Black Pearl's Curse Most Glaring Plot Hole Has a Pretty Simple Explanation
What many believed to be a plot hole in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl may have ruined the movie for many, but attentive fans saved the day.
While Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl remains one of the main pirate movies of the new era, fans continue to pick over every little detail of the film. The pirate lord of the Caribbean, Captain Jack Sparrow, spent two years searching for the Isle of the Dead, where a stone chest containing 882 Aztec gold coins was kept.
Once he reached his goal, the Black Pearl and his crew was taken by force by Barbossa. In a way, Captain Jack Sparrow was fortunate to escape from the curse, while Barbossa was in search of every coin of gold that he and his crew had already spent for ten years.
Many viewers couldn't help but notice that the curse, which is supposed to be put on anyone who touches it, didn't work on Will and Elizabeth. And that is a perfectly fair observation. However, while some fans have questions, others have answers.
So why wasn't Will, who wore the medallion with the coin around his neck, and later Elizabeth, who took it off and kept it for years, cursed? The answer is simple and Reddit user TubbyLittleTeaWitch has it.
"She didn't take it from the chest. The coins only curse those who remove them from the chest. The coin she takes from Will as a child was one originally taken by his father, Bootstrap Bill, and sent to him. Bootstrap Bill was cursed, Will and Elizabeth were not.
The only person we see become newly cursed is Jack, towards the end of the film when he secretly palms one, and again, he took it straight from the chest," the Redditor explained.
For the most demanding fans, here is a Barbossa's quote that points it out.
"So the heathen gods placed upon the gold...a terrible curse. Any mortal that removes but a single piece from that stone chest shall be punished for eternity."
The crew that stole the gold from the chest was cursed, but before they knew it, they had spent their Aztec gold all over the place, and if the curse spread just by touching the coins, the world would quickly be overrun by the undead, just like in any zombie horror movie.
So fans of the franchise can breathe a sigh of relief: there is no hole in the very heart of the plot.