 The scene in which Barbossa, Elizabeth, and Jack confront the  representatives of the East India Company just prior to the ship  battle is an homage to the "spaghetti western" style of director  Sergio Leone (I) (qv), particularly in the gradual approach and  use of alternating extreme closeups of the characters faces, as  well as the choice of music, which is reminiscent of the Harmonica  theme from _Cera una volta il West (1968)_ (qv).