Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Corrected entry: When Barbosa is outside on the deck talking to Elizabeth, his hat is shading his forehead and his eyes from the moonlight, so they should be shown as normal human flesh, not skeleton.

Correction: His hat and the rest of his clothes are part of the curse as they are all shown rotting.

Sol Parker

Corrected entry: After Elizabeth's dream scene, she gets up and opens the drawer of her bedside table to get the medallion out. She takes out a false bottom to reach it, and the real bottom holding the medallion is full of dust. It shouldn't be dusty with the fake one over it.

Correction: Unless the false bottom was absolutely 100 percent airtight (unlikely), dust would find a way to get in anyway. Ask any housekeeper who has to take care of seldom-used items in drawers.

Phil C.

Correction: Because Will's father originally GAVE him the medallion -- Will didn't take it from the hoard with the intention of keeping it. Captain Jack Sparrow, by contrast, couldn't resist taking one from the chest for himself (or does it deliberately to protect himself) and winds up under the influence of the curse because of it.

Phil C.

Corrected entry: Port Royal, Jamaica, is built on a low spit of sand south of Kingston Harbor, nowhere more than about ten feet above sea level. The movie set has it built atop hundred-foot basaltic cliffs.

Forrest Wilkinson

Correction: Even if the city IS meant to represent Port Royale, Jamaica, its look is not inaccurate. It is true that modern-day Port Royale is much different, but that is due to the earthquake of June 7, 1692 that destroyed the original Port Royale and sank it beneath the waves, altering the island's geography significantly. The time period of the movie is before the earthquake, when Port Royale was still a thriving buccaneer haven.

Phil C.

Corrected entry: Before Captain Sparrow and William steal a ship they are walking underwater with a boat over their heads. When they get onboard and are preparing to set sail, they are perfectly dry, clothes and all.

Correction: If you look carefully, their clothes are still damp (especially the back of Will). They have also obviously spent some time tying up the rudder with the rope and barrel that Will steps into enroute to the ship; that time combined with the sun will have dried their clothes a little.

Alison Sleigh

Correction: Johnny Depp was born in 1963, and Orlando Bloom was born in 1977, so it is extremely possible for Captain Jack to be aboard The Black Pearl. Will was about 12 at the time, so Jack would have been in his mid twenties.

mandy gasson

Corrected entry: In the final fight between the crew of the Black Pearl and the British soldiers, the wave of soldiers come off the lifeboat and one of the pirates yells something. In the top left of the shot, you can see one random soldier swinging his sword around at nothing.

Correction: If you look closely, the pirate that yells something ("Come on...") just came from below deck. The access stairwell to the lower decks is right in front of the staircase that leads to the helm. The pirate stepped left and forward of the staircase, so he is now at it side. The soldier in question is fighting someone, but that someone is simply blocked by the large end rail of the staircase. His arm can be swinging just for a split second as he is fighting back.

Corrected entry: During the end sequence when Captain Jack swims towards the Black Pearl and is pulled aboard, his hair is awfully dry for being just pulled out of the water.

AzN InVasian

Correction: He's a pirate. He's dirty and rarely bathes. I'm willing to bet his hair is "gross"(for lack of a better term). its oily. oil repels water. And, his hair is braided and such, which never really looks wet, just darker. And most importantly, he has dark hair. I know from experience that dark hair rarely looks wet, even if it is.

Correction: Will knew before hand when he was about to be killed by Barbossa. Jack wanders in and talks about how they were all men of their word and how Elizabeth is all set to marry Norrington.

mandy gasson

Corrected entry: In the scene towards the end when Jack and Will are surrounded by the guards, Norrington has his sword up against Will's right cheek. The next shot is one of Elizabeth, and when it flashes back, Norrington's sword is by Will's left cheek.

Correction: At first the sword is on his right cheek. Then Norrington takes a step forward and says, "you forget your place." Then the sword is on his left cheek. During his step he could have moved the sword to the other side to remind Will that his sword was still at his neck.

Corrected entry: Why are the pirates so worried about Kiera Knightly dropping the medallion over the side of the ship? If she did, they could simply walk across the ocean floor and easily recover it.

Correction: The pirates could simply be nervous of having to go through all the effort of finding a very small medallion in a pretty big bay. The currents could move it around and it would take awhile to find, whereas if they make her give it to them it would be a lot easier.

Corrected entry: In general, sailors of both legitimate and illegal trades in that time period didn't know how to swim--for one, they thought it bad luck, and for another it was a waste of energy (if they went overboard at sea and the ship couldn't fetch them before they sank, they'd be dead before they could reach shore). Also, at the end, when Sparrow starts to swim to the Pearl, he does a freestyle (Australian Crawl) stroke. That method of swimming wasn't invented until the 1800's - it's called the Australian Crawl for a reason. Had he known how to swim, Sparrow would have done a breast stroke (hands in front, push forward and out) to get to his ship.

Kaite13

Correction: This doesn't mean that no pirate ever learned how to swim. It sounds like the kind of thing Jack would know, and as for him doing an Australian Crawl-- is it so hard to believe he could have come up with it on his own? People swim any way they want.

Corrected entry: How did Will know his father was dead? Sparrow had been dumped overboard prior to his death (because Turner had the cursed treasure, which was post-Sparrow), and I can't imagine Barbossa writing a letter of condolence to the boy and his mother.

