Major Screw-Ups In Movies
Major Screw-Ups In Movies
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#0Major Screw-Ups In Movies
Posted: 2/16/05 at 3:00pm
In Hitchcock's STAGE FRIGHT, Eve Gill was born and raised in the UK, yet as played by Jane Wyman has a very strong American Accent.
This, despite the fact, that her parents (as played by Alistair Sim and Sybil Thorndike) have VERY STRONG British ones.
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
BSoBW2
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Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#2re: Major Screw-Ups In Movies
Posted: 2/16/05 at 3:02pmWell, BSoBW2, you may want to rent STAGE FRIGHT and see for yourself... I'll do a Google... there may be something on the Internet about it...
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
#3re: Major Screw-Ups In Movies
Posted: 2/16/05 at 3:03pmEveryone knows she attended American schools for the children of military ex-pats stationed after WWII and was quite the rebellious child. You have to read between the lines, Mary-Ethel!
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Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#4re: Major Screw-Ups In Movies
Posted: 2/16/05 at 3:07pmIn Saks' "Mame", Lucille Ball was cast in the leading role.
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#5re: Major Screw-Ups In Movies
Posted: 2/16/05 at 3:09pmMcHale's Navy starring Tom Arnold.
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Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#6re: Major Screw-Ups In Movies
Posted: 2/16/05 at 3:09pmThat's what I heard, Matt, but I can't believe 8 or 9 years at school would rob a native Brit of her accent--especially, as I posted earlier, given the heavy accents her parents have... I think it's a weak plot device at best... why didn't Hitch just direct Wyman to act it with a British accent or cast someone who could? Just a thought...
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#7re: Major Screw-Ups In Movies
Posted: 2/16/05 at 3:15pmIn THE WIZARD OF OZ, Dorothy's hair appears to be long and straight--except in close-ups, when its short and curly.
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
#8re: Major Screw-Ups In Movies
Posted: 2/16/05 at 3:17pmOne that I noticed recently after watching Practical Magic for the hundreth time....when Nicole Kidmana nd Sandra Bullock are performing a ritual to bring Nicole's dead, abusive boyfriend back to life after having killed him, Nicole is using whipped cream to draw a pentagram across his chest. You can clearly see the pentagram outlined for her to follow along.
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Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#9re: Major Screw-Ups In Movies
Posted: 2/16/05 at 3:32pmIn GONE WITH THE WIND, in one of the scenes where Scarlett is walking down the street in 1860s Atlanta, you can clearly see a light bulb in the gas jet street lamp fixture.
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
#10re: Major Screw-Ups In Movies
Posted: 2/16/05 at 3:39pm
Jurassic Park - The SVU's get wet when it starts raining. The next shot are magically dry. The next shot they're wet again.
Curiously enough, I recently watched the pilot to Logan's Run The Series and it was pretty funny. Basically, it starts to follow the plot of the film and then suddenly takes off into a completely different direction basically forgetting that a film version ever existed. There is a scene where Logan (a very sexy Gregory Harrison) and Jessica get caught in a rainstorm and head for cover in the Capitol Building in DC. They need to build a fire and luckily, there is a box full of money sitting right there! Logan fires his gun at the paper money and they sit to warm themselves at the fire. In the next shot, Jessica's hair is perfectly dry, styled and sprayed in the Farrah-wing that was so trendy in the 24th century and her makeup caked on like the randy little tart that she is.
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Updated On: 2/16/05 at 03:39 PM
#11re: Major Screw-Ups In Movies
Posted: 2/16/05 at 3:43pm
"That's what I heard, Matt, but I can't believe 8 or 9 years at school would rob a native Brit of her accent--especially, as I posted earlier, given the heavy accents her parents have..."
I dunno, I know of an American who was robbed of his accent after going to boarding school in the UK. It's great fun to hear him using regular American terminology and slang.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#12re: Major Screw-Ups In Movies
Posted: 2/16/05 at 3:59pm
For further investigation:
www.movie-mistakes.com
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Updated On: 2/16/05 at 03:59 PM
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#13re: Major Screw-Ups In Movies
Posted: 2/16/05 at 4:00pm
According to THE SOUND OF MUSIC, the von Trapps walked across the border from Salzburg to Switzerland.
