"Prepare to be blown out of the water."
Directed by Gore Verbinski
Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer
Screenplay by Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio
Story by Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Stuart Beattie, Jay Wolpert
Based on Walt Disney's "Pirates of the Caribbean"
Starring: Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley
Music by Klaus Badelt
Cinematography: Dariusz Wolski
Edited by Stephen E. Rivkin, Arthur Schmidt, Craig Wood
Production companies: Walt Disney Pictures, Jerry Bruckheimer Films
Distributed by Buena Vista Pictures
Release date: 9 July 2003 (United States)
Running time: 143 minutes
Country: United States
Budget: $140 million
Box office: $654.3 million
"Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" is an action adventure fantasy film directed by Gore Verbinski and based on the "Pirates of the Caribbean" ride at Disney theme parks. The story follows pirate Captain Jack Sparrow and blacksmith Will Turner as they rescue the kidnapped Elizabeth Swann from the cursed crew of the Black Pearl, captained by Hector Barbossa, who become undead skeletons at night.
Cast
- Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow
- Geoffrey Rush as Captain Hector Barbossa
- Orlando Bloom as Will Turner
- Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Swann
- Jack Davenport as Commodore James Norrington
- Jonathan Pryce as Governor Weatherby Swann
- Kevin McNally as Joshamee Gibbs
- Zoe Saldana as Anamaria
- Lee Arenberg as Pintel
- Mackenzie Crook as Ragetti
- Damian O'Hare as Lieutenant Gillette
- Treva Etienne as Koehler
- Michael Berry Jr. as Twigg
- David Bailie as Cotton
- Christopher S. Capp as Mr. Cotton's Parrot.
- Martin Klebba as Marty
- Isaac C. Singleton Jr. as Bo'sun
- Giles New as Murtogg
- Angus Barnett as Mullroy
- Greg Ellis as Lieutenant Theodore Groves
Who doesn't know "Pirates of the Caribbean"? And who doesn't like them?
Personally I totally adore this film series and there are many reasons for that. Firstly, Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow. Depp is a brilliant actor anyway with many cult roles but I suppose if anybody hears his name, they think of exactly Jack Sparrow: charismatic, sly, charming - a perfect character who many loves. Secondly, the atmosphere. Thirdly, much action. Fourthly, costumes. And fifthly, music. And it's enough for me not to get tired rewatching it from time to time.
Advantages
- Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow
- Geoffrey Rush as Captain Hector Barbossa
- Orlando Bloom as Will Turner
- Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Swann
- Zoe Saldana as Anamaria
- Music
Disadvantages
- As for pirates, they're less rude than they really were - but that's Disney is it's no wonder
"Strangenesses"
- Many coincidences but that's the film
Clue Moments
- Meeting with Jack Sparrow
- The curse
- Elizabeth's fall
- "Interceptor"
- Gold coins
A little bit of information form Wikipedia.
Piracy is typically an act of robbery or criminal violence at sea. The term can include acts committed on land, in the air, or in other major bodies of water or on a shore. It does not normally include crimes committed against people traveling on the same vessel as the perpetrator (e.g. one passenger stealing from others on the same vessel). The term has been used throughout history to refer to raids across land borders by non-state agents.
The classic era of piracy was in the Caribbean, circa 1650 until the mid-1720s. By 1650, France, England and the United Provinces began to develop their colonial empires. This involved considerable seaborne trade, and a general economic improvement: there was money to be made—or stolen—and much of it traveled by ship.
French buccaneers were established on northern Hispaniola as early as 1625, but lived at first mostly as hunters rather than robbers; their transition to full-time piracy was gradual and motivated in part by Spanish efforts to wipe out both the buccaneers and the prey animals on which they depended. The buccaneers' migration from Hispaniola's mainland to the more defensible offshore island of Tortuga limited their resources and accelerated their piratical raids. According to Alexandre Exquemelin, a buccaneer and historian who remains a major source on this period, the Tortuga buccaneer Pierre Le Grand pioneered the settlers' attacks on galleons making the return voyage to Spain.
The growth of buccaneering on Tortuga was augmented by the English capture of Jamaica from Spain in 1655. The early English governors of Jamaica freely granted letters of marque to Tortuga buccaneers and to their own countrymen, while the growth of Port Royal provided these raiders with a far more profitable and enjoyable place to sell their booty. In the 1660s, the new French governor of Tortuga, Bertrand d'Ogeron, similarly provided privateering commissions both to his own colonists and to English cutthroats from Port Royal. These conditions brought Caribbean buccaneering to its zenith.
