Pirates of the Caribbean, The Curse of the Black Pearl Movie Review

Pirates of the Caribbean, The Curse of the Black Pearl

Director; Gore Verbinski (Mouse Hunt) Producer;Jerry Bruckheimer (Pearl Harbor) Actors; Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Geoffry Rush, Keira Knightly. Released; 2002/2003.

Without a doubt Johnny Depp's performance as 'Captain Jack Sparrows' is the highlight of the movie for most people, some of the awards that Depp was nominated for in his role in Pirates Of The Caribbean, The Curse Of The Black Pearl include;

*MTV Movie Awards (2004), nominated Best On-Screen Team; Shared with Orlando Bloom. *Academy Awards (USA 2004), nominated Oscar; Best Actor in a Leading Role. *Empire Awards (UK 2004), won Empire Award; Best Actor. *Golden Globes (USA 2004), nominated Golden Globe; Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy.

Trivia;

Pirates Of The Caribbean is inspired and themed from the Disneyland ride established in the 1950's. It is revealed that Captain Barbossa's (Geoffry Rush) first name is Hector in the DVD commentary with director Gore Verbinski and Johnny Depp. Keep watching The Curse Of The Black Pearl after the credits for an additional scene.

Johnny Depp plays a roguish Pirate, Captain Jack Sparrows, the outlandish character with a drunken slur who's determined to recover his stolen ship, the Black Pearl. Some years beforehand a mutiny instigated by Jack's sagacious 'first mate', Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush), left Jack stranded on a deserted Island as the mutineers sailed away. Onboard the Black Pearl was Jack's knowledge, mapping the location of a cursed treasure which led the mutineers and their surrogate Captain to a fate worse than death. Jack managed to escape the island and is eventually imprisoned at the town of Port Royal, coincidently during this time the town was raided by the crew of the Black Pearl who kidnapped the Governor's Daughter, Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightly), as the evil pirates found her with the last Aztec Medallion that they needed to help lift the curse that is upon them. The town's Blacksmith Will Turner (Orlando Bloom), who secretly loves Elizabeth, breaks Jack out of prison and the unlikely pair commandeer the Bitish Empire's most prized ship 'The Interceptor' to save Elizabeth from Captain Barbossa.

"The Black Pearl is a ship with black sails, crewed by the damned and captained by a man so evil that even Hell itself spat him back out". This quote in Pirates Of The Caribbean brings Scene 8 to my attention, "Aztec Gold", set on the deck of the Black Pearl. Elizabeth makes the unearthly discovery that moonlight exposes the cursed Pirates for what they really are, undead skeletons and slaves for eternity to the Aztec treasure that they took and then squandered away. This is where the movie's special effects are prominent in 'The Curse Of The Black Pearl', the animators had to use footage of the real actors filmed on the set and replace them with computer generated 'ghost Pirates'. The sequence required to create the astonishing 'Moonlight Serenade' is called Scene Progression, which involves a multi level process of shooting the entire physical scene then modeling it into the computer. The animators then use this model of lighting and background as a template and the computer generated Pirates (modeled from the footage of the actor's performance), are added in 3D layers to the set's platform. Pirates of the Caribbean - The Curse of the Black Pearl (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) has loads of special features such as a DVD registration program, Disney Web Links, on-line support and a "Moonlight Becomes Ye" effects studio that you can use on your computer. As you can see we've tried the effects studio and posted the portrait of myself. You'll find the effects studio on disc 2 and it only takes a couple of minutes to set up and 'De-face' the portrait that you upload.

Pirates Of The Caribbean is a suspense-filled, sword-clashing adventure with never-seen-before special effects, mysterious characters and humorous rum-guzzling sailors, making it a film that everyone must include in their collection. The Curse Of The Black Pearl is the first of three 'Pirates Of The Caribbean' movies and probably one of the most enigmatic Pirate films of all time with extraordinary non-stop action and surprise.

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