La La Land
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Other mistake: During the opening traffic jam dance scene, many of the cars have dented roofs and hoods from previous takes.

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Continuity mistake: After Mia and Seb are walking through the backlot, and he asks her what she's doing right now, when she says "nothing" the image is flipped, her hair is reversed and her bag is on the opposite shoulder.

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Continuity mistake: When Sebastian is talking with his sister in his apartment, the clock on the wall strikes 2:55, in the next shot it strikes 10:50.

Visible crew/equipment: In the opening sequence when the crowd dances in front of the band inside the truck on the highway, you can see the shadow of the camera on a man's back as it makes an aerial shot.

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Mia: It's pretty strange that we keep running into each other.
Sebastian: Maybe it means something.
Mia: I doubt it.
Sebastian: Yeah, I didn't think so.

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Trivia: At the Oscar ceremony in 2017, the film was accidentally named Best Picture, instead of true winner Moonlight, when presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway were accidentally handed the wrong envelope. Such a gaffe had never occurred in the Oscars' history before.

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Question: I have searched everywhere and cannot find the name of the male soloist in the opening scene who wears a white shirt and opens the back of the truck. What is it, please?

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