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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When Jack is escaping the British in the beginning, he swings away on a rope and we see him land on a plank. But he lands with his arms separated, something he wouldn't be able to do when he is wearing handcuffs. [The cuffs have a very long chain between them, so he could have his hands fairly well separated.]
During the scene where Barbosa ans Jack Sparrow are fighting, Will and Elizabeth stop their fighting and watch from a distance. However, during one shot of the scene, Will and Elizabeth can be seen above leaning over a railing watching Jack and Barbosa act out their scene. When the shot switches back, they are back standing at a distance. [They're not leaning on a railing, they're both holding the pole which Elizabeth just used to hit a pirate with. They're also the same distance away, it just looks different because of the angle of each shot.]
When Jack Sparrow first enters the cave, (during the sacrifice ritual of Elizabeth) everyone is shocked to see him because he was 'supposed to be dead'. But earlier in the film 2 crew members found him in his jail cell. Surely the 2 would have told everyone about the surprising encounter? [The crewmembers found him alive in his cell, but left him there to be hanged in the morning. Even if they told the rest of the crew, they'd still believe him dead.]
When Elizabeth is taken aboard the Black Pearl, she dines with Barbossa. Barbossa explains about the curse, saying that the gods placed a terrible curse upon the treasure of Cortez. He is quoted saying: 'Any MORTAL who takes but a single piece from that stone chest, shall be punished for all eternity.' But, when the moonlight shines on the little monkey, he too is a skeleton. Monkeys aren't mortals, so how can the little fellow be cursed? [Mortal is any thing that can die. The monkey, just like the pirates, is mortal and would (if the curse had not happened) have died like any other living thing.]
When the crew of the Black Pearl are taking over the boat outside their cave, and one of the crew member's arm is ripped off, it is still in the bone form, even when it is in the cabin of the ship where moonlight cannot reach. [This has been corrected before, the entire cabin is lit by ambient moonlight.]
In the scene when Captain Barbosa is explaining to Elizabeth about the curse he pours white wine into his glass. After he goes on to the dock and drinks the wine, the wine we see dripping through his skeleton is red. [He grabs a different wine bottle.]
If Jack is under the curse, then how could he bleed on the coin when he cut his hand and then throws it into the chest? [The undead pirates do still bleed. In an earlier scene when Elizabeth stabs Barbossa with the kitchen knife and then pulls it out, there's blood on the blade.]
When Jack Sparrow dives off the plank of the Black Pearl after his pistol and sword, his hands are tied. Yet when he finds them in the ocean, his hands are untied, and he grabs them with one hand. [His hands are in fact still tied, and he uses two hands to pick up his belongings.]
In the beginning of the movie, when Elizabeth falls off the cliff because of the tightness of her corset, one of the soldiers remarks about how lucky she was to have missed the rocks. However, at the end of the movie, when Jack Sparrow is giving is farewell speech and jumps off the same area, there are no rocks in the water. [This could be tidal - the rocks might be completely underwater at high tide, but visible at low tide.]
Elizabeth falls from the edge of the property into the harbor at the beginning of the film. We see this from different angles, including in the distance from behind Jack Sparrow. Once she hits the water, he says to the British guards "Are either one of you going to get her?" All he heard was a splash and did not turn to see the disturbed water until after she fell. How did Sparrow know it was a "her", or a person at all for that matter? [Just a moment before Norrington shouted "Elizabeth!", so Jack simply had good ear and was smart enough to guess what this splash was.]
In the scene where Elizabeth first finds out about the skeletal remains, she is thrown onto the wheel deck with a pirate who is chasing her, She rotates the wheel rapidly and breaks off the head of the pirate, but the ship never changes course. [The wheel turns freely, indicating that the linkage has been disconnected (part of the work the pirates were doing?). Anyway, that's why the ship does not change course: the wheel is not connected to the rudder.]
