Question: How could Belloq know/believe that the Ark is a powerful artifact, but also be completely oblivious to the Bible specifically mentioning that some Bethshemites were smitten for gazing into it and Uzzah was smitten for touching it?
Phaneron
3rd Aug 2020
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
2nd Aug 2020
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
Question: After Darth Vader betrays the Empire and kills the Emperor, who, for the very brief period of time that the Empire was still around, would have risen to the top of the chain of command?
Chosen answer: The Empire splintered a bit after the death of the Emperor. Some members of the Imperial Council attempted to grab territories in order to maintain some form of power. Others attempted to carry on as if nothing had happened and told the people that the Emperor had escaped the destruction of the Death Star. Officially, the new leader of the Empire was Grand Admiral Sloane, who commanded the Imperial Navy. She enacted the Emperor's contingency plan, called Operation Cinder, which was essentially destroying everything because of the Emperor's death.
2nd Aug 2020
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Question: What exactly are the spirits that emerge from the Ark? I get that they are malevolent ghosts, but what is the purpose of them first emerging from the Ark as beautiful women? Are they supposed to be the ghosts of women from Babylonia, or Jerusalem, or any other significant location from Biblical times?
Answer: They are angels. They are initially beautiful, but become terrifying when they destroy those who look at them. That's why Indy and Marion are spared, as they keep their eyes shut.
1st Aug 2020
Boy Meets World (1993)
Continuity mistake: When Eric and Jack place the red tablecloth on their counter, it barely drapes over the end of the counter that is facing the camera and completely covers the side that is on the viewer's left. A couple of shots later, the tablecloth is draped over the same end of the counter down to the floor, and the left side is now exposed. (00:05:06)
31st Jul 2020
Boy Meets World (1993)
31st Jul 2020
Boy Meets World (1993)
Better than Average Cory - S6-E5
Continuity mistake: When Rachel starts writing down that she is choking, she knocks a cup of water off the counter. After she spits out the hot dog she was choking on, the cup has reappeared on the counter. (00:06:38 - 00:07:00)
31st Jul 2020
Boy Meets World (1993)
Better than Average Cory - S6-E5
Deliberate mistake: When Rachel is choking and writes down "I'm choking to death" on the paper on the counter so Jack will help her, you can see she is just scribbling the pen across the paper and not actually writing anything. (00:06:36)
31st Jul 2020
Boy Meets World (1993)
Better than Average Cory - S6-E5
Character mistake: The placard next to Alexandra Nechita's painting "Peace Collector" erroneously calls the painting "Peace Collectors." Nechita herself appears in this episode, so it's odd that they got it wrong. (00:02:49)
29th Jul 2020
Dick Tracy (1990)
Question: Is "Dick" Tracy's first name, or his occupational designation?
Answer: His full name was Richard Tracy, but it was used seldomly.
Chosen answer: It's a bit ambiguous. Tracy's creator, Chester Gould, originally named his character, "Plainclothes Tracy," until an editor suggested changing it to Dick Tracy. A "dick" is a dated slang term for a cop or a private detective. Dick appears to be Tracy's first name, but it is also descriptive of his profession. This is called a "double entendre." It's typical for authors to contrive a name that reflects their characters.
27th Jul 2020
Boy Meets World (1993)
Continuity mistake: When Shawn is saying to Cory "No pudding, no 'Woo-hooing'," Cory is holding a cup of pudding with his arms raised to around his chest area. When the shot changes, his arms are suddenly down at his sides. (00:01:17)
27th Jul 2020
The X-Files (1993)
Other mistake: This episode establishes that whenever Pinker Rawls passes through solid matter, his clothes remain behind, as anything he is wearing does not share his ability. However, late in the episode when Jackie throws the pot of boiling hot soup at him, the soup is shown to completely pass through his shirt, when it should have stuck to his shirt instead.