If you look at a map, you would see that walking across the Austrian border from Salzburg would take you right into Germany.
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#14re: Major Screw-Ups In Movies
Posted: 2/16/05 at 4:02pmthere are so many mistakes in the wizard of oz... too many to count...
#15re: Major Screw-Ups In Movies
Posted: 2/16/05 at 4:22pm
In Men in Black (the first one), when Will Smith's character presses the button in the car that makes it go upside down, he isn't wearing his seatbelt, and he falls onto the roof of the car. While he's upside down, you see his ankles, only they're the ankles of a white man, which Will Smith obviously is not.
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FabalaCohen
Broadway Star Joined: 10/30/04
#16re: Major Screw-Ups In Movies
Posted: 2/16/05 at 5:04pm
In the theater version of "Fellowship of the Ring," you can see a red car driving in the distance during the cornfield scene with Sam and Frodo. It was digitally removed for the extended DVD release. *cannot confirm as I don't have my video copy...only the extended edition. >.<*
In the same film, Merry and Pippin are spotted in a number of different places AT THE SAME TIME during the birthday party sequence- ie Pippin is seen onstage with the hobbit band, then is shown carrying the birthday cake.
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Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#17re: Major Screw-Ups In Movies
Posted: 2/16/05 at 5:09pmIn THE SOUND OF MUSIC, Maria and the kids visit a market where there's a crate of oranges lableled "Product of Israel" - a country that didn't exist until 1948 - 10 years after the play is set. it should have said "Product of Palestine".
#18re: Major Screw-Ups In Movies
Posted: 2/16/05 at 5:16pmIn Armegeddon when they are driving on the meteor, the come over a hill and there is grass on the ground. (I won't point out all the other scientific flaws in that movie, including having any sort of gravity on a meteor)
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#19re: Major Screw-Ups In Movies
Posted: 2/16/05 at 5:34pmSleepless in Seattle is FILLED with them, but the most notorious is when Meg Ryan follows Tom Hanks, who's on a boat with his son, to the beach, all the while keeping an eye on them from her car. This, my friends, is impossible. The lake where he lives and the beach he goes to are SO far away, and there's no road you could take to follow them.
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#20re: Major Screw-Ups In Movies
Posted: 2/16/05 at 6:14pm
It's so funny... do they think no one who lives in the city will know.
I used to live in DC, and a very common mistake for movies that *take place* in the city is that they go to a building downtown, get in an elevator, and go to the 18th floor. (Deep Impact comes to mind, though not the only one). No building is taller than 12 stories in DC. And that's an apt. building.
Also... in No Way Out with Kevin Costner, they put a subway station in Georgetown... where there isn't one.
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Feodor Sverdlov
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/21/04
#21re: Major Screw-Ups In Movies
Posted: 2/16/05 at 6:26pm
In THE SOUND OF MUSIC, Maria and the kids visit a market where there's a crate of oranges lableled "Product of Israel" - a country that didn't exist until 1948 - 10 years after the play is set. it should have said "Product of Palestine".
That's not true. There is a photo that was taken of them filming the market scene, where the crate of oranges says that, but it is not anywhere in the film.
scooter3843
#22re: Major Screw-Ups In Movies
Posted: 2/16/05 at 6:33pmin clueless, after she hits the car, the bump is magiclly gone.
"At the opening night party, they had clowns on stilts, jugglers, a chocolate fountain, popcorn, hot dogs. [My son] looked at me like I had been holding back. Like, 'This is what you do?' I had to tell him, 'No, no, darling. Opening nights don't usually look like this.' It's usually a dark bar with a bottle of vodka." ?Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's Jan Maxwell
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#23re: Major Screw-Ups In Movies
Posted: 2/16/05 at 9:28pmIn Gettysburg, there is a bulldozer or some other kind of truck in one of the battle scenes.
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MusicMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#24re: Major Screw-Ups In Movies
Posted: 2/16/05 at 11:45pm
In THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH, a tracking shot follows Charlton Heston from behind as he makes his entrance and walks across the circus grounds. A roustabout enountering him yells, "Hiya, Chuck!" Heston's character's name is Brad.
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