Between 1713 and 1714, a succession of peace treaties was signed which ended the War of the Spanish Succession. With the end of this conflict, thousands of seamen, including Britain's paramilitary privateers, were relieved of military duty. The result was a large number of trained, idle sailors at a time when the cross-Atlantic colonial shipping trade was beginning to boom. In addition, Europeans who had been pushed by unemployment to become sailors and soldiers involved in slaving were often enthusiastic to abandon that profession and turn to pirating, giving pirate captains for many years a constant pool of trained European recruits to be found in west African waters and coasts.
In 1715, pirates launched a major raid on Spanish divers trying to recover gold from a sunken treasure galleon near Florida. The nucleus of the pirate force was a group of English ex-privateers, all of whom would soon be enshrined in infamy: Henry Jennings, Charles Vane, Samuel Bellamy, and Edward England. The attack was successful, but contrary to their expectations, the governor of Jamaica refused to allow Jennings and their cohorts to spend their loot on his island. With Kingston and the declining Port Royal closed to them, Jennings and his comrades founded a new pirate base at Nassau, on the island of New Providence in the Bahamas, which had been abandoned during the war. Until the arrival of governor Woodes Rogers three years later, Nassau would be home for these pirates and their many recruits.
Shipping traffic between Africa, the Caribbean, and Europe began to soar in the 18th century, a model that was known as triangular trade, and was a rich target for piracy. Trade ships sailed from Europe to the African coast, trading manufactured goods and weapons in exchange for slaves. The traders would then sail to the Caribbean to sell the slaves, and return to Europe with goods such as sugar, tobacco and cocoa. Another triangular trade saw ships carry raw materials, preserved cod, and rum to Europe, where a portion of the cargo would be sold for manufactured goods, which (along with the remainder of the original load) were transported to the Caribbean, where they were exchanged for sugar and molasses, which (with some manufactured articles) were borne to New England. Ships in the triangular trade made money at each stop.
Piracy in the Caribbean declined for the next several decades after 1730, but by the 1810s many pirates roamed the waters though they were not as bold or successful as their predecessors. The most successful pirates of the era were Jean Lafitte and Roberto Cofresi. Lafitte is considered by many to be the last buccaneer due to his army of pirates and fleet of pirate ships which held bases in and around the Gulf of Mexico. Lafitte and his men participated in the War of 1812 battle of New Orleans. Cofresi's base was in Mona Island, Puerto Rico, from where he disrupted the commerce throughout the region. He became the last major target of the international anti-piracy operations.
- Klaus Badelt- Fog Bound
- Klaus Badelt- The Medallion Calls
- Klaus Badelt- The Black Pearl
- Klaus Badelt- Will And Elizabeth
- Klaus Badelt - Swords Crossed
- Klaus Badelt - Walk The Plank
- Klaus Badelt - Barbossa Is Hungry
- Klaus Badelt - Blood Ritual
- Klaus Badelt - Moonlight Serenade
- Klaus Badelt - To The Pirates` Cave
- Klaus Badelt - Skull And Crossbones
- Klaus Badelt - Bootstrap`s Bootstraps
- Klaus Badelt - Underwater March
- Klaus Badelt - One Last Shot
- Klaus Badelt - He`s A Pirate
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Norrington: No additional shot nor powder, a compass that doesn't point north,[looks at Jack's sword]
Norrington: And I half expected it to be made of wood. You are without doubt the worst pirate I've ever heard of.
Jack Sparrow: But you have heard of me.
* * *
Will Turner: This is either madness... or brilliance.Jack Sparrow: It's remarkable how often those two traits coincide.
* * *
Jack Sparrow: Me? I'm dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly... stupid.
* * *
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.
* * *
Jack Sparrow: This is the day you will always remember as the day you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow!
* * *
Pintel: You're supposed to be dead!Jack Sparrow: Am I not?
* * *
Jack Sparrow: I know those cannons. It's the Pearl.Man in Jail: The Black Pearl? I've heard stories. She's been preying on ships and settlements for near ten years. Never leaves any survivors.
Jack Sparrow: No survivors? Then where do the stories come from, I wonder?
* * *
Will Turner: That's not true. I am not obsessed with treasure.Jack Sparrow: Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate.
* * *
Jack Sparrow: The only rules that really matter are these: what a man can do and what a man can't do. For instance, you can accept that your father was a pirate and a good man or you can't. But pirate is in your blood, boy, so you'll have to square with that some day. And me, for example, I can let you drown, but I can't bring this ship into Tortuga all by me onesies, savvy? So, can you sail under the command of a pirate, or can you not?
