Death Proof

Death Proof (2007)

14 mistakes

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Visible crew/equipment: When stuntman Mike and the girls cars come back together after being separated by a pond, the shadow of a car-mounted camera crane is visible in the left bottom corner. (01:44:00)

Continuity mistake: The shape and width of the scar on Stuntman Mike's face slightly varies between the scenes (from thin in the shot where he is pouring some eye drops into his eyes, to almost invisible during the scene at the parking lot in front of the shop in Lebanon, Tennessee, and wide during the final rush).

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Suggested correction: This is untrue. The movie is out of sequence, like the reels were put together wrong in an old Grindhouse Theater. The car also changes when his scar is different if you pay attention. This whole movie also takes place in the wrong order of the double feature according to the storyline. This was NOT a mistake but done on purpose and slides to this in the making of book.

Deliberate mistake: At the end of the movie, where the girls chase stuntman Mike, they drive the upper dusty road. When their car is shown front outside angle, there's a lot of dust rising from the camera crew's car. But when the camera angle gets into their car and shoots strait ahead - the dust is all gone, the air is perfectly clear.

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Continuity mistake: When Stuntman Mike is eating and talking to the blonde girl in the bar, he is holding a glass of club soda. When the shot reverses, he is wiping his hands, then when the shot returns, he is holding the club soda again.

Continuity mistake: The damage on the white Dodge Challenger varies between the shots. The most obvious is the right side of the car. We can see the whole right side is scratched (in the shot, where Mike is pushing Dodge off the road for a while and it makes 360°). But only a few moments later it looks like brand new (in the shot where Abby ask him to leave them alone). Then it is scratched again (in the shot where Mike says that Zoe would fly), nice again (in the shot where Zoe gets in with the metal rod) and to the end of the chase scratched again. (01:35:50 - 01:40:00)

Factual error: The second part of the movie is supposed to be located near Lebanon, TN, however, it is fairly obvious the terrain is Southern California. I realize that movie companies often use different locations to film than what they really are, but the landscape between CA and TN is vastly different.

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Suggested correction: They're anchored to the floor.

Continuity mistake: The Challenger doesn't have a roll bar in the beginning, but the stunt car they use during the chase scene does.

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Continuity mistake: During the final chase scene, as Stuntman Mike started for a while to dab the girls' car, in a scene the shadows of the cars change size between one shot and another.

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Visible crew/equipment: At the end of the movie as Stuntman Mike is being chased by the girls on the highway, in a shot of him while driving, the shadow of the camera mounted on the car's door is visible on his shoulder and on the seat.

Other mistake: When Mike rams up the backside of the challenger, the girl driving the car loses control and turns hard towards the left, the front tires aren't pointing forward down the road so there was no way she would have recovered from this. In the following shot after her closeup she's driving straight. (01:33:40)

SoulGrind

Continuity mistake: On the drive to Guero's Taco Place, they are shown driving north on South Congress with Homeslice pizza in the background, even though Gueros is directly in front of Homeslice in Austin, and they keep driving right past it. (00:10:25)

Dennis Molina

Continuity mistake: When Nate and Butterfly are speaking on the porch in front of the bar and grill, the "bright red umbrella" he has is one of the large full size ones. When they return inside to join the rest of the group, when Butterfly says she had to get something from the car, the umbrella that Nate is holding is a smaller one. (00:21:20 - 00:24:40)

Pam: So what's your name, icy?
Stuntman Mike: Stuntman Mike.
Pam: Stuntman Mike's your name.
Stuntman Mike: You ask anybody.
Pam: Hey Warren. Who is this guy?
Warren the Bartender: Stuntman Mike.
Pam: And who the hell is Stuntman Mike?
Warren the Bartender: He's a stuntman.

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Trivia: Zoë Bell, who played herself, had worked as Uma Thurman's stunt double in Kill Bill.

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Question: When Abby is in the store, Lee calls her. What is Abby's ringtone? It sounds familiar, but I can't place it.

Answer: The tune is called "Twisted Nerve" by Bernard Herrmann. It sounds familiar because in one of Quentin Tarantino's earlier films "Kill Bill", Daryl Hannah's character was whistling it before attempting to murder Uma Thurman's character in her sleep.

THGhost

Answer: That song is actually used in a couple different scenes of Kill Bill.

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