Episode #3.7 - S3-E7
Continuity mistake: Dwayne and Fidel rush to tell Humphrey that Joseph is missing. Kris Marshall has his fist raised in the second shot, but he had folded arms while turning around. (00:40:25)
Sammo
8th Apr 2020
Death in Paradise (2011)
8th Apr 2020
Death in Paradise (2011)
Episode #3.7 - S3-E7
Continuity mistake: The timing of the scene when all of the 4 people who make the police force of Saint Marie reunite to check on Humphrey makes no real sense; there is no way that Fidel (but also Dwayne, even if at least there was a moment of contemplative silence before his arrival) couldn't have heard the chat going on in the room in the house at night being outside the open door. (00:39:20)
8th Apr 2020
Death in Paradise (2011)
Episode #3.7 - S3-E7
Continuity mistake: In the more personal part of the conversation between Humphrey and Camille when he sits at the small table with her, the light flickers on Kris Marshall's face at different intensity depending on the camera angle used. (00:37:30)
8th Apr 2020
Death in Paradise (2011)
Episode #3.7 - S3-E7
Continuity mistake: The scene with Humphrey and Camille sitting in front of each other with awkwardness and the guest bathroom story begins with him placing the paper on top of a book on the table. When he mentions the unconfortable family dinners, the book moved to the edge of the table without anyone coming near to it. (00:37:10)
8th Apr 2020
Death in Paradise (2011)
Episode #3.7 - S3-E7
Continuity mistake: Goodman is involuntarily jumpscared by Camille while on watch. After pawing the papers away, he turns towards her. He is holding still, but in the next shot (focused on Sara Martins) he is turning and standing straight, again. (00:36:20)
8th Apr 2020
Common mistakes
Factual error: In almost every movie from the introduction of sound on to present day, lightning and thunder happen simultaneously, while in reality there's always a delay between the former and the latter.
8th Apr 2020
Death in Paradise (2011)
Episode #3.7 - S3-E7
Continuity mistake: After the reveal of Emily's identity, she is shown with an overdramatic lighting and thunder effect, Behind here, nobody. Cut, and suddenly both Humphrey and Camille are standing there, behind, stalking her like horror slasher villains. (00:33:15)
8th Apr 2020
Death in Paradise (2011)
Episode #3.7 - S3-E7
Other mistake: Camille is the fastest reader ever; she holds the newspaper for TWO seconds and already she can tell that Valerie's dad lost his business because of Jackson (which is something the article itself, if you check it out on freeze-frame, does not say, incidentally - even if it did, she couldn't extrapolate the information this quickly from the page). (00:33:15)
8th Apr 2020
Death in Paradise (2011)
Episode #3.7 - S3-E7
Revealing mistake: Dwayne finds a newspaper which hilariously happens to have a perfect close-up photo of one of the suspects out of the thousands of protesters, right on the first page. Couple of problems with it; first, the text is just 2 paragraphs copy/pasted all over, and second, more blatant; the caption of the photo says "Valerie Clayton", but Dwayne just called her "Valerie Pellow." (00:33:00)
8th Apr 2020
Death in Paradise (2011)
Episode #3.7 - S3-E7
Continuity mistake: Camille on the rocking chair asks Humphrey "If it wasn't him..." Humphrey's hand in the foreground is on his chin. She finishes the sentence in the next shot, where Kris Marshall's hand is suspended in front of him at distance from his face. (00:37:10)
8th Apr 2020
Death in Paradise (2011)
Episode #3.7 - S3-E7
Continuity mistake: Everyone is gathering to address the sudden darkness problem. Anna Jackson in the wider angle reaches to get the lantern from her brother Joseph. New shot and it takes a couple seconds before that same action happens, again and in a different way. (00:29:40)
8th Apr 2020
Death in Paradise (2011)
Episode #3.7 - S3-E7
Continuity mistake: The lights go off, and DS Camille Bordey uses her phone to be able to see something again. She holds the phone by the longer side in the front view, by the shorter side when her hand is in foreground over a discombobulated Kris Marshall. (00:29:30)
8th Apr 2020
Death in Paradise (2011)
Episode #3.7 - S3-E7
Continuity mistake: When Fidel is taking Emily Benoit's prints, he is holding the glass with his index directly under the bulb on the stem in the frontal views, but the hand in foreground in the remaining shots is holding the glass a little above the middle. (00:27:35)
8th Apr 2020
Death in Paradise (2011)
Episode #3.7 - S3-E7
Continuity mistake: Fidel is taking Emily's fingerprints. She places the fingertips on the glass, and at the same time Dwayne is talking. He mentions the "pretty glowing picture" the newspapers paint. Fidel's middle finger is bent in a pretty peculiar position, but it's joined with the others in the next shot. (00:27:40)
8th Apr 2020
Death in Paradise (2011)
Episode #3.7 - S3-E7
Revealing mistake: Goodman and Bordey are interviewing Terrance Jackson after the revelation involving Rosie. During the scene, in most shots despite the storm that supposedly is happening, the leaves outside are subjected to a gentle breeze if at all. (00:26:00)
8th Apr 2020
Death in Paradise (2011)
Episode #3.7 - S3-E7