* * *
Barbossa: How the blazes did you get off that island?Jack Sparrow: When you marooned me on that god forsaken spit of land, you forgot one very important thing, mate: I'm Captain Jack Sparrow.
* * *
Jack Sparrow: If you were waiting for the opportune moment, that was it.
* * *
Jack Sparrow: One question about your business, boy, or there's no use going: This girl... how far are you willing to go to save her?Will Turner: I'd die for her.
Jack Sparrow: Oh good. No worries then.
* * *
Elizabeth: Will, how many times must I ask you to call me Elizabeth?Will Turner: At least once more, Miss Swann, as always.
* * *
Elizabeth: Whose side is Jack on?Will Turner: At the moment?
* * *
Jack Sparrow: Move away.Will Turner: No.
Jack Sparrow: Please move?
Will Turner: No. I cannot just step aside and let you escape.
Jack Sparrow: This shot was not meant for you.
* * *
Grapple: Say goodbye.[a sign swings down and hits Grapple through a shop window]
Will Turner: Goodbye.
* * *
Will Turner: Elizabeth, I should have told you every day from the moment I met you. I love you.
* * *
Norrington: [to Will] Do not make the mistake in thinking you are the only man here who cares for Elizabeth.
* * *
Elizabeth: You're despicable.Jack Sparrow: Sticks and stones, love. I saved your life, you saved mine. We're square.
* * *
Barbossa: Look! The moonlight shows us for what we really are. We are not among the living, so we cannot die, but neither are we dead.
* * *
Koehler: Every decision you've made has only brought us from bad to worse.
* * *
Elizabeth: I hardly believe in ghost stories anymore, Captain Barbossa.
* * *
Elizabeth: No... Wait... Stop! The pirates are undead! They'll all be killed! This is Jack Sparrow's doing!Lt. Gillette: Don't worry, Miss, he's already been informed of that, a little mermaid flopped up on deck and told him the whole story!
* * *
Mr. Cotton's Parrot: Dead men tell no tales...
* * *
Jack Sparrow: You think this wise, boy... crossing blades with a pirate?Will Turner: You threatened Miss Swann.
Jack Sparrow: Only a little.
* * *
Elizabeth: [sighs] "... Drink up me hearties, yo ho".Jack Sparrow: What was that, Elizabeth?
Elizabeth: It's Miss Swann.
Jack Sparrow: Miss Swann.
Elizabeth: Nothing, it's just a song I learned as a child when I thought it would be fun to meet a real pirate.
Jack Sparrow: Let's hear it, then.
Elizabeth: No.
Jack Sparrow: Come on. We've got the time. Let's be having it.
Elizabeth: No. I'd need a lot more to drink.
Jack Sparrow: How much more?
* * *
Barbossa: I suppose in exchange, you want me not to kill the whelp.Jack Sparrow: No, no, no. Not at all. By all means, kill the whelp.
* * *
Norrington: One good deed is not enough to redeem a man of a lifetime of wickedness.Jack Sparrow: But it seems enough to condemn him.
* * *
Jack Sparrow: Scarlet.[She slaps him]
Jack Sparrow: I'm not sure I deserved that.
[a blond woman approaches]
Jack Sparrow: Giselle.
Giselle: Who was she?
Jack Sparrow: What?
[She slaps him]
Jack Sparrow: I may have deserved that.
* * *
Mr. Gibbs: Leverage, says you. I think I feel a change in the wind, says I.
* * *
Elizabeth: I hardly believe in ghost stories, Captain Barbossa.Barbossa: Aye. That's exactly what I thought when we were first told of the tale. Buried in the island of the dead that which cannot be found except by those who already knows where it is. Find it, we did. And there be the chest... and inside, be the gold. We took them all! Spent 'em, traded 'em and fritted 'em away, for drink and food and pleasurable company. But the more we gave them away, the more we came to realize. The drink would not satisfy, food turned to ash in our mouths, nor the company in the world would harm or slake our lust. We are cursed men, Miss Turner. Compelled by greed, we were. But now, we are consumed by it.
* * *
Will Turner: Jack!Barbossa: It's not possible.
Jack Sparrow: Not Probable.
* * *
You may see the trailer here.
Plot: 8/10
Entertainment: 9/10
Acting: 8/10
Originality: 8/10
Music and Sound: 8/10
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