25th Dec 2005
Continuity mistake: Right before the chariot race, when Sheik Ilderim is standing at Judah's right side and tells Judah, "Be careful, don't let him near you," Judah places his hand on the Sheik's forearm as the fanfare starts. Then it cuts to a long shot, with the Sheik now suddenly on Judah's left side, and Judah removing his hand from the Sheik's forearm.
5th Apr 2024
Visible crew/equipment: At the gravesite of Livia Soprano, the cast is dressed in black, but there is a man in a light green shirt to the side of the casket in front of the cast who is out of place. (00:39:16)
Suggested correction: This man is cemetery staff, lowering the casket into the grave. Watch as this scene continues, right after Carmela says, "He won't discuss it, he clams up," we can see this man at the bottom right corner of the screen, turning the lever for the device (00:39:30).
23rd Apr 2002
Continuity mistake: Judah Ben-Hur removes the large ring he had received from Arrius and gives it to Pontius Pilate to return to Arrius. Following this, he returns to the leper colony with Esther, and he reunites with Miriam. When Judah is told Tirzah is dying, as Judah searches the cave for Tirzah, he is once again wearing the large ring he had received from Arrius, on his right index finger. Then, that ring vanishes when he finds Tirzah.
Suggested correction: Ben Hur got the ring from Arrius, not from the Emperor. When he goes to the leper colony the first time he is still wearing the ring. Later he gives the ring to Pontius Pilate to return it to Arrius. Then, when he goes to the leper colony the second time he is not wearing the ring anymore.
Aside from changing the mistake's wording to Arrius, the mistake is indeed correct. Rewatch the scenes. Judah Ben-Hur takes off the large ring he had received from Arrius and gives it to Pontius Pilate to return to Arrius. After that scene, he meets with Esther, and they both return to the leper colony. Judah speaks with Miriam, his mother, and he's told Tirzah is dying. Then, as Judah begins to search the cave for Tirzah, Judah is now wearing the large ring he had received from Arrius, on his right index finger. That ring vanishes when he finds Tirzah. The mistake is quite valid.
10th Mar 2024
The Benefit - S1-E13
Revealing mistake: There's suddenly an upright piano in the living room where Ricky's desk used to be.
Suggested correction: There's nothing sudden about it. From the start of this episode, the card table is at the center of the living room, with the couch pushed back toward the wall, and the desk is behind the couch (holding telephone, etc), up against the wall where the piano usually is in other episodes. Ethel asks Ricky about the sheet music on the piano, and he explains he's been working on a musical number for the show at the Tropicana. So, for this episode's ongoing musical storyline, the positions of the piano and desk have been switched. This occurs again a few episodes later in Breaking the Lease. The rearranging of furniture between episodes occurs often, and would only be a problem if it happens within a scene.
20th Nov 2014
Continuity mistake: When Lucy buys back her coffee table, Ethel and Fred move it to the kitchen in the Mertz's apartment. The door to the Mertz's kitchen (with its doorknob on the right) in this episode opens the opposite way, inward towards the inside of the kitchen, and not outward in the direction of the living room, as seen in all previous and following episodes, including the very next episode. (00:17:55)
Suggested correction: The kitchen is a double hinged "saloon style" door. The door opens both ways, just like in a restaurant and most kitchens of the era. This is evident in many episodes.
Your correction is describing the Ricardo apartment, that has a kitchen with the double hinged swinging door. Rewatch the episode. This mistake is referring to the Mertz's apartment, and the door leading to their kitchen is a normal type door with a doorknob and it opens only one way. The mistake is perfectly valid.
8th Jan 2024
Corrected entry: When they are racing down the interstate to the impound lot, the red Mustang tries to go between the semi-trucks. When the trucks swerve to close the gap at the back tires, it's not the Mustang, it's a white boat on a trailer.
Correction: After Roman says, "Why must I chase the cat," three shots later there's a wide shot facing the 3-lane highway ahead of Roman, as he changes lanes (00:31:00). The pickup towing the trailered boat is in the left lane, the semi with red cab is in the center lane, and the yellow semi is in the right lane. When the driver of the red Mustang drives toward the semi-trucks, we still see the trailered boat in the left lane (left side of the screen), with the red cab semi-truck swerving from the center lane into the left lane (00:31:17). After a shot of both semi truckers (00:31:24), at the start of the next shot we see the red Mustang in the background (00:31:25), it's from the POV of the trailered boat in its left lane (right side of the screen), with the red cab semi still crossing over the lines from its center lane into the trailered boat's left lane. Then it cuts to an overhead shot as the red Mustang enters between the 2 semi-trucks (00:31:27), in the center and right lanes. In following pileup shots, we see the pickup and its trailered boat on the grass median strip (00:31:50).
