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Stripes (1981) - 16 mistakes

starring Bill Murray, Harold Ramis (add more)

Genres: Comedy, Romance

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Mistake Continuity: When Harold Ramis is fighting Bill Murray to try to keep him from leaving the base, notice when Harold is on top of Bill choking him, there is a duffel bag under Bill's head, and in the cut-aways the bag is a few feet away.

Mistake Continuity: When Harold Ramis pays off his pushup bet with Bill Murray, he throws the dollar bills onto Bill Murray's chest, and they move around and their number changes.

Mistake Continuity: When Bill Murray goes AWOL, watch his duffel bag. As Harold Ramis has him by the throat, his bag shifts from behind his head to at his feet. This happens numerous times.

Mistake Continuity: When Bill Murray's girlfriend is leaving him for good, she puts one of her boots on twice!

Mistake Continuity: Not only does the position of the duffel bag change from under Murray's head to feet in the cut aways, it switches back and forth several times, and winds up by his side. His knit cap moves on and off his head during the same scene.

Mistake Revealing: In the scene where Bill Murray is blowing up the prison door, you see the explosion but the explosive is still intact.

Mistake Visible crew/equipment: At the prison camp, during the action, watch the green barrels by the side of a building. For a brief second, you can see a camera person.

Mistake Continuity: During the graduation scene, after the platoon arrives in front of the General's stand, Bill Murray begins running backwards. The shot changes to the girls in the stands laughing, and then back to the platoon. When it gets back to the platoon, you can see that Murray is once again just starting to run backwards.

Mistake Continuity: In the scene where the platoon is escaping in the EM50, Sarge is on top and says "I'm getting too old for this @$%, he then lowers his head. The next shot, he lowers it again.

Mistake Revealing: When Bill Murray and Harold Ramis are whipped into the rope snare traps there are huge gaps in the ropes between Harold Ramis' feet that would make it impossible for the trap to secure him.

Mistake Continuity: In the scene when John drives the woman over the bridge in the cab, just before he stops the car there is a shot of the two occupants and behind the cab the bridge is deserted save for one red van. When the shot changes to an overhead and John stops the cab, the bridge behind them is crowded with traffic and the van is gone.

Mistake Continuity: During the graduation scene, watch the band director closely when the music stops - you will see that his arms are still moving, as if he's conducting the band.

Mistake Continuity: When they are escaping from the prison camp, they knock over grungy, drab green 55 gal drums, which are nice and shiny inside.

Mistake Factual error: When the guys get their haircuts, Ox's and Cruiser's haircuts are the only ones that even come close to basic training regulation.

Mistake Factual error: The Czechoslovakian Border Guards are armed with what appears to be an Uzi submachine gun fitted with a stock. Soviet Bloc countries didn't use foreign firearms. The guards would have had Vz 58's which are visually identical to AK-47's.

Mistake Other: During the graduation scene, if you watch as the platoons are marching by, you can see that several members are not in cadence as they should be. This also includes the men walking between the platoons that are supposed to be setting the cadence and they are out of step with the platoon in front and behind them.

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