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Title	Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Original entry	In the scene where Duke is being persued by Highway patrolman Gary Busey, he is looking in the rear view mirror while his left hand is turning on the left turn signal (missing it the first time then succesfully on the second attempt). The next shot is him saying something about the officer not knowing what to make of the turn signal indicating he's about to pull over and the camera shot clearly shows Duke turning on the left turn signal which we have already seen him do. [It is true that in the pan-and-scan version it shows him turning his left blinker on twice; but in the widescreen version, it only shows him doing it once. ]

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Original entry

In the scene where Duke is being persued by Highway patrolman Gary Busey, he is looking in the rear view mirror while his left hand is turning on the left turn signal (missing it the first time then succesfully on the second attempt). The next shot is him saying something about the officer not knowing what to make of the turn signal indicating he's about to pull over and the camera shot clearly shows Duke turning on the left turn signal which we have already seen him do. [It is true that in the pan-and-scan version it shows him turning his left blinker on twice; but in the widescreen version, it only shows him doing it once. ]

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Existing corrected entry

"Kate and Charlie live in Toronto. When we first see them in their car, at the beginning of the movie, it has no license plate in the front. In Ontario, cars are required by law to have a plate in the front as well as in the back. [This isn't really a mistake. I live in California where the same law exists and I, as well as many other Californians, don't have a front license plate on my car.]"

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California might be lax about that law, but Ontario definitely isn't. Reworded text: Kate and Charlie live in Toronto. When we first see them in their car, at the beginning of the movie, it has no license plate in the front. In Ontario, cars are required by law to have a plate in the front as well as in the back. While some other jurisdictions may be lax in applying their two-plates law, Ontario isn't.

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