The top mistakes in The Thin Red Line http://www.moviemistakes.com/film1277 en Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:55:10 +0000 16068 On the widescreen version of the film, near the beginning, Sean Penn is talking to a young G.I. that's worried. They are in the latrine area on the ship. While they talk, look in the mirror to the left. This is the most visible camera-on-film shot to date. 13110 When that one captain is refusing to obey the orders of Nick Nolte he says the time is 13:21 but his watch says it's actually 14:31. Then a couple of seconds later the time is 14:45. Their whole conversation was shown and there was no time in between and it was much shorter than 15 minutes. 7699 In the scene where the two GI's are living with the village of natives and a navy ship comes by, they run to hide. The camera pans across the scene and laying in the foreground of the boat passing by is a surfboard. This film was made about WWII, the surfboard style they show did not exist until, at earliest, the late 70's. The board they show is a modern shape and design. In the 1940's they would have ridden huge balsa-wood planks. That is if they were able to bring a surfboard with them into the army, which I doubt would be possible. 37989 In the entire movie it's quite obvious Sean Penn has a digital watch on, even though the face is on the inside of his wrist it is occasionally visible, and the modern rubber watch band also gives it away, especially in his close-ups. 19071 During the scene in which the small group of GIs, led by the young go-getter officer played by John Cusack, attack the Japanese hilltop bunkers, they seemed to be equipped with magic bullets. The American soldiers are firing wildly in all directions but seem to drop an enemy soldier with every shot. In some shots, the GI's rifles are not pointing even near where the Japanese soldiers are but the latter obligingly fall dead nonetheless.