Corrected entry: When Bernstein is telephoning a source for confirmation, he does so from a small office in the Washington Post. On the wall of the office is a poster of Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie, from a concert tour they made after Spiro Agnew resigned (Arlo alludes to this in the recording of the concert). But the movie takes place before Spiro's resignation, one of the last events mentioned on the teletype at the end.
Corrected entry: When Dandy Dan's gang are on their way to invade Fat Sam's, there are three cars. When the cars turn the corner look at the gun truck, the gun falls out of the man's (on the right) hand.
Correction: People drop things in real life, not a mistake.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Carrie is looking at herself in the mirror in her room, the glass smashes and you see the fragments fall on the dressing table. On this dressing table there is a night light figure of Holy Mary holding baby Jesus and it has clearly been broken. Later in the scene, you see the night light again and it is intact.
Correction: I looked very carefully, and at no point in the scene is Carrie's night light broken.
Corrected entry: When Travis is with the gun salesman, he is trying out the black gun. You see a close up shot of him holding the gun with his arm outstretched with his jacket on. In the very next shot (no time has elapsed) his arms are at his side and his jacket is now completely off. (00:56:50)
Correction: I am really not sure about the "no time has elapsed" bit. Everything about the setup leads to believe time has indeed passed. He has the gun in his pants and he is checking himself out in the mirror, which is why he removed the jacket and his arm is in a different position. The differences are so many that it's not an awkward mistaken transition or edit hiccup, it's a jump ahead in time, on purpose.
This is verified by Scorsese on the commentary he recorded for the laserdisc release. He specifically states it was a jump cut to speed up the action.
Corrected entry: It would be impossible to rescue the dog by helicopter from a moving electric train because the poles along the side of the track holding up the wires would get in the way.
Correction: There are electric rain systems that use a third rail for the electricity. No overhead power lines are shown.
Corrected entry: As the train is approaching the station in "Chicago" in the final scene, the train whips past what is clearly the Royal York Hotel in downtown Toronto. Also, as the crowd is rushing out of the coffee shop in "Union Station in Toronto" the first guy pushing through the door is holding a pack of "Craven A" cigarettes in his hand. Not smokes you would buy in the U.S.
Correction: Cigarette brands aren't limited to only being allowed in the country they are sold. A Canadian friend of mine, who drives truck long haul, smokes only American cigarettes, mainly because they cost about 1/2 as much as Canadian brands. Others prefer Canadian cigarettes over American.
Corrected entry: In the New York section of the film, with Kong rampaging through the streets, Jessica Lange and Jeff Bridges try to escape using the elevated train, only for Kong to track them down and attack it. The scene alternates between shots inside the carriage (a studio set) and outside it (where it's obviously a guy in a monkey suit and a model train). In order to escape the carriage, Jeff smashes a window, however, the window he smashes (in the studio set) is nothing like the ones on the model train. One is square shaped and the other is circular.
Correction: The window that Jeff Bridges smashes on the train is on one of the end doors that permit moving from car to car. These windows are indeed round and are also correct on the model.
Corrected entry: Books tells Doc Hotstettler that "ten days ago, in Crede, Colorado......" and that he got on his horse and took off to find the Doc in Carson City, Nevada. That is about 600 miles away, which would mean riding 60 miles a day on horseback for a man dying of cancer and having trouble sitting without his "fancy pillow".
Correction: This entry is based on an assumption that the character didn't use anything but horse to travel. He could've gone by train for most of it. Based on the period the movie is set this is very likely.
Corrected entry: When the King is giving the Prince the medal at the beginning, he asks the Lord Chamberlain who wrote the speech, to which the Chamberlain says that he (the King) did. Wouldn't the King have recognised his own handwriting?
Correction: Think of the scene where he has the proclamation created. "Let it be known to all throughout the land that it is our will that who so ever shall try on this slipper (It really is quite danty. Half the size of your mother's) and shall find it a perfect fit." yet the offical proclimation doesn't include some of the information. Similarly, the king may have just said the information to the lord chamberlain who then had it written up by a scribe. Kings rarely penned anything themselves.
