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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

  • 2003
  • PG-13
  • 2h 23m
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Blacksmith Will Turner teams up with eccentric pirate "Captain" Jack Sparrow to save his love, the governor's daughter, from Jack's former pirate allies, who are now undead.Blacksmith Will Turner teams up with eccentric pirate "Captain" Jack Sparrow to save his love, the governor's daughter, from Jack's former pirate allies, who are now undead.Blacksmith Will Turner teams up with eccentric pirate "Captain" Jack Sparrow to save his love, the governor's daughter, from Jack's former pirate allies, who are now undead.

  • Director
    • Gore Verbinski
  • Writers
    • Ted Elliott
    • Terry Rossio
    • Stuart Beattie
  • Stars
    • Johnny Depp
    • Geoffrey Rush
    • Orlando Bloom
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  • IMDb RATING
    8.1/10
    1.2M
    YOUR RATING
    POPULARITY
    269
    52
    • Director
      • Gore Verbinski
    • Writers
      • Ted Elliott
      • Terry Rossio
      • Stuart Beattie
    • Stars
      • Johnny Depp
      • Geoffrey Rush
      • Orlando Bloom
    • 2.3KUser reviews
    • 185Critic reviews
    • 63Metascore
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  • Top rated movie #232
    • Nominated for 5 Oscars
      • 38 wins & 104 nominations total

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    Johnny Depp
    Johnny Depp
    • Jack Sparrow
    Geoffrey Rush
    Geoffrey Rush
    • Barbossa
    Orlando Bloom
    Orlando Bloom
    • Will Turner
    Keira Knightley
    Keira Knightley
    • Elizabeth Swann
    Jack Davenport
    Jack Davenport
    • Norrington
    Jonathan Pryce
    Jonathan Pryce
    • Governor Weatherby Swann
    Lee Arenberg
    Lee Arenberg
    • Pintel
    Mackenzie Crook
    Mackenzie Crook
    • Ragetti
    Damian O'Hare
    Damian O'Hare
    • Lt. Gillette
    Giles New
    Giles New
    • Murtogg
    Angus Barnett
    Angus Barnett
    • Mullroy
    David Bailie
    David Bailie
    • Cotton
    Michael Berry Jr.
    Michael Berry Jr.
    • Twigg
    Isaac C. Singleton Jr.
    Isaac C. Singleton Jr.
    • Bo'sun
    Kevin McNally
    Kevin McNally
    • Joshamee Gibbs
    • (as Kevin R. McNally)
    Treva Etienne
    Treva Etienne
    • Koehler
    Zoe Saldana
    Zoe Saldana
    • Anamaria
    Guy Siner
    Guy Siner
    • Harbormaster
    • Director
      • Gore Verbinski
    • Writers
      • Ted Elliott
      • Terry Rossio
      • Stuart Beattie
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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      Clothing and smears of charcoal were used to conceal Johnny Depp's numerous tattoos. The "Jack Sparrow" tattoo on his arm in the movie is a fake, but he got a real replica after finishing the film, in honor of his son Jack.
    • Goofs
      (at around 27 mins) 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.
    • Quotes

      Will Turner: Where's Elizabeth?

      Jack Sparrow: She's safe, just like I promised. She's all set to marry Norrington, just like she promised. And you get to die for her, just like you promised. So we're all men of our word really... except for, of course, Elizabeth, who is in fact, a woman.

