It'd be easier to name that which was not mistaken about this venture.
Posted on 01/24/2006 11:50:32 AM PST by GermanBusiness
Let's trade some less "political" Hollywood mistakes. I can think of a few:
1) In the film "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," the final shootout happens in a town with lots of trees. But the real San Vincentes in Bolivia is way above the treeline. And, whoever those 2 Americans were, they killed themselves after they were wounded (at least according to those who say they found the bodies).
2) a) In the movie "Patton"...Patton says "I read your book!" after he beats Rommel in command of a tank battle. But Rommel had never written a book on armor battles, only on infantry tactics. In the reflection of his binoculars (which say "Made in Japan") you see the film crew. The tanks before him are all 1950s models.
b) The "poem for good weather" was not written during the Battle of the Bulge and its icy conditions...it was written on December 11th, 1944 because of the rainy conditions that preceded the German attack and worse weather.
3) In the movie, "The Longest Day", the two German pilots strafe the Canadians on Juno Beach...but then the planes overshoot the actors on the beach below and you see there aren't even any obstacles or other props beyond a certain point. You also see afternoon shadows during the Omaha landing scenes. The sun sets over the ocean...so you see shadows coming inland. Not convincing to someone who has been to Coleville sur Mer.
The German officer who detects the invasion fleet with his binoculars...has "made in Germany" on his binoculars. Nice touch.
You also see the same glider landing three times (the same call letters on the glider). The Pegasus Bridge was not located on the Orne River as the movie subtitles so "helpfully" suggest. Also, the Outreham Casino had already been torn down by the Germans in order for them to build a better bunker in its place in real life. The film had everyone fighting over the casino.
The American soldier who gets killed by a bolt action German rifle (which makes a sound like the 'friend not foe' code)...dies from a rate of fire that could not come from a bolt action rifle.
4) In the movie "Casablanca" everyone knows the famous scene where Bogie gets all wet while waiting for his woman in vain at the train station. But then he gets on the train and he is instantly all dry. This is actually an easy movie to find goofs in, as it was made so quickly. The lighthouse revolves at an uneven pace, for instance, when people standing outside of Rick's are talking (due to edits in the film). Major Strasser, the gestapo man, is always wearing a Luftwaffe uniform. The band starts playing the "Marseillaise" before they can put their lips to the trumpets. Nice trick.
5) In the new "War of the Worlds", the family drives up the east side of the Hudson...so would have had no need to cross the Hudson to continue on to Boston. You see the technician at the smoke machine during the ferry boat scene.
6) In "Braveheart"...when the wife is killed...you see a white 1990s SUV in the background. In real life, Marian was killed with her servants after Wallace visited her and then escaped when the building was surrounded on 3 sides. I'll never understand why the Battle of Stirling Bridge was not fought on a bridge in the movie. It was in real life. In the execution scene, you can tell the filming went on all day because the shadows switch from morning to afternoon. Wallace never sacked York of course. And there are far too many Nikes and jeans seen in the battle scenes.
This isn't whorellywierd but in the original American release of Godzilla, the Big Guy picks up a rail car in his mouth. The shot from inside the car shows dust falling from the ceiling. The Japanese must not have taken much pride in their railway cars.
Another one I like is Apollo 13. During the launch, there are multiple views of the first stage engines. What I'd like to know is, what's keeping the Saturn V launch vehicle from falling through the opening of the pad. The real pads had mounts that looked like inverted 30-60 triangles and those four mounts took the entire load of the vehicle.
"Then, as it lands on its left side with the wheel hub skidding in the sand, they used the sound effect of a car skidding on pavement."
It's amazing how the same sound came from the Gereral Lee in "Dukes of Hazzard" TV series when they were on dirt roads.
I heard that the director of "The Godfather" publicly apologized for letting those two hippies into the film. I also heard that the causeway on which Sonny dies hadn't yet had its name changed to what it was in the film. The building where Michael protects his father on a stretcher has a notice saying the NYC Fire Commissioner is the one that existed in 1970 when the film was made.
Regarding "Titanic":
From MovieMistakes.com: The lake that Jack told Rose he went ice fishing on when she was threatening to jump is Lake Wissota, a man-made lake in Wisconsin near Chippewa Falls (where Jack grew up). The lake was only filled with water in 1918 when a power company built a dam on the Chippewa River, six years after the Titanic sank.
Factual error from the same site: When Rose is arriving in New York half asleep, she looks at the Statue of Liberty, which is the same colour as now (green). But if you visit the statue of liberty, you'll find a plate telling you that the original color was brown, and it took over 35 years for it to change colour. The statue of liberty was placed there in 1886, so in 1912 it should have still been partly brown. Also, the flame was replaced in 1986 (for its 100th anniversary) with a gold flame. The film shows the Statue holding a torch with a gold flame, not the original.
Yep,
right up there with Tony Curtis' line in the movie, 'The Vikings'...."Yonda lies da castle of me fadda."
It'd be easier to name that which was not mistaken about this venture.
Muleteam1
I know it's a bad western when I can see zippers in the dresses and tell that a fake hairpiece was slapped on the back of a starlets beehive hairdoo.
Knight Rider, also.
Death Wish: Frank Gardenia is interviewing a mugging victim who was rescued by Charles Bronson. In the shots where Gardenia faces the camera, the victim is wearing a hat. In the shots showing the victim's face, he isn't wearing a hat.
My favorite: In one of the street scenes in "Gone With the Wind", you can see a light bulb in one of the gas street lamps in the foreground...
This isn't movie mistake, but it is a famous piece of soap opera legend. Back in the early seventies (I think), on the soap opera All My Children, the oldest son of the characters Jack and Ruth Martin went upstairs to his room to wax his skis and was never seen again.
Wasn't it on that same show that one character discovered that he had been sterile all his life. Which got him to wondering why his son bore a family resemblance. Only to discover that his brother had been bopping his wife.
Probably, but that happens on every soap opera...
At the end of 'The Professional,' Natalie Portman takes the Roosevelt Island tram to Wildwood, NJ. I still haven't figured that one out.
It's a UN team. The guy of whom you speak is part of the Canadian contingent. There are also Russians and Germans who have had a part in the show.
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