Corrected entry: At the beginning of the film, on board the ship which discovers young Will Turner, Governor Swann is wearing a suit/costume that more than resembles that of Captain Hook's from the Disney made Peter Pan movie. Even his hair is almost the same.
Corrected entry: There are many times when the moonlight is shining on the chest. But Barbossa never becomes a skeleton.
Correction: The cave has various holes leading to the outside, some relatively small, leading to a rather narrow shaft of light. As only direct moonlight causes the shift to their skeletal form, it would be entirely possible for a cursed individual to stand very close to one of these shafts and remain human in appearance.
Corrected entry: When Elizabeth is dining with Barbossa she is first formally eating and cutting her food. When Barbossa says that she must be hungry, Elizabeth puts down the knife. When she picks it up again before stabbing Barbossa, the knife is clean with no sign of use even though she didn't wipe it.
Correction: This isn't necessarily impossible. I've done it myself just this past month at Thanksgiving, and seen it done. Also, it could simply be the angle of the knife to the light- we simply dont see any stains on it, if there are any.
Corrected entry: When Jack and Elizabeth are being marooned, Jack dives off the plank wearing his boots. When he wades ashore, he is barefoot and is carrying only his sword and pistol, not his boots. He remains barefoot throughout the stay on the island. But after he and Elizabeth are rescued, his boots mysteriously reappear.
Correction: Jack's boots are in fact visible as he walks out of the water behind Elizabeth, in the shot just before he says, "That's the second time I've had to watch that man sail away on my ship," look closely at the bottom of the screen. When Elizabeth chases after him saying, "But you were marooned on this island before." time has passed and he is not wearing his wet vest either. His boots are also seen that evening, hanging upside down (drying), as they sing and dance around the fire.
Corrected entry: When Elizabeth climbs onto the Black Pearl and sees Captain Barbossa for the first time, the monkey flies onto his shoulder. The wire connected to the back of the monkey's jacket is visible. (00:36:25)
Correction: At no point in this shot is any kind of wire seen at monkey Jack's back. At the start of the shot, the monkey is behind the Pearl's wheel, as he holds the line, and then swings to Barbossa. As he approaches Barbossa he reaches out with his left hand, grabs hold of Barbossa's shoulder and when he lands there he lets go of the line, which begins to swing back.
Corrected entry: When the Pearl is chasing after the Intercepter to retrieve the gold medallion, the Interceptor drops its anchor into the water. As it catches and the ship suddenly dips forward the back of the ship is shown. The rear of the ship emerges from the water and you can see the propeller on the back of the ship spinning out of the water and splashing.
Correction: When Interceptor's stern is visible, it is the rudder that creates the intense splashing - there is no propeller seen at her stern.
Corrected entry: When Will says, "You ignored the rules of engagement. In a fair fight, I'd have killed you," none of the words match his mouth.
Correction: Every syllable that is spoken by Will matches that line.
Corrected entry: In the fight scene between Jack and Barbossa near the end of the movie (just after Jack has found out he was cursed). There is a moment when Jack slashes at Barbossa's back with his sword and for a fraction of a second in the top left corner of the screen in the background; you can see the outlines/silhouettes of two crew members leaning on some scaffolding watching the fight.
Corrected entry: As Elizabeth falls into the sea, Jack is talking to the two military guards, obviously just finishing a fascinating story, with "...and they made me their chief." This is one of the (discernible) lines spoken by the permanently drunk and incoherent Rowley Birkin QC, Johnny Depp's (Jack) favorite character from "The Fast Show" (1994).
Correction: The line "and they made me their chief" is a line from a monologue by Patrick "Which Was Nice" Nice, not Rowley Birkin. Depp's favourite characters - with whom he appeared - on The Fast Show were the Suits You tailors, not Rowley Birkin. See http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/fastshow/characters/.
Corrected entry: Near the beginning of the film, when Elizabeth falls into the water, the medallion is floating loosely around her neck. However, when Jack grabs her, the medallion has completely gone.
Corrected entry: Throughout the first half of the movie, the number of braids in Jack's "beard" changes from 3 to 2.
