Corrected entry: When "The Interceptor" is lying next to "The Black Pearl" during the sea battle, "The Interceptor" should have been destroyed after the first salvo by the much heavier armed "Black Pearl." Both ships are 10 meters away from each other, and they hardly damage each other with their main guns.
Corrected entry: During the first blood ritual, neither Will nor Jack make an attempt to rescue Elizabeth. This proves to be of no consequence because Barbossa only cuts her hand, but they had no way of knowing he was going to spare her life and not slit her throat.
Corrected entry: Elizabeth and Jack are seen coming ashore on the island soaking wet, but in the very next shot Elizabeth's hair is completely dry. Granted, this could be a while later, but Elizabeth's frantic questioning about how Jack got off the island last time seems to be something she'd ask right away.
Correction: Time has lapsed in between the shots, this is clear because when they first get to the island Jack is wearing his boots and vest, but when they are wandering around in the next shot his boots, vest and his accessories are all gone.
Corrected entry: In the last scene, no one seems to think it's strange that Will is wearing a hat that's 100 years out of date.
Corrected entry: During the ship battle between The Interceptor and the Black Pearl, the mast of The Interceptor falls upon the Black Pearl after being blown apart near the bottom. However, right before The Interceptor is shown exploding into smithereens, the mast is back on, and the ship looks perfectly intact.
Correction: The Interceptor has two masts. The mainmast and the mizzen just behind the first. When the Black Pearl attacks, the mainmast falls but the mizzen is intact. By that reason seems like "the mast is back on, and the ship looks perfectly intact".
Corrected entry: If Will's father took the medallion out to send to Will, he wouldn't have the curse because he didn't take it out in greed, in which case he would have drowned when the cannon was tied to his feet, and from what I've seen here, every one is convinced he was alive.
Correction: Will's father took the gold out of greed like all the other pirates, so would have been affected by the curse. Once he found out about the curse, he felt that it was justified because of what they did to Jack - they broke the code - so he sent the medallion to Will so that his fellow pirates couldn't break the curse.
Corrected entry: In the scene in which Elizabeth and Jack get out of the water in the small island, look at her back. You can see the strap of a brassiere through her dress, although that kind of underwear was not invented until the beginning of the 1900s.
Corrected entry: You will have to stay past the credits to see this one. The monkey swims back to shore, but you can see that he is just walking on a platform about a foot below the water.
Corrected entry: After Elizabeth has first seen the crew of the Black Pearl in the moonlight and she runs back to Barbossa who steps gradually into the moonlight to reveal himself in his skeleton form, his teeth change. The teeth on the skeleton Barbossa are noticeably straighter and whiter than his human form.
Corrected entry: When Orlando Bloom is imprisoned in the Black Pearl, one of the pirates tells him that they attached a cannon to Bootstrap Bill's bootstraps. However Bootstrap Bill was cursed as well, since he had a piece of gold which he sent to his son. Since he was cursed he couldn't die and could have escaped. He could still be alive.
Correction: The pirates never actually say they killed him or that he died. All they say is they strapped him to a cannon and dropped him in the ocean.
Corrected entry: Near the end of the film when Jack shoots Barbossa, there are words to the effect of "Your last shot and you wasted it". Then, Will replies: "No, he didn't", revealing the curse was broken. This takes about 15-20 seconds but when Barbossa opens his coat to reveal his wound there is only a slight bit of blood. Only then does the blood start to flow on his shirt. Of course it was shot this way to increase the dramatic effect of the scene, but it's still a mistake.
Correction: As can be seen before (e.g. when Barbosa shoots one of the pirates to see if the curse is broken), the cursed pirates don't bleed very much from gun wounds. So Barbosa doesn't bleed at first, because Will Turner breaks the curse AFTER he says "no, he didn't". Barbosa starts bleeding then because he's mortal again and because the wound is still existing (it would have vanished if he had become a skeleton again in the moonlight, but he didn't do that before the curse was broken).
Corrected entry: In the scene where Jack first pulls a sword on Will in the blacksmith's shop, Jack's blade is a hand-to-hand short sword...about 18" in blade length. However, when they begin fighting, Jack has a standard 32" blade length pirate cutlass.
Correction: The blade looks shorter in the early shots because the camera angle foreshortens it. It's always the same length.
Corrected entry: Why would the entire crew leave a ship at full sail (the Interceptor) to board a ship at half sail (the Dauntless)? Presumably the ship at full sail would be still moving.
Correction: This one has already been corrected. The sails of the Interceptor are turned so as not to catch any wind.
Corrected entry: There's a big problem in the end, when Barbosa is shot. At the time he is shot, the curse is not yet broken, but Will breaks it by throwing the coins back with blood on them. Then Barbosa feels the shot, and dies. But why doesn't all the pirates on board of the Dauntless die? They have been shot and cut with swords before the curse was broken, just like Barbosa.
Correction: Debatable point. While Barbosa's definitely shot before the two coins are dropped back in the chest, it could be argued that the moon plays an important part. As seen when the pirates have a bomb thrown at them then are shoved out of the moonlight, the lack of moonlight seems to regenerate skin over their bones. It's not just an illusion - they're either solid or skeletal depending on moonlight or not. Therefore it could be argued that injuries they receive when skeletal are repaired when they go out of moonlight. Any injuries they receive when solid don't affect them because they're cursed - we never see the effect of an uncursed solid injury except on Barbosa. Therefore because he's wounded and then the curse is lifted, when he's not under the "healing" moon, any recently incurred injuries have their full lethal consequences.
Corrected entry: In the scene after the two boats fight against each other, the boat blows up on one side. When Will gets onto the pirate boat, he gets on the other side. It would have taken Will much longer to swim to the pirate boat, and climb up the other side.
Correction: An indefinite amount of time passes between these happenings, otherwise it would be true that Will would have no time to swim that far. Remember, the Black Pearl had to get that far away too.
Corrected entry: Will Turner is trapped in the ship's hold and the water rises to the roof, leaving him no air. When we see the ship from the outside the deck is six feet above the water. So the water in the hold is six feet higher than the ocean.
Correction: The leak was caused by a break in the ship from the starboard anchor, the pressure of both the anchor and the water getting in through the break would have caused the ship to tilt to the right which was the far side of the battle. That would therefore make the left side of the boat (the place of the battle) higher then the starboard side which would mean more water was in the ship then it appeared.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Will is trapped in the hold of the ship, before it blows up, you can see the emergency air hose between two planks of wood (possibly barrels, but they seemed pretty flat to me).
Correction: I looked really hard for this when I saw the film at the cinema for the second time, all I could see was a piece of rope.
Corrected entry: 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.
Correction: The cuffs have a very long chain between them, so he could have his hands fairly well separated.
Corrected entry: 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.
Correction: 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.
Corrected entry: 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?
Correction: 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.
Correction: The pirates still need to retrieve the missing medallion from the Interceptor, which would be far easier with the ship still mostly intact. As such, they would aim the guns to cripple the ship, but deliberately avoid destroying her completely until they'd had a chance to board and locate the medallion.
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