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Goofs for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

Errors in geography: Port Royal, Jamaica, is built on a low spit
of sand south of Kingston Harbor, nowhere more than about ten feet
above sea level. The movie set has it built atop hundred-foot
basaltic cliffs.

Factual errors: Elizabeth Swann's maid fills a bed warmer with
red-hot coals and then places the warmer at the feet of Elizabeth,
who is lying in bed. That's not the way bed warmers were used.
They held warm, not red-hot, coals, and were placed in bed before
one turned in and removed before the sleeper lay down. If used as
shown in the movie, they would have barbecued one's feet.

Continuity: At the beginning of the movie, the chains on Sparrow's
handcuffs are long enough for him to be able to throw a loop of
chain over the rope and grab it in his other hand, but later in
the movie when Sparrow is trying to take off his handcuffs the
chain is much shorter (not long enough to throw a loop over the
rope as he did earlier).

Continuity: When Captain Jack is escaping and fighting Will in the
blacksmith's shop, his shirt cuffs keep altering from being under
the manacles to being further up his arms. This also happens
earlier on, when he is swinging in a circle to escape the guards
at Port Royal.

Factual errors: The chest of cursed Aztec gold, which Cortez was
said to have taken from Mexico, depicts four representations of
the primary image of the Sun Gate from the Tiahuanaco
civilization, outside La Paz, Bolivia.

Continuity: Inside the treasure-filled cave, shafts of moonlight
descend straight downward. However, the view outside shows the
moon fairly low in the sky.

Anachronisms: Jack's execution uses a trapdoor-style gallows. This
was not invented until the 1800s.

Anachronisms: At least twice during the movie, the left side of
the ship is referred to as "port" (as in, "drop the port anchor").
"Larboard" was used until the 19th century when referring to the
ship, and "port" was only for directions. "Hard a-port" or "turn
to port" would have been used, but nothing referring to the port
side of the ship until the 1800s.

Revealing mistakes: Shortly after having been rescued from the
gallows, in one close-up Jack Sparrow can be seen wearing contact
lenses (they were tinted lenses to stop him from squinting).

Continuity: When Jack Sparrow first arrives, the sky is full of
white clouds and light blue sky, implying that it is midday and
the sun is high, however when we see the close-ups of Jack, the
clouds have a deep yellow tint to them as if it is sunrise or
sunset.

Continuity: After Jack escapes from the Black Pearl's dungeon and
grabs the rope (after the line "Thanks very much") his pony tail
is above his bandana on the left side, not the right.

Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Will draws his sword on the
Interceptor and tells Jack that his father wasn't a pirate, the
sword makes a metallic scraping noise, despite being tucked in his
belt without a sheath of any kind.

Anachronisms: When Elizabeth discovers that the pirates are
cursed, a pirate is seen sitting on the capstan playing a
concertina. The concertina was not invented until 1829.

Revealing mistakes: When Jack had just escaped and is flying
around in circles around the pole, the soldiers are told to shoot
him. Many of them continue to shoot, without reloading.

Revealing mistakes: After Will And Jack commandeer the
Interceptor, the ship is viewed from above, sailing on a beam
reach (a point of sail in which the boat is at 90 degrees to the
wind). When Jack knocks Will off the ship with the boom, he jibes
the boat, causing the sail to shift positions so suddenly. In
order to do this from the previous position, he would have had to
turn the ship almost completely around. This would have taken well
over a minute. Jack did this in less that three seconds. The sail
is also filled to the wrong side while it sweeps Will off the deck.

Factual errors: HMS Dauntless and HMS Interceptor are shown flying
the British Blue Ensign. Prior to 1864, the color of a Royal Navy
vessel's ensign was determined by its posting. The color of the
Caribbean squadron's ensign was red, as should have been the
Dauntless' and Interceptor's (blue was the color of the south
Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans).

Continuity: When Jack is talking Barbossa just before their final
fight, he picks up a large gold idol and tosses it away. In the
next shot, the idol has returned to its original position.

Continuity: When Jack and Barbossa are fighting, Barbossa plunges
Jacks sword into Jack. When it goes in, it is below Jack's leather
strap. When we see Jack as a skeleton, the sword is above the
leather strap.

Plot holes: After Pintel and Ragetti capture Elizabeth at the
governor's manor, there's a shot shown of the full moon coming out
from behind the clouds. We then cut to the interior of the prison
where Jack first learns about the curse of the Black Pearl's crew.
Then we see a shot of the moon getting covered by the clouds
again. However, even though it would happen off screen, all the
townspeople and officers would have also seen the pirates in their
skeletal forms in town, and Elizabeth would have seen them on her
way out to the Pearl. Yet she is surprised when she sees this
later, as are the naval officers.

Continuity: When Jack is in the prison, and he is speaking to the
other prisoners about getting the key from the dog, he is wearing
his hat. However, when Will comes to the prison to talk to Jack
about the Black Pearl, Jack is no longer wearing it. He leaves the
cell without returning to get it, and then when he reclaims his
'effects', the hat is not among them. However, in the next scene,
as Jack talks to Will, Jack is seen with the hat again.

