Wake Up Dead Man

Continuity mistake: When Father Jud introduces his new idea for a more compassionate approach to the Church, he says, "Welcome to our first Father Jud's prayer group." Look at Lee Ross next to him. His position changes entirely at the first cut. (00:23:20)

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Continuity mistake: In the scene that introduces the doctor, when the band Phish is mentioned, Father Jud has his hand on the glass, then doesn't anymore at the cut. (00:17:55)

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Continuity mistake: When Cy threatens to drag the church to court, the person next to him holds him back with an arm he has already lowered in the previous shot. (02:14:30)

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Continuity mistake: In the flashback of the second murder, the killer lowers the diamond, taking a look at the scythe, but the diamond is raised again in the next shot. (02:07:40)

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Continuity mistake: When the culprit walks towards the altar, Geraldine's hands are crossed on her belly with the right hand over the left, the opposite way in the next shot. (01:57:50)

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Continuity mistake: During Blanc's denouement, Geraldine asks, "Okay. And now, what really happened?" when Blanc is leaning against the altar, and suddenly in the next shot ("Yes. Yes.") he is standing a few feet in front of it. (01:53:30)

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Continuity mistake: When the tub of acid drains, there’s a close-up on the skull, where you can see that the left hand of the corpse is placed on what would be its neck. In the next close-up, it appears to have moved, and when we finally see the whole body, it is lying with both arms flat alongside the torso. (01:45:30)

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Continuity mistake: Father Jud is holding the railing of the basement stairs. When he says "Oh God," you can see his arm move as if he moved his hand away from it. But he's still holding the railing the same way in the following shot. (01:43:50)

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Continuity mistake: Blanc uses his left hand to push open the doctor's front door, but he's actually using the right hand in the following shot, and the left again in the last. (01:42:50)

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Continuity mistake: At the police station, Benoit Blanc goes down a flight of stairs. Behind him, a policeman is walking up the same stairs. He's almost to the top. Blanc freezes as he notices Father Jud showing up looking lost and slowly walking towards the front desk. Cutting back to Blanc after these few seconds, the policeman is exactly where we left him before in his path, hasn't moved a single step while he was not in frame. (01:41:30)

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Continuity mistake: When the police watch the footage from the security cameras, Father Jud's mudslide is shorter than the first time we saw it in the movie, and he also turns his legs the opposite way (legs facing the woods in the original, legs towards the crypt in the footage). (01:33:45 - 01:40:00)

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Continuity mistake: When Martha praises the Lord in front of the tomb for the apparent resurrection, Mila Kunis is looking at her from the door frame, sideways, but she is fully facing her in the middle of the door in the next shot. (01:36:20)

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Continuity mistake: Reciting prayers for Louise on the phone, Father Jud puts down on the table his closed fist, but in the next shot, it's just the fingertips. (01:27:15)

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Continuity mistake: Blanc and Jud disassemble the Eve's Apple (or is it?) item. The bolts in front of the Jesus figurine on the desk change position between shots, and so does the light on it (given the direction of the shadow it casts). (01:21:50)

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Continuity mistake: Father Jud falls asleep the moment he touches his bed. The book on the floor by the bed changes position for this last shot. (01:03:40 - 01:04:25)

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Continuity mistake: When Blanc tells Father Jud, "No, you did not think," after the unsuccessful search of the flask, Josh O'Connor's hand suddenly moved to his hip between shots. (01:03:40)

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Continuity mistake: In the flashback about the flask, the first time around we see the door close, leaving about an inch of space of distance from the wall, but seconds later Father Jud opens the door to retrieve the flask, and the door is noticeably even closer to the wall. (01:03:05)

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Continuity mistake: Blanc puts his reading glasses on to look at the book club list. He then puts them away in his pocket, but the scene wraps up with him saying, "Come on, kids," holding his glasses together with the letter. (00:52:05)

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Continuity mistake: When Father Jud tells Blanc who is the mastermind who picked the book list the murderer may have used for inspiration (Oprah), Blanc is holding the list in a different way depending on the camera angle (when his hand is barely in the shot, it is pointed downwards). (00:51:50)

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Continuity mistake: After Sam closed the garage door, meeting Jud's eyes, the group of three sits at a table outside. Geraldine says that she owes Detective Elliott from Knives Out a fruit basket. Notice that Benoit Blanc doesn't touch the table, but he's leaning against it in the immediate response, and the discrepancy continues as the camera angles alternate. (00:50:20)

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Continuity mistake: In the scene that introduces the doctor, when the band Phish is mentioned, Father Jud has his hand on the glass, then doesn't anymore at the cut. (00:17:55)

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More mistakes in Wake Up Dead Man

Benoit Blanc: What I see is not a guilty man in torment, but an innocent man tormented by guilt. Let me help you.
Fr. Jud Duplenticy: How?
Benoit Blanc: This was dressed as a miracle. But it's just a murder... and I solve murders.

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Trivia: Jeremy Renner plays a role in this movie, but he was referenced as an actor and indirectly appeared in Glass Onion, the previous movie of the saga. The Jeremy Renner "Renning Hot" Hot Sauce, with his likeness on the label, was a very important plot device. In his breakdown of the pub scene for Vanity Fair, Rian Johnson addressed this and said he placed a bottle of the sauce from Glass Onion in the pub scene, but it might not have ended up on camera; he couldn't find it during the scene breakdown. (00:49:20)

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