Corrected entry: When Elizabeth is taken aboard the Black Pearl, she dines with Barbossa. Barbossa explains about the curse, saying that the gods placed a terrible curse upon the treasure of Cortez. He is quoted saying: 'Any MORTAL who takes but a single piece from that stone chest, shall be punished for all eternity.' But, when the moonlight shines on the little monkey, he too is a skeleton. Monkeys aren't mortals, so how can the little fellow be cursed?
Corrected entry: When the crew of the Black Pearl are taking over the boat outside their cave, and one of the crew member's arm is ripped off, it is still in the bone form, even when it is in the cabin of the ship where moonlight cannot reach.
Correction: This has been corrected before, the entire cabin is lit by ambient moonlight.
Corrected entry: In the scene when Captain Barbosa is explaining to Elizabeth about the curse he pours white wine into his glass. After he goes on to the dock and drinks the wine, the wine we see dripping through his skeleton is red.
Correction: He grabs a different wine bottle.
Corrected entry: If Jack is under the curse, then how could he bleed on the coin when he cut his hand and then throws it into the chest?
Corrected entry: When Jack Sparrow dives off the plank of the Black Pearl after his pistol and sword, his hands are tied. Yet when he finds them in the ocean, his hands are untied, and he grabs them with one hand.
Correction: His hands are in fact still tied, and he uses two hands to pick up his belongings.
Corrected entry: In the beginning of the movie, when Elizabeth falls off the cliff because of the tightness of her corset, one of the soldiers remarks about how lucky she was to have missed the rocks. However, at the end of the movie, when Jack Sparrow is giving is farewell speech and jumps off the same area, there are no rocks in the water.
Correction: This could be tidal - the rocks might be completely underwater at high tide, but visible at low tide.
Corrected entry: Elizabeth falls from the edge of the property into the harbor at the beginning of the film. We see this from different angles, including in the distance from behind Jack Sparrow. Once she hits the water, he says to the British guards "Are either one of you going to get her?" All he heard was a splash and did not turn to see the disturbed water until after she fell. How did Sparrow know it was a "her", or a person at all for that matter?
Correction: Just a moment before Norrington shouted "Elizabeth!", so Jack simply had good ear and was smart enough to guess what this splash was.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Elizabeth first finds out about the skeletal remains, she is thrown onto the wheel deck with a pirate who is chasing her, She rotates the wheel rapidly and breaks off the head of the pirate, but the ship never changes course.
Correction: The wheel turns freely, indicating that the linkage has been disconnected (part of the work the pirates were doing?). Anyway, that's why the ship does not change course: the wheel is not connected to the rudder.
Corrected entry: The Pirate Captain dies, falls down, and an apple falls from his left hand. But he was holding a pistol in that hand as he died.
Correction: Barbossa drops both his pistol and sword, the he opens up his jacket to reveal the wound. Since he loved apples so much he probably had an apple in his pocket and tried to take a bite before he died. Furthermore, Barbossa is tossing the apple in his hand as he enters the cave for Will's sacrifice.
Corrected entry: The Commodore sails the smaller ship over to the Dauntless under full sails. He and the guards then board the Dauntless, leaving the smaller ship sitting motionless, with slack lines and a space between the ships, yet still under full sails.
Correction: The sails are turned so they are perpendicular to the wind direction. This is done if a ship needs to go to full sail quickly - just turn the sails to catch the wind, and off you go. There is a name for this, but I can't remember it.
Corrected entry: When they though that Elizabeth was a Turner and they needed her blood, she only got her hand cut. But when Will was about to shed his blood, it was his throat that was going to be cut. What's with the drastic change between the blood getting?
Corrected entry: British ships and ports erroneously fly the modern-day Union flag, a combination of St. George's, St. Andrew's, and St. Patrick's Crosses. In 1602, the Union flag was first developed; it contained the Cross of St. George (a red cross on a white field, representing England) superimposed onto the Cross of St. Andrew (a white X on a blue field, representing Scotland). St. Patrick's Cross (a white X on a red field) wasn't added until 1806.