24th Jul 2020
Boy Meets World (1993)
Other mistake: When Mr. Feeny is telling the story about Topanga and Cory in the first grade, he mentions that Shawn told him to leave them alone. However, the season 3 episode "City Slackers" established that Shawn wasn't in school with Cory and Topanga until he was around 12, and that he was in and out of 5 schools in different states before then. (00:18:40)
24th Jul 2020
Boy Meets World (1993)
Continuity mistake: When Rachel tackles Jack onto the couch and is straddling him, Jack's head ends up resting on the green and yellow pillow on the cushion closest to the door. After Jack says "She's sittin' on me, man," the shot changes and his head is now on the middle cushion. (00:16:06)
21st Jul 2020
Boy Meets World (1993)
Graduation - S5-E24
Audio problem: When Mr. Feeny is reading off the names of all the graduates, you can hear reverb in his voice to indicate that he is speaking into a microphone. The problem is there is no microphone in front of him. You can see Eric holding the microphone next to him and singing into it, with no audio. If that microphone is turned off, then Feeny's voice should not be amplified. If the microphone is on, then we should also hear Eric as he is singing. (00:19:38 - 00:20:56)
21st Jul 2020
Boy Meets World (1993)
Graduation - S5-E24
Continuity mistake: When Jack is showing Shawn the framed caricature drawing, both his hands are holding the frame around the middle of each vertical side. When the shot changes, his left hand is suddenly holding the frame by the bottom corner. (00:06:10)
16th Jul 2020
Aliens (1986)
Question: Maybe I'm missing something, but if Ripley had been in hypersleep for 57 years, how could she have had a dream about speaking to Burke before waking up and actually meeting him?
Chosen answer: While the opening scene does show her in hypersleep, the moment we she her wake up (after the alien starts to push in her belly) is NOT her waking up from hypersleep, it's just her waking up from another bad dream. At that point she's been in the hospital for some time and already met Burke, but she's having nightmares. Presumably, this particular dream is of her remembering her first moments waking from hypersleep and then turning into a nightmare scene.
14th Jul 2020
The Sound of Music (1965)
Question: Did they use blue screens for this movie? I was watching it recently, and certain scenes looked like the distant background was fake, such as the nighttime scene when Captain Von Trapp confesses his love for Maria in the gazebo, the trees in the far background look superimposed, but I can't tell if that's because of the lighting.
Answer: Although bluescreen was used at the time, it was a photochemical process and not that reliable. For the scene you're describing, it was likely shot in a studio with a painted background. For more expansive night scenes, they shot them "day-for-night." They would be shot on location during the day with the image darkened and filtered to look like night.
Answer: In that era, movies didn't have computer-generated images and instead used a rear-projected screen of a previously filmed location. The actors would be in front of the screen to make it appear as if they were in some different location. The actors were posed in a way that the audience could not tell they were in front of the screen.
14th Jul 2020
Boy Meets World (1993)
13th Jul 2020
Boy Meets World (1993)
Continuity mistake: After Topanga angrily walks out of Cory's house, he gets out of his chair and says "She really left," with his arms and fingers outstretched. When the shot changes, his fingers on both hands are curled into loose fists. (00:12:40)
11th Jul 2020
The Simpsons (1989)
Krusty Gets Kancelled - S4-E22
Anthony Kiedis: You told our agent this place holds 30,000 people.
Moe: It does. We had 30,000 here last night. Now play, the audience is getting restless.
Barney: We want Chilly Willy! We want Chilly Willy!
Bart: Hey, Red Hot Chili Peppers, would you guys like to appear on a Krusty the Clown special?
Flea: Sure, if you can get us out of this gig.
Bart: No problemo. Hey Moe, look over there.
Moe: [Turns around and looks at the wall.] What? What am I looking at? I don't see nothin'. [Bart sneaks the Red Hot Chili Peppers out of the bar.] I'm gonna stop lookin' soon. What? What, is that it?
Homer: Hey Moe, can I look too?
Moe: Sure, but it'll cost you.
Homer: My wallet's in the car.
Moe: He is so stupid. And now back to the wall.
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Answer: There were probably many reasons. Propelled by greed, he may simply have chosen to filter out certain aspects of the biblical text, believing what he wanted to believe. He may have misinterpreted or had not bothered with the details of what was written in the bible.
raywest ★
Add in that he was hired by the Nazis to do the job of finding and utilizing the Ark. He had to make sure it worked so he could present it to Hitler.