The top mistakes in Thank You for Smoking http://www.moviemistakes.com/film5594 en Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:55:29 +0000 104698 In the final dinner meeting of the Merchants of Death (MOD Squad),the gun lobbyist gets a piece of pie with cheese on it, takes a small bite; then the alcohol lobbyist attacks it with her fork for a bite, pulling all the cheese off and toppling the little American flag in it. In the next shot, a closeup of the dessert, all the cheese is back on it and the flag is upright again. 106105 When Aaron Ekhardt returns from meeting with Robert Duvall, he meets with his boss JK Simmons. Simmons is wearing reading glasses when we first see him. A shot behind him also reveals this. They are removed at a shot of him from behind Ekhardt, then in another shot behind Simmons, they're still on. From the rest of the shots on, his glasses remain off. 110348 When they are eating their final dinner, the cheese on the apple pie becomes unmelted and melted over and over again between shots. 130128 During the Subcommittee Hearing scene, the person sitting behind Nick Naylor, on his left, changes repeatedly between shots: Right before he is asked to come forward, the chair is occupied by a woman in a blue shirt. When he sits down, a man is seated there. Immediately after one of the senators asks, "What about the children?", the woman is back - but only for a few seconds. 106113 After Nick Taylor visits "The Captain" in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, he is being driven to the airport, to fly back to Washington. In one shot, mountains are visible in the background. However, they are brown and barren, like mountains in Southern California, which is probably where that scene was shot. How come many movie and television directors not seem to understand that mountains in the Eastern U.S. look different from mountains in the West?