Book Three : Chapter Two
Movie
Goofs
| John Travolta's car in Grease (1978) has his name clearly marked in grease, on the back - "John". Unfortunately his character's name was Danny. |
Tara, the O'Hara family home in Gone With The Wind (1939) is rarely seen
directly from the front. The studio backlot construction was somewhat asymmetric -
the main door is off centre.
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| In the original Tarzan of the Apes (1918) one of the apes wore sneakers. |
In one of Roger Corman's worst celluloid atrocities, The Wasp Woman (1959),
actress Susan Cabot can be seen injecting herself in the arm with a mad scientist's
youth serum. She depresses the plunger, and the serum goes in one side of her arm ...
and can be clearly seen squirting out the other side onto the floor.
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| Bogie's cigarette in Casablance (1942) has a habit of skrinking and then growing again between shots - through the entire movie. |
In Batman (1989), the Flugelheim Museum is spelt two ways. There's an extra 'e'
in the sign next to he tables inside.
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| The daughter in Fatal Attraction (1987) ages rapidly. At one point, mum says she is five, then a little later dad says she is six. |
The most famous goof in Citizen Kane (1941) is also one of the biggest
plot flaws in cinema history. Orson Welles was said to be livid when it was pointed
out to him.
The entire movie is hinged on the search for the meaning of the great Charles Foster Kane's final word - "Rosebud". And yet in the scene in which he utters the magic word and dies, Kane is alone - there is no one there to hear it. |
| In the big crane shot in High Noon (1952), we see the Marshall, the empty streets, and some telephone poles - pretty clever for 1888. |
Continuity was the last thing on the mind of director Leo McCarey as he was
editing the Marx Brothers movie Duck Soup (1933). McCarey went for the
funniest take, regardless.
This is most obvious in the opening reception for Firefly, when Groucho's coat changes from grey with braids, to tails, and then back again. |
| Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) features a cobra in the Middle East excavations. Yet the cobra is a native of Asia. |
Cinema legend insists that there is a pair of pliers visible in the bottom of one
dinosaur scene in the original King Kong (1933). To save the shot, the
animators apparently animated it out of shot, as if it were a snake burrowing underground.
Personally, I'm still looking for it. And while we're on Kong, everybody that's seen the film comments on Kong's change of stature after his ocean voyage. In all the island scenes he's eighteen feet tall (one foot to one inch scale), but once he's reached New York he's twenty-four feet tall. |
In The Sound of Music (1965) look for:
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