Governor Swann: So...this is the path you've chosen, is it? After all, he is a blacksmith.
Elizabeth Swan: No; he's a pirate.
When Barbossa takes the sword out of his own chest, he then stabs Jack with that sword, and he stabs Jack right under the strap and buckle. As Jack walks backwards, into the moonlight, the skeletal Jack appears and now he has the sword over the strap and buckle, in his chest. The length of the sword between the guard and his chest differs greatly, as does the amount of sword that protrudes from his back. See more...
Johnny Depp wears contacts in the movie. But they are not for changing his eye colour or anything, they are actually darkly tinted to act like sunglasses so Depp wouldn't have to squint when they were filming in the sun. 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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During the attack on Port Royal Orlando comes out ready to fight with a sword in one hand and an axe in the other which he throws into the back of a pirate who drops dead. I thought the pirates could not die? [The pirate doesn't die. That is why Will is shocked when the pirate throws the bomb at him later. The pirate actually just got knocked over from the force of the blow.]
Just before Will runs down the stairs at the prison, to ask Jack where the Black Pearl is, Jack is trying to pick the lock with a bone fragment. When Will appears, Jack leaves the bone in the lock, and we see it once more, when Will says, "You. Sparrow." However, when the lock is shown again, as Jack and Will shake hands, the bone is not in the lock anymore. [A bone does not fit a lock like a key, and it could have loosened and fallen out at any time. As pointed out previously, Will grabs the door in anger. He could also have brushed against the bone and loosened it, any number of things.]
A lot of the movie is based on the fact that Will's blood is need to break the curse. You see Elizabeth's hand being cut. You see Jack cutting his hand before tossing his coin to Will. However, we never see that Will is bleeding. Did I miss something? [You can see a gash across Will's hand as he drops both coins into the chest.]
Corrected by Grumpy Scot
Ragetti has a wooden eye. He is always complaining how much the eye is irritating him by splintering and itching. The pirates are under the curse. It would be impossible for him to feel anything, in this case, it should not itch. [It's been established that although the pirates do not feel pleasure, they do react to pain and discomfort, such as itching. This could be part of the curse.]
When Jack is going to be hung, and Will throws the sword, he is in front of the platform so the sword should have gone through the front of it, but it went though the back. [The sword went through the front of the trap door and the tip of the blade comes out the back. Standing on the scaffolding Jack faces Norrington's office and his back is facing the parapet.]
Corrected by Rikki
In the first scene, young Elizabeth is singing her pirate song and Mr. Gibbs makes a remark that it is unlucky to have a woman on board even if she is a miniature woman. If Elizabeth is the ONLY woman on board, who curled her hair into perfect ringlets and helped her get dressed?(her dress would have fastened in the back). I don't think that the men on board would have known how to maintain a proper young woman - or be allowed to for that matter. [Nobody ever said she was the only woman on board.]
The British Royal Navy have their bayonets fixed all the time. This is not practical. Bayonets were kept in a scabbard on their belt. Loading a musket with a fixed bayonet will skin the soldier's knuckles raw. [The only time we see the British muskets is when it would be practical to have fixed bayonets. It is also perfectly possible to reload a musket with a fixed bayonet without injuring yourself, you just have to be a bit more careful and it takes a few seconds longer. During the American Civil War, with weapons not very different from those used in this movie, it was a common practice to charge with fixed bayonets and reload the weapons during the battle without removing the bayonet. This was done in case the fight became a melee and the bayonet could be used, and also to instill fear in the enemy.]
When Commodore Norrington proposes to Elizabeth, and she falls off the cliff, she should have died. When you hit water after falling from a great height, it acts like cement would if you fell on it from the same height. [Water tension only has this effect if the water is extremely calm, which it wouldn't be in this case, due to the waves and the presence of rocks nearby. A landing in even relatively calm water can be survivable - a well-documented case from 1993 details a New Zealand parachutist, who fell 3600 feet when both his parachutes failed to open. He landed in a shallow duck pond and walked away with only a small cut over one eye.]
Corrected by Tailkinker
When Elizabeth is talking with Norrington before she falls to the sea, she is wearing two necklaces - a short gold necklace with white pearls, and a long chain with the Aztec medallion. Later, we see only the chain with the Aztec medallion and there is no trace of the other necklace. [The other necklace was a much more delicate piece than the sturdy chain for the medallion. Considering the height from which Elizabeth fell, chances are it broke when she hit the water.]
Corrected by Sereenie
Just after Jack and Elizabeth are rescued from the island, in the wide screen version you can see a camera man dressing in a blue short sleeve shirt and tan shorts standing a few feet behind Depp to the far left. [When Jack says, "If I may be so bold to interject my professional opinion", behind Jack to his right are two sailors. One with a tan shirt with sleeves rolled up above his elbow, and wearing a black band on his wrist. The second, with a blue shirt with sleeves rolled up above his elbow, not short sleeves. The one with the blue shirt has white pants, not shorts, a dark belt and dark hair with a braid at his back. Those two men, tan shirt and blue shirt, have their arms up holding the line leading to the small boat that just rescued Elizabeth and Jack. Even more sailors wearing similar clothes, tan shirts and blue shirts, can also be seen when Norrington boards the Dauntless, before Jack and Will's escape on Interceptor.]
