Corrected entry: The film is set in Britain, as is evident by the British money, but there are a couple of cars driving on the right hand side of the road.
Joshua Skains
22nd Jul 2005
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
22nd Jul 2005
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Corrected entry: Wouldn't Wonka and the Bucket family call the Glass Elevator a "Lift" since they live in England?
Correction: And the Russians in Hunt for Red October should have been speaking Russian all the way through. I think we can give some artistic wiggle-room in this case since many Americans (of which the target audience is) may not know what a lift is. Also, it's called an elevator in the first movie and the book as well. In fact, there's a second book called "Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator".
23rd Jul 2005
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Corrected entry: When the crates are being loaded onto the trucks from the conveyor belts in the opening sequence, they are being loaded into the center of the truck. However, in the next shot the crates are stacked up on the sides of the truck.
Correction: Perhaps someone was in the truck re-arranging them.
23rd Jul 2005
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Corrected entry: On one of the machines in the "inventing room" there is a gauge labeled "PRESSURE" that is missing the pointer.
Correction: As odd as that factory was, can we really call this a mistake?
23rd Jul 2005
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Corrected entry: When Mike is playing the video game at his house, he is using the joystick and we can see from the screen that the game he is playing is an FPS (first-person shooter). An FPS would never be played with a joystick because you need to control what direction you are facing as well as what direction you are moving. This is why modern controllers have two control sticks. If it was an older game (where you cannot look up and down, so there are only 3 "degrees of freedom" instead of 4) then there would be only one control stick but separate "strafe" keys would be needed, and joysticks do not have those.
Correction: Oh please. This is a bit extreme. Some time back, I played Doom all the time with a simple joystick. You can also get regular joysticks for PS2/Xbox as third party products.
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Correction: We can assume there are cases of one-way traffic. There are cases in the US where you would see cars in the farthest lefthand lane in one-way streets.
Joshua Skains