Sereenie

22nd Feb 2006

National Treasure (2004)

Corrected entry: In the scene when Riley sets off the sensors of the Declaration of Independence, to get it into the preservation room, it is broad daylight. Cage steals it much later, in fact its pitch black outside when he does. The Declaration would not be in the preservation room for that long.

Correction: Why not? A defective sensor (which is what they are suspecting) likely needs more than a cursory verification. Not only that they have exact replicas on display when working on the housings and the documents. So it is entirely likely that the orthogonal would be there for an extended period while diagnosing any potential issues.

Sereenie

She also says that she wants all the sensors changed out, which probably would take a fair amount of time.

Corrected entry: When Raoul falls through the trapdoor his hair is down, also when he is in the water. However when we see him climbing out of the water his hair is tied back. There is no way he would have tied it back whilst underwater trying not to drown.

Correction: Raoul's hair is not tied back; it is wet and plastered to his head.

Sereenie

Corrected entry: When Meg Giry enters the Phantom's Lair and wades through the water to step up to the grotto, we see the mirrors that the Phantom just smashed with the candlestick intact.

Correction: You are mistaken, they are still smashed.

Sereenie

Corrected entry: Madame Giry's accent is the only one that is truly accurate. Christine, despite being of Swedish decent and raised by a French woman in a French opera house, is American. Meg, who also is raised in France by a French woman, is Welsh. Raoul, Vicomte de Changy, obviously a Frenchman, is also American. And The Phantom is shown to have been raised in the French opera house as well, yet he is perfectly British. Gerard Butler is Scottish, yet has a flawless British accent in the film, so why is it that his is the only accent that was tampered with?

Correction: Accents are not a mistake, and this submission itself contains mistakes and even contradicts itself. Madame Giry does NOT have a correct accent. Gerard Butler does NOT have a flawless British accent (rrrraging fahhhhrrrrr, anyone?). The movie is not in French, so there is no point for the characters to have a French accent. Their English is supposed to be French, so their English accents represent their French accents, since most characters come from various parts of the country and have different levels of education.

Sereenie

Correction: Buquet is attacked from behind - the natural reflex will be to roll over to try to defend himself, which doesn't take long to do and isn't hard. The shot of the Phantom between the two of Buquet gave him enough time to do that.

Sereenie

3rd Dec 2003

Encino Man (1992)

Corrected entry: During the scene when the bully guy and his two friends break into the school records office and find the records on Link, the records state that he is vaccinated for rabies/distemper etc. Wouldn't it have seemed a little strange to the school personnel that these were vet records? They should have questioned those records from the beginning, however they filed them as if they were regular health records for a person, not a dog.

Sharon Murray

Correction: This plainly shows how many times school authorities don't really look at the records they file. It's just standard paperwork that gets done mechanically without anyone giving it any thought.

Sereenie

Corrected entry: When George and June are going up in the elevator to play strip chess, we see him swipe a card in the elevator. This is presumably a electronic key, so that hotel guests can't stumble into his apartment. However, when Lucy runs out of the wedding, we see her press a button to go up, and then wait, without having to swipe a card.

Correction: The card doesn't always have to be swiped before the button is pushed.

Sereenie

Corrected entry: When Andre meets up with Firmin during Masquerade and gets his picture taken, he is wearing a rooster headdress, but during the dance sequence as he's seen on and around the stairs, it's gone. We can see that better when The Phantom sticks the sword in his face.

Correction: A lot of time passes between these shots. He had plenty of time to take it off. Who knows, he probably thought it was heavy or itchy.

Sereenie

Corrected entry: When Christine is approaching her father's grave, to the right of the screen, a jacket is visible lying on a grave, and disappears in some shots.

Correction: There is no jacket. It's the draping of the statue.

Sereenie

Corrected entry: During the rose crushing scene on the rooftop, just before The Phantom runs for the statue, when he drops the rest of the rose and stem, a glove falls to the ground as well. But when he's up on the statue screaming to the heavens, The Phantom is wearing gloves again on both hands.

