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This article is about the 2006 German The Curse of the Black Pearl novelization. You may be looking for the 2003 US novelization or the 2006 US novelization.

Fluch der Karibik (The Curse of the Caribbean) is a German novelization of the 2003 film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Written by Wolfgang and Rebecca Hohlbein, it was released in 2006. Although the book follows the story of the film, Fluch der Karibik is not a translation of any of the two US novelizations, but rather a completely new book. However, the book contains the same film photos which appear in Irene Trimble's US novelization.

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Elizabeth Swann, die ebenso schöne wie eigensinnige Tochter des Gouverneurs von Jamaika, langweilt sich in der beschaulichen Hafenstadt Port Royal zu Tode. Sie träumt von einem aufregenden Leben der Piraten und sehnt sich nach Abenteuern. Da wird sie vom grausamen und skrupellosen Captain Barbossa entführt und muss fortan um ihr Leben fürchten. Denn zu ihrem Entsetzen stellt sie fest, dass das Gerücht vom Fluch der Karibik keineswegs nur eine Schauergeschichte ist. Nein, die Black Pearl, das nachtschwarze Geisterschiff, mit seiner Mannschaft aus verfluchten Piraten und einem Kapitän, der so bösartig ist, dass ihn sogar die Hölle wieder ausgespuckt hat, gibt es wirklich. Rettung naht durch den zurückhaltenden, aber mutigen Will Turner, der Elizabeth insgeheim seit langem liebt. Doch dann gerät er selbst in Lebensgefahr. Seine einzige Hoffnung ist nun der berühmt-berüchtigte Captain Jack Sparrow - ein notorischer Lügner und Pirat aus Leidenschaft. Doch Jack verfolgt seine eigenen Ziele ...

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Elizabeth Swann, the beautiful and stubborn daughter of the governor of Jamaica, is bored to death in the tranquil port town of Port Royal. She dreams of an exciting life as a pirate and longs for adventure. Then she is kidnapped by the cruel and unscrupulous Captain Barbossa and must fear for her life from then on. To her horror, she discovers that the rumor of the Curse of the Caribbean is by no means just a horror story. No, the Black Pearl, the pitch-black ghost ship, with its crew of cursed pirates and a captain who is so evil that even Hell spat him out again, really does exist. Rescue comes in the form of the reserved but brave Will Turner, who has secretly loved Elizabeth for a long time. But then his own life is in danger. His only hope is now the infamous Captain Jack Sparrow - a notorious liar and pirate by passion. But Jack has his own goals...

Continuity[]

Fluch der Karibik is the 2006 German novelization and adaptation of the 2003 film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. However, similar to the English novelizations, the 2003 novel by Irene Trimble and the 2006 novel by Elizabeth Rudnick, the German novelization does have continuity errors or elements unique to this adaptation.

Although the merchant vessel in the opening scene with young Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann was unnamed in the film,[2] the merchant vessel was identified as the Princess in the book.

James Norrington was interchangeably called both commodore and admiral throughout the whole book. However, in the film, Norrington was a lieutenant, captain, and promoted as commodore onscreen.[2] Norrington was first named admiral in At World's End.[3]

During the attack on Port Royal, Pintel stabs the butler with his sword. When Elizabeth Swann drops burning coal on Ragetti, he blindly fires a shot from his pistol, which breaks the chain of the magnificent chandelier in Elizabeth's room, which falls down on another pirate. As the pirates dragged Elizabeth out of the governor's mansion one of them quickly downed a decades-old bottle of French wine like it was sugar water.

After taking control of the Dauntless, Jack Sparrow personally pushes Gillette overboard. When the Interceptor comes close Jack and Will hide in the captain's cabin and swing aboard the other ship. As the Interceptor sails away Will warns Jack that Norrington would rather see his ship at the bottom of the sea than in the hands of a pirate. Jack answers that he disabled the rudder on the Dauntless, and Norrington can only return to the harbour.

During her dinner with Barbossa Elizabeth notices that the food smells and tastes like Barbossa had employed a man without a nose and tongue to work in the galley. When Barbossa offers Elizabeth an apple she bites it. After being stabbed with a knife by Elizabeth Barbossa states "Now I'm dead."

Before Barbossa attempts to lift the Aztec curse Will notices his medallion around Elizabeth's neck.

After taking two bottles of rum from the secret rum cellar on an island, Jack gives one bottle to Elizabeth and tells her "Welcome to the Caribbean, Miss Swann." Elizabeth then makes a plan, goes into the cellar, puts as many bottles into her skirt as the cloth can carry, and joins Jack on the beach, repeating Jack's words, "Welcome to the Caribbean." Jack falls asleep after drinking the fourth bottle of rum, and Elizabeth spends the rest of the night emptying the rum cellar.

When Jack Sparrow negotiates with Barbossa in the treasure cave he takes six Aztec coins from the chest of Cortés and drops back five. As they make a deal Jack tells the cursed pirates "All hands to the boats" but Barbossa orders them to go on foot. When Jack asks why not use the boats Barbossa replies "Because it was Captain Jack Sparrow who said that." The crew is shown walking to the beach and entering the sea.

When Elizabeth Swann reaches the Black Pearl the skull and crossbones flag flutters in the wind. After she boards the ship Elizabeth is confronted by the cursed Jack the monkey but she quickly grabs the animal by the neck and throws it into the dark waters. Following the disposal of the two cursed pirate guards Elizabeth urges the freed prisoners to help her but Cotton's Parrot squawks "All's well that ends well."

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  1. ↑ Fluch der Karibik. Der Roman zum ersten Kinofilm : Hohlbein, Wolfgang, Hohlbein, Rebecca: Amazon.de: Books
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
  3. ↑ Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
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