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When the dwarves find the invisible barrier, Wally takes the map from Randall and calls him crazy. Randall then picks up a skull and throws it, shattering the invisible barrier. At this point Randall takes the map back from Wally, then the camera angle changes and we see Randall taking the map off Wally again. See more...

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Time Bandits (1981) - 6 corrections

Directed by Terry Gilliam, starring Ian Holm, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Sean Connery, Shelley Duvall (add more)

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-fi, Thriller

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When Kevin and the dwarves are on the Titanic, the camera shows a close-up shot of a lifesaver hanging on the ship's deck. The lifesaver reads "S.S. Titanic". Being a British ship, the lifesavers on the Titanic should actually be labeled "R.M.S. Titanic". [All of Titanic's lifeboats were labelled "S.S. Titanic". At the Merseyside Maritime Museum you can see a lifeboat name plate that confirms this. http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/maritime/collections/liners/titanic/nameplate.aspx If the lifeboats were labelled "S.S.", it's only likely that the life preservers read the same. The reason for this is that the Titanic was both an S.S. (Steam Ship) and occasionally an RMS (Royal Mail Ship). She would only have the second designation when carrying British mail, which would not necessarily be true for every voyage she ever made. Labelling the boats and preservers with the "S.S." monicker would be accurate no matter what the purpose for her trip was.]

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When the Titanic sinks all six dwarves and Kevin end up in the sea clutching a lifebelt. The water in which the Titanic sank was freezing - that is how most of the casualties died, by freezing, not drowning. In water like that you'd be lucky to stay conscious for more than a minute, and you'd be dead in two. Despite this none of them show the slightest effect of the cold. Maybe the dwarves have some 'magical' ability to withstand lethal cold, but Kevin doesn't. He'd be screaming in pain. [You're way off. Studies by Canadian researcher Gordon Giesbrecht have shown people can survive very cold water for much longer times than that. You certainly wouldn't be dead in two minutes, even in 31 degree Fahrenheit water, which was the temperature of the North Atlantic when the Titanic sunk. It takes about an hour for hypothermia to cause a person to become unconscious (depending on body type) and most people will survive close to 5 hours.]

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Throughout the film there are several references to a character named Horseflesh, (such as "Horseflesh would never get us into this mess"). Despite the character being credited at the end of the movie he never appears during the film. [There's a paragraph devoted to him in the published "Time Bandits" screenplay: "The trouble is quite frankly that if Horseflesh had been in it he would have made seven dwarves, and we'd have libel suits from Disney and all sorts of things. But we liked the name, so he remains the mystery dwarf."] [According to the interview with Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam on the extras DVD (produced in 2002), Terry Gilliam states that Horseflesh is the dwarf seen with Evil, though it isn't mentioned who he is; in the original script he had quite a few lines, but they were cut, eg "The map! Evil one, the very map I promised you, is yours" (from script excerpt shown on DVD).]

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