The General's Daughter

Continuity mistake: When John Travolta is searching the dead woman's house he has latex gloves on. When he pulls out his gun and heads into the basement, his gloves are gone when he turns on the light. Then they reappear a few seconds later.

Continuity mistake: When Travolta is driving his car backward from the crime scene with Madeleine, the scene shows the soldiers moving away trying to avoid the car, then the scene changes and changes again showing the same soldier's movement.

Continuity mistake: In the armory scene, Belling removes an M-16 from a box with an M-203 grenade launcher attached. In the next scene the grenade launcher is gone and the M-16 has standard handguards.

Continuity mistake: After John Travolta's flat tire is fixed there are at least two times when the tire can be seen as a full-sized regular tire, not the skinny temporary spare that the general's daughter installed. Keep your eyes open to spot the mistake.

Continuity mistake: When James Woods is sitting dead on the couch with the gun in his hand his eyes are shut, but when he is being zipped into the body bag, his eyes are open.

Factual error: In the beginning where John Travolta is going through the gates in his car, he stops to let the guard on duty see his military ID. Under the US seal it has the words "1ST Sarg." printed. Real military ID's would have "1SG / E8" printed on them where he has "1ST Sarg." printed. Also, his expiration date says "12/24/02". This would be printed as "2002DEC24".

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Brenner: You killed her.
Lt. Gen. Joseph Campbell: What did you say?
Brenner: Seven years ago in that hospital room when you told her to just forget about it, you killed her.
Lt. Gen. Joseph Campbell: Kent killed her.
Brenner: No. Kent just put her out of her misery.

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Question: When the generals daughter is being brought out in the coffin at the end, "Amazing Grace" is being played on the bagpipes. Is this a military thing for dead soldiers, and if so, why "Amazing Grace" and why a Scottish instrument in particular?

Answer: It's just a generic funeral song and the bagpipes are supposed to make it more...mournful.

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