Corrected entry: In the scene in the church where Harry needs information from a priest, he throws him into a confessional so hard that the wall separates revealing how flimsy it is. (01:22:55)
Correction: It's not the wall that separates. The inside of the confessional was lined with soundproofing tiles, like those you'd see on a ceiling. It's the tiles that move, which would happen in real life. It's the construction style of how they're placed that causes this, just like how easy it it to push a some ceiling tiles up.
Corrected entry: When Hal Holbrook is getting into the back of the admiral's jeep, he has a briefcase in his left hand. The jeep starts to pull away before he can get into his seat. The next shot shows him holding onto the handle with the same hand he had the briefcase in. The briefcase shows up again in a later shot.
Correction: If you look carefully he still has the briefcase in his left hand as he grasps the handle.
Corrected entry: When Doc says, "Pay attention Sandman, I'm proud of this machine" the Anodyne and Kinesis levers in the background are in the down position. The camera cuts to Logan and back to the Doc and the levers are now in the up position. (00:47:25)
Correction: Yes, the levers are in the down position to start, however, Doc is standing next to the levers and says the line "I'm proud of this machine" off camera (while the camera is on Logan). When it cuts back, the levers are up, but Doc is moving his hand away from the machine. He had plenty of time to raise them (plus the numbers change, indicating the levers were raised off camera).
Corrected entry: The Fly attempts to make a phone call to the radio station to win tickets but he doesn't have a dime so he misses out on his chance. Immediately after this incident, Justin gives him a dime. A while later, the Fly uses the dime Justin gave him on a phone call to Mona at the Five Spot diner. Eventually, the Fly calls the radio station AGAIN and wins the tickets. If he didn't have a dime for the first call and used the dime he received from Justin on the call to Mona , where did he get the dime to win the tickets from the radio station?
Correction: Just as he was given a dime the first time, he could have easily gotten another dime from someone.
Corrected entry: When the photographer gets decapitated by the glass, if you pause before the glass hits him you can see the dummy.
Correction: The requirement to use freeze frame invalidates this entry.
Corrected entry: When Adrian is in Rocky's apartment, he tells her that he no longer has a phone. Several scenes later when Rocky confronts Paulie for bringing reporters to the meat company, he tells Paulie that he should have called him first or left a message.
Corrected entry: The Josey says to Laura, "I'm from Missouri - you'll have to show me." The "show me" line was first publicized in a speech by the Governor of Missouri in 1899, several years after the movie was set.
Correction: That doesn't mean the saying was not in common usage well before the governor said it in a speech, not a mistake.
Corrected entry: Funn, Eggs, and Bell, with Vilma, await the audience's reaction to their film as it ends. The audience suddenly erupts into bravado ovation fanfare. Curiously, no actual footage of this 'Silent Film' is displayed, only the audience's apparent satisfaction of it.
Correction: How is not a mistake. There's a lot of things the movie doesn't explicitly show.
Corrected entry: When Lionel Twain makes his appearance at the dining table he presses a button on his wheelchair which makes all the windows and doors become locked and barred. Then in a later scene when the group have returned to the lounge Dick Charleston opens the window to see if it has stopped raining but the windows are supposed to be locked and barred.
Correction: Later in the movie Charleston says that at dawn the windows and doors would be unlocked.
The windows were barred to prevent them getting out, not opening them. He reached through the bars to open the window.
Corrected entry: When Devlin and his contact are in the cottage, there are several shadows cast on the wall from multiple light sources.
Correction: That's because there are multiple light sources in the cottage. There's the fire, the central light, and at least three candles.
Corrected entry: When Annabelle (as Ellen) Ben and Boris get in the car at the end, Annabelle accidentally puts the car into reverse and drives backwards into the neighbours yard and in the process scares a whole bunch of party guests making them fall into the pool. If you look at the last guy who falls in (the one with the grey suit), he seems to be falling in for no reason other than simply it's what he's been paid to do.
Correction: Maybe the shock made him jump for anywhere that could be safe, hence him jumping in the pool.
Correction: Agnew's resignation would have happened within the film as depicted. He resigned on October 10, 1973, which falls within the film's timeline between the break-in on July 17, 1972 and Nixon's resignation on August 9, 1974.
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