It is curious how the dress and shoes that Belloq gave to Marion are a perfect fit. [Not really - anyone with the right eye could have worked out her size, maybe even tailored it accordingly.]
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) - 65 corrections
Directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Alfred Molina, Denholm Elliott, Harrison Ford, John Rhys-Davies, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman (add more)
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It is curious how the dress and shoes that Belloq gave to Marion are a perfect fit. [Not really - anyone with the right eye could have worked out her size, maybe even tailored it accordingly.]
During the basket chase scene, Indiana seems to yell out "Karen," instead of "Marion." [Listen closer, Indy is yelling "Marion".]
In the scene where Indy is fighting the Nazis who are loading the Ark on an aeroplane to ship it back to Germany, the aeroplane is of a flying-wing design. Flying wings were an American invention (Jack Northrup); the Nazis did not begin trying to build them until very late in World War II. [Brothers Reimar and Walter Horten were testing (unpowered) piloted flying wings in Germany as early as 1933, and successfully flew the Ho-5b in 1938. Though Northrup did indeed put a lot of work into flying wings, his N1-M flying wing did not fly until 1940.]
As Indiana and Marion escape the Well of Souls (via pushing the large stone block at the end of the mummy tomb adjacent to the Well), there is a person distinctly propped up against the side of the stone walls, apparently napping. Even if this was supposed to be a watchman/worker falling asleep on the job, why didn't he notice the crunch and rumble and resulting loud THUD of a stone block being moved not ten feet away? [This is actually a visible remnant of a deleted scene. As originally shot, when Indy pushed the block out, it startled a worker who was standing nearby. When Indy emerged, he had to silence the worker before he alerted the rest of the camp. See http://www.theraider.net/films/raiders/deleted_scenes.php. Not really a mistake, as the subsequent startling is just not shown.]
When Indy is running after Marion in Cairo, just before he gets to the square filled with people carrying baskets, a man is sitting on the ground with a Walkman headphone on. [There are three men Indy sees in the alleys before he reaches the square, two of them sitting, one standing, and each in his own area. All of them are wearing turbans, have facial hair, and are placed in the middle to far background. This makes it impossible to say they are wearing headphones.]
In the big chase scene where Indy is driving the truck a Nazi manning a stationary gun on the back of another truck fires several rounds point blank into the tarp covering the cargo hold of Indy's truck until he rams them off the road. That tarp must be strong since they show no bullet holes for the rest of the scene. [The gun is only shown onscreen while firing once, and during that shot the barrel is pointing at an angle which would send the bullets over the hood of the target truck. There are some other incidents when it is heard firing, but we don't see it onscreen at those times, only hear it as the trucks crash together. Given the velocity of the chase and the violence with which Indy keeps ramming the chase truck, it's easy to assume that the gunner couldn't keep the gun aimed at the target long enough to hit it.]
In the very first scene of the movie when Indiana Jones comes back to Marion to save her from the bad guys, he snaps his whip on one guy, then pulls out a gun. Indiana Jones is invincible, but still it's a little hard to believe that even the great Indiana Jones can make a 6-shooter shoot 10+ times. [It is a common filmmaking technique to not show the hero reloading, particularly in the serials which this movie takes its inspiration from. There are plenty of times when Indy isn't actually onscreen when he could be reloading.]
When Indy drops the Staff of Ra in the hole to the map room, you can hear a very distinct "clank" when the rod hits the ground (as if it were made of metal, not wood, since Indy breaks the staff over his knee later in the scene). [Sounds like a hardwood staff on a marble floor to me.]
Throughout the entire movie you can see normal German army military, which is nonsense because these historic artifact-projects Hitler pursued were handled by the SS and not by the army. [It was common for the SS to "commandeer" regular military troops as needed to accomplish their goals. If they needed a lot of troops, the SS got their wish.]
U-boats were more than four times as fast on the surface (running on diesel engines) than when submerged (running on batteries). Since Germany was not at war at this time they would have run the boat on the surface almost exclusively. Since the boats were so hard for other surface vessels to see, the Captain would have maintained a constant look out on deck. There is no way Indy could have stayed hidden for the entire voyage. [While it is true that the German U-boat was 3x-4x faster on the surface, it is equally true that in the treaty or Versailles, Germany was banned from possessing U-boats. (The U.K. was still upset about costs exacted in WWI). A German U-boat approaching any ally or neutral ship would have to submerge, even before the war had started.]
