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The Odyssey (1997) - 58 mistakes

starring Armand Assante, Christopher Lee, Eric Roberts, Greta Scacchi, Isabella Rossellini (add more)

Genres: Adventure, Fantasy, Drama

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Continuity: At the end of the duel of Antinous against Telemachus, Antinous picks up a stool to throw at Odysseus and the white fur lands almost exactly next to the wine bag. Then in the shot of Antinous laughing, the fur is much further away from the bag.

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Continuity: When Telemachus is fighting with the suitor, the blood on the suitor disappears.

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Continuity: When the cyclops comes into the cave and says "Who are you?", we see all the men in a circle. There are nine of them. But later, when they run back to the ship, you can count at least ten of them. Even worse is that two of the men were eaten by the cyclops, so there should be only seven.

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Continuity: When Achilles throws the spear at Hector, there is another chariot nearby that appears to be on fire. In the next shot of Achilles we see the same chariot and the fire is gone.

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Continuity: During the Trojan war, it is clear that they are fighting on sand with no water nearby. Then suddenly Odysseus slashes a Trojan, and he falls in a large puddle of water. When Achilles grabs a spear later, the puddle is gone.

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Revealing: Achilles takes the spear that he later throws at Hector out of a dead person's body, but the spear has no blood on it at all.

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Audio problem: When Odysseus is in the Trojan horse, he says "King Priam" but his lips don't move.

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Continuity: The first man the cyclops eats (the one with the black beard) is standing behind Elpenor when he offers the cyclops cheese. But when the cyclops knocks Elpenor away, you can see that that man was in front of him.

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Audio problem: After the Cyclops finishes drinking wine, he throws the bowl back at Odysseus. In that shot you can hear the sound of it hitting him and falling to the ground. But the bowl doesn't actually hit him until the next shot.

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Continuity: Between shots of Menelaus saying "You, Telemachus, you must return", his arm magically appears on Telemachus' shoulder.

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Visible crew/equipment: During the battle scene, Odysseus' narration goes "and no one knew whose side the gods were on." In the shot where he begins to say "were on," a crew member with brown hair and a black shirt is visible behind the charging Greek army. A split second later another crew member is visible, this time with black hair and a blue shirt.

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Continuity: The cyclops throws the bowl at Odysseus and it lands on the ground, but it is gone a few shots later as one of the men says "I will kill him now".

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Continuity: When the men are all holding onto the boat so as not to fall into the whirlpool Charybdis, Polites' face is covered in blood. But when he falls, most of the blood is gone.

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Visible crew/equipment: As Laocoon approaches the Trojan Horse, equipment is visible near the Eurylochus and the Trojans. It was not there when King Priam first approached the horse.

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Continuity: There are two shots of Odysseus floating in the water right before he reaches Calypso's island. In the first shot, you can see that he is wearing armor. In the second, his chest is bare.

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Visible crew/equipment: In the second shot in the Trojan War, right after the men come down the hill on horses, a cameraman is visible near the statue at the top of the wall.

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Continuity: After Prince Hector explodes out of his chariot, there is a shot of a soldier falling down and another one stabbing him with a spear. Then when Achilles starts yelling "Hector is mine. Mine." the same soldier falls down and gets stabbed again.

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Continuity: Throughout the battle in the throne room at the end, the position of many of the dead suitors changes between shots.

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Continuity: When Hermes says "Heed my advice and reach that stone" Odysseus is looking at Hermes. In the next shot, as Odysseus replies "Which?" he is facing up the cliff.

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Audio problem: When Telemachus comes to Sparta, Menelaus asks "Who is this boy my son brings?". Someone then replies "Telemachus of Ithaca highness" but his lips are out of sync when he says this.

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