Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

Corrected entry: The story unfolds at a time when the Persian Empire is still strong. At that time, Persia was not yet subjugated by the Arabs who later on adulterated their Persian language with the Arabic script and the Islam religion. Why then, can the Arabic language be heard spoken by the background actors? Why then, is the decree signed by the newly enthroned King (the eldest son)in the Arabic script, which was not yet invented at that time?

SunnyboyN

Correction: For the same reason that the primary cast members are all speaking modern-day colloquial English, which is not only inappropriate for the time period, but also for the geographical region. Historically set movies routinely use present-day languages and writing for simplicity. This is a standard movie convention and is not considered a mistake.

Tailkinker

Corrected entry: In the Prince of Persia the King speaks about bring a boy (Dastan) into his family, all of this is said in front of Princess Tamina. Then, while Dastan and Tamina are walking, Tamina goes on to say he really walks like a prince of Persia and that he was told the world was his since birth and that he'd believed it. Dastan corrects her explaining he was not born a Prince. I thought this was already covered when the king said it.

Correction: You're right, but you have to consider Tamina's city had just been overtaken and she herself was captured to be presented to the king. I don't think listening in to whatever they were saying mattered to her at the time. She was most likely thinking up a plan to escape. Plus the king merely mentions it and does not elaborate. I think it's safe to say she didn't know what he meant and certainly it wasn't easy to assume what had really happened. That doesn't seem like a plot hole.

Corrected entry: When Tus proposes marriage to Tamina and she agrees, Tus grabs her left hand to kiss with his right hand (you can tell it is her left arm based on the fingers). The very next shot shows him raising her right arm up in solidarity. The shot is immediate and there is not enough time for her to have switched arms nor for her to have raise/lowered one.

shortdanzr

Correction: The shot shows him raising her hand, so I don't know how it can be claimed there wasn't time for her to do so. Tus was holding both hands. One he kissed, the other he raised.

Phixius

Corrected entry: When Sheik Amar talks about his last ostrich Anita, he is referring to her as "she", but in the picture, it's obviously a male ostrich. Male ostrich are black with a white tail. Female ostrich, however, are greyish black.

Jeffy

Correction: The guy's a thief, a gambler, and a con artist; not an avian biologist. Why should he know the difference?

Phixius

Corrected entry: The ostrich-jockeys have Western numerals written on the square cloth stitched to their backs (1,2,3,4,5).

SunnyboyN

Correction: No, they have Arabic numerals written on their backs. Western culture adopted the Arabic numerals over Roman numerals. As the movie is in the Middle East, the numerals shown are correct.

rswarrior

Corrected entry: In the beginning when the King's soldiers catch the little boy, he calls the king "Sire", which is an English Title for Medieval English kings, while Persians call their Kings "Shah" and "Sultan".

Correction: Persia was an empire made up of many different peoples with their own customs and native languages. There's no reason an orphan boy who's family came from who-knows-where wouldn't call a king "sire".

Phixius

Corrected entry: In the Scene where Dastan and Tamina are underground and the landslide begins, Tamina seeks refuge by climbing up the stairway, while Dastan is swept down and has to superjump over the Abyss to the door on other side. How then did Tamina manage to cross the Abyss and help Dastan defeat the Hassasin on the other side?

SunnyboyN

Correction: She took the path along the perimeter of the cave.

Phixius

Continuity mistake: When Ben Kingsley places the dagger in the sand crystal time goes backward. Tamina calls out Dastan's name and then he calls out her name in the same order as it happened in forward time. This should have been backward.

More mistakes in Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

Prince Dastan: You really enjoy telling me what to do, don't you?
Tamina: Only because you are so good at following orders.
Prince Dastan: Don't press your luck.

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Question: If Nizam and Dastan were both holding onto the knife at the end when they got sucked up by the sand, why is it that only Dastan remembers what happened?

Quantom X

Chosen answer: The knife can only carry one person, and Dastan had the better grip.

Phixius

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