Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

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.

Elizabeth Swann's maid fills a bed warmer with red-hot coals and then places the warmer at the feet of Elizabeth, who is lying in bed.

That's not the way bed warmers were used.

They held warm, not red-hot, coals, and were placed in bed before one turned in and removed before the sleeper lay down.

If used as shown in the movie, they would have barbecued one's feet.

When Barbossa is chasing the Interceptor, as he is shouting commands, in one shot his teeth are perfectly white, while in the rest of the movie they are decayed.

Inside the treasure-filled cave, shafts of moonlight descend straight downward.

However, the view outside shows the moon fairly low in the sky.

Jack's execution uses a trapdoor-style gallows.

This was not invented until the 1800s.

At least twice during the movie, the left side of the ship is referred to as "port" (as in, "drop the port anchor").

"Larboard" was used until the 19th century when referring to the ship, and "port" was only for directions.

"Hard a-port" or "turn to port" would have been used, but nothing referring to the port side of the ship until the 1800s.

When Elizabeth takes the medallion out of the secret hiding place, her fingernails are short.

When Captain Jack saves her from being shot during the battle between both ships, her nails are long and manicured.

When Jack is talking to the two guards on the dock, in the background you can see a man rowing a boat towards the ship by the cliffs.

As the camera switches back and forth between the guards and Jack, you can see the progress of the rowboat.

However, at one point the boat suddenly disappears, but wouldn't have had enough time to have rowed out of the camera's view.

During the fight between the pirates and Norrington's crew at the cave, one of the two guards from the dock had been killed just moments earlier is now alive again and fighting the pirates on the deck.

When Jack Sparrow first arrives, the sky is full of white clouds and light blue sky, implying that it is midday and the sun is high, however when we see the close-ups of Jack, the clouds have a deep yellow tint to them as if it is sunrise or sunset.

After Jack escapes from the Black Pearl's dungeon and grabs the rope (after the line "Thanks very much") his pony tail is above his bandana on the left side, not the right.

When Jack escapes from the brig on the Black Pearl and stands on the side of the ship, the rope netting is on his left.

Then when there is a close-up of him taking the rope from the swinging pirate, the rope netting is on his right-hand side, then switches back.

This is because the geography of the boat did not quite work out and so the close-up shot was reversed later in editing.

When Will draws his sword on the Interceptor and tells Jack that his father wasn't a pirate, the sword makes a metallic scraping noise, despite being tucked in his belt without a sheath of any kind.

When Elizabeth discovers that the pirates are cursed, a pirate is seen sitting on the capstan playing a concertina.

The concertina was not invented until 1829.

When Jack had just escaped and is flying around in circles around the pole, the soldiers are told to shoot him.

Many of them continue to shoot, without reloading.

When Elizabeth is trying to save Captain Jack Sparrow just before he puts the chain of the handcuffs around her neck, the medallion is alternately in/out of her dress between shots.

Will has a tattoo on his wrist which is visible in some shots.

We are not told that Will is free of tattoos and the fact that *we* know it to be an "elvish" nine is of no consequence - it's just a pretty pattern.

In the opening shots of young Elizabeth singing at the front of the ship, the posts on either side of her have rope on them (wrapped around them).

Moments later, the post to her right has no rope wrapped around it or hanging from it.

After Will And Jack commandeer the Interceptor, the ship is viewed from above, sailing on a beam reach (a point of sail in which the boat is at 90 degrees to the wind).

When Jack knocks Will off the ship with the boom, he jibes the boat, causing the sail to shift positions suddenly.

In order to do this from the previous position, he would have had to turn the ship almost completely around.

This would have taken well over a minute.

Jack did this in less that three seconds.

The sail is also filled to the wrong side while it sweeps Will off the deck.

When Jack is talking to Barbossa just before their final fight, he picks up a large gold idol and tosses it away.

In the next shot, the idol has returned to its original position.

When Jack meets his crew in Tortuga, the hand Annamaria is using to point at Jack changes from her right to her left, then back to right again as they discuss replacing her ship.

When Jack and Barbossa are fighting, Barbossa plunges Jack's sword into Jack.

When it goes in, it is below Jack's leather strap.

When we see Jack as a skeleton, the sword is above the leather strap.

