Major Screw-Ups In Movies

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.

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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...

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

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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...

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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.

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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

For further investigation:

www.movie-mistakes.com

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

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

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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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)

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

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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.