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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: During the storm at sea, Odysseus grabs onto the mast of the raft, and between shots his hands come closer together.

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Continuity: When Athena says, "Look at them, I fear for you," Polites is laughing at a joke the sailors told him, but in the closeup Polites is eating food out of a bowl.

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Audio problem: After Hector has challenged Achilles, his lips keep moving but no sound is heard.

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Audio problem: Having just captured the pig, the soldier with a knife says "I'll stop your squealing" but his lips don't move.

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Continuity: When the Phaecian women see Odysseus lying face down on the shore, in a closeup shot his right arm is bent. In the next shot, his arm is straight.

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Revealing: There are two points in the film where Odysseus throws a flaming torch into the air. The first was when he was at Troy. The second was a throw at Scylla. Notice that these torches make exactly the same noise and move in exactly the same way.

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Continuity: Telemachus drives Antinous to the wall with a spear and stakes him to the wall. The spear is actually gone when Odysseus looks around the room after killing everyone.

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Revealing: During the battle at Troy, when Odysseus and Achilles are standing together surrounded by Trojan warriors, Odysseus lashes out with his sword and kills a warrior (just before Hector appears and challenges Achilles). If you look carefully you'll see that Odysseus merely swung his sword for show; it didn't connect with the Trojan warrior who fell dead.

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Continuity: When Circe tells her maids to make wine with honey, she turns around to look at them twice.

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Continuity: During the Trojan war, when Odysseus and Achilles get surrounded by Trojan soldiers, the position of the soldiers change between shots.

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Continuity: A very blatant mistake in the Scylla scene. In one shot it is totally dark, with no light coming from the ship. In the next shot, Odysseus orders Anticlus to light a torch- and suddenly there is a ball of fire from which the soldier lights the torch.

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Audio problem: The exact same sound of someone yelling "Bring the grain" or "Where would you like these sacks of grain?" can repeatedly be heard inside the Ithacan palace throughout the movie.

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Continuity: When Telemachus is in the dark trying to string his bow, a vase with arrows in it is visible next to him. Then after he throws his bow to the ground in frustration, the arrows are gone.

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Continuity: When Odysseus sees Calypso's island and begins paddling to get there, the ropes on the mast go from being in front of him to being behind him.

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Audio problem: In the cyclops' cave, Odysseus tells his men to get the wine so that they can trade it for water, but when he does this, his lips don't move.

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Continuity: The blood on the cyclops' chin disappears quite suddenly, though he never wipes it off.

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Continuity: As Melanthe and Eurymachus fall dead to the ground, the suitor speared to the door has his left arm raised. When Odysseus looks around the room, his hand is lowered, then after he tells Telemachus "Don't let your mother's eyes fall on this room" his hand is raised again.

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Continuity: In the scene where Hermes is talking to Odysseus on the cliff, the nearby plants changes distinctly between shots.

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