Bowfinger (1999) - 4 corrections

Directed by Frank Oz, starring Eddie Murphy, Heather Graham, Jamie Kennedy, Robert Downey Jr., Steve Martin, Terence Stamp (add more)

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Entry When Heather Graham's character is running with Kit Ramsey (Eddie Murphy) towards the end of the movie, she keeps switching between speaking with her "Chubby Rain" Hispanic accent and with her normal speaking manner. Understandable she might only need to speak with a Hispanic accent for Chubby Rain's filming, but since she knew that Kit Ramsey didn't know he was being filmed for a movie, you'd think she'd try to keep her character (and hence her accent) consistent to avoid raising his suspicion. [Yes, but remember that her character is an amateur and inexperienced actress. Slipping in and out of her accent would not be out of the question for her.]
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Entry Kit Ramsay knows that Bowfinger and his crew have been shooting footage of his twin brother Jiff, pretending it is really him. So, rather than allow himself to be blackmailed when they show him the footage they got of him exposing himself, why not just claim they staged it using Jiff? [This isn't a film mistake - it's something you'd do differently in Kit's position. Kit Ramsay isn't the sharpest tool in the shed - perhaps he didn't think of it? Maybe Jiff had a cast iron alibi for the day in question, or there is some characteristic about Kit that is different to Jiff and they got that on film? Maybe Kit is circumsised and Jiff isn't, or one of them has a birthmark, scar or a tattoo? We don't know and we don't need to.]
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Entry When Bowfinger is trying to get himself a smart suit for the meeting, he simply goes into an expensive shop, takes a jacket off a hanger, puts it on and replaces it with his own tacky one, then walks out. Wouldn't they have security tags? [You can clearly see both the price tag and other tags on his original jacket as he hangs it "back" up - knowing his character, it is probable that he would have moved the security tag somehow, as well.]
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Entry Bowfinger had to film Kit Ramsey from a distance.. why then, at the premiere of the film, do we see the camera angles we saw of the scenes instead of the ones Bobby filmed? for example, in the scene where the cop's face melts, we see him face on, but we see that Bowfinger's crew are filming from up an embankment behind the cop, so the shot in Chubby Rain would have been of the cop's back and not a close up of his face. [As we can see at various other points in the 'chubby rain' for instance the scene in the car park, they get the desired effect from kit, and then go back to film the other shots in close up. as we do not see kit in the little bit of footage when the guys face melts, we can presume that is what they have done here.]
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