Corrected entry: When Elizabeth is in the cave and Barbossa goes to cut her hand, he holds his hand on her hand and turns it over, yet in the following shot, his hand is now on her wrist. (01:09:20)
Corrected entry: Just after Elizabeth threatens to drop the gold coin into the sea, her body's direction changes in subsequent shots from turned at a side to facing the captain of the Black Pearl. (00:38:20)
Corrected 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. (00:59:55)
Correction: 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 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. (00:36:20)
Correction: 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.
Corrected 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.
Correction: 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 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.
Correction: 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.
Corrected 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?
Correction: 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.
Corrected 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.
Corrected 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.
Correction: 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.
Corrected entry: On Disc 2, go to 'Below Deck', 'Scene Index', then page 2. Highlight 'Types of Pirates' and press right and Enter to view the DVD Credits.
Correction: This is not an Easter egg. You can view the DVD credits anyway by just clicking down the normal way.
Corrected entry: Take a close look at Will's face just before Jack sprays him with soot during their fight. If you pause the movie you can see that Will's face is already dirty, probably from a previous take.
Correction: Seen frame by frame, in the first shot facing Jack, when Will's back is seen, Jack grabs the bag of soot, starts to squeeze it towards Will and plenty of soot begins to pour out into the air already. As the next shot opens, this time facing Will, there is soot in the air making this shot hazy and a large puff of soot right in front of him, so the soot has already started to settle on his face and body, and in the next frame more soot blankets him.
Corrected entry: I know Jack was able to fold the handcuffs in half to slide down - but how did he get off? There must have been something the pole was attached to at the end... and he just drops off. Shouldn't he have hit something at the other end of the rope?
Correction: The handcuffs don't go over the rope with his hands on either side. If you watch closely, he throws the chain of the handcuffs over the top of the rope and then holds on to that as he slides down. Then, when he gets to the bottom, he simply lets go of the folded chain. It took a few times watching that scene to figure out how he did that. As for not hitting something at the end, the rope continues for a bit longer, to whatever it is tied to, but Jack simply lets go of the folded chain when he's near enough to the ground, and hits the ground running.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Captain Jack Sparrow rescues Elizabeth Swann from the water, when they are reaching the top of the sea after Jack has taken off her dress, you see his arms and legs moving but he isn't holding onto Elizabeth, but if she's unconscious how would she be able to hold on? (00:16:20)
Correction: She is not holding on, but Sparrow draped her over his shoulder so she wouldn't have to hold on.
Corrected entry: When the Interceptor is trying to escape the Black Pearl, there's a shot of Barbosa from behind. Over his shoulder, there is a pirate dancing quite excitedly on the stern of the ship.
Correction: In the two shots over Barbossa's shoulder, who is himself at the stern of the Black Pearl, the pirate that is seen 'dancing' is actually hopping on one leg on the bow of the Pearl. He is not wearing his wooden leg in these shots. This pirate is portrayed by an individual who really is missing a leg.
Corrected entry: The black, dread-locked pirate with the white cross on his face loses his arm to the Governor in the assault on the Dauntless. The Governor then continues to fight with this dismembered arm, but we later see the same Pirate with two arms when Norrington joins the attack. Am I right, or does a different Pirate lose his arm? And why does no one continue to fight with Swan after after he lops off their arm.
Correction: It is not Koehler's arm that Governor Swann hacks off, it is another unknown pirate's arm. The other pirates are distracted as they fight with the Marines aboard Dauntless and trying to fend off Norrington and his men who are approaching Dauntless from the boats in the water.
Corrected entry: In the blacksmith's shop, you can tell that the donkey is attached to the huge gear above it. However, when Jack and Will are fighting around the large post in the center, the gear is turning, but the donkey is no where to be seen.
Correction: The post Jack and Will fight around is the post of the *second* gear in the shop. The first overhead gear is turned by the donkey, and this gear then turns the one that Jack and Will are fighting around. The donkey can be seen several times during the fight at screen's edge, where the first gear is.
Corrected entry: In the opening scene, the line that keeps the umbrella that is floating in the water pointed straight up is visible in the shot of the umbrella floating past the side of the ship. (00:02:10)
Correction: There is no line visible, either in real time or watching frame by frame.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Jack is getting arrested after saving Elizabeth, Norrington looks at Jack's compass and says "...a compass that doesn't point north..." and a clicking sound is made as though the compass has been closed. But if you watch the compass, it doesn't close when the sound is made.
Correction: There are two clicking noises: the first is made when the compass is snapped open, therefore the compass is not supposed to be closed. When the second click is heard, after Norrington says "doesn't point north...", Norrington moves the compass down and out of the frame, as if to flip it closed. It isn't until a moment after the compass disappears from view that the click closed is heard, so there is no way this can even be seen.
Corrected entry: When Jack walks off the plank he has shoes on, when he's swimming down to the bottom of the ocean he doesn't, and when his toe hits a rock he does.
Correction: This is wrong. As 'Jack' (Tony Angelotti) swims down, the silhouette of his boots, especially the top of his boots, are seen. The boots in this shot have a very low heel.
Corrected entry: 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?
Correction: You can see a gash across Will's hand as he drops both coins into the chest.
Correction: After Barbossa slices Elizabeth's palm, in the first shot, he squeezes her hand closed so the blood stained medallion is tightly enclosed within her grasp, and as Barbossa grips her hand he turns her hand so it is palm side down, over the Aztec chest. It cuts to two shots of the pirates hooting and hollering - and we do not see Elizabeth's hand. Then in the fourth shot Barbossa holds Elizabeth's wrist, as he forces her to drop the medallion. There is plenty of time between the first and fourth shot for Barbossa to change his grip.
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