Elizabeth Swann: Mr Sparrow, the entire British navy is looking for me, this signal is over a thousand feet high, do you really think there is no chance they will see it?
[Jack makes some threatening moves towards Elizabeth, then storms off up the beach. Walking backwards looking at her, he then turns around to see a huge ship moored, with a row boat coming to rescue them. He turns back to look at Elizabeth Swann.]
Jack Sparrow: There'll be no living with her after this!
Will comes into the blacksmith shop, comments about Mr. Brown and then approaches the anvil. In this shot the wood post on his right has a hammer and knotted rope hanging together on the same side. However, later when Jack sprays the soot at Will the same wood post is seen on Will's left and the rope hangs on another side of the post, not together with the hammer. That rope changes shape and position in other shots in between too. See more...
After filming, Johnny Depp had a permanent tattoo of a sparrow done on his arm "for my boy". It's the same as the one seen in this film, except the sparrow was flying away from him, so he turned it around so it was coming back. See more...
Directed by Gore Verbinski, starring Jack Davenport, Johnny Depp, Keira Knightley, Mackenzie Crook, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, Jonathan Pryce (add more)
Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
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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.]
In the beginning of the movie, Elisabeth tells Will "It's OK". The abbreviation "OK" didn't exist at the time of the movie, it came up in the 19th century. [Is somebody trying to break the record for number of times the same 'mistake' is posted and corrected? Like Troy, Braveheart, Elizabeth and Shakespeare in Love (in fact, almost every film except for 'Passion of the Christ'), 'Pirates of the Caribbean' was shot in contemporary English. This is so modern audiences can understand it. This is a film convention, not a mistake.]
In the scene where Jack and Elizabeth are marooned on an island, she gets him to have yet another swing of rum. But he falls back while drinking. Although we can hear him fall back, a part of the bottle is still visible at the bottom of the screen. If he had indeed fallen back, the angle and position of the bottle would be different. [We hear his backside hit the ground as he sits heavily and drunkenly on the sand. His upper torso is still vertical, hence the angle of the bottle.]
When Jack is holding Elizabeth by his chains, he addresses the Commodore as Commodore Norrington. Thus far, in the presence of Jack, Commodore James Norrington has always been addressed as Commodore, never as Norrington or Commodore Norrington. [Norrington's a high-ranking officer charged with eliminating piracy in the area. Jack's hardly going to be unaware of who his main opposition in the area is - the reference to Norrington's rank would be enough to tell him who he's dealing with.]
Corrected by Tailkinker
When Elizabeth falls off the fort, Jack, Murtogg and Mullroy who are on the Interceptor hear the splashing and turn around. Jack asks 'Will you be saving her, then?' There is no way Jack would have known it was a woman who fell off. [They could easily have seen her falling, and she was wearing an ankle length dress, something generally associated with the womenfolk of the time.]
Just after the Black Pearl attacks the Interceptor, Elizabeth realizes that she doesn't have the medallion, and Will goes below to get it. When Will goes below, there is water in the cabin to a level just above his ankles. He searches for the Medallion, then spots Barbossa's monkey, who has retrieved the medallion to take back to Barbossa. Even though the Medallion was on the floor and the floor was flooded, the monkey looks relatively dry. If that furry thing had fished the medallion out of the water, it should have been soaking wet. [None of the cursed crew including the monkey ever look wet.]
When the treasure chest full of the cursed gold, in the cave at Isla de Muerta, is shown, the figures carved onto the side of the chest are NOT actually Aztec. [What's to say that it's of Aztec origin? The Aztecs could have gotten it through bartering with other civilizations.]
In the scene where the young Elizabeth Swann is on the ship and young William Turner is found floating in the water, young Elizabeth says the word "okay," which was not in common usage until the 1830s at the very earliest. [This type of mistake has been submitted for many other films and while it may not be common that is not the same as being non-existant. There are many explanations how she knew the word, she overheard the word, read about it etc. A word or phrase does not have to be in frequent use to avoid being a mistake.]