Kaite13

Correction: He doesn't know, which is why he moved to the Caribbean to find his father.

Corrected entry: In the scene where Elizabeth is escaping from the Dauntless, she climbs out of the window located in the back of the ship. She makes a rope out of a collection of sheets, and lands in a rowboat and rows away. Escaping out of the window with the sheets makes perfect sense, but where did the rowboat come from if she was in the back of the ship?

Correction: In the old days it was perfectly normal for a ship to tow a rowboat behind it. Some sailing ships still do it to this day. It was a matter of available space.

MCKD

Corrected entry: During the final fight between Jack and Barbossa, they both receive mortal wounds (a sword to the gut and a gunshot). Why then does Jack's wound not kill him when the curse is gone, yet Barbossa's wound stays with him?

Correction: Barbossa's gunshot wound happens essentially simultaneously to the curse being lifted. Previous damage does not "catch up to" the characters.

rbryant73

Corrected entry: Every time the moon comes out from behind the clouds at night, it is a full moon. However, since the movie takes place over the course of several days, the moon should not stay in the same phase the whole time.

Correction: When the moon first appears (the night when the Pearl is attacking the British port), it is obviously several phases away from a full moon. Also, the story takes place over just a few days, so the moon would appear very close to full throughout most of the movie.

Corrected entry: When Elizabeth is being made to walk the plank, Barbossa makes her give back the dress. When he takes it, he says "It's still warm" yet he he's not supposed to be able to feel because of the curse.

Correction: He was making a joke. It's as simple as that.

Corrected entry: In the shot where Jack Sparrow uses the handcuffs to slide down the rope, if his hands were bound, and the rope was tied at the end, how did he get off and how did he get onto the rope in the first place?

AzN InVasian

Correction: He folds the chain in half and flips the loop over the rope and grabs the loop (the middle of the chain) to slide down the rope. His hands are still bound, but the chain is long enough to do this.

Kaite13

Corrected entry: After Elizabeth wakes up and opens her drawer to find the medallion; when she raises the false bottom of the drawer the medallion is dusty, but when she picks it up it is shiny and clean.

Correction: The medallion starts out dusty, but as Elizabeth takes it out of the drawer she wipes it off. That's why it becomes shiny and clean.

Corrected entry: When Johnny Depp and Geoffrey Rush are fighting on the Isla de Muerta and Depp is stabbed, he stumbles back into the moonlight and you can see his skeleton form because he's holding the gold - he's under the curse. However, this never occurs in the beginning scenes of the film when Elizabeth wears the amulet and steps into the moonlight.

Correction: The curse only affects those who steal the gold coins directly from the aztec chest, which is why Will is unaffected by it when his father sends it to him and why Elizabeth is unaffected by the curse when she takes the coin from Will, to protect him from her father who might mistake him for a pirate. Jack steals the coin, probably hoping for the curse to protect him, since he knows a great battle is coming.

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Visible crew/equipment: Just as Jack says, "On deck, you scabrous dogs," to the very left edge of the screen over Jack's shoulder is a grip crew member with a tan cowboy hat, white short sleeve tee shirt and sunglasses, just standing there looking out to sea. (02:12:35)

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Jack Sparrow: Who makes all these?
Will Turner: I do. And I practice with them... Three hours a day.
Jack Sparrow: You need to get yourself a girl, mate. Or perhaps the reason you practice three hours a day is that you've already found one and are otherwise incapable of wooing said strumpet. You're not a eunuch, are you?

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Trivia: Be sure to stay through the credits, at the end there is an interesting scene.

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Question: After Elizabeth is brought to the Pearl, she threatens to drop the medallion overboard. Barbossa feigns disinterest but when Elizabeth pretends to drop it, the pirates gasp in panic. Why? So she drops it, big deal. They can't drown, the gold "calls to them" so what does it matter if she were to drop it?

Jacordx

Chosen answer: Because they'd have to find it. The gold may "call to them", but it obviously doesn't function as a millimetre perfect homing beacon or they'd never have missed the medallion years earlier when they attacked the ship carrying the young Will. Elizabeth drops it into the sea and they're going to have to spend what could be months trying to locate it - currents could take it well away from the dropping point. They've found the final missing piece; they're potentially just hours away from finally being cured. The last thing they want is to see it thrown into the sea.

Tailkinker

Well, if the crew was anxious to get the medallion then why did they act like they weren't interested in it before Elizabeth pretended to drop it?

Reverse psychology.

Ssiscool

What do you mean by reverse psychology?

By showing they are not interested in the medallion they are hoping Elizabeth will just drop it on the floor or chuck it to them as it's of no real value. However when she releases a bit of chain and the medallion drops, and the pirates lurch forward revealing that they really want the medallion and as such Elizabeth now has the upper hand in negotiations.

Ssiscool

I'm guessing Elizabeth wasn't fooled when the pirates showed disinterest in the medallion.

That's not called reverse psychology, which is used to encourage someone to change his or her mind. Doesn't work with a threat. They are feigning indifference to hide the importance of the object.

lionhead

They didn't want to give her an advantage over them. Pretending to not care about the coin would make Elizabeth think that the coin is worthless and cannot use it to barter a deal.

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