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Lincoln Six Echo: My name is Lincoln Six Echo and I'm your insurance policy.

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The Island (2005) - 49 corrections

Directed by Michael Bay, starring Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson, Djimon Hounsou, Sean Bean, Steve Buscemi, Michael Clarke Duncan (add more)

Genres: Action, Sci-fi, Thriller

Comments made in brackets are corrections from other visitors. As such, any aggressive/abusive corrections (and I get quite a few) written as if they're comments I've made myself will be ignored. To submit your own corrections for mistakes, just click the edit icon under an entry, then choose "correct entry". Some entries have "duplicated entry" after them - these are entries which were already listed on the main page, but were submitted again. I occasionally leave these online for a while, just in case they were moved in error, so don't worry about pointing them out to me.

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Entry Dr Merrick states that "Everything we expose them (the clones) to, the games they play are designed to manage aggression". However when Lincoln and Jordan are allowed to play a virtual boxing game that the virtual Lincoln's teeth are knocked out. They fight for high scores and spectators (other clones) cheer them on. Hardly seems an effective aggression management plan. [It's actually the perfect aggression manager. Whatever aggravations you feel, you can take out on a virtual counterpart or drown them in the excitement of watching a bout.]
Corrected by Phixius Time
Entry In the end, how did all the 'products' (clones) leave their building? The main section is undamaged, so they still can't leave without a door card - not to mention the company had already culled out all those with 'human curiosity about the outside'. They can't all be the ones from the incinerator rooms, as they said it was $200M worth of defective product at $5M a pop = 40 people; even with some give there's too many. [The fifteen or so who escape from the incenerator plus the rest of the fourty waiting to die come out of one door and the others in the facility overpower the gaurds which you see because they're in a mob. The ones without human curiousity wouldn't go out to find the truth but if it's staring them right in the face then they realise that it's all been a lie and feel trapped.]
Entry When Lincoln Six Echo and Tom Lincoln are in Tom's Cadillac, they get chased into a warehouse. In the following shot, after they have entered, the Cadillac's door is suddenly opened. In the next shot, it is closed. There wasn't enough time between the shots for the door to open and close, and it wasn't a different car. It's Tom's Cadillac. [No, the passenger door of the Cadillac is opened during the fight inside the car. It stays open every time the car is shown, even speeding into the warehouse. The car with the closed right door IS a pursuing Dodge Magnum, close to the same colour of the Caddy, giving the impression it is the same car. Once stopped in the warehouse, both doors are open as Lincoln has opened the door to get out. I've watched the scene a number of times, and at first thought the pursuing Magnum was the Caddy, too.]
Entry The Police car that gets hit by the armoured car, breaks the car in two cleanly. In reality, the car would crumple and get severely crushed on the side that was hit, but it would never simply 'snap' in half like it did in the movie. [The movie is set in the future. We don't know what kind of materials are used for manufacturing automobiles, and it's possible that since the rear of the car is closed off from the front, some safety design could be implemented so that people in the rear could be rescued in case of an accident like that.]
Entry If the city scenes were supposed to be shot in Los Angeles, then why can you see Detroit landmarks in the background such as the fisher building or the train depot? [This takes place in the future, many landmarks may have changed, and buildings that look just like the Fisher building, or the train depot could have been built between now and then in Los Angeles.]
Entry The newest found survivor is a 7 Foxtrot. McCord Identifies Echo generation product as being 3 years old. This means that Foxtrot would be 2 years old, Golf would be 1 year old. According to this, the newly born product should be a 7 Hotel. [This misconception about the naming conventions has been corrected many many many times. No where in the movie is the naming spelled out. They were free to name any of the products after any of the signs.]
Corrected by Nick Bylsma
Entry The newest found survivor is a 7 Foxtrot. McCord Identifies Echo generation product as being 3 years old. This means that Foxtrot would be 2 years old, Golf would be 1 year old. According to this, the newly born product should be a 7 Hotel. [Once again, they can name the clones whatever they want. Nowhere in the movie did they spell out the naming conventions that they used. "Mistakes" of this naming kind have been submitted and corrected many times before.]
Corrected by Nick Bylsma
Entry At the end of the movie when all the "products" are coming out of the complex, the shot changes to Mr Laurant, the special forces leader, walking down the embankment. To his right (the shots left) is Gandu Three Echo, who Dr. Marrick killed earlier in the movie with an injection to the neck. [The injection was not to kill him, but sedate him so he could later be harvested. The sedation likely wore off.]
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Entry When Starkweather Two Delta is enjoying his lottery win, he reveals that he is only 6 months old, yet according to McCord, the Delta generation is 4 years old. [He may have only been in the facility for 6 months, but that doesn't mean he isn't older. Remember, they have to get the DNA sample, grow the "product", implant memories, and who knows what else. McCord was on the inside of the plan, so he knows what's going on. It's highly likely that he was refering to the fact that Starkweather had been "birthed" 4 years aog, and Starkweather was just refering to the (remembered) time that he'd been in the facility.]
Corrected by Nick Bylsma