Corrected by Lummie
In the scene where Captain Jack Sparrow and Will Turner commandeer the Dauntless, and later the Interceptor, Commodore Norrington says to "search every cabin, every hull down to the bilges." As the Dauntless is obviously not a catamaran or a trimaran, it has one hull. So searching "every hull" is impossible. [Norrington says "every hold", not "every hull".]
Corrected by Tailkinker
At the very start of the film when the young Elizabeth wakes up the young Will, she calms him by saying "It's ok." The earliest this phrase has been recorded is 1839. Which puts its use well after the film's period. In the film, a precedent has been set to use language appropriate to the period (instead of modern language), and this phrase falls outside of that precedent. [Previously submitted and previously corrected. A normal movie convention and not a mistake.]
When Jack says "and you're completely obcessed with treasure," Will has a lantern in his right hand and his left hand is on the boat, and he's leaning to his left. But in the next shot when they're getting out of the boat, it's reversed. His right hand now is on the boat as he's getting out and his left hand has the lantern. [There is a time gap between the two shots. In the first shot both Jack and Will lean over the port side of the row boat, looking down at the water, having not yet reached shore. At the start of the next shot, as the boat reaches shore, Will is facing forward semi-crouched at the prow.]
Corrected by Rikki
At the beginning of the movie, the chains on Sparrow's handcuffs are long enough for him to be able to throw a loop of chain over the rope and grab it in his other hand, but later in the movie when Sparrow is trying to take off his handcuffs the chain is much shorter (not long enough to throw a loop over the rope as he did earlier). [This has been submitted and corrected already.]
Jack's execution uses a trapdoor-style gallows. This was not invented until the 1800s. [A form of trap mechanism was used in Britain from as early as 1760; read more here:
http://www.richard.clark32.btinternet.co.uk/hanging1.html.]
When Norrington arrives on the HMS Dauntless to fight the cursed pirates, some of the naval personnel are fighting no one because the CGI skeletons weren't put in yet. [This has been previously submitted and corrected. Please search the corrections pages for the explanation as to why it is wrong.]
When he hears Will coming, Jack leaves the piece of bone sticking in the cell lock. It disappears in the next shot. [This has been submitted and corrected already.]
Barbossa explains that because of the curse he can't feel a thing (not wind, woman, food.) and sense they all have the same curse how is it that in the beginning Ragetti feels the coals when they fall on him. [This has already been submitted and corrected.
Barbossa states, "Drink would not satisfy...food turned to ash...all the pleasure in the world couldn't slake our lust..." so it seems they cannot "feel" or enjoy pleasure. When the coals fall, Ragetti shouts that it's hot and burns, and later he also complains about his wooden eye hurting him, so it seems that he does feel a certain level of discomfort. When Elizabeth stabs Barbossa he does not display a reaction, however the tolerance of pain is subjective.]
Corrected by Rikki
When Jack is talking with Murtogg and Mullroy, the two then begin to argue amongst themselves, while Jack is in the background sneaking aboard the ship. Mullroy is holding his weapon next to him with the sworded edge, yet when the camera cuts to behind it's nowhere to seen, obviously allowing for the camera. From the front view it's back by his side, it is like this for several shots. [Mullroy's bayonet is visible in all shots, it never disappears. In the two shots facing Interceptor Mullroy holds his fixed bayonet beside his head, directly in front of his right shoulder - at the edge of the left side of the screen, just as in the other shots.]
Corrected by Rikki
In the opening shot when the camera pans towards to ship, note there is no large plank holding a sail, yet when we see Elizabeth and you look in the background, a plank and sail has suddenly appeared. [In the opening shot of the film, just as it starts panning in on Dauntless in the foggy mist, the spritsail yard - with its furled spiritsail (the "large plank holding a sail"), IS visible in front of the fore-mast sail, directly above the ship's prominent figurehead, at the top of the screen. Much of the length of the bowspirit - from which the spritsail yard hangs, is blocked from view by the figurehead, as the shot is angled up, however, in the following shots on forward deck the bowspirit is more visible (note the figurehead below it).]
Corrected by Rikki
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