Correction: The ships and the ports fly the Union Flag as it was from 1707 to 1806 with the cross of St George and St Andrew. St Patrick's cross is a red saltire (diagonal cross) on a white background.
Corrected entry: When Norrington and his men are waiting outside the caves for the pirates to row out, why do they not hear the gunfire from the battle happening on their ship? It is not until one of the dying crew members rings a bell that they notice the gunfire from the ship and row back to join the fight.
Correction: They're near cliffs with waves breaking against them and their eyes are focused on the cave. Anyone who's spent time near the ocean knows that breakers are loud. Even once they notice the gunfire, it's more the flashes than the muted sounds that tell them what's happening. Careless of the soldiers, but plausible.
Corrected entry: If the pirates cannot eat, there is no reason for them to have so much food stocked on their ship unless they want to make themselves suffer even more.
Correction: They want to have plenty of food on hand for when they eventually break the curse.
Corrected entry: When Jack Sparrow dives off the plank of the Black Pearl to retrieve his pistol, he is wearing boots. While he is swimming down, he is bare-footed. When he pushes off on a rock to return to the surface, he has his boots on again.
Correction: If you look closely as he is swimming down to retrieve his pistol, you can see the folded tops of his boots which are lighter than the color of his boots.
Corrected entry: When the Cursed Pirates are invading the Town to retrieve the Aztec Gold from Elizabeth, William runs outside and begins fighting back. He throws what appears to be a small axe into the back of one of the Pirates, then the Pirate stops and falls to the ground motionless. You can only assume that he was dead. However, later on in the film it explains that Pirates under the Curse cannot die, or feel anything for that matter.
Correction: The pirate didn't die. He reappears at least twice. Right before Will is knocked out (when the pirates are leading Elizabeth to the ship), a pirate throws a bomb at him that doesn't explode. Will looks confused when he sees that pirate, because it is the same one he threw his hatchet at. That same pirate is one of the three that Will and Elizabeth kill in the final battle in the cave. As for why he fell over and appeared dead even though the wound wouldn't affect him, maybe he was stunned since he didn't see it coming.
Corrected entry: In the scene where the pirates are raiding the Governor's house and a pirate goes after Elizabeth, she tries to fight back by dumping the hot coals from her bed warmer to burn the pirate. He then says "It burns." Since he is cursed, wouldn't he not be able to feel the heat from the coals?
Correction: It's likely that he did feel the heat from the coals. As has already been mentioned his wooden eye was irritating him a lot making it seem like part of the curse was that they shall never feel pleasure but still feel pain.
Corrected entry: When the pirates start to walk under water to attack the other ship you can see the large black guy in the front line. In the next scene however he is shown to have stayed back at the cave.
Corrected entry: How could Will Turner get out of the ship before it explodes, swim all the way to the Black Pearl, and climb up it in the little amount of time he did it in?
Correction: An indefinite amount of time passes between the barrels of powder being lit and the ship exploding. The Black Pearl had time to sail some distance away and tie up the prisoners, so Will may have had time to swim to the Pearl.
Corrected entry: Throughout the movie the pirates that fell upon the curse change into skeletal form, whilst they are skeletons they still have earrings, this is impossible because the earrings go through the flesh but while as skeletons they have no flesh at all so the earrings shouldn't be there. Instead the ears appeared to be made out of bone with that pierced instead, this can not be true because the ear is made out of cartilage which shouldn't show as its not bone, and even if it is, the part of the ear they have pierced is the fleshy part not the cartilage.
Correction: Many of the pirates still have flesh when they are in moonlight. Geoffrey Rush still has a nose.
Correction: Mortal is any thing that can die. The monkey, just like the pirates, is mortal and would (if the curse had not happened) have died like any other living thing.
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