Batman corrections

Batman (1989) - 27 corrections

Directed by Tim Burton, starring Billy Dee Williams, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger, Michael Gough, Michael Keaton

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When Jack shoots at Batman in the factory, Batman deflects it into a glass gauge, which shatters into Jack's face cutting it down the entire side. But when Jack shows up to kill his boss, there's no damage of any sort to his face. [Several days pass between these two events, during which Jack undergoes extensive facial surgery. And there is damage to his face - the permanent smile.]

When Batman drops the small grenade in Axis Chemicals to blow up the building, the first place that explodes is about halfway up the length of the building. [Since we see the explosion from the outside this can't really classified as a mistake. There could have been a lot of explosive material at that part of the building. As we have seen earlier in the film, there are no separate floors in the building, just catwalks & such, so this is quite possible.]

A miniature of the Batwing and the city were used to shoot the wide shots of the Batwing flying through the city. [We don't have the technology to build a full size, real life Batwing and fly it through a real life Gotham city. I doubt the movie would have the budget either. Not really trivia - how else were they supposed to make it?]

In the scene when Vicki is running up the stairs in the bell tower, at the beginning she has white high heels on. In a later shot, a distance up the stairs, she has flats on, then in the shots at the top of the bell tower, she has her high heels back on. [Vicki and the Joker pause at a landing where Vicki falls and loses a shoe. Joker kisses the shoe and throws it over the railing. When they reach the top of the bell tower, Vicki is in stocking feet for the rest of the sequence, not flats or heels.]

During Bruce & Vickie's first date, dinner at Wayne Manor, Bruce asks her if she had a hard time finding the house. Vickie had been at a party there a few evenings before with Knox and, in fact, had met Bruce for the first time that evening. Why would he ask her this as though she'd never been there before? [He was trying to break the ice, maybe even trying to be funny in a way. It's not really a mistake, just awkward conversation.]

Joker arranged a fake date with Vicky pretending to be Bruce but he isn't supposed to know about Bruce going out with Vicky until later in the film. [There's a previous scene where Bob the goon shows Vicky's photos to the Joker and tells him "She's dating with a guy named Wayne" or something like that. After that comes the thing about the fake date.]

Near the end of the film, where Vicky and Alfred are talking by the car, you can clearly see the boom mike (it's orange) in the top of the screen, and it stays there throughout the whole scene. [Apparently not - it's an orange flag hanging off a building]