Corrected entry: When Derek and Hansel are talking to Matilda about her childhood and other things in on Hansel's pad towards the end, watch behind Derek and Hansel. There are white and red candles behind them, but in almost every shot, their number, their positions, and their colours are different.
Myridon
22nd Jan 2004
Zoolander (2001)
8th Dec 2003
Zoolander (2001)
Corrected entry: When they show Hansel playing with the yo-yo sitting next to Gwen at the awards show, he's sitting in the end row seat. Then when Zoolander gets up & walks down the isle, You see Hansel getting up, not from the end seat, but 4 seats down from the end.
Correction: No, he hasn't moved from the left end of the row. It's a split screen close-up of him and while it does look like the lady behind him is to his right, it's because of the camera angle. When the shot widens out to full screen, you can see that she is in an aisle seat lined up with his seat.
15th Nov 2003
Zoolander (2001)
Corrected entry: With all of Derek's talk about not being able to turn left, he does it pretty easily towards the end (before the significant left turn). After he does his series of backflips to get back to kill the PM he lands and does a quarter turn immediately to the left.
Correction: He doesn't mean he's physically incapable of turning left, he means his runway modelling left turns are not the supermodel quality of all his other moves. It's like a famous portrait painter might say he can't do landscapes - he can do a landscape better than 99% of the population, but he not happy with the way they turn out.
17th Mar 2002
Zoolander (2001)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Mugatu presents Derek with the model for the Derek Zoolander School For Kids Who Can't Read Good, there is a reaction shot of Mugatu and his assistant in which Mugatu is on the right and the assistant is on the left. After a cut to a shot of Derek, there is a cut back to the reaction shot of Mugatu and the assistant - they have switched sides.
Correction: If this happened in the theater, it's been fixed in the DVD - just watched it 3 times forwards and backwards - the assistant is always on the left.
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Correction: As candle scenes go, this one is amazingly well done. There is a Buddha holding one candle that may well be a small light bulb. Below that are two tiers of red glass votives. The bottom tier has two lit, skip one, one lit. The top tier has two lit. Depending on the camera angle, different levels and parts of the arrangement are blocked by D & H's shoulders and heads, thereby blocking different candles. The angle of the camera also determines whether you see the flame above the red glass or below the red glass, so there's a red light or a white light. Some of this could also be explained by the candles being burned down to different points in different shots, but the candles are so small and the shot angle changes so much so often that it would be really hard to determine this. In any case, it's not as described in the submission.
Myridon