The Pirate Captain dies, falls down, and an apple falls from his left hand. But he was holding a pistol in that hand as he died. [Barbossa drops both his pistol and sword, the he opens up his jacket to reveal the wound. Since he loved apples so much he probably had an apple in his pocket and tried to take a bite before he died. Furthermore, Barbossa is tossing the apple in his hand as he enters the cave for Will's sacrifice.]
The Commodore sails the smaller ship over to the Dauntless under full sails. He and the guards then board the Dauntless, leaving the smaller ship sitting motionless, with slack lines and a space between the ships, yet still under full sails. [The sails are turned so they are perpendicular to the wind direction. This is done if a ship needs to go to full sail quickly - just turn the sails to catch the wind, and off you go. There is a name for this, but I can't remember it.]
When they though that Elizabeth was a Turner and they needed her blood, she only got her hand cut. But when Will was about to shed his blood, it was his throat that was going to be cut. What's with the drastic change between the blood getting? [Barbossa says a bit earlier that they would take no chances and use all of his blood instead of a few drops. Another reason is that Elizabeth's company would have been pleasurable afterward whereas Will would just be a bother.]
Corrected by Grumpy Scot
In the shot where two of the pirates find Jack Sparrow in the prison, you see the moon shine out over Port Royal and the pirate's hand around Jack's neck is skeletal. While this is happening we know that Elizabeth is being led onto the Black Pearl by two pirates. If the pirate in the prison turns skeletal, why don't the pirates with Elizabeth turn skeletal? Its clear that they don't as Elizabeth only discovers the curse later on aboard the Black Pearl. [There is a shot during the battle that shows the clouds move over the moon so that it is completely covered. Once the moonlight is not shining onto the pirates, they are no longer skeletons.]
British ships and ports erroneously fly the modern-day Union flag, a combination of St. George's, St. Andrew's, and St. Patrick's Crosses. In 1602, the Union flag was first developed; it contained the Cross of St. George (a red cross on a white field, representing England) superimposed onto the Cross of St. Andrew (a white X on a blue field, representing Scotland). St. Patrick's Cross (a white X on a red field) wasn't added until 1806. [The ships and the ports fly the Union Flag as it was from 1707 to 1806 with the cross of St George and St Andrew. St Patrick's cross is a red saltire (diagonal cross) on a white background.]
When Norrington and his men are waiting outside the caves for the pirates to row out, why do they not hear the gunfire from the battle happening on their ship? It is not until one of the dying crew members rings a bell that they notice the gunfire from the ship and row back to join the fight. [They're near cliffs with waves breaking against them and their eyes are focused on the cave. Anyone who's spent time near the ocean knows that breakers are loud. Even once they notice the gunfire, it's more the flashes than the muted sounds that tell them what's happening. Careless of the soldiers, but plausible.]
If the pirates cannot eat, there is no reason for them to have so much food stocked on their ship unless they want to make themselves suffer even more. [They want to have plenty of food on hand for when they eventually break the curse.]
When Jack Sparrow dives off the plank of the Black Pearl to retrieve his pistol, he is wearing boots. While he is swimming down, he is bare-footed. When he pushes off on a rock to return to the surface, he has his boots on again. [If you look closely as he is swimming down to retrieve his pistol, you can see the folded tops of his boots which are lighter than the color of his boots.]
When the Cursed Pirates are invading the Town to retrieve the Aztec Gold from Elizabeth, William runs outside and begins fighting back. He throws what appears to be a small axe into the back of one of the Pirates, then the Pirate stops and falls to the ground motionless. You can only assume that he was dead. However, later on in the film it explains that Pirates under the Curse cannot die, or feel anything for that matter. [The pirate didn't die. He reappears at least twice. Right before Will is knocked out (when the pirates are leading Elizabeth to the ship), a pirate throws a bomb at him that doesn't explode. Will looks confused when he sees that pirate, because it is the same one he threw his hatchet at. That same pirate is one of the three that Will and Elizabeth kill in the final battle in the cave. As for why he fell over and appeared dead even though the wound wouldn't affect him, maybe he was stunned since he didn't see it coming.]
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