A shot opens with the full moon prominent in the frame.

The moon is crossed by the sails of The Black Pearl at an angle that indicates that the moon is almost straight overhead.

We pull back to show the ship gliding past, and when it has, we are looking at the horizon, where we see the full moon very close to setting.

After Jack has escaped from the gallows with Will, Commodore Norrington comes up to Will and puts his sword onto Will's right shoulder.

When we see a close-up of Will, you can see that the blade has switched to his left shoulder.

When Will and Jack are fighting in the blacksmith's shop, right after Will pulls out the hot sword, the donkey starts the gears turning.

In the next shot, the gears aren't turning.

The shot after that, they are.

When the Governor opens the windows of Elizabeth's room and says "It's a beautiful day," in the view out the window is a hut that appears to have smoke coming out of it but it can be seen that it is a still picture and the smoke is not moving.

At the beginning of the scene when Will Turner is going to break Jack Sparrow out of the prison cell, when Jack is lying on the ground talking to Will, you can see a modern shoe print below Jack's right arm.

In the beginning of the movie when Elizabeth awakens from her dream and her father begins knocking on her door, the two maids come in.

One is wearing a red dress, the other a print dress thats a beigeish color.

There positions switch alternately.

In the first shot, the one in the beige dress is holding the box and the red dressed one is opening the curtains; however, in the next shot, red dress is holding the box and beige dress is opening the curtains.

When Jack and Will board the Dauntless after walking under the water with the rowing boat over their heads, by the time they have climbed onto the deck and announced that they are taking over the ship their clothes are bone dry.

When Will Turner is bargaining for the lives of Elizabeth Swann and the crew of the Interceptor, Elizabeth's hair alternates being in and out of her face.

When Norrington arrives on the HMS Dauntless to fight the cursed pirates, some of the naval personal are fighting no one because the CGI skeletons weren't put in.

In the governor's mansion, when Ragetti and Pintel are chasing after Elizabeth, Ragetti is carrying a lighted torch in his hand.

When the ashes and coals are dropped on him, he is still holding the torch as he tries to brush the ashes off.

In the next shot, as he and Pintel exit the room, he is no longer carrying it.

When he appears at the banister and jumps off the landing to corner Elizabeth, the torch is back in his hand.

When he first shows up in the movie bringing the sword to Governor Swann, Will Turner is almost clean shaven (just a trace of a little mustache).

His next scene, at the blacksmith shop - which in the movie happens at the same day, maybe an hour later - Will has a little goatee and almost full mustache.

When Jack and Will are fighting at the Blacksmith's, right after the eunuch conversation, Will jumps/flips/rolls over the turn-style being pulled by the donkey.

However, you can tell that this wasn't 'Orlando Bloom' (qv), but a stunt double.

HMS Interceptor is blow up when a pirate is seen lighting a trail of gunpowder that leads to pile of gunpowder kegs.

The gunpowder that is used is obviously modern smokeless powder as evidenced by it's slow burn rate.

Modern gunpowder wasn't invented until 1875 so only black powder would have been available.

Black powder 'flashes' and would burn at a rate many times that which was shown.

At Commodore Norrington's promotion ceremony, the troops are given the command "right about face", which they proceed to execute.

As the camera changes angles they have not completed the command, but you never hear the sound of their feet completing the last step of the maneuver.

When the Black Pearl is attacking Port Royal, Will Turner is fighting the pirates with his vest and shirt undone.

When the pirate knocks him out at the end of the scene, and he hits the ground, his shirt and vest are almost completely buttoned again.

During the first attack of the Black Pearl, the air-rams that catapults the stunt men (to make it look like blasts of explosives) are clearly visible in several shots.

When Elizabeth is on the Black Pearl, she holds the medallion over the water in order to prove that the pirates actually wanted it.

Though the pirates can walk underwater and suffer no ill effects, they still jumped when she pretended to drop it because of the instinct to prevent it from being lost.

Breathing underwater is not a natural human state, and they likely still think mostly as humans.

Furthermore, a tiny piece of gold adrift in the ocean in the middle of the night would not be easy to find, even for the undead.

The word "Scallywag" which is used to refer to a fellow pirate, is in fact only invented in the 19th century (after the American Civil War as a name for white southerners who collaborated during the reconstruction).

