Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) - 185 corrections

Directed by Gore Verbinski, starring Jack Davenport, Johnny Depp, Keira Knightley, Mackenzie Crook, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, Jonathan Pryce (add more)

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Entry In the middle of the film when we see Jack and Will looking over their new crew members, Jack gets to Annamaria, and when the camera looks at the ship it's side on, yet when it cuts back for another view of the ship a few shots later, it's pointing in Jack's direction for a perfect camera shot of the Interceptor. [When Jack begins to inspect their able-bodied crew in Tortuga, Interceptor is moored in the distance, on open choppy waters, and it visibly moves on the water. As Anamaria says, "I will!" the ship is seen, and four shots later when Interceptor is seen again, it is only a bit turned starboard as it bounces on the choppy waters in the following shots - it is certainly not "pointing in Jack's direction."]
Corrected by Rikki Time
Entry When Elizabeth is on her way to the Black Pearl, the first shot we see is from behind the captain, and if you watch this scene closely you don't see anyone entering the main part of the ship from the right, but when it cuts to Elizabeth there is already the bald pirate on the ship, and Elizabeth is climbing over. [In the first shot, Elizabeth is still in the small boat between Pintel and Ragetti. As the next wide shot opens from bridge deck, the small boat is being hoisted by the pirates at starboard side down below and is still below deck rail, as the camera pans back behind Barbossa. In the next shot, the small boat is well above the rail as Ragetti and Elizabeth are at the top of the ladder and walk through the deck rail, while Pintel stands on deck. These three consecutive shots are deliberately cut to indicate time compression for the following: When the small boat pulls alongside the Black Pearl, Pintel, Ragetti and Elizabeth step out onto the ladder mounted on the Pearl's hull that leads to the deck. As they climb up, the boat is being hoisted up beside them, so that by the time they all reach the deck, the small boat hangs above them.]
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Entry In the scene where Jack has just shot Barbossa, he uses both hands to rip open his vest, to see the blood spot begin to form on his chest. He says,"I feel..cold." and then falls to the ground. The next shot shows an apple falling from his hand. If he was just in a fight, and used both hands to rip open his vest, where did the apple come from? [When Barbossa walks into the cave at Isla de Muerta, as Pintel says to Will, "No reason to fret, just a prick of the finger," Barbossa tosses the green apple up into the air. They are about to perform the blood ritual with Will, so Barbossa, who we know favors apples, has one ready for the occasion. Later, after Jack shoots him, when Barbossa pulls his jacket open revealing the bloody wound, the camera pans up to his face for two close-ups (with a shot of Jack between), and as Barbossa realizes what has occurred, he reaches into his pocket for his prized apple - out of camera shot. So after he falls, the green apple dramatically slips out of his grip.]
Corrected by Rikki Time
Entry In the final fight scene after Jack shoots Barbosa he cuts his hand with his sword before tossing the medallion to Will. Jack is cursed so there would be no blood to lift the curse. Only Will's blood can lift the curse. [As we see when Elizabeth stabs Barbossa, people under the effect of the curse do bleed. As is stated at least twice, everybody who takes a coin from the chest has to give a blood sacrifice - all the pirates already have, leaving just Will, standing in for his father. Jack then takes a coin, so both he and Will have to give a blood sacrifice in order for the curse to be lifted.]
Corrected by Tailkinker Time
Entry In the battle between the Interceptor and the Pearl, when Jack asks Elizabeth where the medallion is and she goes to hit him and says 'wretch.' when he grabs her wrist we see her nails. her nails are actually acrylic nails. you can tell because of the pink colour and the way the nail is shaped into the cuticle. The base of the nail is the pink acrylic and she has 'natural' coloured tips on. [Though many women have the acute ability to distinguish false nails from real ones, the fact is that in this situation there is nothing alarmingly discernable about Elizabeth's nails that would validate this. There is nothing telling in the way her nails are shaped, nor is there anything revealing about their color, on the nail plates, or free edges.]
Corrected by Rikki Time
Entry In scene ten, Jack Sparrow's prison cell on the Black Pearl, which is in the closest cell on the right, is busted open by the Interceptor's cannons. In scene eleven, when the crew of the Interceptor is captured, the majority of the crew is placed in the exact same cell that Jack Sparrow had been busted out of, on the right side, but the lock has been mysteriously fixed. [The lock is still broken. When Gibbs says, "Good man!" referring to Bill Turner, the broken twisted bars around the broken lock are visible at the bottom right of the screen, as is the steel link chain that is wound around the existing bars to hold the door locked in place. It is visible on DVD widescreen.]
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Entry When Elizabeth tries to get a sword from the decoration in her house, the sword hangs on a nail. When the pirates barge in, there is no nail on the wall. Look closely if you have to. [When Elizabeth pulls the panoply sword display from the wall the nail is apparent due to the close-up. However, in the next wide shot, as she steps off the stool, the very small nail is not easily noticeable, but it CAN be seen as a small black dot on the wall over the mantle, just as it is when Pintel and Ragetti burst in.]
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Entry The solid cannon shot explodes in flames. Shells that exploded weren't invented until the mid-19th century. [Leonardo da Vinci invented exploding shells in the late 1400s-early 1500s.]
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Entry The fish that Elizabeth is served does not live in the Caribbean. [Barbossa and the rest of the pirates have just pillaged Port Royal, including the well stocked mansion of the wealthy Governor. The fish that is served need not have been caught in the Caribbean and it makes perfect sense to think that they stole it and the rest of the food that they now have aboard the Pearl, from the Governor's mansion. That fish and other delicacies would have simply been sent to the Governor's home in Port Royal from elsewhere.]
