The top mistakes in Empire of the Sun http://www.moviemistakes.com/film3959 en Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:57:16 +0000 58462 When Jim returns to the party with his father after he met the Chinese soldiers, you can see the microphone at the bottom of the screen. 57733 When James is eating at home alone, he flips his spoon into his water glass. In some shots it's leaning against the right side of the glass, and in other shots it's against the left side. 114023 As the family is piling into their car to go to the costume party, Jim, who is carrying a large, balsa sailplane, accidentally snaps the tail and it falls sideways. In subsequent shots the tail is upright. 170310 Jim passes twice by the same part of the <i>Gone With the Wind</i> poster. 169937 Jim eats almost all of his rice, but when Basie tells him to chew everything six times, Jim's plate is filled with rice.