I don’t know why it took McQueen so long to catch them with them stopping five times to put those hubcaps back on.
It was a great movie but I must say “continuity” is a pet peeve of mine. A guy has a glass that’s full, then it’s half full, then it’s full again. Or he lights a cigarette and 10 seconds later it’s burned down to the filter. Or someone in the back ground keeps disappearing then reappearing. I watch for the screw ups
Good Continuity Directors don’t get enough credit. They used to take polaroids to try to remember everything for the next take. Now they have digital cameras. It should be easy.
As for continuity, anyone familiar with SF knows that they would be on one side of the city in one scene then one the other in the next, then on the other in the next and so on...
Did you catch the mistake made by Jerome Cowan in the Maltese Falcon? It’s at 1:40 in this clip. You have to watch the 30 second commercial.
http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/376963/Maltese-Falcon-The-Movie-Clip-Spade-And-Archer.html
He enters the office with a cig in his mouth, removes it with his right hand, then the camera cuts to Bogey. When it cuts back, you can see Cowan has palmed the cigarette, and has another one stuck in the left side of his mouth. Apparently they wanted him smoking with his left hand.
As he walks toward Bogey, he flicks the palmed cigarette to the floor but the camera catches it. Very strange they let that get through.