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Alexander (2004) - 10 mistakes

Directed by Oliver Stone, starring Angelina Jolie, Anthony Hopkins, Colin Farrell, Jared Leto, Val Kilmer (add more)

Genres: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, Romance, War

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Revealing: Towards the beginning of the movie, young Alexander tames a horse and then jumps on the horse and rides off. He is supposed to be riding bareback, but in one of the shots from a distance, you can tell that the actor's feet are in stirrups.

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Continuity: In the scene were Queen Olympias is walking towards Alexander with a snake around her arm, there is a two second clip at Alexander and then Olympias is seen again but not holding the snake anymore.

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Other: In the battle at Gaugamela scene where Cleitus jumps off his horse to help Alexander in the battle, Cleitus is seen cutting the head off a barbarian and throwing it at another. Two seconds later he is seen swinging that same head back and forth.

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Revealing: When Alexander rides towards the elephant of the Indian King, his sword is obviously waggling as though made of rubber.

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Continuity: The scar on Old Ptolemy's forehead switches sides halfway through his first scene.

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Factual error: The backdrop to the party scene in India shows a large building with glass windows. The Romans were the first to use glass windows some 300 years later.

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Deliberate "mistake": When Alexander is giving his pre-battle speech at Gaugamela, some of the shots are 'flipped', which has the odd effect of suddenly making all of the phalanx pikemen left-handed.

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Factual error: Just before old Ptolemy starts telling his story of Alexander, at the very beginning of the movie, we see a shot of the famous Lighthouse of Alexandria. It's fully operational, which is a mistake because the building was finished during the reign of Ptolemy's son, Ptolemy II Philadelphos, some years after the first Ptolemy's death.

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Continuity: Towards the beginning of the movie, young Alexander is receiving a wrestling lesson and his hair is extremely blonde. A short time later, young Alexander is outside with his teacher and fellow students and his hair is more brownish-blonde.

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Factual error: Contrary to what's depicted in the movie, Cleitus was never involved in the murder of Parmenion. He was in fact on his way to Alexander when Parmenion was killed.

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