Corrected entry: In the Well of Souls, Indy and Sallah place the Ark in the box. Indy closes the box with a wooden lid and looks up. In the next shot, a torch has appeared in Indy's hand, a rope has appeared, tied to the four sides of the box, and Sallah has appeared next to Indy's left shoulder. In addition, the box is already several metres above Indy and Sallah in the second shot. (01:09:43)
Big Game
9th Feb 2025
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
4th Jul 2024
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
Corrected entry: While Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan, and Darth Maul are fighting, there are three shots of their faces. In the next shot, Maul jumps backwards to the nearest bridge. In these scenes, Qui-Gon is on the left and Obi-Wan on the right (from Maul's view). When the Jedi jump to the same bridge, they have switched places. (01:52:39)
Correction: It's a little difficult to see, but they actually swap places on-camera before the leap. Right after the three close-ups, Obi-Wan does a "fake out" where he starts to charge Maul, before instantly backing away. Simultaneously, Qui-Gon charges Maul diagonally and swaps places with Obi-Wan. So they actually do purposely swap places on camera... it's just very fast and easy to miss.
26th Jun 2024
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Corrected entry: During the Desert Chase, there's a shot of the staff car and truck. In this scene, Belloq shouts "¡Allá va!" (Spanish for "There he goes!") which doesn't make sense, as he is French and Dietrich, Toht, and the driver are Germans, nobody could understand him. (01:24:42)
Correction: In fact, Belloq shouts "Allah va!", which is Arabic for "Oh, God!", which has as wide a range of applications and subsidiary meanings in Arabic as it does in English.
Correction: There is an obvious time jump between the shots. They simply decided not to spend ten minutes showing all the details of sealing the box and tying the rope around it.
I wouldn't say this was a deliberate time jump, as they show Indy carefully and slowly placing the Ark in the box, then sealing it. In addition, when he looks up, he immediately says, "All right... take it up! Easy!" so it's clear this is a continuity mistake.
Big Game
He says, "All right. Take it up" after the cut. Yes, he does look up before the cut, but since everything else is different, we are supposed to interpret it as a jump in time.
In fact, almost nothing changes between these two scenes, except for these small but clear details.
Big Game
There's a deliberate jump in time between these two shots, and this transition is done creatively. First, we're below with Indiana as he places the lid on the crate and looks up toward the top entrance; it then cuts to the entrance POV, and now we're looking down as the tied-up crate is being lifted. The jump in time between these two shots is transitioned using a type of match cut. Absolutely no mistakes regarding these two consecutive shots.
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