At the beginning of the movie, when Elizabeth first gets the medallion from Will, the back of it has a spiral design.

Later, when the medallion is falling into the chest, both sides are the same.

There are several points during the sword fight in the blacksmith shop where there is an obvious stunt double for Will, such as when he somersaults over the pole - the double has a much higher hairline than 'Orlando Bloom' (qv).

At the end of the film Jack is about to be executed.

The court crier reads aloud the charges against Jack, and then concludes that he is to be "hung" by the neck until dead.

Proper English dictates that he would be "hanged" by the neck until dead.

"Bob's your uncle" the British catch phrase, meaning all will be well or all will be taken care of is thought to refer to Prime Minister Lord Robert Salisbury who appointed his nephew to be Secretary of Ireland in the 1890s.

When Elizabeth's hand is cut and her blood is spilt on one of the Aztec Gold pieces; there is an obvious stain on the Aztec Gold piece.

When Barbossa picks up the same piece and dangles it in front of Elizabeth, the blood stain is still there.

In the next shot of the piece.

There is no blood on it.

When Barbossa abandons Elizabeth and Capt.

Jack on the island, Jack is wearing boots when he dives off the plank, but the boots disappear when he hits the water.

The boots reappear when he grabs his sword and pistol and pushes off the bottom.

In the scene near the end when Jack, Will, and Elizabeth are leaving the cave on Isla de Muerta, the chest of Aztec gold has the lid closed.

Just before the credits roll and the monkey goes to take one of the gold pieces, the lid is partially open, allowing him to take the gold.

After she puts Jack's coat on him, Anamaria takes her hands off his shoulders twice.

- PLOTDuring the battle scene at Isla de Muerta, Commodore Norrington and his men on the rowboats does not hear the gunfire on board the H.

Dauntless.

However, when the wounded sailor on board the Dauntless rings the bell, we see a shot of Norrington looking towards the ship then a shot of the ship with gunfire clearly audible and echoing through the night.

If it was audible at this point from this distance, then it should have been audible since the first shots were fired and thus Norrington should have noticed them without the need of the bell.

In the battle between the Interceptor and the Black Pearl, grapnels are seen flying through the air, when one clearly snags on a rope in the middle of the shot and stops in mid-air.

At the battle on the Dauntless, when Norrington boards and fights a skeleton, a man can be seen in the background waving his sword.

If he was fighting someone, their shadow would've been cast on the ground and visible to us.

Captain Barbossa, after telling Elizabeth to remove her dress before being deserted at the island, lifts the dress up to his face and says, "Still warm.

" The pirates are not supposed to feel anything, but it is possible that he was being facetious.

Both the Interceptor and the Dauntless are painted in the Nelson Checker - black and yellow bands with black port-lids.

This scheme dates to Admiral Nelson's command of HMS Victory in 1803.

While Nelson's ships were repainted in this scheme it did not become widespread until after the Battle of Trafalgar, 1805.

Both before and after this Captains were free to, and did, paint their ships as they saw fit.

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.

When Jack and Will walk underwater towards the ship they intend to steal, they are holding an upturned rowing boat over their heads to trap air, allowing them to breath.

This would be impossible in real life, since not only is the boat made of wood (which floats), but due to the upthrust of the trapped air, Jack and Will would need to weigh several tons between them to keep the boat down.

The chest of cursed Aztec gold, which Cortez was said to have taken from Mexico, depicts four representations of the primary image of the Sun Gate from the Tiahuanaco civilization, outside La Paz, Bolivia.

Shortly after having been rescued from the gallows, in one close-up Jack Sparrow can be seen wearing contact lenses (they were tinted lenses to stop him from squinting).

HMS Dauntless and HMS Interceptor are shown flying the British Blue Ensign.

Prior to 1864, the color of a Royal Navy vessel's ensign was determined by its posting.

The color of the Caribbean squadron's ensign was red, as should have been the Dauntless' and Interceptor's (blue was the color of the south Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans).

When Jack first sails into Port Royal, there is a shot from behind Jack, looking toward the front of the boat, and there is land clearly visible across most of the field of vision.

After Jack jumps down, you see him (from a side shot) begin walking toward the back of the boat.

