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Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, and Keira Knightley in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

Keira Knightley: Elizabeth Swann

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Keira Knightley credited as playing...

Elizabeth Swann

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  • Jack Sparrow: [Wakes up and sees Elizabeth burning the rum] No! Not good! Stop! Not good! What are you doing? You burned all the food, the shade... the rum.
  • Elizabeth: Yes, the rum is gone.
  • Jack Sparrow: Why is the rum gone?
  • Elizabeth: One: because it is a vile drink that turns even the most respectable men into complete scoundrels. Two: that signal is over a thousand feet high. The entire Royal Navy is out looking for me. Do you really think there is even the slightest chance they won't see it?
  • Jack Sparrow: But why is the rum gone?
  • Elizabeth: Just wait captain Sparrow. You give it one hour, maybe two; keep a weather eye out and you will see white sails on that horizon.
  • [Jack momentarily considers shooting her with his single bullet he has been saving for ten years before stomping off]
  • Jack Sparrow: "Must have been terrible for you to be trapped here Jack. Must have been terrible for you." Well it bloody is now!
  • [Seeing Norrington's ship off shore, vindicating her plan]
  • Jack Sparrow: There'll be no living with her after this.
  • Jack Sparrow: I love this song. Really bad eggs. Ooh.
  • [falls]
  • Jack Sparrow: When I get the Pearl back, I'm gonna teach it to the whole crew, and we'll sing it all the time.
  • Elizabeth: And you'll be positively the most fearsome pirates in the Spanish Main.
  • Jack Sparrow: Not just the Spanish Main, love. The entire ocean. The entire wo'ld. Wherever we want to go, we'll go. That's what a ship is, you know. It's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs but what a ship is... what the Black Pearl really is... is freedom.
  • Elizabeth: Will, how many times must I ask you to call me Elizabeth?
  • Will Turner: At least once more, Miss Swann, as always.
  • Elizabeth: Captain Barbossa , I am here to negotiate the cessation of hostilities against Port Royal .
  • Barbossa: There are a lot of long words in there, Miss; we're naught but humble pirates. What is it that you want?
  • Elizabeth: I want you to leave and never come back.
  • Barbossa: I'm disinclined to acquiesce to your request. Means "no".
  • Elizabeth: Very well. I'll drop it.
  • [dangles medallion over the sea]
  • Barbossa: Me holds are burstin' with swag. That bit of shine matters to us? Why?
  • Elizabeth: It's what you've been searching for. I recognized the ship. I saw it eight years ago on the crossing from England .
  • Barbossa: Did ya, now?
  • Elizabeth: Fine. Well, I suppose if it is worthless then there's no point in me keeping it.
  • [it drops a bit, the pirates lunge forward]
  • Barbossa: No! Ah.
  • [chuckles]
  • Barbossa: You have a name, Missy?
  • Elizabeth: Elizabeth... Turner. I'm a maid in the Governor's household.
  • Barbossa: Miss Turner...?
  • [turns to face the pirates]
  • Pintel: Bootstrap.
  • Barbossa: And how does a maid come to own a trinket such as that? Family heirloom, perhaps?
  • Elizabeth: I didn't steal it, if that's what you mean.
  • Barbossa: Very well, you hand it over and we'll put your town to our rudder and ne'er return.
  • Elizabeth: [she hands it over] Our bargain?
  • [Barbossa walks away from her]
  • Bo'sun: Still the guns and stow 'em, Signal the men, set the flags and make good to clear port.
  • Elizabeth: Wait! You have to take me to shore. According to the Code of the Order of the Brethren...
  • Barbossa: First, your return to shore was not part of our negotiations nor our agreement so I must do nothing. And secondly, you must be a pirate for the pirate's code to apply and you're not. And thirdly, the code is more what you'd call "guidelines" than actual rules. Welcome aboard the Black Pearl, Miss Turner .
  • Jack Sparrow: Last time... I was here a grand total of three days, all right? Last time, the rum runners used this island as a cache, they came past and I was able to barter passage off. By the look of things, they've long been out of business. Probably have your bloody friend Norrington to thank for that.
  • Elizabeth: So that's it, then? That's the secret, grand adventure of the infamous Jack Sparrow. You spent three days lying on a beach drinking rum.
  • Jack Sparrow: Welcome to the Caribbean, love.
  • Elizabeth: Whose side is Jack on?
  • Will Turner: At the moment?
  • Elizabeth: This is the fastest ship in the Caribbean.
  • Anamaria: You can tell them that after they've caught us.
  • Elizabeth: You're pirates. Hang the code, and hang the rules. They're more like guidelines anyway.
  • Elizabeth: I hardly believe in ghost stories, Captain Barbossa.
  • Barbossa: Aye. That's exactly what I thought when first told of the tale. Buried in the island of the dead that which cannot be found except by those who already knows where it is. Find it, we did. And there be the chest... and inside, be the gold. We took them all! Spent 'em, traded 'em and fritted 'em away, for drink and food and pleasurable company. But the more we gave them away, the more we came to realize. The drink would not satisfy, food turned to ash in our mouths, nor the company in the world would harm or slake our lust. We are cursed men, Miss Turner. Compelled by greed, we were. But now, we are consumed by it.
