Myridon

Corrected entry: There are a few instances when the characters are speaking French that the subtitles are not accurate to what the actor is saying. One example is when an actor speaks: "Ecoutez,. (followed by the rest of the sentence)" which translated to English would be "Listen,.", but the subtitle reads "Look,.(followed by the rest of the sentence). If the actor had said "Regardez,." the subtitle would be correct reading "Look." In the example, either regardez or ecoutez would have been correct for semantic speech, but the subtitle used the wrong word in translation.

rswarrior

Correction: As you say, both "look" AND "listen" are semantically correct here as the speaker is idiomatically saying "Pay attention" and not literally "look at this picture" or "hear this sound". Translators always have the liberty to translate idiomatic language as they see fit rather than word for word.

Myridon

Corrected entry: During Joseph Goebbels' and Fredrick Zoller's film premier, between Hitler's laughs, there is a shot of a soldier falling from a window into a well letting out the ever-famous "Wilhelm scream." Goebbels' film is said to be released in 1944, but the "Wilhelm scream" debuted in 1951. (Though Tarantino may have deliberately used this as an homage or in-joke, it is still a mistake.)

Correction: Perhaps in this altered version of history, 1951's "Distant Drums" will borrow the sound from Goebbel's movie. It's an inside joke. How do you feel about the use of the scream in Star Wars? The man who screams like that doesn't even live in the same galaxy.

Myridon

8th Oct 2007

House, M.D. (2004)

Need to Know - S2-E11

Corrected entry: When House gets called back into work by Cameron it is almost midnight, as stated by Cameron. House then goes up on the roof, where the sun is shown either setting or rising. He then goes back down to his team and checks his watch to note when midnight occurs and Foreman's four weeks in charge are over. This episode takes place in the days directly following last week's episode, which was set during winter (complete with a heavy snowstorm). In winter the sun neither sets nor rises around midnight.

Correction: Given that hospitals are open on a 24 hour basis, House is likely calculating the end of the 4 weeks as being the start of the morning shift on the 29th day. He comes in at midnight, some time passes, sees the sun rise from the roof, then the 28th day ends. No problem. BTW, the sun never rises or sets near midnight in Princeton, New Jersey so proving that it was winter is overkill..

Myridon

2nd Feb 2006

Joan of Arcadia (2003)

Show generally

Corrected entry: Joan asks her brother Luke, a physics nerd, to explain the elecromagnetic spectrum to her for an exam. He tells her that everything the eye can see is in the center; molecules, gravity, and things we can't see but can quantify based on their behavior are on the left; and on the right is everything we haven't figured out yet, such as time warps and ghosts. Wrong. There is no scientific scale divided into "things we know" and "things we don't". The electromagnetic spectrum is a range of wave frequencies. We define sound, ultraviolet light, infrared light, visible light, X-rays, and cosmic rays by this spectrum. Gravity is completely different, as are molecules and most of the things mentioned in the scene. Luke, as a physics geek, would absolutely know all this. He would never, ever describe the electromagnetic spectrum the way this scene had him doing.

Correction: It's a joke.

Myridon

19th Nov 2006

Shock Wave

Corrected entry: In the third sound conversion killing the Russian whalers, the rescue freighter makes its way to the site to find only four dead bodies in the water. Then the observer says they are being circled by sharks. But it says several times through the book that the sound waves kill every living thing in the area. That should include the sharks.

Correction: In the time that the rescue freighter takes to reach the site, the sharks could also have arrived from outside the death zone.

Myridon

19th Nov 2006

Rendezvous with Rama

Corrected entry: This applies to the entire series, but is most relevant here: the alien artifact is named Rama after the Hindu deity of the same name. International Astronomical Union rules prohibit the naming of celestial bodies after figures from currently active religions.

Correction: In the book itself, it states that the rules have been changed by the 22nd Century.

Myridon

19th Nov 2006

Northern Lights

Corrected entry: There are at least two passages in this book where electrons are mentioned. Electrons are so named because they carry electric current (not the other way around), so in a world where electric current is referred to as "anbaric," electrons should be "anbarons" or something similar.

Correction: The etymology is from the Greek word "elektron" which means amber. The word electric comes from elektron because when amber is rubbed a static charge is generated, i.e. amber seems to be a source of electrons. Even though in our world, the word electric came first and the word electron was based on it, there is no reason that the word electron could not have been directly derived from elektron.

Myridon

19th Nov 2006

The Da Vinci Code

Corrected entry: When the guard at the Louvre is pointing the gun at Langdon, Sophie takes the 'canvas' painting of the "Madonna of the Rocks" off of the wall and uses it as a hostage - if the guard doesn't drop the gun she will supposedly tear the painting apart. However, the real painting has a solid wood back to it, making it too heavy to lift, let alone tear it apart.

Correction: While it's true that the painting was originally on wood, it was later transferred to canvas according to Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_of_the_Rocks#History_of_the_paintings ) Quote: "The Louvre version was transferred to canvas from the original wooden panel but the London painting is still on panel."

