought onto the movie late in the process by popular demand) and Bloom's characters might have further adventures with their seemingly resurrected arch-nemesis with whom they tangled in the second and third Pirates.

"It's a little tease. We just wanted to throw in a hint that this might not be the end,"Sandberg says. "But the beginning of the end."

"Or was it all just a dream or a nightmare?" saysRnning.

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