    • Crazy credits
      Johnny Depp's dentist got a credit for Depp's teeth.
    • Alternate versions
      Disk 2 of the DVD features 19 deleted/extended scenes:
      • The full version of the scene where Will accidentally "takes" a candle off the wall.
      • In the carriage on the way to Commodore Norrington's promotion, Governor Swann tells Elizabeth that he hopes she will demonstrate a little more decorum in front of Commodore Norrington, and that it's only through his efforts that Port Royal has become civilized.
      • Extended scene of Port Royal when the wind makes a sudden change when the Aztec Gold "calls".
      • Extended scene of when Will helps Jack escape from Jail. Will asks Jack why to bother with the pistol, and that he could've killed him before with the single shot the pistol had if he was willing to use it. Jack then tells Will that when you've only got one shot it's best to wait for the opportune moment to use it.
      • Before dining with Captain Barbossa, Elizabeth is putting on the purple dress and Pintel and Ragetti are spying on her through a hole in the wall. Elizabeth soon realizes this and knocks Ragetti's eye out with a poker.
      • Extra scene of Jack and Will walking through the streets of Tortuga where continuous fighting is taking place.
      • At Tortuga Tavern, Jack brings two drinks to Mr. Gibbs, he hesitates on which one to give him and tells him, "Just the one," and Gibbs responds, "Let's make it last then, huh?"
      • After Jack and Gibbs drink a toast, Will suddenly pulls out his sword, kicks over a table and the fighting in the Tavern stops. Gibbs asks Jack if Will is a bit of a stick and Jack tells him that he has no idea. The fighting in the Tavern continues, and Will inserts his sword back into its sheath.
      • At the Isla del Muerta, Jack scans the deck of the Black Pearl with his telescope. Realizing that Elizabeth is not on board, he tells Will, "It's begun," as the other pirates are running through the caves to where the hidden treasure is.
      • Alternate and extended scene of when Jack tells the pirates that the French thought of "Parley", and also invented Mayonnaise. Part of this extended scene is in the "Blooper Reel" on disk 2 of the DVD.
      • Extended scene of when Jack and Elizabeth are stranded on the island. Jack makes himself at home and Elizabeth tells Jack that he was going to tell Barbossa about Will in exchange for a ship, and Jack explains how in fact he wasn't going to tell Barbossa about Will in exchange for a ship. This conversation leads to Elizabeth asking Jack how he escaped the island.
      • Jack takes two bottles of rum onto the beach and Elizabeth asks him if there's any truth about the other stories, and Jack shows her the tattoo and the 'P' mark on his right arm, the large vein-shaped scars on his left arm and two bullet wounds on his chest, telling her that there's no truth at all. He then decides how they are going to escape the island, gives a bottle of the rum to Elizabeth and she teaches him the pirate song - after she has had a lot more to drink.
      • Extended scene on board the Dauntless where Commodore Norrington tells Governor Swann that he insists upon rescuing Will. Elizabeth tells Norrington that the proposal was meant and that his word would not change hers, and that he is a fine man. Norrington shows his appreciation on the conditional request.
      • On board the Dauntless, just off the shore from the Isla del Muerta, Elizabeth tells Jack that he didn't tell Will about the curse, and Jack says that he noticed she did the same, probably for the same reason. Elizabeth tells Jack that he's a smart man, but she doesn't trust him. Commodore Norrington appears, gives Jack his compass and says, "With me Sparrow."
      • Extended scene of when the pirates go underwater when Captain Barbossa gives the order, "Take a walk." The pirates submerge underwater, just as the Moon appears from behind a cloud.
      • Elizabeth boards the Pearl and Mallot and Grapple decide on what to eat first. Grapple says he was thinking cake, and Mallot sharply responds that he was thinking cake too. Grapple stabs the table with a knife and Elizabeth sees her chance to reach the deck. Mallot eyes Grapple carefully, and Grapple pushes the handle of the knife towards him, telling him to cut the cake.
      • Jack removes his own curse and the lid of the chest slides closed by itself when Will touches it. (This scene was deleted before any skeletal effects had begun so no skeletal effects are seen in this deleted scene.)
      • Extended scene just before Jack's hanging, Mr. Cotton's Parrot arrives and ejaculates on Mullroy. He tries to shake off the parrot but Murtogg stops him and says that it's good luck, then Mr. Cotton's parrot does it on him as well.
      • Extended scene when Commodore Norrington tells Will that the sword is beautiful. He offers Will his compliments and tells Elizabeth that he wishes them both the very best of luck. Gillette asks Norrington about Jack, and he says an extra line that was cut from the film, "Shall we prepare the Dauntless in pursuit?" before Norrington says, "Oh, I think we can afford to give him one day's head start."
    • Connections
      Featured in Disney Through the Decades (2001)
    • Soundtracks
      Yo Ho (A Pirate's Life for Me)
      Words by Xavier Atencio

      Music by George Bruns

      Performed by Lucinda Dryzek, Keira Knightley, and Johnny Depp

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    10/10
    Depp for Emperor?
    I am nearly fifty years old. A sober grown man. With children. Children with whom I have now sat through hundreds of movies. Many of which I have enjoyed. And I am not completely hardened in my sophistication. The opening music to The Lion King brought tears to my eyes when my little ones were but wee tots. But still, these are after all just children's movies. In another life, I would never have seen them. And, really, one can't take such movies too seriously, can one?