Correction: No glove falls. Only the rose and its ribbon.

Sereenie

Corrected entry: When the Smiths are in the basement during the shoot out with their agencies, a grenade bounces in and explodes under a tank of fuel oil, causing a tremendous explosion that levels the house. First, the shoot out in the kitchen showed the house was using natural gas, especially when one of them created a fireball by disconnecting the line (who then shut it off?), you wouldn't have both fuels in the house. Second, fuel oil burns but is not that volatile and would not create such an explosion.

Correction: A house can use both. For example, my parents' house uses natural gas for the range, but fuel for heating.

Sereenie

Corrected entry: As Christine and the Phantom first enter the lair in the boat, when we get the first sweeping look at the living quarters of the lair, we can see the alcove which contains the Christine mannequin, which will cause Christine to faint in a few minutes. You can see that it is totally bare. (00:34:10)

Correction: The mannequin is seen in the alcove, and it is dressed. Whatever that 'bare' is applied to (mannequin or alcove), the mistake isn't right.

Sereenie

Corrected entry: In "Don Juan", when they zoom in on the cello player, the cello has no strings.

Correction: There is only one shot where the cello is seen (around 1:46:10) and it definitely does have strings.

Sereenie

28th Jun 2005

National Treasure (2004)

Corrected entry: When they are buying new clothes, Ben sells his watch to the clerk to get his $100 bill back. However, later, e.g. when he dives off the boat and when they find the treasure, he is wearing the same watch that he sold.

Correction: He doesn't sell it to the clerk: he's giving it as a guarantee that he just won't run away with the bill. The clerk gave him the watch back after he handed back the bill.

Sereenie

Corrected entry: The Phantom's masks are held on with elastic. However, elastic didn't exist in the 19th century, when the movie is set.

Correction: It's not an elastic, merely a flexible type of string. Silk probably.

Sereenie

Corrected entry: During the performance of Don Juan, there is a fake fire pit in the middle of the stage. The only way for the cloth 'fire' to be blowing continuously would be if there was an electric fan below the pit. Also, when the Phantom and Christine plunge into the pit, there is no fan to be seen.

Correction: An "electric" fan is not the only way to go: there are mechanically-powered fans, for example. As for there being no fan when they fall, the bright lights inside the hole prevent us from seeing what's in it, so we don't know what is the precise arrangement there.

Sereenie

Corrected entry: During Christine's solo "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" in the graveyard, she is walking past gravestones with flowers clutched to her chest. In one shot, she suddenly has both arms down to her side and then begins to raise them back up to her chest.

Correction: Actually, when she has her arms clutched, you see she is just walking forward, whereas when she begins to rise them again, she's climbing the last stairs of a monument, which shows that some time is supposed to have elapsed between those two shots.

Sereenie

Corrected entry: After the wedding ring has been seen in 'Bal Masque' Raoul and Christine are walking toward the dance floor for the 'Masquerade' sequence, holding hands left hand in right. The next shot, the hands are left to left, with a mask in Christine's right hand.

Correction: They are never holding hands left hand in right; it's Raoul's hanging sleeve that gives the impression. In fact, when seen from behind, look under Christine's left arm: we can see Raoul's left hand reaching for hers, which then blends perfectly with the shot from the front, showing them holding hands left in left.

Sereenie

Corrected entry: After "Music of the Night", Christine wakes up and exits her bedroom. She reaches up with her right hand to pull back her hair. Her sleeve catches on her corset and hangs from it rather humorously until the camera angle changes. (00:44:20)

Correction: The catching sleeve itself isn't a mistake, and there is a good 10 seconds where we don't see Christine below her face: the sleeve had plenty of time to come unstuck.

Sereenie

Corrected entry: In one scene, the prop room of the Opera Populaire can be seen. Visible are a group of gobosticks (clamps on long poles which can be assembled to support film and stage equipment). While appropriately theatrical, these are recognisably modern models.

Correction: I was not able to spot any gobosticks. More details should be provided as to where and when they are visible.

Sereenie

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