Mistakes in Movies

[jimv]

Lenny & I were starting to talk about "movie mistakes" on the anachrocism thread.  Well, let's do right here:

What was the big mistake made at the end of "Gunga Din" when the three sergeants were fighting on the temple parapet?

What was the mistake with flowers in Desk Set?"

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[St Marys]

No idea, but one real whopper was in one of my favourite films, Field of Dreams, where Shoeless Joe is right-handed, when he was a lefty.  Same in Eight Men Out.   Another is the film Zulu, the thin red line was portrayed as a Welsh regiment when it was, in fact, an English one.

[LennG]

 I'll Take a shot at the Gunga Din one. Don't know if this is what you were referring to, but our three heroes are up on the roof when Din sounds the alarm. The order is given to behead Fairbanks and McLaglen , who are bound and gagged.  But Cary saves the day by shooting the Thuggee, and immediately the two hero's who were bound and gagged are no longer bound and gagged. Amazing and Houdini wasn't even there.


 At the very end of the movie, when they are eulogizing Din's body, the colonel salutes the body. Too bad he salutes the way an American officer would, with palm down. he was a British officer and the correct salute should have been the way Din did it immediately after, palm up.

Alas, still a great movie.

[weeze]

can we include tv shows? on 'happy days" theres a pinball machine in arnolds. if i remember there was a episode where everyone was upset because the pinball machine was changed out. its a bally from the 70s in all the episodes. theres also a 70s pin in the arcade in the movie"american graffitti".   

[LennG]

 OK Jim, since we were on High Noon, let's see if you know this one. Rewatch the ending when Grace Kelly hits Miller in the face, and then he is shot by Cooper. There are TWO mistakes right after that. Can you spot them??

[weeze]

oh and this is just kind of "in general". most of us know that in the civil war there were very few repeating rifles. i believe at the time of very very shortly there after the henry repeating rifle was invented. now they didnt make a real lot of henrys but the design was a real winner. so the winchester company bought the rights to it and thats where the "winchester" came into preduction on a large scale. sold them by the thosands. but jeeze ive seen countless movies with people using colts' "peacemaker" handguns and winchester repeating rifles wayyyyyy before the civil war.

[LennG]

Weeze

 There are just so many movies that use whatever the prop department has available, regardless if it was even invented yet.

There was a scene in Casablanca where Bogey is talking about some guns he used, but the defense department didn't want he Germans to know about these guns, so they were changed to something else.


And, speaking of Casablanca, there were many 'goofs' making this movie, bottles that were filled were suddenly half empty, only to be full again in another shot, cigarettes that were lit, then out, then lit again, drinking glasses on one side, then another and the list could go on.

In the opening scenes of Casablanca, we see the busy streets of this city, with shops and such and then we see Rick's Cafe amid these shops. But later in the movie something happened to this--????

When Rick and Elsa were in Paris and Rick was supposed to meet her at the train station, he and Sam waited in a pouring rain. When Rick reads the note from Elsa, the note dissolved from the rain, yet when we next see Rick at the train doorway, he is as dry as a bone.  Movie magic???


Now, watch this clip and see what 'goofs' can be seen.

The Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship - Casablanca (6/6) Movie CLIP (1942) HD

[giantsguy]

Ok, here's one.  A Few Good Men.   At the end, where Nicholson is being held by the MP's his neck tie is perfectly straight; in the next second, he turns around to address the Judge and his tie is all discheveled under his collar; the next second, he's turned around again to yell at Tom Cruise and his tie is perfectly straight again.  Someone wasn't paying attention to the daily's.

[jimv]

There's a bigger blunder than that on in Gunga Din, Lenny.  BEFORE the cannons start firing at the temple, there's rubble around.  My favorite movie.

In the Casablanca scene, the police drive up in their own big open car but drive away in Strasser's.  Also, there's a third car that suddenly isn't there any longer.

You haven't answered my question about Desk Set.

weeze, referring to the Henry rifle, in Comancheros, set in the 1850s, Wayne & the Texacs Rangers are trying to stop the selling of them to the Comanches.  Hmmmm.

[jimv]

TCM just played "My Favoraite Year."  It's a movie I have & I've watched many times.  I watched the end of it and there's a big error in that.  In the fight onstage, Swann shreds the clothes on one of the gangsters with his sword.  BUT, later in the fight, that same gangster has his clothes intact.

[LennG]

 Never liked My favorite Year. For some reason, I never was able to get into that movie.

As for the Casablanca scene, the police arrive in their own car and put Strasser's body in their car. When they leave, a couple of policemen take Strasser's car also. As for the third car, it is there, only the angle of the camera prevents you from seeing it.
  Watch the scene again and watch the uniform of Major Strasser very carefully.

I really wouldn't know what was wrong with Desk Set as I haven't seen that movie in quite some time.

[LennG]

Ok, here's one.  A Few Good Men.   At the end, where Nicholson is being held by the MP's his neck tie is perfectly straight; in the next second, he turns around to address the Judge and his tie is all discheveled under his collar; the next second, he's turned around again to yell at Tom Cruise and his tie is perfectly straight again.  Someone wasn't paying attention to the daily's.

Never noticed that before George. But those are the type of things that usually go unnoticed until the public starts finding all these things.

[LennG]

Jim

 Did you get the other mistakes from High Noon??

[jimv]

Not yet, Lenny.

In Desk Set, KH gets a large bouquet of WHITE flowers from Gig Young.  Then, as she's carrying them out of the building, they're RED!

One of the reasons I like My Favorite Year so much is that it occurs during September 1954, the month Marie & I were married.

[weeze]

900 henrys were the first production run in 1862. now remember these shot a one piece bullet cartridge that was not in production anywhere else.
. so even if the war dept adopted them as standard issue the war wouldve been over before they couldve been used by the union forces due to the restrictions of production. i imagine for the most part those were made piece by piece.
 so 1850? no way.