Deliberate mistake: Eddie Murphy is giving his first party and tells everyone to leave. The valet holds all the coats in a perfect pile for the people to grab them as they leave. Although everyone rushes out of the party, it's very strange that the first person to leave takes the first coat, the second person the second coat and so on until the very last guest. No one stops to check if the coat they're taking is really theirs. (I guess it was shot this way to keep the good pace of the sequence). (00:43:55)
Trading Places (1983)
1 deliberate mistake
Directed by: John Landis
Starring: Dan Aykroyd, Denholm Elliott, Don Ameche, Eddie Murphy, Frank Oz, James Belushi, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ralph Bellamy
Continuity mistake: In the scene when Jamie Lee Curtis brings Dan Aykroyd home, you can visibly see she is wearing pantyhose. However, just a few second later, inside the apartment, she takes off her dress and is only wearing panties. (00:58:40)
Louis Winthorpe III: He was wearing my Harvard tie. Can you believe it? My Harvard tie. Like oh, sure he went to Harvard.
More trivia for Trading Places
Question: Why are Dan and Eddie in wool sweaters on a tropical beach when the women are in bikinis at the end of the movie?
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Answer: Character choice. I've seen people doing exactly that if they are not happy with their body image.
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