Plot holes: In the end of the movie, during the Sparrow/Barbossa
fight, Jack throws will the medallion. Jack than shoots Barbossa,
who ridicules Jack for wasting his shot. Right after that, Will
puts his blood on the medallion and drops it in the chest, lifting
the curse. Barbossa then begins to bleed and die. Since the curse
was lifted after he was shot, every pirate, including Jack should
have then began to bleed from past wounds.

Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Will says, "You ignored the
rules of engagement. In a fair fight, I'd have killed you," none
of the words match his mouth.

Anachronisms: The song "A Pirate's Life for Me" is sung multiple
times throughout the movie. That song wasn't written until 1967
when the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disney World opened.

Revealing mistakes: At the beginning of the movie, Where Elizabeth
meets Will for the first time she grabs his gold pendant which is
around his neck. She has it in her hand and then her father yells
at her and she then has the pendant in her hand behind her back.
Never actually taking it off his neck.

Continuity: Near the beginning, when Elizabeth falls of the cliff
and into the water there are rocks around her, which is the reason
Norrington cannot jump in after to save her. But at the end of the
movie when Captain Jack Sparrow falls off to swim after the Black
Pearl there are no more rocks.

Continuity: Before Elizabeth passes out and falls to the water,
she is wearing a gold choker necklace. After she hits the water
and is saved by Captain Jack Sparrow, the necklace is gone.

Continuity: In the beginning of the movie when Elizabeth awakens
from her dream and her father begins knocking on her door, the two
maids come in. One is wearing a red dress, the other a print dress
thats a beigeish color. There positions switch alternately. In the
first shot, the one in the beige dress is holding the box and the
red dressed one is opening the curtains; however, in the next
shot, red dress is holding the box and beige dress is opening the
curtains.

Anachronisms: In the beginning of the Commodore's promotion
ceremony "Rule Britannia" is played in the yard. The song was not
composed until 1740.

Continuity: When Jack and Will board the Dauntless after walking
under the water with the rowing boat over their heads, by the time
they have climbed onto the deck and announced that they are taking
over the ship their clothes are bone dry.

Continuity: After Captain Barbossa gets shot, he falls and
releases his apple when he was previously holding a pistol pointed
at Will.

Revealing mistakes: When Norrington arrives on the HMS Dauntless
to fight the cursed pirates, some of the naval personal are
fighting no one because the CGI skeletons weren't put in.

Continuity: When Elizabeth has her hand cut in the first
curse-lifting ceremony, the cut is made on the fleshy pad below
her thumb. When she bandages the cut later, the bandages go down
the middle of her palm, and wouldn't have covered the wound.

Factual errors: In the mid-17th century, "Commodore" was simply a
new title for captains that were in charge of squadrons, not a
promotion. Commodore became a promotion in mid-to-late 19th
century America.

Continuity: When Jack is trying to unlock the prison door with the
bone, he never takes it out when Will comes down the stairs. In
the next scene, the bone is gone.

Continuity: At governor Swann's house, Elizabeth uses hot coals
from her bedpan to scare off one of the pirates. Later in the
film, Barbossa says that he can't feel anything due to the curse,
so why would the pirate Elizabeth attacked be affected by the
coals?

Revealing mistakes: When Jack and Will are fighting at the
Blacksmith's, right after the eunuch conversation, Will
jumps/flips/rolls over the turn-style being pulled by the donkey.
However, you can tell that this wasn't Will, it was a stunt double.

Factual errors: When Jack and Will are walking along the ocean
floor toward the Dauntless breathing air trapped in an overturned
boat they are holding above their bodies, the trapped air would
have very quickly floated the boat - and anyone holding on to it -
back to the surface.

Continuity: As Jack Sparrow steps off of his sinking ship onto the
dock for the first time, in the first shot, he puts out his right
foot to step onto the dock. In the next shot, he steps onto the
dock with his left foot without having put down his right.

Continuity: In the final battle, Sparrow vs. Barbosa, Sparrow
chops Barbosa's hat in half. Later in the battle, his hat is
perfectly fixed.




Goofs for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)

Crew or equipment visible: When Jack Sparrow falls into the grave,
the print of a modern shoe can be seen clearly in the dirt at the
top of the grave.

Anachronisms: In the scene where Jack Sparrow, Elizabeth and
Norrington are arguing on the pier in Tortuga, the hull of a ship
can be clearly seen behind them bearing a Plimsoll line, which
wasn't used until the late 19th century.

Revealing mistakes: On the sand during the sword fight after the
Chest is found, a shot from above shows the three men having two
shadows each.

Audio/visual unsynchronized: At the beginning of the film when
caskets are being thrown into the water, the first casket makes no
noise of any kind when it hits the water.

Continuity: When Norrington is running from Jones' crew and falls,
the letters of mark fall to the ground, as seen lying next to the
head of the crew member he throws the chest at. In the next shot,
they are gone and Norrington somehow gets them back.