Corrected by Rikki
In the scene where Captain Jack saves Elizabeth they put a shirt over her to cover her, but when Jack kidnaps her she's not wearing it anymore. [What is put over Elizabeth's shoulders is her father's coat. You can see her remove it and thrust it towards the governor as Elizabeth says, "Commodore, I really must protest."]
Throughout the film, we see that the castle is right directly on the edge of the cliff, but in the scenes where the Commodore is proposing and when Jack falls off, both in the same place, we can see rocks jutting out past the castle base. These rocks are not visible when the castle is viewed from any other angle. [Not sure which rocks you are talking about, so I will give 2 answers. If you're talking about the ones actually in the water they could be tidal OR they could actually be under the water, but visible from above because the water is so clear. If you talking about the ones connected to the base, I watched the scene and you can see them attached to the cliff and then sloping into the sea.]
Throughout the movie, people are in and out of the water, but when they are on deck their clothes are dry. The white shirts that they wear should become clingy and translucent when wet and don't dry very fast. An example of the way they look is when Will and Elizabeth return to the Interceptor. The other scenes in the movie where their shirts are free flowing are of dry shirts. [When Jack and Elizabeth are marooned on the island, their shirts are very visibly wet. When Will and Elizabeth return to the Interceptor, they had been out of the water for awhile, and their shirts had time to dry a little.]
Hans Zimmer, the composer for this film, also composed the music to 'The Road to El Dorado'. After watching both, it is evident that some of the themes in POTC are almost exact copies of themes from El Dorado. One that springs to mind is the theme - in El Dorado - played whenever the High Priest is on screen. It is the same music played during moments heavily featuring the Pearl in POTC. [Klaus Badelt composed the score for this film, not Hans Zimmer. Hans Zimmer was the music producer of PotC.]
How would Barbarossa have such nice looking apples? He is on a dirty old pirate ship in an Atlantic setting with no orchards within 100's of miles and yet he has such flawless, ripe fruit. Apples are not a tropical fruit in nature. This means that they have to be shipped from other places by ship, if at all. The voyage would take weeks, maybe months for them to arrive. The stories about sailors having scurvy due to the lack of fresh fruit and vegetables is because fruit like apples only stay good for about a week and then start to go bad. They would never last the entirety of the voyage. [The pirates just pillaged Port Royal, including the well stocked home of the Governor. It makes sense to think that they stole all the delicious food that they now have aboard the Pearl, including the apples, from Port Royal.]
Corrected by Rikki
All the men in the British Royal Navy wear powdered wigs, but Murtogg and Mullroy have normal brown hair. [As a rule, only the officers wear powdered wigs - if you watch the battle on the Dauntless at the end, none of the enlisted men are wearing the wigs. The troops who assist in nearly arresting Jack after his rescue of Elizabeth have just been at Norrington's promotion ceremony - a special occasion where all the Navy men would wear the wigs. Murtogg and Mullroy were not present at the ceremony, therefore they are dressed normally, without the wigs.]
Corrected by Tailkinker
When you see the tattoo of the sparrow on Johny Depp's arm that is actual real tattoo. it represents his son who is also called Jack [The tattoo of the sparrow was painted on, but after the movie was made, Johnny Depp got one exactly like it.]
First when Elizabeth and Norrington are speaking, Elizabeth falls off the edge and into the water. There were rocks below but when they view her underwater there are no rocks surrounding her. [There are always rocks surrounding her. Under water, we can see one rock to the far right of the screen. the other rocks are just spread out, as seen from above.]
In the shot where Elizabeth is admiring the medallion (after her dream), she hears her father and runs to get her dressing gown off her bed, knocking down her chair in the process. In the next shot, the chair is upright again. [While we do see the chair fall over onto the floor, as she reaches for her robe on the bed, the camera never once shows that chair again, in the subsequent shots in her bedroom. That chair has an ornate high back, with a white seat cushion. The chair we see behind Elizabeth as she puts her robe on, is another chair, with a low straight back.]
Corrected by Rikki
In the scene where Will is denying that his father was a pirate and Jack swings the wheel over to push Will off the ship with the boom. The ship is running before the wind so the spanker (the sail on the boom of the mizzen mast) should be right out perpendicular to the stern, and it should be held there by both the sheet holding it place on the mast and the preventer holding it in place on the side of the ship, and therefore shouldn't swing over when Jack moves the wheel. [First, the sheet would not stop the boom from swinging over, I've been hit enough times by the thing to know that. Second, it is reasonable that the preventer wasn't set, there are only two people aboard after all.]
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