The movie opens on a churning monsoon. Captain Thomas Ashworth (played with grizzled weariness by a pre- Casino Royale Daniel Craig) is being drummed out of the Royal Navy. His crime? Refusing to fire on a sinking pirate skiff full of women and children. His punishment: a rotting sloop, a crew of convicts, and a mission to chart the "empty" waters of the Sunda.
The Last Galleon of the Sunda Sea
But the Sunda aren’t empty.
One night, his ship is boarded not by screaming savages, but by silent ghosts. A dozen figures in indigo-dyed silk drop from the rigging. At their head: Raya Malikai (Michelle Yeoh, in a career-best "why didn’t she get an Oscar?" performance). She doesn't brandish a cutlass. She simply walks up to Ashworth, presses a keris dagger to his throat, and whispers, "You sank my father's flag. Now you’ll help me raise it."
Here’s a good short story inspired by the idea of a fictional pirates movie from 2005. pirates movie 2005
It was 2005. Pirates weren’t cool yet. Not really. Then The Last Galleon of the Sunda Sea hit theaters—and vanished. It wasn’t a blockbuster. It wasn’t even a hit. But for those who caught it on the bottom shelf of Blockbuster, wedged between Cutthroat Island and The Master of Ballantrae , it was magic.
Ashworth and Raya are trapped in a mangrove swamp, their captured pinnace stuck in mud. Thorne’s frigate is closing in. Raya takes off her coat, ties a rope to a harpoon, and spears a passing crocodile. As the reptile thrashes, she says, "In my village, we call this riding the tempak ." Ashworth stares. "That's insane." She smiles—the first time she's smiled in the whole movie. "Yes. But he won't expect it." They are dragged through muck and shallow water, the frigate overshooting them by half a mile. It’s absurd, brilliant, and utterly believable. The movie opens on a churning monsoon
They sail off on a patched-together junk. No sequel was ever made. But on DVD forums in 2006, fans wrote hundreds of pages of fan-fiction. And if you listen closely, you can still hear them arguing: Who would win in a fight—Jack Sparrow or Raya Malikai?