Corrected by Rikki Time
Entry When the wooden-eyed guy and the fat bald one are practicing eating, and the little monkey lands head first on the cannon and gets knocked out and falls off the cannon. The monkey is immortal too and therefore can not be knocked out. [First off, Grapple and Mallet are the ones sitting at the table, to be as Mallet puts it "ready when the time comes" to eat, not Pintel (bald) and Ragetti (fake eye). Jack (the monkey) hits the hard cannon (Elizabeth threw him overboard), he shakes his head from the jolt, then loses his balance and falls off into the water - he is never even 'knocked out'.]
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Entry Barbossa tells Elizabeth that they spent all the gold and took ten years to find it again. But this makes no sense. The moment night fell and they realized the side effect was that they were cursed, they would have just returned it, instead of spending it. [Could be many possible explanations for this. They could have found and spent the gold before night fell. Also, by spending all the gold, he might not have actually meant every single piece, just a portion, which would be a much more possible thing to do before night fall. They also likely split up when they got to land, so some could have gone to a bar and stayed there all night, indoors, away from the moon light. If they stayed all night, they wouldn't realize they were cursed til the following night, giving the money time to circulate.]
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Entry When the child Elizabeth wakens the child Will in the first scene, she says "It's okay." Use of the term "okay" was strictly American slang, and not in use until the early 19th century. [See similar corrections for 'Braveheart' and 'Troy'. The film is shot in colloquial English so modern audiences can understand it. This is a film convention, not a mistake.]
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Entry When Elizabeth is about to smack Jacoby in the head with the large gold sceptre, she says "You like pain? Try wearing a corset." In the 18th century, that garment was called "stays," and that is certainly the word she would have used. Similarly, in the scene in which her father brings her a new dress, she appears to be uncomfortable in the stays, as if she had never worn them before: a woman of her socio-economic class would have been wearing stays since she was at least 7 years old. [First of all, using "corsets" vs "stays", is similar to the corrections for 'Braveheart' and 'Troy'. This film is shot in colloquial English so modern audiences can understand it. This is a film convention, not a mistake. Second of all, being used to wearing corsets wouldn't mean that it doesn't hurt, especially a brand new one.]
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Entry As Will comes on board the Black Pearl after his own ship blows up, not a drop of water falls off his clothes. Yet he has just been swimming in the ocean, so why isn't he dripping wet? [Will is dripping wet throughout the whole scene. This is most noticeable by the fact that the sleeves of his white shirt are completely see-through and his hair is without a doubt soaked as well. And water actually does drip of his shirt several times during the scene.]
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Entry After the Pirates on the Black Pearl pillage the town and they are bargaining with Elizabeth, they are standing in the open moonlight, however they do not look like skeletons. [Before the shot of Elizabeth on the small boat with the pirates there is a shot of the moon being covered by thick clouds. So when she is aboard the Pearl with Barbossa and his crew there is cloud cover overhead, hence the pirates are not in skeletal form.]
Corrected by Rikki Time
Entry When Elizabeth is running from the pirates the chandelier falls down, but when she runs into the dining room you can see that it is back up hanging on the roof. [The large chandelier in the FOYER does fall and we do NOT see it back up. As Elizabeth runs into the dining room, behind her we see a glimpse of another similar light fixture that is attached to the wall at the stairs - it is NOT the large hanging chandelier that fell. Then when Elizabeth is in the dining room, the chandelier we do see in the next few shots is the one that hangs over the table, in the dining room.]
Corrected by Rikki Time
Entry When Jack boards the Interceptor after sneaking past the guards, watch when the guards confront him. There's a shot of the guards, and you can see a boat pass by in the background. Then a shot of Jack, then back to the guards. In the background the exact same boat can be seen passing by again. [It is not the same boat, but a different one which was behind the first boat. When you see the first boat, just at the end of the shot you can see the front of the other boat behind it come into view.]
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Entry It would be physically impossible to crew a ship with two men. The sails alone weigh over 1,000 pounds. [That's why Jack had to let the navy get the ship ready to set sail (in fact already sailing) before he could "commandeer" it. That's why he thanks Commodore Norrington because "We'd have had a hard time of it by ourselves."]
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Entry When the Interceptor starts clubhauling, Captain Barbossa gives the command "hard to port, rack the starboard oars." The film is set in the 1700's but the word "port," meaning left wasn't invented until the late 1800's early 1900's. [It is true that the word port was not *officially* adopted by the British and US navies (to replace the archaic larboard, which was easily confused with starboard) until the 1840s. However, the term was first recorded in the 1540s, and would have long been in common use by the 1700s. See http://www.etymonline.com/p8etym.htm and http://www.wordorigins.org/wordorp.htm.]
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Entry When Jack and Will are fighting in his shop, Will pulls out the brander, the end of which has changed shape from when Jack used it. [Of course the tip changed shape, it's an entirely different tool. Jack pulls a glowing red hot 'fire poker' out of the fire, not a brander, which is glowing red-hot with caked-on ash on the tip, in order to get the donkey to move. Later Will pulls long iron tongs from the table beside the fireplace to wield against Jack, after Jack kicks Will's sword out of his hand.]
Corrected by Rikki Time

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