Character mistake: When William finds the footprints on the ground after the body is found in the blood vat, he tells Adso that they were twice as deep as they should've been because the person who made them was weighed down by the weight of a body. Adso points out that the footprints were going away from the vats, to which William rebukes him and says that the man who made the prints was possibly dragging the body. If that was so, the footprints would not have been so deep, as the person moving the body would not have been weighed down nearly as much by dragging one along the ground. William is a learned investigator who shouldn't have made such an obvious mistake.

The Name of the Rose (1986)
1 character mistake - chronological order
Directed by: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Starring: Sean Connery, Christian Slater, F. Murray Abraham, Elya Baskin, Helmut Qualtinger
Revealing mistake: When Sean Connery and the others are examining the corpse found in the water, the dead body's eyes blink. (01:01:05)
William of Baskerville: The only evidence I see of the antichrist here is everyones desire to see him at work.




