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Factual error: Gloria's vehicle is a Chevrolet Blazer SS EV, but during the chase scene, her supposedly electric vehicle makes sounds like a normal gas engine.
Factual error: When Raban meets the Baron Harkonnen in Harkonnen's bath, the water reaches nearly the top of the bath. As Harkonnen's large body descends into the liquid, the level of the liquid does not rise, in contradiction to Archimedes' principle. (00:46:37)
Continuity mistake: When Robert is sitting at the café in the evening, the young man brings him a tea order. Robert prepares and puts out his napkins twice, from 2 different angles. (00:45:33)
Audio problem: After Dante kills a gunman and licks the bloody knife, the sound of the blade sliding against a rough surface is heard, but it was just sliding against his tongue. It's a more striking sound, but really odd, nonetheless.
Other mistake: The scraping sound is not coming from the man "scraping" his windshield. The snow is easily brushed off and there is no icy coating below the "fluffy" snow to realistically produce the sound of scraping ice off a windshield. (00:00:35)
Factual error: Surgical steel, which is used for making all kinds of piercings, is non-magnetic; therefore, the scene where the overcharged MRI instrument is tearing out Erik's piercings from a distance is absolutely fictional.
Other mistake: The Pit Viper John gets given has a 21 round magazine. When he's drifting around the bad guys at the Arc de Triomphe shooting at them, he fires more than that, without reloading.
Character mistake: Zhen tells Mr. Ping and Li that at least they didn't lie to Po, and Mr. Ping says that it's true. It's actually not true because Mr. Ping lied about the secret ingredient to his soup, and Li lied about knowing Chi.
Continuity mistake: Lilo put candy on the counter: one green, one yellow, and two orange. The next shot goes to AJ. Then back to Lilo, and now the yellow candy has vanished, and the other pieces have moved around, indicating this is from a different take. (00:30:23)
Factual error: A DC3 that flies at 198 mph max makes it from Europe to Alaska to Africa in a few hours.
Factual error: After the successful Trinity test in 1945, people in a crowd are holding small US flags with 50 stars on them (offset rows). At the time there were only 48 states and the flag had 48 stars in even rows. The 50 star flag didn't exist until 1960, after Alaska and Hawaii were made states in 1959.
Continuity mistake: At the bar, the amount of beer in Maria's "Corona Extra" bottle varies from at the neckline, to below, to above. After she takes a swig, it is still at the neckline; then it is about 1/2" above the neckline. (00:25:50 - 00:26:44)
Deliberate mistake: Michael B. Jordan has a small indentation on his forehead, just above his right eyebrow. By virtue of the fact that he plays twins in this film, both characters have the exact same indentation.
Continuity mistake: The Thunderbolts are confronting Valentina Allegra de Fontaine at the Avengers Tower. She makes her entrance, champagne glass in hand. The position of her left hand changes throughout the scene a few times between shots—in particular when she addresses Bucky's "less than half a term" at the beginning and when she speaks with Red Guardian.
Factual error: The opening states the location as Bristol, England. Santa is drinking in a pub on Shirely Street (neither the pub or the street exist in Bristol), then shortly after is shown leaving from the rooftop, on his sleigh, with multiple high rise buildings in the background. Bristol does not have high rise buildings in the main city centre, only a few blocks of flats, which all have flat roof tops, not like those depicted.
Suggested correction: While this is correct, an argument can be made that since the colour scenes are meant to be subjective and the black and white scenes are meant to be objective, Oppenheimer could have been unintentionally mapping the modern US flag onto this scene.
THGhost
That's a ridiculous stretch with zero evidence, not least as 48 star flags are seen in colour in other scenes. Sometimes a mistake is simply a mistake.
There is evidence, though. Nolan said so himself. Look it up. As for the mistake itself, I'm merely repeating what I've read on Twitter, and this correction was merely a suggestion. Seeing the 48 star flags in other colour scenes still doesn't disprove this theory. It is just a theory though, so no need to shoot it down so hard.
THGhost
He's said subjective in terms of the colour scenes being "first person", and maybe not strictly factual in terms of creating moments between characters and conveying emotion, but nowhere does that stretch to "one random scene happens to feature 50 star flags because Oppenheimer is mapping the modern flag onto it, when nothing like that happens anywhere else in the film."
Meh, take it up with Twitter. I just thought it was interesting, and certainly don't see it as a stretch, so I posted it here for a different point of view/perspective for others to read. It is most likely bull**** though.
THGhost
The fact that a director realized they had made a mistake and retroactively made up a deus ex machina explanation for it in no way invalidates the mistake. Nice try, Mr. Nolan but this posting is absolutely valid.
While Christopher Nolan's talked about the subjective/objective colour/black and white thing, which is entirely fair and no doubt exactly his intention, I don't think he's actually tried to "excuse" this by using that explanation, that's just other people trying to connect the two things. I'm not sure Nolan has commented on the flag issue in interviews at all.
Precisely, and I was in no way trying to invalidate the original mistake. I just found the whole theory interesting and posted it here. It is rather hilarious that a director with such attention to detail like Nolan would have missed something like this. We shall see if he gets it fixed for the streaming/physical release.
THGhost
It's not fixed in the home video version. However, the behind-the-scenes materials provide a reason for the mistake, in that putting a crowd in the scene was apparently a spur-of-the-moment decision. It's like that in their haste to bring in the crowd, the set decorators bought some modern miniature flags and put them into the scene without anyone realizing the 48/50 discrepancy.
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