Corrected entry: In the very last scene, Eddy Murphy is on the beach, and Dan Ackroyd, with Jamie Lee Curtis is on a yacht. They exchange what are now classic lines: "Looking good, Billy Ray!" "Feeling good, Louis!" But the yacht is way off shore. There's no way they could hear each other at such a distance, even at the loud voice that we as viewers hear. (01:52:05)
HuskyMiller
26th Dec 2007
Trading Places (1983)
21st May 2005
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Corrected entry: Doctor Zhivago walks into his old frozen house and starts to write with an old fashioned pen and ink set. The ink is surprisingly not frozen while the rest of the house is.
Correction: Dr. Zhivago does not use the pen until several hours after they have been in the house and warmed-up the room. After first arriving at the icy house during the day, there is a fade to show the passage of time where it is now night and the woman and child are sleeping near a stove with a fire. The room is now completely thawed with no visible ice and that is when he begins to write with the pen.
13th Apr 2008
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
Corrected entry: In the party scene at Holly's house, when Paul Varjak sees that Holly's cigarette is about to put a lady's hat on fire, he runs towards it, tilting the bird cage on the column, crossing a lady in a pearly ivory coloured dress. When he sees that the fire was extinguished, he's back at the same spot behind the lady when he touches his glass to her back, and the column is straight. (00:29:55 - 00:30:30)
Correction: Of course the column is straight - it never totally fell over to begin with. It is only "tipped", and is on its way down when it hits someone and is stopped. Obviously they stood it back up. The party is way too crowded for that thing to have ever made it to the floor.
16th Aug 2004
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
Corrected entry: Early in the film when George Peppard wakes Audrey Hepburn by knocking on her door, she is in bed wearing only one earplug, but when she stands at the door talking to him she has to unplug both her ears.
Correction: She is indeed wearing two ear plugs. You can see the second one dangling from her far ear as she walks from the bedroom to answer the door.
17th Sep 2006
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
Corrected entry: During the party scene at Holly's house, her cigarette holder starts out very long but after she lights the lady's hat on fire it becomes short. The next shot it's long again.
Correction: There is no change in length in the scenes you mention - only foreshortening. However, the holder is much shorter later during the party when Holly tells her drunk model friend she is being a bore. That is because it is a telescoping holder. There are many close-up shots of it during the party where you can confirm this.
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Correction: They could have easily heard each other. #1 - They both deliver their lines in a louder than a normal speaking voice to compensate for the distance: something just shy of shouting. #2 - They are at what appears to be a private cove. One of the things people find attractive about a private beach is that it is quiet. There are no other people in that scene creating noise, and there is no noise from waves crashing against the shore. The water is perfectly calm. #3- There is an overhead helicopter shot at the end of this scene where we can see the exact distance between the yacht and the Billy Ray on the shore. And you can see it really isn't anchored that far from the edge of the beach. Certainly within loud voice on a quiet beach distance. If it were far away, that would defeat the purpose of getting to and from the shore. So between the quiet shore and lack of surf noise, them speaking much louder than normal, and the yacht not being that far away, Billy Ray and Louis could EASILY hear each other.
HuskyMiller