X

Update alerts | Exclude type?

Django Unchained (2012) - 43 mistakes

Directed by Quentin Tarantino, starring Don Johnson, Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington, Leonardo DiCaprio (add more)

Genres: Drama, Western

Mistakes
Trivia
Pictures
Quotes
Corrections
Submit
⇑
⇓

Updated this week Continuity: In the scene where Stephen is shocked that Django will be staying in the big house responding with "if you ain't got no problem burning the bed the sheets", you can see Calvin place his pipe in his left hand and start to point at Stephen with his right hand, saying "that is my problem, they are mine to burn" then his pipe is magically in his right hand again.

Edit Submitted by RatedR178 Time
⇑
⇓

Updated recently Character mistake: The check written by Sam Jackson says May 2, 1858. At this point in the movie, it should be 1859.

Edit
⇑
⇓

Factual error: The film is based in 1858 and proceeds through the winter into the spring of 1859. At the end of the movie Django blows up Candyland using dynamite. Dynamite was not invented by Alfred Nobel until 1864 and then patented in 1867.

Edit
⇑
⇓

Factual error: Dr Schultz pays with 12 $1000 bills, but $1000 bills were not created until 1861, after the time period of this movie.

Edit
⇑
⇓

Factual error: Calvin Candie compares a slave to a teddy bear, even though teddy bears were not invented until the time when Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was president.

Edit Submitted by THGhost
⇑
⇓

Continuity: In the scene where Schultz shoots the sheriff, as he walks away he has blood on his hand and his jacket. The blood is gone from both in the next shot and from then on.

Edit
⇑
⇓

Factual error: Dr. Schultz says the word "Malarkey" in casual conversation in 1858, the word didn't come into use until 1929.

Edit Submitted by THGhost
⇑
⇓

Factual error: The harpist is playing "Fur Elise", which though written in 1810, was not published until 1865.

Edit Submitted by THGhost
⇑
⇓

Continuity: SPOILER: When Calvin dies he pushes the globe and makes it spin very slowly, almost coming to a stop when he falls down. When the angle changes, the globe is spinning really fast.

Edit Submitted by Sacha
⇑
⇓

Factual error: During the "skull monologue", Calvin Candie mentions "genes". The word was coined after 1905 from the work of Danish scientist Wilhelm Ludvig Johannsen. Genetics were born with Mendel's work, which was published in 1866 and did not become widely known in the scientific community until decades later.

Edit Submitted by THGhost
⇑
⇓

Continuity: In the scene where Django shoots Smitty Bacall, the plough that he is using can be seen on the far left of the field and moving at a slow pace. But when Dr Schultz puts his wanted poster away, the plough is suddenly on the far right of the field having not had enough time to have turned round and moved that far.

Edit Submitted by THGhost
⇑
⇓

Continuity: During the first shootout scene inside Candiland, when Django rolls off Leonide Moguy (Candie's Lawyer) he rolls to the right of the shot, away from the room he had just come from. However in the next scene when the door is kicked in we see Django moving and shooting from the opposite side of the room, towards the side he should already be.

Edit
⇑
⇓

Continuity: SPOILER: After Schultz is dead, a guy's chest is blown away and he lies dead on the floor. Django takes cover on his body but, merely a second later, the guy on the floor is not lying sideways but face down, and Django has managed to crawl over him, turn around 180° and keep on shooting.

Edit Submitted by Sacha
⇑
⇓

Factual error: The "Cleopatra Club", where Django, Schultz and Monsieur Candie meet for the first time, uses an Egyptian sculpture replica as a trademark, which resembles the famous Nefertiti bust; this was only discovered in December 1912, by a German archaeologist.

Edit
⇑
⇓

Continuity: The amount of beer in the glass during the first beer scene in the movie changes between shots. It is half full, then after a while it is almost full again.

Edit Time
⇑
⇓

Continuity: After first arriving at Candieland, Calvin Candie is explaining to Steven who Django is and that they will be staying in the big house. During this scene, cuts between Calvin and Steven show Calvin's legs alternating between crossed in one angle and uncrossed in the other angle, multiple times.

Edit Time
⇑
⇓

Continuity: When Calvin is explaining stuff about the skull, Schultz's glass swaps from empty to filled, between shots.

Edit Submitted by Sacha
⇑
⇓

Revealing: When Ellis Brittle lays dead on the cotton field, a blood pack visibly protrudes from his chest.

Edit Submitted by Sacha
⇑
⇓

Continuity: Django's first shot at the snowman that puts a hole in the bottle/can. His gun is pointed way too high when he shoots it to hit the target.

Edit Submitted by Richard Carlsson Time
⇑
⇓

Continuity: When Stephen brings Brunhilda to Candie to discuss her price, Stephen is grabbing the left side of her neck in the wide shots, and the right side in the close-ups. This changes back and forth.

Edit Submitted by Sacha