Correction: He has two braids throughout the entire movie, but the braids sometimes cast a shadow making it look like there are more than two.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Jack and Elizabeth are marooned on an island, she gets him to have yet another swing of rum. But he falls back while drinking. Although we can hear him fall back, a part of the bottle is still visible at the bottom of the screen. If he had indeed fallen back, the angle and position of the bottle would be different.
Correction: We hear his backside hit the ground as he sits heavily and drunkenly on the sand. His upper torso is still vertical, hence the angle of the bottle.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Captain Jack Sparrow and Will Turner commandeer the Dauntless, and later the Interceptor, Commodore Norrington says to "search every cabin, every hull down to the bilges." As the Dauntless is obviously not a catamaran or a trimaran, it has one hull. So searching "every hull" is impossible.
Correction: Norrington says "every hold", not "every hull".
Corrected entry: When Jack says "and you're completely obsessed with treasure," Will has a lantern in his right hand and his left hand is on the boat, and he's leaning to his left. But in the next shot when they're getting out of the boat, it's reversed. His right hand now is on the boat as he's getting out and his left hand has the lantern. (01:08:35)
Corrected entry: Jack's execution uses a trapdoor-style gallows. This was not invented until the 1800s.
Correction: A form of trap mechanism was used in Britain from as early as 1760; read more here: http://www.richard.clark32.btinternet.co.uk/hanging1.html.
Corrected entry: When Jack is talking with Murtogg and Mullroy, the two then begin to argue amongst themselves, while Jack is in the background sneaking aboard the ship. Mullroy is holding his weapon next to him with the sworded edge, yet when the camera cuts to behind it's nowhere to seen, obviously allowing for the camera. From the front view it's back by his side, it is like this for several shots. (00:12:40)
Correction: Mullroy's bayonet is visible in all shots, it never disappears. In the two shots facing Interceptor Mullroy holds his fixed bayonet beside his head, directly in front of his right shoulder - at the edge of the left side of the screen, just as in the other shots.
Corrected entry: In the opening shot when the camera pans towards to ship, note there is no large plank holding a sail, yet when we see Elizabeth and you look in the background, a plank and sail has suddenly appeared. (00:25:00 - 00:50:00)
Correction: In the opening shot of the film, just as it starts panning in on Dauntless in the foggy mist, the spritsail yard - with its furled spiritsail (the "large plank holding a sail"), IS visible in front of the fore-mast sail, directly above the ship's prominent figurehead, at the top of the screen. Much of the length of the bowspirit - from which the spritsail yard hangs, is blocked from view by the figurehead, as the shot is angled up, however, in the following shots on forward deck the bowspirit is more visible (note the figurehead below it).
Corrected entry: When Elizabeth is in the cave and Barbossa goes to cut her hand, he holds his hand on her hand and turns it over, yet in the following shot, his hand is now on her wrist. (01:09:20)
Correction: After Barbossa slices Elizabeth's palm, in the first shot, he squeezes her hand closed so the blood stained medallion is tightly enclosed within her grasp, and as Barbossa grips her hand he turns her hand so it is palm side down, over the Aztec chest. It cuts to two shots of the pirates hooting and hollering - and we do not see Elizabeth's hand. Then in the fourth shot Barbossa holds Elizabeth's wrist, as he forces her to drop the medallion. There is plenty of time between the first and fourth shot for Barbossa to change his grip.
Corrected entry: Just after Elizabeth threatens to drop the gold coin into the sea, her body's direction changes in subsequent shots from turned at a side to facing the captain of the Black Pearl. (00:38:20)
Corrected entry: In the middle of the film when we see Jack and Will looking over their new crew members, Jack gets to Annamaria, and when the camera looks at the ship it's side on, yet when it cuts back for another view of the ship a few shots later, it's pointing in Jack's direction for a perfect camera shot of the Interceptor. (00:59:55)
Correction: When Jack begins to inspect their able-bodied crew in Tortuga, Interceptor is moored in the distance, on open choppy waters, and it visibly moves on the water. As Anamaria says, "I will!" the ship is seen, and four shots later when Interceptor is seen again, it is only a bit turned starboard as it bounces on the choppy waters in the following shots - it is certainly not "pointing in Jack's direction."
Correction: The costumes are from the same era, so some resemblances are unavoidable, but not the makings of film trivia.
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