Murphy tells the story of the "Mary Celeste" all wrong. As this is a real incident, from real life, there would be no need for him to make anything up or tell it as a "tall tale", and as a professional salvage expert he would be familiar with it. The "Mary Celeste" was carrying 1700 barrels of denatured alcohol, not cotton, like he says. And she did not sail into the Mediterranean on her own to be found off Tripoli, but was discovered straight on course in the Atlantic, despite having been abandoned for some time (according to the last log entry). See http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mmaryceleste.html for more details. See more...
Directed by Steve Beck, starring Gabriel Byrne, Julianna Margulies, Karl Urban (add more)
Genres: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
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In all the chaos on board the ship, and the race for the gold, why do two crewmen take the time to carry Katie to her room and hang her rather than just cutting her throat as they did with everyone else? It makes for a good scare when Epps finds her still-hanging body, but makes no sense given the events around them at the time. [The men took her to the room to rape her, then they hung her.]
The puzzle device with letters and numbers that Katie uses to spell out "I'm so bored" in the beginning is near the entrance when the crew arrives but is later visible in her room. While it's possible the Ferryman is moving it around, it seems unlikely given that (when it's in the room) he doesn't make any use of it to scare Epps. [Like you said, it's possible the Ferryman moved it around. It's a character decision that he didn't use it to scare Epps.]
During the original takeover of the ship and killing of the passengers and crew, the Jaguar in the cargo hold was riddled with bullets. When the salvage crew arrives, a great deal is made by one of the crew about finding the car intact. Even after decades of rust and corrosion the bullet holes should have been noticeable (not to mention the shell casings on the deck). [The bullet holes and shells are there, barley visible.]
Toward the end of the movie when Dodge shoots Jack, you see the camera move over the body. As this happens you can see a wheel track from the camera in the water on the floor. [Actually, the entire floor's like that but it's not from the camera because this is just the style of the floor, with raised circles in it.]
When Julianna Margulies and her crew weld a metal plate on the inside of an oil rig to stop it from sinking, would the water not be rushing in on them? Wouldn't it be easier to weld from the outside? [If they had welded the plate from the outside, they would have been left behind by the Arctic Warrior.]
If the ship didn't make any stops after they picked up the soulkeeper from the sinking ship. Then how did they get the guns on board? [The same way they got the gold on the ship - they carried them on when they picked Jack up off the sinking ship.]
When the lady in red blows a hole in the guy who blew away his friends gets killed, the hook that kills her somehow lifts her off the ground, she is swinging but her feet are off the ground, but if the hook had really hit her her feet would be scraping the ground. [You can see the chain lowering, therefore she was lifting up as she was swaying.]
After Epps is rescued by the cruise ship, she is seen being placed in an ambulance. The cruise ship is docked in the Port of Vancouver, Canada. About 3000 miles north as a crow flies is the Bering Strait where the "ghost ship" is. The Bering Strait is a 25 mile gap between Alaska and Russia. I'm sure no one would find an empty ship floating here.(sarcasm intended) Why would a cruise ship be up there if it was enroute to New York USA from Italy in the Mediterranean?? Also there is no McKenzie Bay Airbase in North America. [This is the whole premise of the movie, is it not? The ship was posessed by the demon, therefore she just wandering around the world, looking for souls.]
The beautiful singer Francesca is supposed to be Italian, but has a really funny way of pronouncing 'Senza fine'. While the actress is Italian, the person dubbing her over definitely isn't. [The pronounciation is fine. Just like Americans have different accents, we Italians do too. She was probably from another region of Italy, parting her pronounciation.]
In the scene of Julie's first conversation with the ghost of Katie, the locket naturally passes through the ghost's hand. However, the light from the resting flashlight illuminates one half of Katie's body. An apparition that cannot stop metal would also not stop the beam of light. [As previusly stated, Katie can hold onto the objects as can The Captain and The Singer. Katie lets the locket slip through her hand to prove she is a ghost.]
Since there's no light sources in the ship Antonia Graza, where does all that blue light come from in all the night scenes? Every window and even the inner rooms always have enough light to read a book. [Moonlight.]
The ship supposedly had about 4600 people and 500 crew, but a handful of the crew managed to kill off the entire ship by themselves? A majority seemed to be with just a razor blade which it took two of them to carry out. You would think some of the passengers could fight back and overpower the bad guys. [A lot of the people were poisined by the food. ]
There are two photographs on the ship. One of the sole survivor, and one of the other sinking ship encountered two days before the Antonia Graza went missing. They were not Polaroids, and therefore would have needed to be developed somewhere. Since the ship never made it to shore after either event, where did the photgraphs come from? [This was a luxury liner. There is a good chance that there was a black room to develop photographs on board.]
Late in the movie it shows the crew shooting the passengers and they fall into the pool. Where did all of the bones go to? [Where did all the bones go from all the other slaughters too? Chances are the more visible human remains were disposed of so as not to immeadiately raise suspicion or scare off the salvage crews that came.]
When Epps attempts to give Katie the heart locket it goes right through her hand proving that she is a ghost and can not hold things. Yet the opening of the very next scene is the ghost captain handing the real captain a book. [It isn't that Katie cannot hold things (or that the ghosts cannot - for example, Francesca holds the cigarette too). Katie purposely lets the locket go through her to convince Epp that she is in fact a ghost.]
In the flashback, Francesca has just shot the crewman from the ship and he falls just in front of her. After the demon kills her, the crewman is nowhere to be seen. Neither of the characters move him, so where could he have gone? [You can see him, lying face down on the floor.]
We know the evil ghost can change shape as he turns into Dodge near the end, so why come to the salvage crew the way he looked when it sank? It was inevitable that one of them would see the one survivor. [First, because of the digital watch on the Antonia, we know that the soul collector has done this before, so he probably knows his limits and what he can get away with. Also, because the only picture of him is actually on the Antonia, he probably doesn't care, because he knows the crew won't find out until too late anyway.]
The girl that survives was maybe about, what, 10ish? I would think she would have been tall enough that if all the adults got sliced just about in half, she'd probably have been decapitated. [If you watched, the captin ducked her down so she wouldn't get sliced. That's why he was sliced through his mouth.]
In the scene where Epps and Ferriman have just found the gold, there are rats running all over it. If this ship has been at sea and know one has been on it since 1962, how can rats still be alive and running around? [There were other visitors aboard the ship prior to the Arctic Warrior crew (the digital watch they discovered on the bridge was left by a previous visitor; the extra features on the DVD also suggest previous encounters). It's possible that the rats came aboard with these visitors. It's also possible (although less plausible) that the rats on board in 1962 survived by consuming ship's stores and human remains, and that their descendants resorted to cannibalism once other sources of food ran out.]
In the beginning when everyone was cut in half so was the cabaret singer. Later on in the film there is a flashback and she is killed by the soul collecter with a hook while getting the gold. [The singer was not cut in half. She was inside the ship in the dining area singing while the people who were cut in half were out on the deck. She was killed in the manner they showed in the flashback.]
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