Christine movie corrections

As Arnie runs after Leigh at the drive-in, he arrives under the awning with his hair slightly wet, but still rather full-looking. But in the next close-up, it's soaked flat onto his head. See more...

When Arnie and Leigh discover that the car has been trashed at Darnell's Garage and Arnie suddenly turns on Leigh, yelling at her and shoving her backwards, note the look of shock on her face - it's real. Keith Gordon (Arnie) explains on the DVD that in rehearsing the scene, he purposely didn't react as violently, so when the scene was shot, his behavior change actually shocked Alexandra Paul (Leigh). See more...

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Christine (1983) - 4 corrections

Directed by John Carpenter, starring Alexandra Paul, Harry Dean Stanton, John Stockwell, Keith Gordon (add more)

Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller

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When Christine is fixing herself after the guys smashed her up, her front end is shown to be perfectly straight for its entire width and the hood is missing. Near the end of the scene, the front end is shown crushed and unfolds again, and the hood appears from nowhere. [About the hood: in the book, Stephen King had the broken-off parts of the car reattaching themselves; hubcaps rolled "like coins" to reattach themselves to the wheels, etc. Therefore it's safe to assume that the hood - ripped loose and thrown to the floor by Buddy in a deleted scene, by the way - reattached itself.]

Corrected by Jeff Swanson

The restored Christine has yellow and black late '50s standard California license plates with the number CQB 241. The only time the letter Q was used at that time was on special plates for ham radio operators, and even then it was a different style; the type of Q they used on Christine wasn't introduced until the late '60s. [Filmmakers have to use fake numbers to avoid lawsuits (just like fake adresses and phone numbers).]

Corrected by Rlvlk

While on the assembly line in the beginning, Christine's air filters were brass colored. After Arnie buys her and she restores herself, they're chrome. Doubtful he found them in Darnell's junk heap. [He could have found them on a junked car, or he could have bought them somewhere, he probably would not have been able to find every part he needed in the junk yard, so it makes sense that he would have had to buy a few new parts.]

Corrected by pross79

Christine is a 1957 Plymouth Fury, and is shown being assembled on the assembly line in 1957. She is painted 'Autumn Red', as per Detective Junkin's remarks later in the film. However, the 1957 Fury was only available in one color: 'Buckskin Beige'. In fact, all of the other Furys shown on the assembly line are the correct color. The producers apparently made Christine red to give it a more flashy, sinister look than what the beige color would provide. [According to the novel, Christine is red because she was custom ordered in that color, the color is referred to as "autumn red" in the novel but not the movie. Christine is also a 1958 model.]

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