4th Apr 2012
Corrected entry: When a young Vito is sitting on the steps with his family during the parade there is one child missing. We know Michael is sitting on Vito's lap. Connie is on Carmella's lap. So either Fredo or Sonny is missing in this scene. (02:05:25)
Correction: That's Fredo on Carmela's lap. I can see why he would be mistaken for a girl, though. Michael is the baby on Vito's lap, and we know Connie is younger than Michael...therefore, she wasn't born yet. So all three boys are accounted for.
Michael is the youngest child of their 4 children. I was wondering where the fourth child is, but looked it up, and Michael is the youngest of the family.
I don't know where you looked it up, but that info is wrong. The youngest is Connie (Constanzia) Corleone, and she's Carmela and Vito's only daughter. After Fanucci is shot during the Feast of San Gennaro scene, Vito returns to his family and when he picks up the infant, he whispers to him in Sicilian, "Michael, your father loves you very much" (02:05:40). At this point, Connie hasn't been born yet. Later, when Vito and Carmela visit the town of Corleone in Sicily, all 4 children are with them. Carmella holds infant Connie, and Vito holds little Michael (02:44:00).
20th Dec 2023
Corrected entry: When Ron's dad enters the house, the top of his pointed hat clips right through the bottom of the window frame.
Correction: The hat's pointed tip does not clip right through the window frame. Arthur's hat has soft yet firm material, and it's bendable, so the tip bends backward as it hits the window frame, then it springs right back up. Perhaps rewatch this scene and play it in slow motion. Here's a link to a scene clip, with the relevant shot at 00:01:54 - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUl4amon00E.
17th Dec 2023
Other mistake: An ambulance, when Kathy Stabler gives birth to the baby, Olivia says the baby's a girl. In the hospital, when Elliot gets to Kathy's table's room, she tells him the baby's a boy.
Suggested correction: Olivia never says the baby's a girl. Rewatch, please. In the ambulance, when Kathy is in the midst of the last few pushes to get the baby out, Olivia is watching the delivery over Kathy's shoulder, being supportive. With Kathy's last push, Olivia repeats, "Good girl, good girl," which is directed at Kathy to encourage her during her delivery (timecode 00:39:20). Then, when the baby is out, Olivia excitedly exclaims, "It's a boy!"
26th Oct 2023
Corrected entry: Professor Arturo is recruited to be the Mayor of San Francisco. When you see the dinner scene, they are drinking beer and munching on chicken wings. He comes back to his compatriots and states he had a dinner with champagne, caviar, veal cordon bleu, and crepe suzettes. What? It does nothing to contribute to the plot. (00:11:35 - 00:13:10)
Correction: It has to do with bolstering his own ego (usually overblown). So, Arturo fibbed and he played it up by describing his own idea of an expensive dinner (imo, pitchers of beer and hot wings sound better), which he was treated to by the other men, in order to woo him into the running.
I can see that. Thanks.
25th Sep 2023
George Catches a Cold - S2-E20
Continuity mistake: When Peppa and her family come inside the house because of the heavy rain, the door behind Daddy Pig is open. But a few seconds later, the door is closed. (00:01:01)
Suggested correction: This doesn't occur between shots, and the 2 screenshots are not consecutive changes. The "few seconds later" is an 8-second close-up of George as he begins to sneeze, and the front door is not visible. Within those 8 seconds off-screen, there's time for the door to be closed and to set aside the two umbrellas.
26th Aug 2021
Continuity mistake: When Madison runs from the ice-skating she is barefoot. In the next shots she magically has managed to bring her shoes and has put them on.
Suggested correction: Right before Madison rushes away from the ice rink (01:10:10), she grabs her ballerina flats, and when she runs away from Allen, she's barefoot while holding the flats in her left hand. Then, the skate rental guy tackles Allen. When it cuts to Madison in the shot facing her back, she's still running barefoot while holding the flats in her right hand.
8th Dec 2014
Corrected entry: When the fairies are cooking and Aurora says she is moving out, the amount of blue flour on Knotgrass's face changes between shots.
Correction: That's because it's fading away, and we see this happening, and Aurora even notices it.