When Indy is in the Map Room looking at his book, comparing the map room to what he sees, there is a wedding ring impression - when you take your ring off you have a tan line. Also in that scene there is a suntan line on one of his fingers of a plaster/bandaid. [The shot is of him from the right, you never get a good enough look at his left hand to see an impression of a wedding band.]
Look at the hull of the submarine when Indiana Jones climbs on the deck. Through slots in the side you can see that it's just a hollow shell. [The pressure hull of a submarine (which is where the people are) does not extend all the way to the front of the fairing. This fairing is shaped like the prow of a boat and serves the same purpose, making it easier for the sub to move through the water. The slots are there to equalize pressure and, since the fairing is hollow at that point, you would be able to see through to the other side.] [No, this doesn't work. The "pressure hull" explanation would work if it was a matter of seeing through the hull to the other side, say - but not if you're looking down into the hull and seeing water where there shouldn't be any.]
Sallah is surprised by the face of the snarling Anubis statue in a flash of lightning. Statues of Anubis were NEVER shown as snarling. They were shown with a closed snout only, whether crouching in their jackal form or standing upright in their head-of-Anubis-with-a-body-of-a-man pose. [Perhaps that is why he is so startled.]
When Indy threatens to blow up the Ark, at moment when Belloq says "okay Jones you win" you can see in the background Toth (dressed in black) sitting on the rocks next to two German soldiers who have Marion as a prisoner in between them. But when Belloq grabs a machine gun from one of the other soldiers and tells Indy to blow up the ark, Toth has disappeared and there is just Marion and the two Germans soldiers (no Toth). [Toth walks away. You can see him get up and move to the left when Belloq grabs the machine gun and screams "Zuruck."]
When Indiana and the other guy are removing the stone cover where the Ark is kept, they are struggling, yet they can lift the Ark out with relative ease. The Ark is made of solid gold and the lid itself is said to need two men to lift, plus it should contain the two stone tablets with the ten commandments on. It should have weighed just as much if not more than the stone covering. [The Ark was not made of solid gold, but of acacia wood covered with gold leaf (See Exodus 37:1-2).]
Indiana Jones says in the movie that Moses came down from Mt. Horeb with the Ten Commandments. This is not true. Moses came down from Mt. Sinai with the Ten Commandments. [Horeb and Sinai are the same mountain.]
In the Well of Souls, Marion's underwear changes from white to black. [There is not one clear shot to support this, at no time is it possible to see what Marion was wearing underneath the dress that Belloq gave to her, nor can this be determined when she was hanging on to the statue just after Toth threw her into the well of souls.]
When the Well of Souls is opened it makes a vacuum sound. This would be impossible if the snakes were entering from outside, or if they were to survive. [If it were a "vacuum" sound, air would be rushing INTO the vault, not out of it as the escaping mist obviously shows. Given the atmospheric effects that appear when the Ark is finally opened later, this seems to suggest the sounds and the mist escaping are manifestations of spirits that are angry at the disturbance of the Ark's resting place.]
When Marion is being chased by the Nazis, she hides in a basket, but doesn't shut the lid properly. When the monkey screeches to let the Nazis know she is there, the lid is completely shut. [There was also a delay of several seconds in between shots of the basket. Plenty of time for Marion to get settled and close the lid properly.]
During the process of escaping from the Well of Souls after being entombed there by the Nazis, Jones ends up shoving out a large concrete block from the inside of an aboveground concrete structure, through which Jones and Marion crawl to freedom. How is it that the Germans and Belloq wouldn't have thought to investigate this aboveground structure themselves in their search for the Ark? [The Germans didn't because they were following Belloq's lead. Belloq didn't because he was so sure of himself that he didn't want to admit his directions might be incomplete or wrong. Even if they had investigated the building, they would have found nothing; the burial passageway would have led to a blank wall. The Well of Souls was on the other side of this wall; it was only opened when Indy knocked the statue through it.]
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