The next shot is again looking towards the boat's front from the stern (which cannot be disputed because Jack is completing the strides from the previous shot) and there is no land visible at all.

When Jack tears the skirt of Elizabeth's dress off underwater, the loud ripping noise is heard of dry fabric being torn.

When the Pearl is chasing the Interceptor both ships go full wind.

Therefore, flags on both ships are flown back as though the ships are propelled by something other than the wind.

When a ship is driven by the wind, the flags will be flown in the direction of the wind which in full wind will be from stern to bow.

When Captain Jack's boat is taking on water, When we first meet him, water splashes onto the camera's lens after he throws water out of the bucket he is using to bail (lower right corner).

When Will Turner goes to help break out Jack Sparrow from the prison cell at the beginning of the film the bars of the cell are welded together with modern welds not invented until the 19th century.

When the movie takes place, Nassau Port was still known as New Providence.

When Jack is to be hanged and the man is reading the list of Jack's offenses, a female extra in a red-topped dress is seen mouthing the words along with the man.

When Pintel and Ragetti are rowing (dressed as females) towards the Dauntless, Ragetti knocks Pintel's umbrella away.

When Ragetti threw his away, he turned into a skeleton progressively, as the moonlight fell on him (meaning that while the umbrella's shade was on half his face, only the exposed half was skeletal.

) However, Pintel stays entirely human until the umbrella is completely out of his hands, and then he turns into a skeleton in one frame.

The British military expression for people to stay away from a place is "Out of Bounds" and not the American "Off Limits".

These are British troops, they would not have said "Off Limits".

When Will is knocked out from behind during the assault on Port Royal, the blue pad used to soften his fall is clearly visible over his shoulder as he falls backward.

Norrington could not have been promoted to Commodore, as this was not a rank in the Royal Navy until 1996.

Before then Commodore was simply a Post-Captain commanding a squadron or fleet of ships.

The Royal Navy did not station any 100 gun ships of the Line in the Caribbean.

The ships were simply too large and deep drafted to be of much use in those waters.

The English bases in the area were incapable of supporting ships that size.

And the Royal Navy only had six such ships world-wide at the time of the film.

In various close-ups of Barbossa, he can be seen wearing yellow contact lenses.

All the Royal Navy officers seen are wearing uniforms that would not be introduced until 1747.

Norrington's orders were signed 'George R', indicating King George I of England.

This dates the film to between 1714 and 1727.

In the opening scene Governor Swann approaches young Elizabeth on a crowded deck and asks her to accompany Will.

We can see his body being picked up and moved by sailors.

In a later shot, we see Elizabeth standing on an empty deck looking at young Will's body laying on the deck.

When the Commodore and Jack are discussing how to attack the cave and the Pearl, the movie pans out to show the two small boats.

The boat that has Jack and the Commodore in it, if you look to the right in the water you can view a green diver's fin that comes out of the water.

When the Governor opens Elizabeth's window, we see the point of land from the same angle as Jack sees it standing atop his sinking boat's mast.

[DVD 2-Disc Edition] In the blacksmith scene when Will says he threatened Elizabeth, Jack replies "Only a little.

" in one audio version.

In another audio track, he says "Just a little bit.

" The films place the Governor's Mansion in Port Royal, but that city was almost entirely destroyed by an earthquake in 1692, at which time the capitol of Jamaica was moved to Spanish Town.

The signature of George I on Norrington's orders dates the films to at least 22 years later.

When Jack shoots Barbossa at the end of the film, Barbossa uses both hands to rip open his shirt to see the gunshot wound.

When Barbossa falls, an apple rolls out of his hand, but when he rips his shirt open there's no apple.

At the beginning when Jack is standing on the sail of his sinking boat, he prepares to step onto the dock by raising and extending his right foot out.

The next shot shows his left foot taking the first step onto the dock.

At the end, when Will is helping Jack escape the gallows, the take a long piece of rope and use it to slam two soldiers into a concrete pillar.

From the forward shot, we see the one on the right get his hat knocked off, then the shot from the back shows (as he gets slammed into the pillar and is now perspectively on the left) his hat still on.

Then the shot switches to the front view and his hat is once again off.

When Elizabeth first meets Will and looks at his medallion, it is on a string around his neck, but when she turns to look at Norrington, the string is gone.

