A Blacksmith, a Pirate, and a Lovely Lass
- Title: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
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A movie about pirates AND it was based off a amusement park ride? With two strikes like that against it there should be no way Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl is this good. But it is!
Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) washed up onto a ship as a boy, rescued by Governor Wetherby Swann (Jonathan Pryce) and the royal navy. Now Will is an assistant blacksmith who is in love with the Governer’s daughter Elizabeth (Keira Knightly), who fancies him as well, but due to social customs is unable to admit his feelings.
Into our story comes the very odd Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) a pirate without a ship whose arrival begins a series of events that leads to his imprisonment, Elizabeth’s kidnapping, and the discovery of a dark curse aboard Cap’n Jack’s former ship the Black Pearl.
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