Will uses his sword to stick Jack's chains to a beam. Jack then kicks him down but, when he gets back up, he suddenly has a sword in his hand without having had time to fetch another one. [It's Will's sword. When Jack kicks him, the sword flies out of Will's hand and Jack catches it.] Corrected by MovieGuyPirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) - 184 corrections
Directed by Gore Verbinski, starring Jack Davenport, Johnny Depp, Keira Knightley, Mackenzie Crook, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, Jonathan Pryce
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Will uses his sword to stick Jack's chains to a beam. Jack then kicks him down but, when he gets back up, he suddenly has a sword in his hand without having had time to fetch another one. [It's Will's sword. When Jack kicks him, the sword flies out of Will's hand and Jack catches it.] Corrected by MovieGuy
There are many times when the moonlight is shining on the chest. But Barbossa never becomes a skeleton. [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 by Tailkinker 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. [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.] 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. [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 by Rikki 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. [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 shoulder and when he lands there he lets go of the line, which begins to swing back.] Corrected by Rikki The scene where Elizabeth and Will put the bomb in the skeleton and shove him out of the moonlight so he explodes is impossible. If he were truly solid, there would be no oxygen in his stomach for the fuse to burn off of, therefore he would just have a bomb sitting around in his stomach. [Considering these pirates were cursed and would go from skeleton to body form by sunlight, are you sure they follow all rules of physics and life?] Corrected by shortdanzr When the Black Pearl is pursuing the Interceptor in the overview shot of the two ships, you can see the big flag on the back of the Interceptor and the one on top of the mast. They are flying straight backwards as if with the airstream, however for a sailing boat to move forwards the wind has to come from the back or the sides, therefore making it impossible for the flag to fly straight backwards since the ship cannot move faster than the wind pushing it forwards. [Nonsense. Sailing ships are perfectly capable of sailing into the wind. It's simply a matter of physics - arranging a low pressure area in front of the mainsail, easy enough to do regardless of the direction of the wind.] The song that Elizabeth and Jack are singing on the island was aired in 1967. Slight anachronism. [That is the song in the ride on which the movie is based, so naturally they include it in the film. The movie is a fictional work. why shouldn't they use a pirate song aired in modern times?] The very first shot you see of Jack is a view from behind, when he is up in the crow's nest. He has two red pieces of cloth that are fluttering crazily in the wind out to the sides. In the next shot showing his face, though, the pieces of cloth are blowing upwards, not in the same direction as the previous shot. [Wind is variable, especially at height, and changes often.] In the scene where Jack Sparrow is introduced (Number Two to select on the DVD) he has three plaits on his beard. However, as he steps off of the boat, he only has two. As his boat is currently sinking, I doubt that he would have time to change this. Throughout the rest of the movie he only has two. [This has been corrected many times. It is the shadow of one of the braids that makes it look like three. There are only two.] Corrected by shortdanzr 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. [When Interceptor's stern is visible, it is the rudder that creates the intense splashing - there is no propeller seen at her stern. ] Corrected by Rikki 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. [Every syllable that is spoken by Will matches that line.] Corrected by Rikki 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. [You are seeing the dim silhouettes of Elizabeth and Will, and they are holding the long gold pole in front of themselves - with which Elizabeth whacks the pirate, just moments later.] Corrected by Rikki When the crew of the Black Pearl go to the cave the first time and are unloading valuables, Pintel says to Riggeti that once the curse is lifted they will buy him a new glass eye. Riggeti responds how the wooden eye splinters something awful. How can the wooden eye bother him if he has the curse of the Black Pearl and he can not feel any pain? [It's made blatantly obvious throughout the film that the pirates do feel pain; there are numerous occasions where they scream or otherwise react to something painful - its pleasurable things that the curse denies them.] Corrected by Tailkinker 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). [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/.]
In Jack's escape attempt from Port Royal, the first thing he does is grab a rope, release the suspended cannon above, and ride the rope upwards, when he reaches the top of the post, he is shown dangling at the end of the rope as the post that held the cannon swings around rather swiftly. Since the cannon was dropped straight down, and Jack was hoisted straight up, there is nothing to account for the enormous momentum that it takes to swing Jack about like that. [The rope is twisted around the post. They make a point of showing the rope being "yanked" over the bottom corner of the section of post that rotates. As the cannon sinks, it begins to spin the post like a whipping top.] Corrected by Phixius The actual spelling of the "French" word Parley, is actually Parler. [In what conceivable way is a French Spelling Lesson considered 'trivia'?] 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. [When Jack begins to lift Elizabeth, the chain and gold medallion are not "gone" in the side shot, in fact look closely, the chain is visible as the medallion is tucked into her dress. The discrepancy between the medallion floating freely earlier then suddenly tucked in is already noted.] Corrected by Rikki Throughout the first half of the movie, the number of braids in Jack's "beard" changes from 3 to 2. [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 by Nelleke Rietvink When Jack gets knocked out by Mr Brown, the bottle shatters. In the next shot, however, there is no glass around Jack. [When Jack falls, he falls face forward with his body rigid, and by the laws of the physics, the shattered glass would be lying around his feet. And the next shot, where he's lying on the floor, is of his upper body.]1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 • Next page
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