Super Grover

23rd Jul 2004

Memento (2000)

Continuity mistake: The top of the writing desk has different items on it, including a ceramic pot with pens. When Natalie comes home she takes the pens out of the pot and slips them in her handbag. The existence and/or position of the things on the top of the desk change within the previous and following shots of it, including when Leonard searches for a pen. (01:13:25)

Super Grover

23rd Jul 2004

Memento (2000)

Continuity mistake: While Leonard sits on Natalie's couch rifling through his papers, in the shot facing Leonard, behind him, the two top drawers of the writing desk are open. In the next shot as Natalie comes home only the top drawer is open. (01:13:20)

Super Grover

23rd Jul 2004

Memento (2000)

Continuity mistake: When Natalie comes home she slams her handbag down on the shelf. As she and Lenny talk and she begins to antagonize him, the handbag changes position within these shots. (01:13:25)

Super Grover

23rd Jul 2004

Memento (2000)

Continuity mistake: When Jimmy is killed, his body lies on a certain area of floor tile with missing tile, yet after Leonard takes the photo, there is a close-up of Jimmy's body and it lies on a different area of the tile, further up, closer to the wall. (01:39:15)

Super Grover

22nd Jul 2004

Memento (2000)

Continuity mistake: While Leonard sits on Natalie's couch looking through his papers, in the shot facing Leonard, behind him, the top two drawers of the writing desk are open. In the next shot as Natalie comes home only the top drawer is open. (01:13:20)

Super Grover

22nd Jul 2004

Memento (2000)

Continuity mistake: Leonard removes his large 'photo' paper from the wall and places it on the bed to fold. Things are positioned differently in the close-up and wide shots. (01:34:20)

Super Grover

21st Jul 2004

Memento (2000)

Memento mistake picture

Continuity mistake: While driving, after escaping from Dodd, Leonard pulls out the 'Dodd' note from his pocket and holds it at the steering wheel with both hands. In the close-up of his hands he holds the photos, which face the windshield, in his right hand and the note in his left. However in the shot facing Leonard, he holds the photos, which now face HIM, in both hands and the note is GONE. (00:49:55)

Super Grover

21st Jul 2004

Memento (2000)

Continuity mistake: The top of the driver's side window frame is clear of all the pieces of glass when he returns to the car after being chased by Dodd. Yet Leonard's car window, smashed from Dodd's bullet, has jagged large fragments still attached at the top of the frame, when he first leaves to be chased. (00:49:45 - 00:53:50)

Super Grover

21st Jul 2004

Memento (2000)

Continuity mistake: Under the photo of Natalie, the name Natalie is written. When the photo is seen in room 304, on the wall, then when he finds it while in her bedroom, and when he writes it at her house, the handwriting differs. (00:12:25 - 00:38:35)

Super Grover

21st Jul 2004

Memento (2000)

Continuity mistake: As Leonard starts to write "Dodd" on Dodd's photo, in the wide shot that photo is lying with other photos on the bed and the cap of his pen is lying on the bed as well. Yet, in the close-up as he writes, "Dodd," on the front and "Get rid of him," on the back, the cap is on his pen, he writes the 'D' differently, there are no other photos and the suit is spread out under his hands. The next two wide shots differ between themselves too. (00:47:55)

Super Grover

21st Jul 2004

Memento (2000)

Continuity mistake: When Leonard is looking at the note that reads, "Dodd white guy...get rid of him for Natalie..." in the wide shots as Leonard holds just the note, many photos are lying on the bed under his hands. Yet in the next close-up, the suit is spread out right under his hands as he holds the note with a single photo, that he soon drops, and no other photos are seen. (00:47:45)

Super Grover

21st Jul 2004

Memento (2000)

Continuity mistake: After stuffing Dodd into the closet, Leonard holds the note that says, "Dodd white guy 6'2"...919 Booth St.," the note's handwriting is completely different in the wide shots and close-ups. (00:47:45)

Super Grover

21st Jul 2004

Memento (2000)

Continuity mistake: While Leonard fights with Dodd in the bathroom and after he locks the bolt on the front door, the towel hanging in the bathroom keeps changing position. (00:47:15)

Super Grover

21st Jul 2004

Memento (2000)

Continuity mistake: When Dodd is in the closet, gagged with duct tape, the piece of tape reaches his cheekbones. Yet when Leonard rips the strip of duct tape to put across Dodd's mouth, it is considerably longer, long enough to reach his ears. (00:40:55 - 00:47:35)

Super Grover

21st Jul 2004

Memento (2000)

Continuity mistake: When Leonard wakes up in Dodd's motel room, the positions of the pillow under him and the plastic cup on the nightstand differ in the close-up and following wide shot. Then after discovering Dodd in the closet, he goes back to his bed and the pillow, etc., change position again. (00:40:20)

Super Grover

21st Jul 2004

Memento (2000)

Continuity mistake: At the diner after Teddy asks, "Where are you staying?" he wipes his mouth with the napkin. The position of the napkin in Teddy's hand differs in the shot facing Leonard and the shot facing Teddy. (00:24:40)

Super Grover

21st Jul 2004

Memento (2000)

Continuity mistake: When Leonard and Teddy are in the diner, after Teddy asks, "You think he's still here? Jon G., the guy you're looking for?" the amount of water in Leonard's glass changes in the wide shots and close-up. (00:23:25)

Super Grover

20th Jul 2004

Memento (2000)

Continuity mistake: After entering room 304, Leonard steps on the bed to put the 4 photos back up on his paper on the wall. In the 1st close-up he puts the Discount Inn and the 2nd close-up he puts up Natalie. Then in a wide shot of Leonard looking at the paper, visible at the top of the paper, in the center, is the photo of Natalie and on its right is the photo of Teddy, already up. In the next shot, the 3rd close-up, he puts up his car. However in the next wide shot ALL three photos that he just put up in the close-ups are GONE. Then in the 4th close-up he puts up Teddy's photo, which was up in the first wide shot. (00:12:25)

Super Grover

20th Jul 2004

Memento (2000)

Memento mistake picture

Continuity mistake: In the first close-up Teddy's eyeglasses are upside down, lying near the tile wall, the next wide shot it's upright, further away from the wall, next close-up it's near the tile wall again, lying on the grout just as it's moving in reverse, then in the next wide shot it's further away from the wall once again, lying on the tile, just before it reverses to go back up onto his face. (00:02:15)

Super Grover

20th Jul 2004

Memento (2000)

Memento mistake picture

Continuity mistake: The blood pattern splattered on the tile wall and grout, shown in the photograph that Teddy holds in the opening shot, differs from the pattern that is seen in the reverse shot while Teddy is still lying on the ground, before he even moves. (00:02:25)

Super Grover

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