Continuity mistake: When we hear Stanley's voice reading the letter to his mother, we see Stanley getting food in the cafeteria. In all the different shots of his tray, the food and cup differ completely. (00:26:50)
Continuity mistake: After Zero asks "Did they have red X's on them?" we see Zero, Squid, and Armpit. Armpit is bent low over the table, but in the very next shot when he says "What else can you do," he is sitting up straight. (00:13:55)
Visible crew/equipment: In the part when Stanley and Zero are climbing God's thumb and Stanley is about to slip look closely and you can see the harness on Shia.
Continuity mistake: In the scene at the end where the Yeltnats open the chest you can see Stanley's father with rubber gloves on, he takes his left glove off to look at the stock papers. You see him with his right glove on still, then Stanley takes one of the papers from his father and he doesn't have any gloves on, and in the next shot he has it back on his right hand.
Audio problem: In the scene where you see Stanley's lawyer's car for the first time in the distance and Twitch says, "Jaguar-nice car," Magnet replies, but his lips aren't moving. (01:31:15)
Continuity mistake: When we see the flashback of Stanley's trial, we first see Stanley in a blue buttoned-down shirt. The camera goes to Clyde and when it goes back to Stanley he is in a dark-gray suit. (00:14:15)
Continuity mistake: In the scene when Zero and Stanley get to the top of God's Thumb Mountain, Stanley splashes Zero with some of the muddy water. Zero goes from having no mud on him, then having mud on him (before even getting in the water), to only having mud on his back (before getting in the water), to having mud on him (after in the water), to finally having no more mud on him (after being in the water).
Continuity mistake: At the end, right before the rainstorm comes, ZigZag jokes: "Say, I didn't know that Marian was a man's name." Mr. Sir replies: "It ain't" then ZigZag smiles and looks downward. The next shot, it zooms on Stanley (who is in front of ZigZag) and you can see that ZigZag has a blank expression on his face and is merely looking around. (01:45:35)
Continuity mistake: When they open the treasure at the end of the movie, Stanley hold his hand over his mouth before it opens. Then in the next shot his hands are on the table. (01:50:00)
Continuity mistake: When Elya Yelnats tells Myra's father that he has "a heart full of love" we see Myra in the background. She puts the laundry that she is washing up against her chest twice. (00:19:45)
Continuity mistake: When the tent D boys find the cloud in the sky, we see a shot of the cloud, the camera goes back to the boys and then back to the cloud. The problem is the cloud looks different in these two shots, even though the two shots were only seconds apart. (00:37:30)
Continuity mistake: When Stanley is getting into the orange suit when he first arrives, he buttons a button, then falls. Then he finishes buttoning his suit and goes outside with "Mom". When he's outside some of the buttons are unbuttoned.
Continuity mistake: When Zero throws up on the rock, we then see him start to roll down the hill and for a split second we see that the rock he just threw up on is dry. (01:24:25)
Continuity mistake: When the boys were saying nobody messes with the Caveman, you see from behind X-Ray that both Magnet and X-Ray have their elbows on the pool table, but in the next shot X-Ray has his hands on the table and Magnet is going to put his elbows on the pool table.
Continuity mistake: When Stanley first asked Armpit where to get water, Armpit throws him to the ground and the boys crowd over Armpit's shoulder in the close up. But from behind we see that the boys are more spread out.
Other mistake: When Sam is selling his onions, he asks an old man to take his hat off so he can see if he's bald so he'll know if he needs to sell him some hair growing tonic. The old man is just barely taking off his hat and before Sam can even tell the old man has no hair, Sam says "Mm hm, just as I thought."
Continuity mistake: When Zero hit's Mr. Pedanski in the face with a shovel, you see him fall face forward, but when we see him again his face is facing up. (01:10:35)
Deliberate mistake: In at least two different scenes, there are time-lapse shots of the stars moving across the sky above a horizon. Given that the location is Texas, they rotate in the wrong direction. If the horizon is southern, the stars should rotate left to right, not right to left. If the horizon is northern, they would rotate counterclockwise around a fixed point *above* the horizon, i.e. the North Pole (celestial), where the North Star would be.
Continuity mistake: When the Warden says to Stanley, "I still expect 7 holes." Stanley has his hat off, but in the next shot his hat is on again.
Continuity mistake: When Zero and Stanley are going to God's Thumb, they try going up the higher part of the cliff. Right after Stanley is near falling, it shows Zero placing his shovel to his side in pain from his cuts. In the next shot, he pushes it away again.
Answer: More than likely, different lengths of sentences depending on the crime and severity of it, just like a prison sentence is different based on that.
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