So I Married an Axe Murderer

So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993)

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Visible crew/equipment: When Charlie goes into the closet instead of through the door, when he doesn't want to drink what Harriet made him, and all the stuff falls over him, you can see the head of one of the sound guys at the bottom of the screen (on the right). (00:47:37)

Continuity mistake: When Charlie asks for the check in the restaurant, the check is brought and he reaches for it with his left hand. When Tony protests that he'd take care of the check, there is a shot from in front of Charlie and his *right* hand is trying to grab the check. It continues to switch between shots until Harriet grabs the check and pays for it herself.

redbaron2000

Continuity mistake: After Harriet tells the two Russian sailors off, they walk to the other side of the columns awfully quick considering the short amount of time between the exchange and the next shot of them in the background. They must have run part of the way.

Continuity mistake: The second time Charlie goes to the butcher shop, the woman being helped when he first walks in takes her package from Harriet and supposedly leaves. Later she shows up in these same butcher shop scenes catching a flying piece of meat. In addition, the guy Charlie helps takes his packages and leaves the shop only to reappear a minute later holding a jar and looking incredulously at Charlie making cow noises. I guess they were a little short on extras.

Visible crew/equipment: At the hotel at the end, when the cop is pulling the girl hanging off the roof in, if you watch closely you can see a crew member hold onto his waist.

Revealing mistake: Charlie is hanging off the ledge of the hotel when Rose chops the axe in between his fingers - if you look closely at his hand it clearly looks like rubber.

Continuity mistake: During the first scene in the coffee shop, Tony's collar alternates from hanging down to sticking nearly straight out to the side.

Continuity mistake: When Charlie brings the haggis to his parent's house, the sun is still shining when he parks in the driveway. When seen from inside the house as he enters, it's now very dark outside.

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Suggested correction: It's not very dark outside, you can see the light from in the widows. It's just that's lot of windows are covered up so it's hard to tell. But the front door is in alcove with a roof eave over it that puts it in the shadow, which makes it look dark behind him.

Bishop73

Continuity mistake: When Charlie goes onto the roof after Rose gets stuck by the closet, the lights are off in the hotel room because the power is out. But when they show Charlie climbing out of the window, the two windows in the shot have lights on, as though there were lights on in the actual rooms.

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Suggested correction: You can see the lights come back on as Charlie is running towards the window. The power comes back on before he gets on the roof.

Bishop73

Character mistake: Tony, as a cop, should've known to cuff Rose's hands behind her back. He also apparently doesn't cuff Harriet properly as she's left outside with them dangling from one wrist.

Rob245

Charlie Mackenzie: Harriet. Harry-ette. Hard-hearted harbinger of haggis. Beautiful, bemuse-ed, bellicose butcher. Un-trust... ing. Un-know... ing. Un-love... ed?"He wants you back," he screamed into the night air like a fireman going to a window that has no fire... except the passion of his heart. I am lonely. It's really hard. This poem... sucks.

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Trivia: Charlie booked the Robbie Burns room during his honeymoon. Robert Burns was a Scottish poet and widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland. His picture can be seen on Stuart MacKenzie's Scottish Wall of Fame (bottom right corner).

Bishop73

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Question: I read somewhere that Mike Myers and Neil Mullarkey contributed a lot of stuff to the script for this movie (which ended up in the final movie), but were denied onscreen writing credit. Why?

Answer: The Writers Guild of America (WGA) determines who is credited and how, so they would have arbitrated this. In 1992, the LA Times reported that several writers had been involved in the script including Myers and Mullarkey, but also Howard Zieff, Barbara Benedek, Sally Robinson, Conan O'Brien and Carrie Fisher. In 1993, the LA Times reported that the WGA had awarded Robbie Fox sole story and screenwriting credit on the film.

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