Random Movie Trivia - POTC

Here is the next edition in our weekly Random Movie Trivia post.  Enjoy:

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

• Most of the little additions to Captain Jack Sparrow's costume were conceived by Johnny Depp and when the producers saw them, they hated it.  They asked him to do the character as it was written, because they thought his way would ruin the movie and his character portrayal was too "drunk" and "gay".  It looks like Depp knows what the hell he's doing.
• Also, if you didn't already know this, Johnny Depp based his character on aging rocker, Keith Richards, who shows up in the 2nd and 3rd movies.
• One night during a shoot, Keira Knightly, her mom, and the skipper struck a reef and their boat sunk. Although no one was harmed, all night shoots were done in a sound stage after the accident.
• The scene where Orlando Bloom does a Jack Sparrow impersonation was improvised and left in the movie after Bloom asked it to be left in.
• The smoke from the final cannon shot during the siege of Port Royal blossoms into Mickey Mouse's head.
• This was the first successful pirate movie ever made.  Cutthroat Island bombed, Hook under performed, Muppets Treasure Island lost a lot of money, a movie called Pirates starring Walter Matthau sucked, and Disney even released another pirate movie a couple years before POTC called Treasure Planet that failed miserable.  So, it's amazing this movie was even made, let alone made three successful sequels with a fifth movie on the way.  At one point during production, they almost made this a straight-to-DVD movie starring a lesser cast because they were afraid it would fail.
• Micheal Keaton, Jim Carrey, and Christopher Walken were all considered for the role of Captain Jack Sparrow.  If they had gone with any of those three, this movie probably would have bombed like all those movies above.  Robert De Niro was even offered the part but turned it down because he thought this movie would fail.
• Jimmy Buffett was offered a role as a pirate but had to decline due to prior engagements.
• The words "Pirate" and "Piracy" are said 56 times.
• According to the DVD commentary, Will Turner's character is the best swordsmen followed by Barbossa and Norrington being evenly matched and Jack Sparrow being the worst.
• Jude Law, Ewan McGregor, Tobey Maguire, Heath Ledger, and Christian Bale were all considered for the role of Will Turner.  I feel like all but Spider-Man would have done a damned good job with that role.
• Geoffrey Rush (Cpt. Barbossa) has a theory that people look at the movie screen from left to right as if reading a book.  Therefore, he tried to be on the left side of the screen as much as possible especially in scenes with Keira Knightly, otherwise he thought people would never look at him.
• Amanda Bynes and Jessica Alba were considered for the part of Elizabeth Swann.  Yikes and yikes.
• There is a small scab on Jack Sparrow's chin that gets larger and larger throughout the movie.  A makeup artist and Johnny Depp did this as a prank.

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