Continuity mistake: Questioning Rosie Curloo after Fidel's cocoa stunt, Officer Dwayne Myers' arm position changes depending on the camera angle. (00:23:20)
8th Apr 2020
Death in Paradise (2011)
Episode #3.7 - S3-E7
Continuity mistake: Emily Benoit crouches to open the safe; Camille is flipping through the victim's book and in the front view she notices something, raising it and tilting it to look more closely. Next shot and it's as if the previous never happened. (00:17:00)
7th Apr 2020
Death in Paradise (2011)
Episode #3.7 - S3-E7
Revealing mistake: Dwayne aided by Emily is bringing in the two boxes of papers from the storage. Transporting them is a difficult task with the storm that is raging on. A strange storm that happens to shake the plants in the foreground, but with Caroline Proust's hair and the leaves of the trees on the other side completely untouched. (00:16:40)
7th Apr 2020
Death in Paradise (2011)
Episode #3.7 - S3-E7
Continuity mistake: Humphrey is going through the various whereabouts of the suspects at the time of the gunshot. Emily Benoit says she was taking a shower. Her hands are on the table and are arms don't move, but in the following shot when Humphreys faces the nicer son, she has one hand on the table, the other in her lap. (00:09:25)
7th Apr 2020
Death in Paradise (2011)
Episode #3.7 - S3-E7
Continuity mistake: Fidel finds the bullet; during this preliminary examination, the shirt of the victim is suddenly all neat and pressed in the shot when he looks down at it after Goodman's question ("Why is he not wearing a shirt?"). Moreover, the shirt in the close-up is fully sunlit, and it is not in the wider angles. (00:06:30)
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Suggested correction: Hardly always, if the lightning hits right in front of you you hear the thunder immediately. I'd say from about 100 meters you perceive it as instantly, as it's only 0.3 seconds between flash and thunder.
lionhead
This is a mistake about in almost all movies, not in all thunderstorms. The common mistake in the movies is when lightning isn't hitting 100m away from the character, but the sound is still instantaneous.
Bishop73
I assume it's about thunderstorms in movies. Name an example.
lionhead
Instant thunder (even at a considerable distance of miles from the lightning or explosion source) is, indeed, a common and probably deliberate error in most films. The reasoning for it is simple: a prolonged and realistic delay between lightning and thunder could change a 1-second shot into a 6-second shot, for example, compromising the director's intended pace and mood for the scene. Steven Spielberg films have utilized both instant and delayed thunder. In "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," for example, when the UFOs zoom out into the distant background (certainly miles away) in a wide landscape shot, they produce a lightning effect in the clouds that is simultaneously heard as thunder. But in "Poltergeist" (a Spielberg film directed by Tobe Hooper), there is a very deliberate scene of characters realistically counting the seconds between distant lightning and resulting thunder. Choosing to obey physics or not is a matter of the director's artistic license.
Charles Austin Miller
I posted this while I was watching Death in Paradise, episode 7 of the third season, but really, you have never seen in pretty much any horror or cheap slasher movie whenever there's a storm, the flash of a lightning coming at the *same* time as a thunder jumpscare sound? It's vastly spoofed, even, when some ugly/creepy/terrifying character makes its appearance. One example randomly picked? Dracula by Coppola, in the first 10 minutes, carriage, lightning in the distance, not even a split second after, rumble. In RL it would reach you a couple seconds later. But really, it's such a movie archetype, I am sure you can find it in any Dracula movie.
Sammo ★
The Dracula example doesn't really show how far away the lightning is, it could right above them. It's fake as hell, I agree with that, but the fact there is lightning and thunder at the same time without actually seeing the distance is not a mistake to me. It's also highly unnatural lightning as it only happens twice and then nothing, it's not even raining. It's obviously meant to be caused by the evil surrounding the place. The idea is there is constant lightning right on top of them.
lionhead
There's a scene in Judge Dredd where every few seconds, there is a flash of lightning instantly accompanied by the sound of thunder. It happens frequently in Sleepy Hollow as well.
Phaneron ★
I know the scenes you are referring to. In both those instances you have no idea about the distance of this lightning. It could be (and probably is) right on top of them. You can hear that from the typical high sharpness of the sound, only heard when the flash is very close. Thunderclouds are never very high in the air so even the rumbling within the cloud itself can be heard, sometimes you don't even see lightning when it rumbles (yet there is). It's a bit far fetched but you could hear a rumbling or the thunder from a previous flash and mistake it for the flash you see at the same time. Can happen when there are continuous flashes.
lionhead