Major Screw-Ups In Movies

[Mary_Ethel]

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.

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 3:01pm

Hitchcock NEVER makes mistakes...

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 3:02pm

Well, 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...

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 3:03pm

Everyone 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!

[Gothampc]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 3:07pm

In Saks' "Mame", Lucille Ball was cast in the leading role.

[Jacques_Clouseau]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 3:09pm

McHale's Navy starring Tom Arnold.

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 3:09pm

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 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...

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 3:15pm

In THE WIZARD OF OZ, Dorothy's hair appears to be long and straight--except in close-ups, when its short and curly.

[orion59]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 3:17pm

One 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.

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 3:32pm

In 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.

[Mister Matt]

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.

Updated On: 2/16/05 at 03:39 PM

[Taryn]

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]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 3:59pm

For further investigation:

www.movie-mistakes.com

Updated On: 2/16/05 at 03:59 PM

[Mary_Ethel]

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.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 4:02pm

there are so many mistakes in the wizard of oz... too many to count...

[Kimmygonbefamous]

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.

There's mine

[FabalaCohen]

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.

[Jon]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 5:09pm

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".

[umgeoboy]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 5:16pm

In 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)

[ElTico68]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 5:34pm

Sleepless 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.

[ElTico68]

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.

[Feodor Sverdlov]

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.

[zippyjen]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 6:33pm

in clueless, after she hits the car, the bump is magiclly gone.

[BroadwayDiva]

Posted: 2/16/05 at 9:28pm

In Gettysburg, there is a bulldozer or some other kind of truck in one of the battle scenes.

[MusicMan]

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.