  • [protesting Jack's arrest]
  • Elizabeth: Commodore, I really must protest. Pirate or not, this man saved my life.
  • Norrington: One good deed is not enough to redeem a man of a lifetime of wickedness.
  • Jack Sparrow: Though it seems enough to condemn him.
  • Norrington: Indeed.
  • Jacoby: I'm gonna teach you the meaning of pain.
  • Elizabeth: You like pain?
  • [hits pirate in the head with a pole]
  • Elizabeth: Try wearing a corset.
  • Will Turner: Barbossa, you lying bastard! You swore she'd go free!
  • Barbossa: Don't dare impugn me honor, boy! I agreed she go free, but it was you who failed to specify when or where. Though it does seem a shame to lose somethin' so fine, don't it, lads?
  • The Crew: Aye.
  • Barbossa: So I'll be havin' that dress back before ye go.
  • Jack Sparrow: I always liked you.
  • Bo'sun: Grr...
  • Elizabeth: Goes with your black heart.
  • Barbossa: Ooh, it's still warm.
  • The Crew: Off you go! Come on! Get on with it!
  • Bo'sun: Too long!
  • Jack Sparrow: I really rather hoped we were past all this.
  • Barbossa: Jack... Jack! Did you not notice? That be the same island we made you the governor of on our last little trip.
  • Jack Sparrow: I did notice.
  • Barbossa: Perhaps you'll conjure up another miraculous escape, but I doubt it. Off you go.
  • Jack Sparrow: The last time you left me a pistol with one shot.
  • Barbossa: By the powers, you're right. Where be Jack's pistol? Bring it forward.
  • Jack Sparrow: Seeing as there's two of us, a gentleman would give us a pair of pistols.
  • Barbossa: It'll be one pistol as before, and you can be the gentleman and shoot the lady; and starve to death yourself.
  • [to Elizabeth]
  • Jack Sparrow: Where's the medallion?
  • Elizabeth: Wretch.
  • [attempts to slap him]
  • Jack Sparrow: [grabs her wrist] Ah, where is dear William?
  • Elizabeth: Will.
  • Will Turner: Elizabeth.
  • Jack Sparrow: Monkey!
  • Jack Sparrow: That's the second time I've had to watch that man sail away with my ship.
  • Elizabeth: But you were marooned on this island before, weren't you? So we can escape in the same way you did then.
  • Jack Sparrow: To what point and purpose, young missy? The Black Pearl is gone and unless you have a rudder and a lot of sails hidden in that bodice - unlikely - young Mr. Turner will be dead long before you can reach him.
  • Elizabeth: But you're Captain Jack Sparrow. You vanished from under the eyes of seven agents of the East India Company. You sacked Nassau Port without even firing a shot. Are you the pirate I've read about or not? How did you escape last time?
  • Governor Swann: So, this is the path you've chosen? After all, he is a blacksmith.
  • Elizabeth: No.
  • [pause]
  • Elizabeth: He's a pirate.
  • Pintel: [Pintel and Ragetti burst into the room] We know you're here, Poppet.
  • Ragetti: Poppet.
  • Pintel: Come out... and we promise we won't hurt you.
  • Ragetti: Eh?
  • Pintel: [smiles at Ragetti] We will find you, Poppet. You've got something of ours, and it calls to us. The gold calls to us.
  • Ragetti: Gold calls...
  • Pintel: [opens door of the closet] 'Ello, Poppet.
  • Elizabeth: Parlay!
  • Ragetti: What?
  • Elizabeth: Parlay. I invoke the right of parlay. According to the Code of the brethren, set down by the pirates Morgan and Bartholomew , you have to take me to your Captain.
  • Pintel: I know the code.
  • Elizabeth: If an adversary demands parlay you can do them no harm until the parlay is complete.
  • Ragetti: To blazes with the code.
  • Pintel: She wants to be taken to the Captain. And she'll go without a fuss. We must honor the Code.
  • Norrington: I, uh, apologize if I seem forward, but I must speak my mind... Ah, this promotion throws into sharp relief that which I have... not yet achieved: a marriage to a fine woman. You have become a fine woman, Elizabeth.
  • Elizabeth: [her corset is choking her] I can't breathe!
  • Norrington: Yes, I'm... I'm a bit nervous myself.
  • [Elizabeth faints and topples over the wall]
  • [the Black Pearl is gone]
  • Elizabeth: I'm sorry, Jack.
  • Jack Sparrow: [wistfully proud] They done what's right by them. Can't expect more than that.
  • Pintel: You'll be dining with the captain. And he requests you wear this.
  • Elizabeth: Well you may tell the captain that I am disinclined to acquiesce to his request.
  • Pintel: He said you'd say that. He also said that if that be the case, then you'll be dining with the crew. And you'll be naked.
  • [looks at him in disgust and hastily grabs dress]
  • Pintel: Fine.
  • Town Clerk: Jack Sparrow.
  • Jack Sparrow: Captain... Captain Jack Sparrow.
  • Town Clerk: ...for your willful commission of crime against the crown. Those crimes being numerous in quantity and sinister in nature...
  • Elizabeth: This is wrong...
  • Governor Swann: Commodore Norrington is bound by the law, as are we all.
  • Town Clerk: ...impersonating an officer of the Royal Navy; impersonating a clergy of the Church of England...
  • Jack Sparrow: Oh yeah, heh heh
  • Town Clerk: ...arson; kidnapping; perjury; piracy; pilfering; deprivation of a Federal Loyalist. For these crimes you will be hung by the neck until dead. May God have mercy on your soul.

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