Entry Why do the clones have different accents? Most obvious is Lincoln Six Echo's Scottish brogue. Where did he get that? Accents aren't genetic - being the clone of a Scottish man wouldn't give you a Scottish accent. All of the clones should have the same accent, the one they develop as they learn to speak, by listening to and impersonating the voices they hear others around them using. [Lincoln doesn't have a Scottish brogue, he develops it after imitating the real Tom Lincoln. However, the people around the clones have varying accents, including Merrick's English tones, so varying accents wouldn't be unheard of. It would depend on who they spent the most time around.]
Entry Why on earth does the facility have such an elaborate method of anaesthetising the clones before removing their organs? This would involve huge expense and require skilled medical staff and waste a lot of time. Why not just shoot them in the head and be done with it? There is no risk to the bodily organs - organs from executed Chinese prisoners (who are shot to death) are routinely transplanted, and in fact anaesthetic gases can cause liver damage - too bad if you are waiting for a transplanted liver, like Lincoln. [It's possible that in ten to fifteen years, anesthetics have been created that allow for no tissue damage. It's also possible that in that timeframe, they discovered that the organs do better when removed from a living body. Given that it takes place in a time we don't have access to, creative license can be taken.]
Entry If all the Echo generation was made in the same year then why do they destroy the "products" still in the water bags? Wouldn't that be a new generation? [If you would have followed the movie attentively, then you would know that the Echo generation was infected including every subsequent generation, that's why they also destroyed the bodies in the feeding bags.]
Entry When the police are taking Lincoln and Jordan to the police station, they officer driving stops in the middle of the intersection, making a perfect target to be broadsided by the armored car. He did not stop for a pedestrian, as they were crossing on the cross street, and from the way the driver was staring straight ahead, it is not likely he was making a turn. [He was waiting to make a left turn when the armored car hit them. When I make a left hand turn I look straight ahead at the oncoming traffic and look for an opening, just like the driver was doing.]
Corrected by Nick Bylsma
Entry When Scarlett's character gets taken back into the institute, she is apprehended by a government trained team, then put on a table for surgery, yet somehow she has managed to keep a gun concealed in her pants. How could that gun have gone so far unnoticed? [She was brought in by the bounty hunter, and the security at the compound likely just assumed he had searched her. Since the bounty hunter had already seen the mark on her wrist before turning her over, he was probably in on the overthrow plan. She's not on a table for surgery, just put there until they can prep her, which is obvious by the fact that she's still fully clothed.]
Entry At the train station, McCord comes back with two tickets he has bought for Lincoln Six-Echo and Jordan Two-Delta and then he goes to buy a map. After he got shot, one of the shooters sees that McCord's card is missing. Then they find out that it's been used to buy the train tickets. But McCord already gave his card to Lincoln Six-Echo in the car, driving to the station. [McCord was with them the whole time, I'm sure Lincoln could have handed the card to McCord so that he could go and buy tickets.]
Corrected by Nick Bylsma Time
Entry The guy who gets nails shot into hand is clubbed hard over the head with a crowbar and he keeps yelling. In reality he would have been knocked out with a split skull immediately. [There are no rules to getting hit over the head. Some people can die from a single punch to the head. Other people can survive a severe beating from multiple opponents and make it to hospitals.]
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Entry After about 24 hours of running away, scrubbing on dirty surfaces (their white outfits are all dirty), being chased, shot at, falling off a tall building and almost getting killed, the only noticeable trace of Lincoln and Jordan's "adventures" is a cut on Lincoln's forehead. Jordan has an impeccable hairdo, there is nothing wrong with her makeup and even her fingernails are neat and done. This is quite impossible. [No, Jordan also has some small cuts on her forehead showing, and her hair at some points is lank and messy. After she cleans up at Tom's house, she still has some small cuts and blood flecks on her forehead, most noticeable when her and Lincoln are discussing going back to the Institute.]
Entry You can't fire a nail gun like Jordan did the first time she fires it in the train station. For safety, they have to be pressed against something. [It's 14 years in the future, who knows what kind of nail gun they may have by then?]
Entry When Jordan and Lincoln escape and Merrick orders Laurent to search for them, Laurent asks him for how long they have been missing. The answer is 4 hours and 36 minutes. Regarding the fact that they are on the run and that they are highly fit and trained, they would have been around 20 miles away. That is calculated with a jogging speed of 4.2 miles an hour. So Laurent shouldn't set the perimeter to 5 miles but 20 or even more. [Laurent says he is basing the speed at 1.2 miles an hour, suggesting he is taking into account any stopping, backtracking, or detours, in addition to the fact that they are probably not going in a straight line. Thus, a five mile perimeter would be more than enough to begin searching, with the probability of expanding the perimeter once they find some clues as to which direction they have gone.]
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Entry Why on earth would McCord, a welder who works below the main floor and (supposedly) has no contact with the clones, know everything about the ultra-secret cloning operation? It's like a cleaner in the Pentagon knowing strategic military secrets. Haven't they ever heard of Need To Know? [He's seen repairing a computer when they cut a clone out of a breeding bag. So he surely knows a lot about the whole operation.]

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