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The Princess Bride (1987) - 33 corrections

Directed by Rob Reiner, starring André the Giant, Billy Crystal, Carol Kane, Cary Elwes, Chris Sarandon, Christopher Guest, Fred Savage, Mandy Patinkin, Mel Smith, Peter Cook, Peter Falk, Robin Wright Penn, Wallace Shawn (add more)

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller

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In the scene where Westley is tortured to extremity, he screams, and Inigo upon hearing him scream is instantly able to identify Westley and that he is in love with Buttercup. How does he know who Westley's in love with? You could say Fezzik told him, but how did Fezzik know? For all they knew, he was just a pirate after a prize. [Fezzik never says it's Westley, or that he's in love with Buttercup. He recognizes the voice of the man in the black mask and that he's screaming because his heart is in pain. A scream he recognized when he was in pain from the death of his father.]
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In the scene where Wesley and Buttercup roll down the hill, when they get to the bottom, they are far apart on the wide shot and close together on the close-up shot. [The close-up shot follows after a shot of Humperdinck at the top of the hill, tracking them. As both Wesley and Buttercup were conscious and uninjured, they had enough time to start moving closer to one another, which is precisely what we see them doing in the second shot.]
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In the scene where Fezzik is putting Inigo's head in a bucket of water, every time he dumps Inigo's head in the water, you hear his deep breath. Not when his head is pulled out of the water. [It's not a breath, it is Inigo trying to shout a protest while his head is under water. It sounds just the way it is supposed to.]
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When Buttercup finds Westley in the honeymoon suite and jumps on him on the bed, her stockings and shoes are black. When she jumps from the window into Fezzik's arms, her stockings and shoes are white. I doubt she changed in front of Westley, Inigo, and Prince Humperdinck. [I just watched this in slow motion, and she is wearing white stockings and shoes the whole time. When she jumps on the bed, you mostly see the black (dirty) underside of the shoes, so this might be mistaken for the color of her shoes, but they are indeed white on top.]
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As Fezzik, Inigo, and Westley are developing their plan to storm the castle, Inigo says Humperdinck and Buttercup are getting married in a 'little less than half an hour'. It is bright and sunny outside. Next time we see them, before their master plan is carried out, it is dark, like it's the middle of the night. [Well, since no season is given at any point, it could very well be winter, making it very possible for the sun to go down within a half hour. Anyway it is just stated that the wedding starts within a half hour. It has already begun the next time we see Inigo and Fezzik. Actually they are so far in the ceremony all that is left to do for the coming man and wife is to agree to the terms of marriage, which takes quite a while. So much time could have gone by before we see Inigo and Fezzik, giving the sun plenty of time to go down.]
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When Westley and Buttercup are in the fire swamp and he is explaining to her how they will be able to survive said swamp, he puts down his sword so he can lift her for a moment. He never retrieves his sword, but it reappears in his hand when he is cutting vines moments later. [If you look carefully he does indeed pick it up as he is passing behind the branches and roots, there is even the sound of the blade being removed from the ground.]
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In the final scene, as Peter Falk turns to say "As you wish", his hair and mustache are nearly black, but throughout the movie they have been heavily whitened. [This is a repeat entry that has been corrected, I also double checked for myself, it is only the way the shadow of his face is cast over it. the bedroom scenes where all shot around the same time so it doesn't make sense that they would have done something to the color of his mustache between takes.]
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When Grandpa is reading to the boy, first the boy's sandwich is whole, then there are some bites taken, then it's whole again. [The boy's sandwhich is cut in two pieces. so he probably just finished one and started on the other.]
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In the scene where Buttercup and Westley are rolling down the hill, go into slow mo and pause it on their faces. The same stunt double played both parts. [The rules of the site are clear. If you need to use pause or slow-mo, it's not a mistake.]
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In the scene with Miracle Max, the bellow is placed in Westley's mouth to put air into him. Westley, who is supposed to be incapacitated, holds the nozzle in his mouth. Facial muscles should not be able to move like that if he is paralyzed. [In all fairness, the movie never says he's paralyzed or even unconscious only that he is "mostly dead".]
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During the first scene in the Pit of Despair, The Albino tells Wesley that only he and the Count know how to get in. Soon after, the Count and Prince Humperdinck arrive, and the Prince does appear to need the Count's aid to get the door open. A few minutes later, however, Humperdinck loses his temper, determines to kill Wesley, and is seen charging down the steps into the Pit on his own, apparently without any assistance. [He probably watched the Count open the door - as you say, just a few minutes earlier. He probably remembered how the Count did it.]
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In the final scene with the grandpa and the boy the grandpa's hair gray (as it was in the rest of the movie) but during a close up when he at the door about to leave his hair is dark brown. It changes back to gray right before he leaves. [It only appears dark brown due to poor lighting during that shot. If you look closely, you will see that his hair never actually changes color.]
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When Westley tells the dungeon keeper that he can bear torture, the keeper says that no-one can bear the machine. Yet when Westley is attached to the machine, the six-fingered man says that he has worked half a lifetime on it and that it has never been used before. [Yes, but the dungeon keeper knows how powerful it is and knows what it's capable of. He's just making a generalization that no one can withstand it.]
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After Buttercup realizes that Humperdinck never sent the messengers and is calling him a coward, he grabs her and shuts her in her room, intending to lock her in since he grabs the key out of the lock. However, he immediately pulls the key out after shutting the door without turning it first- so the door is actually still unlocked. Since Humperdinck was intending to lock her in, it's unlikely that the character would have 'accidentally' forgot to lock the door, more likely the actor was just moving too fast. [Or he could have been so flustered at his deception being revealed that he truly forgot. It is pure speculation about what the actor was or wasn't doing.]
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During Westley and Inigo's fight atop The Cliffs of Insanity, the sky behind them is obviously a matte painting because the clouds never move. [Clouds don't visibly move if there's no wind to move them.]
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When the masked man is climbing the rope just before Vizzini cuts it, it's clear that he is being pulled up by another rope or wire. He flies up the rope and is moving up faster and farther than his arms are moving. [This is deliberate to emphasise his almost superhuman abilities - this is a fairytale after all.]
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The Machine is powered by a water wheel that takes a while to get going (not to mention how long that flood gate took to open and whatever moves the water down the slough). However, when the Count switches it off, and an instant later the camera cuts to a wide shot - the Machine has stopped completely. It should have slowed gradually to a halt because of inertia. [It could have a built-in braking mechanism that kicks in when the gate is closed.]
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When Westley and Inigo are dueling, Westley disarms Inigo by knocking his sword high into the air, which Inigo subsequently catches. But a crew member caught the sword and dropped it back down to Inigo, and you can see him running away at the very top of the screen, far to the left. [I have reviewed this scene in slow motion time and again - the only thing I see is a small metallic flash, not someone running. Could this be a duplicate of the 'boom mike' mistake from the pan-and-scan version?]
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When Westley and Buttercup come out of the quicksand (an aggregate of water and sand, basically mud), they're covered with sand. Within a few seconds, they are clean - the wet sand should be quite sticky. [It's not quicksand, it's called lightening sand and it's clearly dry from the way it flows. Buttercup disappears far too quickly for it to be regular quicksand. That's why they are cleaned up so fast.]
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When Inigo, Fezzik, and Westley are on the castle wall, Westley says, "There may be problems once we get inside" and Inigo is heard to say "I'll say" but his lips don't move. [A person's lips don't move all that much when saying "I'll say". I zoomed in, and he is saying it. You have to look pretty close, though.]
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