Highlander (1986) - 10 corrections

Directed by Russell Mulcahy, starring Clancy Brown, Sean Connery (add more)

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Entry It is stated that the metal in MacLeod's sword was folded over 200 times. While not impossible (if time consuming), it would probably be one of the softest swords ever. Katanas were folded to remove bubbles and to even out the carbon composition of the blade. Repeated folding beyond a few dozen times will actually burn out the carbon, thus weakening the blade. No recorded katana has ever had more than two dozen folds. [When Ramirez shows the sword to McCloud, he states it was made for him by a "genius" sword maker. Presumably, this sword maker used special techniques to make the blade stronger through the folding process.]
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Entry The lead female's name is Brenda, but when Connor looks at the book her character wrote, the back cover says that her first name is "Elizabeth." It's at the very bottom-left of the screen. [Many authors use pseudonyms when publishing. Also, it's entirely possible she uses her middle name regularly, but her first name on her books.]
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Entry In the initial fight scene in the stadium car park, MacLeod's opponent is seen doing back flips all over the place, but what does he do with his sword when he's doing all that gym-foolery? He's not holding it in his hands and if he shoved it inside his clothing, it would impale him whilst he's bent double. [In at least one of these scenes, the character is seen retrieving his sword after the flip. He does a back flip off the hood of a car and is seen picking up the sword from the hood.]
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Entry When Sean Connery tells Christopher Lambert to feel the power of the deer at the beach the sky is suddenly changing from very cloudy to bright sunlight. [The scene is supposed to be in Scotland and being from there I can tell you that the weather can change that fast.]
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Entry In the scene at the police station where Nash is being questioned, the cop asks Nash if he knows anything about Fazil's death "two nights ago". Nash immediately replies that he must have been depressed about the lousy wrestling "last night". [Lt. Moran never says, "2 nights ago." and Connor never says, "Last night."]
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Entry Just after Kurgan kills Kastagir and he gets shot by the gun nut, a group of people gather at the end of the alley to see what's happening. Yet, in a later shot showing Kurgan and the end of the alley, only the gun nut's car is there, no crowds of people at all. [There is enough time for people to disappear between the shots. Besides, they just watched a big guy decapitate a man, get shot, get hit by lightning, get back up, and walk toward them with a sword, it's not too hard to believe they would run away.]
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Entry When the bad guy spears his sword through the windshield, around the middle of the movie. You can tell they did it in at least three shots. The first time you see the hole in the windshield it is a medium sized hole. Then, when he gets out it is a much larger hole. Finally, when he is standing in front of the car, the hole is incredably tiny. [This is pretty vague and he might be talking about when Kurgan chops the roof off the car, but he didn't touch the glass and no one "spears" a windshield.]
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Entry The Highland scenes are set in 1536, and earlier Nash tells Brenda he was born in 1518 which would make him 18. However, when he is being run out of the village, Nash tells his cousin that "we've been kinsman for 20 years." [When you're being banished by everyone that you hold dear, being precise is hardly going to bother you. With the years given, Connor could easily be close to nineteen, depending on his date of birth and the date in question - twenty years is close enough.]
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Entry In the scene where MacLeod goes to Brenda's for dinner, she hides her pistol in the middle drawer of the little cabinet, but he finds it by opening the top drawer. [MacLeod does open the top drawer first (on-screen), but then he opens the middle drawer (off-screen but his hand movement makes this clear).]
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Entry A metal detector would not be able to find tiny shards of metal in a support column, because of the steel rods embedded in the concrete. [The metal inside concrete is Rebar. Different from steel. and embedded deep enough not to interfere.]
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