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Tarzan (1999) - 14 corrections

starring Brian Blessed, Glenn Close, Lance Henriksen, Minnie Driver, Nigel Hawthorne, Rosie O'Donnell, Tony Goldwyn, Wayne Knight (add more)

Genres: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family

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When Jane and Tarzan return to the camp and the ape knocks Jane down, she picks up a ladle.  The first ladle is bent and then the next shot shows a straight ladle, and then the bent one is back. [If you actually look the ladle handle is actually straight, it is from the angle that it is drawn from and the illusion of the ladle reflecting Kerchak's image that makes the ladle appear bent.]
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When the apes are playing with the typewriter, the carriage goes the wrong way. [When the carriage release is pushed, the carriage of a typewriter can go either way.]
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In the scene where Tarzan changes from boy to adult and is under water with Tantor, he pulls Tantor up by his trunk so it is above the surface and Tantor can breathe through it. At the end of the film, Tantor dives into the sea to help Tarzan, who is on the ship. Tantor is under water but sticks his trunk up through the surface. He then uses it as a periscope, shown complete with "trunk hole view". But Tantor cannot see through his trunk - his eyes are next to it. Even if done as a gag, it's still a mistake. [This kind of gag is artistic license. That makes it a pass so it's not a mistake.]
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Tarzan was only a baby when his parents were killed, and apparently a nonverbal one. When he learns English, his teachers speak with a British pronunciation. Since the British manner of pronouncing words is the only way he's been exposed to, his speech should sound closer to British than American. [In the film the gorillas have their own language which Tarzan speaks, so when he learns English it's not far-fetched to assume he speaks with a "Gorilla accent" as represented by the American accent.]
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When Tarzan and Clayton are in the tree fighting and Tarzan gets the gun, he breaks it on the tree. Or does he? On the DVD it appears in slow motion that the gun breaks before it hits the tree, right where it would hit Clayton's crotch. Ow. [The rules of this site are perfectly clear - if you have to use slow motion to spot it, it is not a mistake.]
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This is rather nasty, but look in the background, rather than at the characters, when Clayton has just fallen to his death. The lightning flash briefly illuminates the shadow of Clayton hanging, against the scenery. [This is completely intentional. It is meant for people to notice, so they can know what happened to Clayton.]
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Leopards only live around 12-15 years, but in this movie Sabor makes two appearances which, judging by Tarzan's age, are at least twenty years apart. In both of these scenes he appears to be a healthy adult. [There is nothing to indicate that it MUST be the same leopard. The Gorillas refer to "Sabor" which is likely their word for leopard. They very probably refer to every leopard as "Sabor".]
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The elephants talk about piranhas and how they only live in South America not in Africa. But how do the elephants know this in the first place? [They heard all about it from some passing birds that had visited South America. Elephants are notorious knowledge junkies and always like to discuss matters both important and trivial with anyone they should happen to meet.]
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Kala leaves the tree house with the picture face up. Later on, Tarzan finds it face down. [Considering how many animals would have passed through the house during those 20 something years it's safe to assume one of them would have flipped the picture over.]
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When the humans are capturing all of the gorillas, why is Clayton the only one with a gun? They want them alive, but hunting gorillas unarmed is not wise. [Clayton isn't the only one with a gun. You often see others being fired. The rest of the men are armed in some other way (swords, whips, etc.).]
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Tarzan has obviously been eating all along and hadn't brushed his teeth, yet they're still shiny white. [Teeth don't just go all brown from not brushing them. In almost ten years I've rarely brushed my teeth, and they're fine. One's tongue and the occasional twig or rag do the job just fine.]
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When Tarzan grows into an adult, why doesn't he grow a beard? [He doesn't seem to have much body hair either. I think we can assume that he has a sparse amount of hair on his body and face, but it's omitted for the same reason that not every character has a full set of eyelashes in every scene.]
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When Tarzan is discovered by the female gorilla he is wearing a nappy. He has it on for the whole time he is a baby. Who changes it? [The baby Tarzan is only shown for the first day when Kala finds him. We don't see him growing up into the boy (where he wears a loin cloth.) So we don't know what happens to baby Tarzan as he grows up and whether he gets his nappy changed.]
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When the gorilla goes into the house with Tarzan you can see  the window is broken, How did they get windows? [The windows came from the ship his parents were on. Remember when they climb the tree to build their house? They have a whole bunch of stuff from the ship, and you can see windows among everything.]
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