Sacha

3rd Feb 2011

Sunset Blvd. (1950)

Continuity mistake: Gillis enters Norma's bedroom and she is crying, saying she's got a gun. In the close-up she raises her head but a frame later, from a different angle, it's resting on the pillow.

Sacha

30th Jan 2011

Sunset Blvd. (1950)

Continuity mistake: When Norma tells Gillis that "movies got smaller", the angle has changed from a wide to a close-up. After her line it cuts back to the wide angle. The position of her head doesn't match between these two.

Sacha

5th May 2006

Sunset Blvd. (1950)

Continuity mistake: Desmond throws a bunch of papers tied up with a string at Gillis. Shot changes to him catching them and the bundle is totally different.

Sacha

5th May 2006

Sunset Blvd. (1950)

Continuity mistake: Gillis is lying on his bed with the script pages all over the bed. Look closely and you'll see that they're all copies of the same page.

Sacha

4th May 2006

Sunset Blvd. (1950)

4th May 2006

Sunset Blvd. (1950)

Continuity mistake: When Gillis enters Schwab's pharmacy, the wide shot for the exterior shows a man and a woman on the left of the entrance. In inside shots they are gone. When Gillis steps outside, the prior exterior shot is used and the man and woman appear again.

Sacha

4th May 2006

Sunset Blvd. (1950)

4th May 2006

Sunset Blvd. (1950)

28th Apr 2006

Sunset Blvd. (1950)

28th Apr 2006

Sunset Blvd. (1950)

Continuity mistake: When Gillis is seen floating in the pool, a photographer on the left kneels down twice to take the picture: First in the wide shot, and a second later in the closer shot.

Sacha

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