The top mistakes in The Man Who Wasn't There http://www.moviemistakes.com/film1982 en Sat, 29 Nov 2008 06:55:12 +0000 15280 In the party scene, there's a band playing on a stage. You can hear a big band playing, with lots of horn players, but the music that is heard has absolutely nothing to do with the players, who play guitar, accordion and double bass. 121412 At the beginning of the film, in the scene when Ed is cutting Tolliver's hair, we see Ed holding scissors with his thumb and middle finger, yet, in the following shot he is holding them with thumb and index finger. There was no time nor need to change fingers; besides, a clipping sound is heard throughout the scene, which implies Ed never takes off scissors in order to change fingers. 131872 In the scene when Ed first meets Freddy at Da Vinci's, Freddy is having fruit cocktail, with his hand holding up the spoon close to his mouth, as he is taking the bite, shot from behind his back. When the angle changes to in front of him, we see his hand away from his face and there's no bite in his mouth. 19496 At the beginning of the film, Ed Crane, in a voiceover, states that the barber shop is only 200 square feet. The portion of the barber shop that is shown on camera is clearly several times that large. 42064 In one scene, after finishing playing the middle movement of the Sonata Pathetique, Bertie states that Beethoven was completely deaf when he wrote it and never heard the notes. This is untrue as the sonata was written in 1797/8 and Beethoven did not go totally deaf until 1823.