Correction: Adding to the other correction: This cannot be considered a continuity mistake, because the fading away of the blue on her face never "changes between shots" as if it's a continuity issue. The fading away of the blue caused by Flittle deliberately occurs (via CGI) within a single shot (01:02:58).
11th Sep 2023
Corrected entry: When Jon puts his hand on Bran's shoulders after the beheading, he grabs his shoulder. When the shot changes, his hand is now on Bran's back. (00:13:30)
Correction: When watching the actual episode, in the close-up, we see Robb (not Jon) place his hand at the front of Bran's shoulder, and then we also see that Bran turns his body so that Robb's hand already moves before this close-up ends. It then dissolves into the wide shot, and at the very start of this wide shot, Robb's hand is in the same shoulder area, and then Robb stretches his arm across to the center of Bran's back as they begin to walk. The two provided screenshots (and caption "hand changes position") are not an accurate representation of the episode's onscreen continuity.
22nd Jul 2020
Corrected entry: Swayze gives away his Benz to an African American man, but the hands of the person starting the car seem to belong to a Caucasian man. (00:06:05 - 00:07:10)
Correction: Swayze wears a white jacket and white pants (00:08:20) as he gives the keys of his old junker car (not covered with tarp) to the black man who wears a blue denim jacket and jeans, and Swayze walks into the parking garage (00:08:35). It then cuts to Swayze (white jacket and white pants) as he removes the tarp over his Mercedes-Benz, parked inside the parking garage. Next close-ups show Swayze's hand turns the ignition key to start his Mercedes-Benz, revs engine, and puts in cassette tape.
18th Aug 2023
Visible crew/equipment: After Reddington warns Liz of the Wendigo, he leaves, and the camera pans out. We see the entire set: Liz on the couch, the stage with the entire set, the theater seating, camera ladders, the lighting, etc. (00:04:40)
Suggested correction: This is a theatre used for plays, and it's Red's temporary safehouse for Liz. In the previous episode, The Djinn (No. 43), Red talks about this theatre owned by Gerta. Red says, "Her theatre is ours as long as we need it." So, Red and Liz are using it to hide out.
9th Aug 2023
Corrected entry: During Newt's confrontation with Grindelwald's followers, his right hand sustains an injury and is dressed with a bandage. Upon Newt and Theseus' arrival at the Hogsmeade pub, it changes to his left hand, then when talking to Dumbledore it's his right again.
Correction: Newt's right hand sustains the injury while trying to protect the Qilin in the jungle. When Newt and Theseus are entering Hog's Head Inn, the camera is facing the mirror. Aberforth is wiping the mirror's surface, and we are seeing the reflection, so the image is reversed. Newt's bandaged injured right hand remains consistent. Please rewatch (00:14:50).
1st Aug 2023
Corrected entry: When the taxi drives off from Godzilla's mouth and drives away through the bridge, you can see a woman standing in the background, but obviously nobody should be there. (02:02:00)
Correction: That is not a woman standing in the background. It's a large drop cloth draped over the bridge deck's barrier, with its bottom bit lying rumpled on the ground. Its vertical center fold may be giving you the illusion of two very long, unusual legs.
31st Jul 2023
Corrected entry: The cops should have cuffed Dan's hands behind his back, not in front, as this is standard procedure.
Correction: This "standard procedure" is not altogether cut-and-dried. It actually depends on the policy of the police department, as well as the judgment of the officers making the arrest. The two officers know Dan and Rosie. Dan was compliant, not resisting whatsoever.
28th Jul 2023
Corrected entry: A microphone is in the shot at the beginning of the movie when Sonny is in the kitchen after getting dressed. The TV is on with Ray Jennings' stats shown. A black microphone is in frame at the top left side of the screen above the kitchen island. (00:06:10)
Correction: That isn't a black microphone. It's a black clock hanging on the wall beside the TV. The entire clock is visible 40 seconds later when Ali walks down the stairs and joins Sonny in the kitchen. Please rewatch the scene.
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Suggested correction: The sheik actually moves around the chariot to the right side. No continuity error.
You can't assume that the sheik moves. It's not shown and the shots are so quick in succession the sheik didn't have time to move.
ChiChi
Oh, but actually, there is indeed a continuity error, and it occurs between shots. Sheik Ilderim is standing on one side of the chariot, then in the very next shot he is standing on the other side of the chariot. The suggested correction is wrong.
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