    And so, this summer, after the ritual badgering, I dutifully trudged into yet another Disney "adventure" movie. Named after that tired old ride in Anaheim I first went on in 1965. I mean really, how much can you expect?

    And then, it happened. The swirling intoxication. The stunned feeling. What? Who? How? Was this a movie? Or a religious experience? Perhaps more like an addictive experience...

    I cannot remember ever willingly paying to see any movie not starring a relative of mine more than twice, and I can count those movies on one hand. I have now seen "Pirates" four times. The only thing keeping me from seeing it again is the sense that this whole thing is just getting out of hand. I cannot get enough of it. It's like walking into a painting that you never want to come back out of. My children ask, with a note of concern in their voices, "Dad, you really like Pirates of the Caribbean a lot, don't you?"

    And that Depp fellow. My God. I never had any idea who he was, but his name sounded like something created for a pubescent cover-boy for magazines published to hook thirteen year-old girls on make-up and bad music. Wasn't Depp the name of some hair-goo product back in the 60s?

    I am a straight male. I have several good friends who are gay, but have never fantasized about any gender but the female. But now I understand how women can experience swooning crushes on male film stars. He is simply extraordinary. So sly, so seductive, so canny! I read an interview in which Depp said he went through a slight depression when he had to stop playing Captain Jack Sparrow. I can see why. His inventiveness and sheer pleasure in inhabiting the character come through in every frame. How can I admit to my children that I now troll through fan websites about a former teen heart-throb?

    I often don't even watch the Academy Awards, and I certainly never have any emotional investment in who wins.

    Except for this year.

    Go Jack.

    And, in a time when many big-budget movies are little more than a hodge-podge of loosely- connected "money shots" this movie puts all the pieces together, with a sense of fun and light-heartedness in special effects that are simply dazzling. I find myself laughing with dizzy appreciation when Barbossa barks out, "You'd best be believing in ghost stories, Miss Turner, you're in one!" and the grinning skeletons come into view, with Badelt's pounding score keeping time to the beat of their maniacal deck-swabbing. And then there's the scene of the pirate-ghouls slithering up from the darkened sea on the mooring cables of the Dauntless, like infernal cats stalking their prey.

    And now to the music. I can just hear the effete aesthetes dismissing this score, as Mr. Zimmerman anticipates with his winking "overproduced by" credit on the cover-liner. "Bombastic." "Overdone." "Absurdly Stupendous."

    Well, perhaps it is, for those who spend their lives evaluating such things. To me, it is absolutely transporting. I first listened to it while doing a work-out on a rowing machine and found that I tripled my usual distance. It was like mainlining some hazardous tachycardic amphetamine.

    Once again, the children were wondering, "What's up with Daddy? Is he OK?"

    Perhaps I am just losing my grip, having an adolescent movie get to me this way. But when those final credits roll, and Captain Jack narrows his eyes and says, "Now, bring me that horizon. Drink up me hearties, yo ho" and the music swells ... it is difficult to put into words the effect it has.

    At this point my children have to yank me forcibly from the theater, lest I persist in watching the credits to the bitter end, and bid good-bye to the little monkey once more, wiping tears of exultation from my eyes.

    This is not just another "entry" in the summer blockbust sweepstakes. It is an exquisite work of fantasy and inventiveness, a true classic, on the order of "The Wizard of Oz." I do hope Depp's performance garners not just awards, but a place in the pantheon, something we old fogies -- and our gently fogeying children decades hence -- will show to our children and grandchildren like a revealed treasure. I cannot recall any movie having such an effect on me.
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    • Release date
      • July 9, 2003 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official sites
      • akshay movies
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    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Pirates of the Caribbean
    • Filming locations
      • Samana, Dominican Republic
    • Production companies
      • Walt Disney Pictures
      • Jerry Bruckheimer Films
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $140,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $305,413,918
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $46,630,690
      • Jul 13, 2003
    • Gross worldwide
      • $654,264,015
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      2 hours 23 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital EX
      • SDDS
      • DTS
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.39 : 1

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