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Mickey Richaud

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Was watching You Only Live Twice last night - for the umpteenth time - and noticed a few... um... inconsistencies.

In a couple of the scenes where Aki is "driving" that gorgeous Toyota 2000GT:

- The speedometer and tach are sitting on zero.
- When she's driving Bond to meet with "Tiger", in one scene she's in the left-hand seat; the car is right-hand drive.

I'd seen these two before, but last night I noticed that when they're being chased by the bad guys, who end up getting a "lift" from a helicopter, the shot of Bond from the rear first shows the windshield without a vertical brace rod (like an MGB has), but in shots a few seconds later there is one. Different mirror, too.

When I pointed these egregious mistakes out to my bride, she was less than impressed. I need a life!
 
It's almost a hobby for me to look for those kinds editorial mistakes. In the same bond movie, there is a scene where Ernst Blofeld (Donald Pleasence) is in the "Command Center" sitting in a chair. He has just summoned James Bond (masquerading as an astronaut) to the Control Room. In one scene we see Blofeld from the back, sitting in his high-backed chair, petting his trademark cat. YOu can see the top of "Blofeld's" head, which from the back is clearly full of hair. Then cut to Blofeld leaning forward in his chair to greet Bond, sans hair.

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In the movie "Mr Smith Goes to Washington" there is a scene where "Jim Taylor" is in an office plotting his next move to take down the young Senator. Someone hands him a phone and he takes it and starts to talk. Then he moves to his desk and sits down. Cut to a closeup of Jim Taylor at his desk talking on the phone. Somewhere between being handed the phone and sitting at his desk, Taylor manages to change into a completely different neck tie.
 
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You need a life, too, Boss!
 
Once you start noticing things like that it's hard to stop. Was watching a TV show a couple weeks ago and it was obvious one scene in a bar was made from several takes as when they switched back and forth between the two the amounts in the glasses on the table kept going from empty to full. No one thought to refill the glasses for each take I guess.
 
Been doing that stuff for decades.
To me, the best is the war movies with aircraft.
Load up on a C-47 on the ramp, roll out in a B-25, shown airborne in a B-17, approach in a B-29, taxi up in a C-46......
 
I have fun with old Westerns. Just how many times is he gonna jack a shell into the chamber of that Winchester before he fires it?
Or watch some of the current reality shows about building cars or bikes. The progress on the project jumps backward and forward to get the sound bites in the order they want to construct the story in.
 
Remember the John Wayne movie with Dean Martin as the drunk Sheriff? Rio Brave, wasn't it? Wayne has a cats on, keeps changing side to side, the end of the movie, they're walking down the street, Wayne turns to Martin and says something like "which side is the cast on?"
 
Hehehehe.. that just makes me think of Marty Feldman in Young Frankenstien. "Wasn't that hump on the other side?"
 
Five hubcaps fall off the Chrysler in the "Bullitt" chase scene...
 
DrEntropy said:
Five hubcaps fall off the Chrysler in the "Bullitt" chase scene...
Click to expand...

Count how many times Steve McQueen passes the same green VW Beatle..... I count four times!

 
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In the movie, Mr Smith Goes to Washington (If I had to pick just one favorite movie of all time, this would be it) there are lots of little editorial inconsistencies. For example, there is a scene where Big Jim Taylor is talking to the Senator, when a phone call comes in. He is handed the phone, then walks to his desk to sit down and talk. Between the time the call first comes in to the point where he sits down, his necktie design has magically changed. Both below pictures are from the same sequence:

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Then there is the Movie, "The Core" with Hillary Swank. There is a scene in Trafalgar Square where a bunch of birds have lost the ability to navigate due to the Earth's core ceasing to rotate. In one part, hundreds of birds are smashing into a department store window. If you stop frame at exactly the right place you can see that one of the computer-generated "birds" is actually - a trout?

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"He's" a little $hitzu!

I was watching the "Dead Guest: episode of Fawlty Towers and there is a scene where a guest has a $hitzu dog on he lap. The Major asks what sort of dog it is and she says (while holding the dog with full undercarriage exposed), "He's a little $hitzu." Except the "he" is clearly a she.
 
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