When Jack and Barbossa are fighting in the cave, Barbossa seems surprised that Jack is also cursed.

Being a skeleton in the moonlight, he rolls a cursed coin between his fingers and says that he couldn't resist, hinting at an earlier scene, where he took a few coins from the chest, threw them back, but secretly kept one.

Now, Barbossa saw him take the coins, but did not notice that he kept one.

However, even if he hadn't kept it, he would still be cursed, since he didn't return the coins together with his blood.

Barbossa, being well aware of the rules of the curse, would be fully aware of this and shouldn't be surprised that Jack is cursed.

Barbossa is seen holding a Granny Smith apple, throughout the movie.

Granny Smiths originated in Australia in 1868, around a hundred and fifty years after the events of the film.

When the Black Pearl engages the Interceptor the pirates ignite the powder kegs causing the Interceptor to explode completely.

The explosion is followed by an areal shot of the island and a clear view of the Black Pearl and the Interceptor fully intact, mast and all, though it just exploded.

It is not seen in the next shot of Elizabeth Swann walking the plank.

When Elizabeth and Jack are being made to walk the plank, Jack dives in to retrieve his scabbard and as he swims to the bottom his feet are bare.

However, when he goes to push off the bottom toward the surface, he is wearing boots.

Captain Barbossa states that the pirates cannot feel anything on their skin since the curse was put upon them.

However, in the beginning the Pirate Ragetti can feel the coals that Elizabeth drops on him claiming that they're "Hot Hot".

If what Barbossa says is true, the coals shouldn't have affected Ragetti.

In the post-credit scene, Jack the monkey is seen swimming in the water at Isle de Muerta.

He jumps from the water on to the chest.

When the camera switches from the water to Jack on the chest, Jack is completely dry.

The men in the longboat jump overboard and the launch is smashed by the Dauntless.

However, the launch begins to break up well before the Dauntless's bow even touches the launch.

During the sword fight in the blacksmith shop between Jack and Will, when they are seen to jump from roof rafter to rafter, they are actually jumping over unfinished plywood with taped marks in place of rafters.

We are repeatedly told that the cursed crew of the Black Pearl have been on their quest for ten years.

However, the ship's first appearance, in the opening sequence, must take place at least twelve years earlierthe Royal Naval ship in the opening sequence is carrying the arms of William III (1689-1702), whilst a glimpse of a document signed 'George R' indicates the bulk of the film takes place under George I (1714-27).

At the end where Will and Jack are surrounded by soldiers, the next shot facing towards Jack shows no soldiers behind him but only to the sides When Jack Sparrow is about to walk the plank, and is speaking with Barbosa, there are several shots where you can see metal scaffolding behind Jack.

The ship in the opening sequence is equipped with a type of weapon called a carronade.

These were not invented earlier than 1759 - roughly sixty years before the scene was set.

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) is without a doubt the best pirate movie I have ever seen. The tale begins when Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) discovered a pirate medallion around the neck of a young boy who washes up from a wrecked merchant ship.

Great Movie And johnny deep Is a well actor all time and p.o.

In 1996, the movie "Independence Day" by Roland Emerich proved that entertainment films, which usually come out in summer (in other words, summer movies, the ones that only serve for a good popcorn) could have a high quality in various aspects from the very story, script and performances. And Gore Verbinski and the writers of "Shrek" (Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio) with "Pirates" proved that once again in big!

It's an amazing movie - Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. I remember watching this movie a very long time ago, and I can't believe how much I enjoyed it.

Disney's recipe for a multi-millionaire franchise: Mix some good pirates, with Johnny Depp as the main ingredient, (make sure they're warm-hearted and technically losers), with a few infra-world evil pirates, in a semi-real Renaissance world, spiced with a love story and with lots and lots of laughs. Heat it up for 2 hours approximately and you'll win more than any President would earn in a lifetime.

The theme is very attractive. Pirates symbolize the oldest power and freedom, unknown mystery and amazing adventure, primitive conquest, and yearning for the distance.

This is probably one of my favorite movies definitely in my top 10! This is by far the best pirates movie made.

Elizabeth who is a governor general's daughter has a golden medal which was had by Will. They come to love each other.