Corrected entry: At one point, Alan Rickman's character addresses the Viscount as "your Grace". The correct form of address for a Viscount is "your Lordship". Dukes are addressed as "your Grace".
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)
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Directed by: Tom Tykwer
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Alan Rickman, Ben Whishaw, Francesc Albiol, Gonzalo Cunill, Roger Salvany
Factual error: The hanging is shown using the "standard drop", with a trapdoor, breaking the neck. This was not introduced until the 19th century (after France had abandoned the gallows for the guillotine), whereas the film is set in the 18th century. In those days the victim was just strung up on the gallows and left to strangulate (the "short drop").
Narrator: For the first time in his life, Grenouille realised that he had no smell of his own. He realised that all his life he had been a nobody to everyone. What he now felt was the fear of his own oblivion. It was as though he did not exist.
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Correction: Character error.