Other mistake: When Aaron is asked how he pleads, Vail instructs him to not answer and invoke his Fifth Amendment right. He then presents the judge with case law that supports that instruction. Roy attacks Martin after the doctor has left the room. That means the evaluation is still being completed. But after the attack, Vail tells the doctor he cannot change the plea in the middle of a trial. There could not yet have been a plea because the evaluation was still being done.
Primal Fear (1996)
1 other mistake
Directed by: Gregory Hoblit
Starring: Richard Gere, Edward Norton, Laura Linney
Factual error: In the beginning the guy shooting pool gives a CD to Richard Gere, he says that the song they were listening to is the fourth song when in fact it's the first song on the album.
Martin Vail: I also need case histories on murder by stabbing, murder by mutilation, murder by religion. Also, I'm gonna need a psychiatrist.
Naomi Chance: You're telling me.
Trivia: In the book, Aaron does not have a stutter - the stutter was introduced for the film because when Edward Norton auditioned for the part, he did the lines with a stutter and it won him the part.
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Answer: Later in the film it's said B32 is a catalog code for the book "The Scarlet Letter", page 156. On that page was an underlined passage "No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true..."
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