Continuity mistake: Aboard the Pearl, in the locker, after Pintel argues with Jack and Barbossa for fighting, when Jack gets jealous about Barbossa's bigger telescope, Barbossa looks at Jack with the corner of his eye and looks forward again slowly; in the next shot you can see Barbossa turning his eyes forward again.
Continuity mistake: As Barbossa, Elizabeth and Jack walk towards Will, Beckett and Jones there is a close-up of the latter's feet on the sand. In the next shot, the sand around their legs significantly differs.
Continuity mistake: The ends of Jack's red scarf and dangling beads and do-dads change position between numerous consecutive shots throughout the film.
Continuity mistake: The position of Bootstrap's knife embedded in the deck rail changes, from the time Will slams it into the wood to when Bootstrap removes it.
Continuity mistake: In Davy Jones locker when Jack rides the Pearl down the beach and it goes into the water there is no anchoring line, when he says he has a ship there is an anchoring line, and in subsequent shots the line is gone again.
Continuity mistake: When Sao Feng's ship fires on Beckett's ship (when Beckett's captain asks if Sparrow has a plan or just makes it up as he goes along). Endeavour, Beckett's ship, loses her mainmast due to battle damage. In reality, as no ship carried a spare mainmast, Endeavour would have had to limp slowly back to port, refit a new mast and rigging, and then return to battle. This would most likely take weeks. Endeavour is spotlessly repaired a few scenes later.
Continuity mistake: Just before Pintel and Ragetti are about to fire Jack, the monkey, out of a cannon, the monkey and barrel point out of a partially destroyed gun port, with its hinged port lid missing. Once Ragetti lights it, in the close-up just as Jack blazes out, the frame of the gun port is perfectly intact, as is its hinged port lid above it. (02:15:45)
Factual error: In the final scene, when Jack Sparrow is looking at the map to find the Fountain of Youth. The map lists Ponce de Leon's travel date of 1523. The actual date of the Fountain of Youth founding was 1513.
Continuity mistake: When Will asks Elizabeth to marry him, a lock of her hair goes from over her eye in one shot, to behind her ear the next.
Continuity mistake: After Elizabeth is made Captain by an injured Sao Feng, her hairstyle significantly differs in the following shots, particularly when she is with Norrington on deck.
Continuity mistake: When Sao Feng punches Jack, the lace on Jack wrist is barely frayed and pretty clean; however in previous shots it is very frayed and filthy.
Continuity mistake: When Captain Teague looks up the Code in the book by Morgan and Bartholomew, in the close-ups the fingers of his right hand runs across the line "It shall be the duty of the Pirate King", but next wideshot it's his left hand doing the page scanning, with his right hand at his side.
Continuity mistake: When the Black Pearl crew are captured by Sao Feng, there is a shot of Will and Elizabeth with Will being held back by a metal pointed object round his neck. In the next shot with Will in the background, the metal object is gone.
Continuity mistake: At the mass pirate hanging, the left sock (viewer's right) of the man who stands beside the boy is up to his knee. When they sing, "Heave ho," that sock is down, but when they sing, "Never shall we die," it's higher up again.
Continuity mistake: At the beginning, when Elizabeth runs into Sao Feng's 'henchmen', the guy talking says, "Particularly a woman", and in these shots watch the guy behind, his hat is down. Yet when Elizabeth and the three henchmen turn to look at Barbossa, the guy's hat is now cocked upwards, so the camera can see a lot more of his face.
Continuity mistake: When Jack is in Davey Jones' locker, and he is messing around with the rock, there are a few close up shots of his face and there is a bump, probably a pimple, on the left hand side of his face, by his lower lip, and a few shots later it is gone. It disappears without enough time passing for it to have gone away of its own accord.
Continuity mistake: During the scene where the crabs in Davy Jones' Locker are helping to move Jack's ship, the camera does a close-up of Jack's face, in which he has a very amusing expression. In the next shot, the camera has pulled back from him, and his face and angle are entirely different.
Deliberate mistake: Below deck aboard the Pearl, when Will says, "You make your choices in lifeĀ ," and later, when Elizabeth and Will are on the beach, Elizabeth's eye makeup and curled up lashes are very apparent in her close-ups.
Audio problem: In the scene where Davey Jones is playing his organ, the sound is backwards to the way it should be. When he hits the lower notes, the sound emitted is actually *higher* than when he hits the higher notes.
Continuity mistake: When Elizabeth is making her speech to the pirates near the end of the movie her hair moves from over her shoulders in front shots to behind her shoulders in shots from behind.
Answer: It's suggested that, as she's pretty much equally annoyed at the pirates (for originally imprisoning her, even if it wasn't specifically those pirates) and at Davy Jones (for showing them how to do it), that she creates the maelstrom to make it an even fight - effectively telling them that she no longer cares for either side. The conditions within the maelstrom hamper the Black Pearl, the turbulence making it difficult to bring her superior speed into play, but the angle and extremely damp conditions also make it harder for the Flying Dutchman to bring her superior firepower to bear.
Tailkinker ★
Wrong. As the Black Pearl was meant for speed, she would have a lighter weight than the Dutchman, and would require a pushing force to stay even. Furthermore, she was not hampered by the wind-she was aided, as Gibbs stated, "The wind's on our side, boys!"
Don't think weight had anything to do with it. The Pearl was heavier than the Interceptor, but had no issue catching up with it. The maelstrom took the Pearl's superior speed out of play because they were forced to circle one another. There was no advantage to be gained by outspeeding the Dutchman around the whirlpool, and coming up on its rear. Remember, the Pearl had no forward cannons.
The other side thought they had a favorable wind as well. All the air was being pulled toward the maelstrom in the middle so both sides thought it was at their back allowing them to control the engagement.
Both sides did have favourable winds but for a different reason. It's mentioned in Dead Man's Chest that against the wind the Dutchman is faster but with the wind the Pearl is faster. The Pearl had a favourable wind because it was blowing her sails from the back whilst the Dutchman had a favourable wind because she is faster against it.
The Dutchman is faster against wind because it uses oars to row. They menton to go deeper into the maelstrom to get into faster waters. Thats how they outran the Dutchman and got broadside. It's got nothing to do with the wind.
lionhead
No, the Dutchman doesn't use any oars, you are thinking back to the first film when the Pearl is chasing the Interceptor and they use oars to go faster. Neither ship is fitted with a diesel engine so it has EVERYTHING to do with the wind.
Oh, you're right. I got confused in the 2. Not sure about the diesel engine though. May have one hidden in the back.
lionhead