Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl Movie Details
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| IMDB Rating: 8.0/10 out of 216,356 votes |
“Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl” 2003 by Gore Verbinski – Movie Goofs
“P.O.T.C.” Plot Summary
Blacksmith Will Turner teams up with eccentric pirate “Captain” Jack Sparrow to save his love, the governor’s daughter, from Jack’s former pirate allies, who are now undead.
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“Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl” Goofs List
- Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): SPOILER: 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.
- Factual errors: 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.
- Continuity: Inside the treasure-filled cave, shafts of moonlight descend straight downward. However, the view outside shows the moon fairly low in the sky.
- Anachronisms: Jack’s execution uses a trapdoor-style gallows. This was not invented until the 1800s.
- Anachronisms: 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.
- Continuity: 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.
- Continuity: 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.
- Continuity: 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.
- Revealing mistakes: 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).
- Continuity: 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.
- Continuity: 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.
- Continuity: When Jack escapes from the Brigg 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.
- Audio/visual unsynchronized: 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.
- Anachronisms: 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.
- Revealing mistakes: 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.
- Continuity: 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.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: 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.
- Continuity: 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.
- Revealing mistakes: 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.
- Factual errors: 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).
- Continuity: 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.
- Continuity: 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.
- Continuity: 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.
- Continuity: 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.
- Continuity: 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.
- Continuity: 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.
- Revealing mistakes: 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.
- Continuity: 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.
- Factual errors: When Jack tears the skirt of Elizabeth’s dress off underwater, a loud ripping noise is heard, however it is not the same sound as would be heard if wet fabric was torn underwater.
- Factual errors: 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.
- Revealing mistakes: 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).
- Revealing mistakes: 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.
- Anachronisms: 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.
- Continuity: In the beginning of the movie when Elizabeth awakens from her dream and her father begins knocking
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