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8th Sep 2014

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Madam Mouserink: Okay, you win. But someday I will take my revenge. Some day the nutcracker will be destroyed!

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8th Sep 2014

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Madam Mouserink; So you've broken my curse, eh? Well there's a price to be paid!

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8th Sep 2014

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Marie Stahlbaum: I had to, mother. Nutcracker was in danger.
Mrs. Sthalbaum: The only one who was in danger was you. How could you have been so carless as to bump your head? We’ve all been very worried about you.
Fritz Stahlbaum: Not me! Marie’s head is so hard, the floor would crack before she would.
Mrs. Sthalbaum: That’ll be enough Fritz!

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8th Sep 2014

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The Seven Headed Mouse King: Tonight is your end, Nutcracker! Long have I waited for this moment.

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The Nutcracker: Don’t just stand there, men. Look alive!

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Marie Stahlbaum: Ah! Look what you did, you broke him!
Fritz Stahlbaum: Guess he won’t make a very good soldier now.
Marie Stahlbaum: Oh you hurt my nutcracker… Now you can’t have him!
Fritz Stahlbaum: Will I ever survive?

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8th Sep 2014

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Marie Stahlbaum: It’s time to see Godfather Drosselmeier’s present.
Marie Stahlbaum: what do you think it will be?
Fritz Stahlbaum: Hey, with Godfather Drosselmeier, you never know. One thing’s for sure, it’s gona be great!

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8th Sep 2014

The Nutcracker (1995)

Marie Stahlbaum: Gosh, this is the most wonderful Christmas ever!
Fritz Stahlbaum: Look at all these presents! I didn’t think we were good enough this year to get all this!
Marie Stahlbaum: Well… you weren’t. But I make up for it.
Fritz Stahlbaum: Ha ha, Marie. Watch it or I’ll have my soldiers attack.
[Fritz fires a toy cannon.]
Marie Stahlbaum: Uh! I am just tooooo scared for words.

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7th Sep 2014

The Nutcracker (1995)

Continuity mistake: After Marie wakes up to her parents at her bed and they think her story was a dream, she pulls out the crowns worn by the Seven Headed Mouse King, and her hand is cupped with thumb in. The angle changes and suddenly her thumb is outstretched to the side.

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7th Sep 2014

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Continuity mistake: In the Swan boat, Marie looks out at the waves and sees her reflection as a princess. The waves are spread out enough that she can see them by looking sideways. But when it cuts to a long shot, the waves are suddenly close to the boat, where she can’t see them, and she is looking straight back towards the back, her in the front.

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1st Sep 2014

The Nutcracker (1995)

Continuity mistake: When Marie and Nutcracker first arrive in Christmas Wood, they are standing on a frozen creek next to a tree. The tree is not on a hill. But a couple shots later when they start moving, they are suddenly walking, not on the frozen creek, but on a hill that has appeared under the tree.

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27th Aug 2014

The Nutcracker (1995)

Audio problem: When Marie is hearing the sword fight in the hall, any shots showing her bedroom door show flashes under it corresponding to the sounds of the swords hitting. They are timed perfectly the first time and for the first part of the second time. When Marie gets up to go look, you hear a pause in the sword fight as you hear the Mouse King and Nutcracker struggling for a moment, but no sword clanks. Yet the flashing under the door continues.

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27th Aug 2014

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Other mistake: When the Seven headed Mouse King is confronting Marie the second time, asking for her dresses and books, he is sitting on the ledge talking to her with his forward most head. As he is talking with the head to the left, the eye on the head to the right does weird things. The iris rapidly expands and contracts in size a few times taking up the white space in the eye under the iris a few times before returning to normal for that head to talk.

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27th Aug 2014

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Continuity mistake: Marie’s mother brings her breakfast in bed the morning after Drosselmeier tells her the story of the Nutcracker. In most shots, the Nutcracker is standing with his mouth open. But after her mother leaves and she leans in close to talk to the nutcracker, his mouth is shut.

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27th Aug 2014

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Continuity mistake: When the Princess comes in and is confronting the king and queen, she is standing on the red carpet. Drosselmeier is to her right on the floor, and Drosselmeier’s nephew is on her left on the floor. But when The Court Astrologer gives him the crackatook nut, Drosselmeier is suddenly on the same side of the carpet as him standing right behind him.

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27th Aug 2014

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Continuity mistake: The camera pans across showing the 6 nurses with the princess, all sleeping. When the camera cuts to a different angle as the Mouse Queen is coming out, suddenly all the nurses are closer together.

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27th Aug 2014

The Nutcracker (1995)

Continuity mistake: When Madam Mouserink confronts the King and Queen about the loss of her family, the King is standing on the left and the Queen on the right. When it cuts to a close up of Mouserink when she runs up to them, the King is suddenly on the right.

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27th Aug 2014

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Continuity mistake: In the mouse trap montage in the castle, one shows a mouse tiptoeing out of a hole next to a cat. It cuts to a close up and suddenly the cat is much closer to the hole.

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27th Aug 2014

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Revealing mistake: Their mother tells Fritz to come with her out of the room so Drosselmeier can visit with Marie. As he is getting up, a sudden imperfection in the art appears as a crude white line appears on the chest by he bed and stays there as he moves.

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27th Aug 2014

The Nutcracker (1995)

Continuity mistake: In the first battle between the mice and the toy soldiers, the Seven Headed Mouse King yells back at one point "Now my hearties! Take them!" When he says this you can see he only has 5 heads instead of his usual 7.

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