Corrected entry: There is no way that twenty or so people running back and forth on the deck of a ship can make it capsize. Even if the cannons and cargo were cut loose, and the ship were rolling it would all fall over to one side of the ship and just stay there, and so would the ship. It wouldn't be able to roll back.
Corrected entry: In the first movie, it's established anyone under the Aztec gold's curse cannot eat anything for it will turn to ash. However Barbossa is able to feed Jack the monkey (who is still cursed) a peanut, and he consumes it properly.
Correction: The monkey doesn't realize it can't eat, it just knows it's hungry and demands a treat. Barbossa uses peanuts as a way to dote on his beloved pet. Also, it may take a few moments before the food turns to ash in its mouth, and it would probably only encourage the monkey to want more.
Corrected entry: Whilst trying to flip the ship upside down and thus return to the normal world, the crew actually run as if to counteract the swaying, not increase it.
Correction: Once the boat gets to a certain degree of tilt you have to run in a way that would seem to be counteracting the swaying but really you are increasing the tilt, like being on a swing, you lean back when your going forward and you lean forward when your going back.
Corrected entry: In the scene where you see the ship sailing through the snow and icebergs, it shows the snowflakes are lightly falling randomly which indicate there is no wind, yet the ship is sailing as if there was a lot of wind. If there was a lot of wind shouldn't the snow be falling in the same direction as the ship is sailing?
Corrected entry: In the scene where Jack is fighting with himselves, he runs his sword though one of himselves. As he withdraws the sword, there is no blood anywhere on the blade. When the shot changes to him wiping the blade with his hand and on the boat's timber, there is blood now visible on the blade.
Corrected entry: In the hanging scene at the beginning, as an East India Company officer approaches a seated EIC officer and says "the pirates are singing", there is a distance shot of the pirates on the scaffold behind him. There should be a boy standing on a keg among the pirates on the scaffold. He is not there.
Correction: The boy is present in all shots, albeit rather blurry and indistinct due to being in the background. It's definitely him, though.
Corrected entry: Towards the end of the movie Jack finds Gibbs on the dock sleeping as Jack's ship has once again gone missing. clutched in Mr. Gibbs' arms is a teddy bear. Teddy bears were not invented until 1902 by Morris Mitchtom.
Correction: Stuffed animals are known to have existed in Ancient Egypt. While the 'modern' commercially produced teddy bear did not appear until designed by Richard Stieff in 1902, stuffed representations of animals go back into history. There is no reason to think that one of the animals represented could not have been a bear and that Gibbs could not possess such a representation.
Corrected entry: In the scene when Barbossa and the others are sailing to the arctic regions the opening shot is of Jack the Monkey. The monkey is shivering, but he's still undead, so shouldn't feel the cold.
Correction: As explained several times in corrections for the first movie, pirates (and monkeys) under the Aztec curse can still feel uncomfortable sensations, such as pain and cold. They are only unable to experience pleasure.
Corrected entry: When Captain Jack Sparrow is negotiating a deal to betray the Pirate Lords with Lord Cutler Beckett on the Venture, the Empress, Sao Feng's ship, fires on Beckett's vessel when it departs. At this time Beckett is holding a flintlock pistol to Sparrow's head and asking why he should not kill him. However, the frizzen of the pistol (the cover of the pan that holds the powder that will ignite in the pan and cause the bullet to fire) is open, not closed and ready for firing. Since it was open, Beckett was essentially pointing an unloaded gun at Jack Sparrow - not a mistake he'd make.
Correction: The reason the gun is "unloaded" is because hes bluffing. If he wanted Jack dead he would have been dead. He just wanted Jack to follow his plan.
Corrected entry: In the final battle, the fleets line up with the ships side by side (like infantry). I don't think you can find a single battle in history that a fleet sailed into battle in rows. They sail front to back, following each other. The ships obviously shoot side to side so if they attack as shown, all their firepower is pointed at their own ships, not the opponents.
Correction: All they have to do is turn sideways, and they've just made a solid wall of firepower. If they sailed in one behind the other, it would take forever to move the last ships within firing range. This may not be how it was done historically, but then this is far from a documentary.
Corrected entry: Towards the very end of the movie when Jack Sparrow and Elizabeth Swan are floating with a piece of sail from the Dutchman's ship, they land in the water. The very next scene shows them climbing aboard a ship - they should be dripping wet. No water is visible on them at all. His hand is dry and so are their chests and faces.
Correction: They would only be dripping wet if the climbed directly onto the ship, but a large sailing ship is not maneuverable enough to pull up alongside two people floating in the water. Instead, a longboat or dingy would have to be lowered into the water and dispatched to rescue them; giving them plenty of time to partially dry while rowing back to the ship and then climbing up the side. While not dripping wet, they were noticeably recently wet; the mistake would have been if they had been dripping wet.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Elizabeth and Barbossa are visiting Singapore, the crew are going through the sewers. At one point they have to go through a grate, they start sawing and filing through the bars in the middle of the grate. When they pull it loose from the wall the ends of the bars are suddenly sawn through.
Correction: Just because they started in the middle of the bards doesn't mean that's where they stopped. There's a great deal of time passage between the 2 shots. It's HIGHLY likely that they realized sawing through the middle of the grate was a bad idea and then moved to the outside edges.
Corrected entry: When Jack Sparrow is in Davy Jones' Locker he has his compass, but when he meets Lord Beckett for the first time in the movie Lord Beckett has it and uses it as leverage against Jack.
Correction: Jack was captured by the royal navy & THEN brought to Lord Beckett. I'm pretty sure that they frisked him when they brought him in and took all his belongings from him. That's how Beckett got the compass.
Corrected entry: When Will Turner is pulled up from the well in the beginning of the movie, his hair is hanging down in his eyes. When they show him again his hair is all slicked back. Both his hands are tied to a wooden plank so he could not have fixed his hair.
Correction: And if your hair is sufficently wet (which his was), you can flip your head back really fast and your hair will end up like his. I have longer hair and can do that without hands.
Corrected entry: After Jack Sparrow leaps off his beached ship in Davy Jones' locker, he states that there is no wind blowing. During the following shots, however, his hair sways as if in a breeze.
Correction: A 'wind' to a sailor is something sufficient to move his ship. The gentle breeze required to move his hair (which he may not have even noticed) would be of no interest to him and would qualify as 'no wind'.
Corrected entry: Will could've easily seen Elizabeth more than once every ten years, by walking with his feet in buckets, which Davy Jones did.
Correction: Technically, yes, he could have, but doing so would have been extremely dangerous. Jones isn't merely incapable of setting foot on dry land, it's fatal for him to do so. Will would risk death attempting this if he should lose his balance while trying to walk thus encumbered.
Correction: Would be kinda stupid to be walking across a beach in buckets, just to see your wife. Davey Jones was pretty much imprisoned when he was standing in that bucket. However they made it work it was only for the negotiations and wouldn't be exactly practical to do when visiting, standing there on the beach in a bucket, even going from bucket to bucket. Will wanted to see his wife, but at the same time wanted to do his job, he wasn't desperate.
Correction: Under normal circumstances a ship could not be overturned in this way, but they are not in the living world; they are in Davy Jones Locker. Sao Feng's navigational chart has revealed that there is an escape route from the Locker by capsizing a ship, therefore it is indeed possible to overturn a vessel in this manner.
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