Continuity mistake: When Toad General calls for the council's attention and announces that Bowser found the Super Star, note his shirt buttons. Then, when he says that the Kongs will never agree because their mad king doesn't make alliances, Toad General's shirt is backwards, his buttons are on the opposite side. (00:24:55 - 00:25:35)
Revealing mistake: Just as the first credits roll, when the cheerleaders dance, check the African American, Caucasian, and most noticeably, the Asian American people behind the team. They are blatant, creepy-looking, unrealistic CGI characters. (00:01:18)
Factual error: After the successful Trinity test in 1945, people in a crowd are holding small US flags with 50 stars on them (offset rows). At the time there were only 48 states and the flag had 48 stars in even rows. The 50 star flag didn't exist until 1960, after Alaska and Hawaii were made states in 1959.
Continuity mistake: Vanessa approaches Eric and admires his ring while they stand side by side. A shot later, he has turned 90º and is facing her.
Continuity mistake: At the start, when Dog takes his food out of the microwave, two game cartridges (Seaquest and Grand Prix) and two controllers for his Atari 2600 are on his table. When he walks back to the couch, those game cartridges have vanished, and there is only one controller on the table. In the next shot, there are two controllers again, as seen in the TV's reflection. (00:02:20)
Factual error: When driving to meet the Jordans you can see a white car in the distance on the right that is from the 21st century. (04:01:00 - 04:04:00)
Continuity mistake: Scott hugs his daughter and caresses her face while she holds his wrist. From the opposite angle, her hand is gone.
Continuity mistake: When the villains are following Indy through the caves, the old wooden bridge completely breaks and falls apart. However, when they make their escape across the same bridge, it's intact with only a couple of wooden slats broken.
Suggested correction: You can see a goon holding it up when they come back.
The picture you put online to prove it does not prove anything at all. It's a really lousy picture that doesn't serve as any sort of proof because it's too hazy and dark in the picture to see the wooden slats.
Continuity mistake: On the bridge, when Super Hero Darla saves the kittens, on the first shot there are three kittens. A black one with blue eyes and white fur inside his big pointy ears is meowing. A shot later, the two brown kittens have vanished, the black kitten has turned 90º (note the handles of the basket), plus - drum roll - it's a totally different kitten: grey eyes, smaller ears, and full black fur in his ears.
Continuity mistake: When Barry meets his mother at the supermarket, he wipes the tears off his right eye. Shot changes and he's wiping his left eye.
Revealing mistake: Just after Dante says, "There he is, the man of the hour. Roman," we see the bomb crash into 3 vehicles, with the middle one being a blue car. In the first shot, we see the blue car get damaged. In the second shot, we see the blue car is undamaged before it gets damaged again. (00:32:20)
Continuity mistake: During the Venice scenes, Ethan's hair length is always the same, except for scene number 1 where he and the team are on a boat arriving in Venice, and scene number 3 where he and Ilsa are on a balcony. In both these scenes, his hair is very short.
Continuity mistake: After Redmond is killed, when the flashback starts, Leonard's back is to the main door of the cabin. When the flashback is over, his back is to the kitchen.
Continuity mistake: When Miguel is with the pedophile, he is given bread (or something similar) to eat. Shot changes, and the bread is suddenly bitten. The bread's length keeps changing several times between shots.
Continuity mistake: When the Mafia boss dies, he falls next to a fruit stall. A crate falls next to his head, and fruit falls on the floor. When the shot changes, the crate has moved away, and the fruit has vanished.
Continuity mistake: Robert De Niro and Scott Shepherd (who is stood behind De Niro) are at a funeral, with nothing on their heads – but, in the blink of an eye, both of them have a hat on. (01:30:49)
Suggested correction: While this is correct, an argument can be made that since the colour scenes are meant to be subjective and the black and white scenes are meant to be objective, Oppenheimer could have been unintentionally mapping the modern US flag onto this scene.
THGhost
That's a ridiculous stretch with zero evidence, not least as 48 star flags are seen in colour in other scenes. Sometimes a mistake is simply a mistake.
There is evidence, though. Nolan said so himself. Look it up. As for the mistake itself, I'm merely repeating what I've read on Twitter, and this correction was merely a suggestion. Seeing the 48 star flags in other colour scenes still doesn't disprove this theory. It is just a theory though, so no need to shoot it down so hard.
THGhost
He's said subjective in terms of the colour scenes being "first person", and maybe not strictly factual in terms of creating moments between characters and conveying emotion, but nowhere does that stretch to "one random scene happens to feature 50 star flags because Oppenheimer is mapping the modern flag onto it, when nothing like that happens anywhere else in the film."
Meh, take it up with Twitter. I just thought it was interesting, so I posted it here for a different point of view/perspective for others to read. It is most likely bull**** though.
THGhost
The fact that a director realized they had made a mistake and retroactively made up a deus ex machina explanation for it in no way invalidates the mistake. