Following his surprise-hit American remake of The Ring in 2002, director Gore Verbinski took on Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, the second of recent films to be based upon Disney theme-park rides (the first being The Country Bears). When Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley), the daughter of Governor Swann (Jonathan Pryce) is kidnapped by a group of pirates led by Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) and taken aboard their ship, The Black Pearl, Will Turner (Orlando Bloom), the ... More
PG-13, 2 hr. 23 min.
Action & Adventure, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Directed By: Gore Verbinski
Written By: Terry Rossio, Ted Elliott
PG-13, 2 hr. 23 min.
Action & Adventure, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Directed By: Gore Verbinski
Written By: Terry Rossio, Ted Elliott
| I believe there was a lot of use of diegetic and non-diegetic sound in the beginning. There was some non-diegetic sound in the form of chilling music, which kind of alerts the audience that there could be a shocking character about to be introduced or even an awful scene beginning. There is an illustration in diegetic sound of the ships’ ropes and other ships’ things can be even heard. There is a young girl that is told to look after him. There was a young man that unexpectedly awakens and she let him know her name and vice versa and falls down again. She had observed a gold liked pendent around his neck with a skull on it and she seizes it. She then gaze out to the sea once again and she sees a ship with black sails and a black flag with a skull with swords through it. She cannot believe her eyes and closes them firmly and then a time skip happens when she opens them and we see her lying in bed years later after meeting the boy. Rotten Tomatoes. (2014). Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl. Retrieved August 20, 2014, from http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/pirates_of_the_caribbean_the_curse_of_the_black_pearl |