Myridon

22nd Jul 2006

Seventeen & In-between

Corrected entry: All the kids go to the same public high school, but they live in different suburbs: Mountlake Terrace, Woodway, Brier. Each of these suburbs would have its own high school and the kids wouldn't be all attending the same one.

Correction: In many big cities, there are single school districts that cover multiple suburbs and a single high school may cover areas in multiple adjacent suburbs. Also, many school districts also allow you to pick which school you want to go to if there are openings.

Myridon

29th Jun 2006

Northern Lights

Corrected entry: At the beginning of the book, Pantalaimon becomes a monk, but later on Lyra says daemons can only transform into animals.

Correction: At the beginning, Pantalaimon is in the form of a moth not a monk.

Myridon

3rd Jun 2006

Robinson Crusoe

Corrected entry: In chapter 4, Robinson discovers the wreck of his ship, and removes his clothing before swimming out to it. Once there, the very first thing he does is to go to the bread room and fill his pockets with biscuits. While he later in the chapter states that he was wearing breeches when he came aboard, the events of the book occurred almost a century before people started to sew pockets into trousers, so it is impossible for Robinson to have these on his "linen, and open-kneed" breeches.

Twotall

Correction: Crusoe's adventure starts in 1659. The book was published in 1719, only 60 years later. By this logic, Daniel Defoe wrote about pants pockets 40 years before they were invented. However, it never says the pockets were part of his pants. For a long time prior to being an integral part of clothing, pockets were separate bags tied to the outside of clothing which is what this refers to.

Myridon

11th May 2006

Reliquary

Corrected entry: In the prequel to this book, "Relic", the New York Museum of Natural History is located somewhere near the Hudson River. However, in this book, the authors relocated the building to overlook Central Park. This was done intentionally as a necessary plot device; however, it still stands as a major inconsistency between the books.

redbaron2000

Correction: In fact, the museum is on on Central Park West at 79th Street. The back of the museum is only 3 long blocks from the Hudson River. No inconsistency.

Myridon

14th May 2006

Angels & Demons

Corrected entry: The Forum Romanum is described as having columns looking like "toppled gravestones". The columns of the Forum are standing, not toppled.

Correction: The Forum Romanum is a large area. While some columns are standing, there are many toppled columns and blocks in the ruins.

Myridon

5th Sep 2005

Forrest Gump (1994)

Corrected entry: When Forrest is recalling his time playing ping-pong in the US Army, he is playing while other soldiers are watching him instead of the moon landing on July 20, 1969. Then he says "A few years later he went to China.". Then he meets Lt. Dan in NYC at Christmas 1971, as we see New Year's Eve for 1972 happening. Then a little while later he and Lt. Dan are the only shrimp boat to survive Hurricane Camille which hit the gulf coast in August 1969. The time doesn't add up to the sequence of events - it jumps from 1969 (Moon Walk) to 1972 back to 1969.

Packergirl

Correction: They say Carmen not Camille (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Carmen). Carmen was in August 1974 so the timeline is fine - 1969 to 1972 to 1974.

Myridon

5th Sep 2005

28 Days Later (2002)

Corrected entry: When Frank and Jim are on the rooftop and Frank is talking about collecting rainwater, you can see covered containers among the receptacles. You won't collect too much rainwater with a covered plastic box. (00:39:00)

Correction: He covers the containers between showers to prevent them from evaporating. You won't collect much rainwater if you let it evaporate away.

Myridon

5th Sep 2005

Broken Flowers (2005)

Corrected entry: Winston tells Don he will watch his house in case Don's long lost son shows up while he is gone. But Winston has just told him that he works three jobs. He would never be home enough to watch Don's house.

Correction: He only means that he will check the house occasionally, not keep a 24/7 surveillance on it.

Myridon

Corrected entry: It's already mentioned that the waitress' hat comes off, then comes back on. Look at the scene again; Austin punches the waitress and her hat comes off, then, when it's back on, Austin pulls the hat and a fake wig off altogether, so how could the hat fall off without pulling the wig off in the first place?

Correction: Probably they're not actually attached to each other and the second time he just managed to grab both of them.

Myridon

21st Jul 2005

Silkwood (1983)

Corrected entry: When Karen is found to have serious contamination, she has yet to enter the changing room (she is still in her own clothes). What is the point of having a monitoring arch at the plant entrance? It's highly unlikely that anyone would be contaminated before starting work.

Andy Benham

Correction: Anyone who was stealing plutonium to sell on the black market would likely become contaminated outside of work and would then be caught. Also, if for some other reason you became contaminated outside of work, it would be in the company's favor to be able to prove that you were not contaminated at work, i.e. that it was not a workplace accident.

Myridon

17th Jul 2005

Lilo & Stitch (2002)

Correction: He's a genetically engineered alien killing machine who can change the number of arms he has, why can't he have changeable teeth?

Myridon

14th Jul 2005

Madagascar (2005)

Corrected entry: When the penguins arrive to Antarctica, in the Spanish version (dubbed) it says on the bottom of the screen "Antártica". It was written wrong, since Antarctica in Spanish is written "Antártida", with a D, not a C.

Correction: No, Antártica is correct. Antártida would be correct in the Portuguese subtitles though.

Myridon

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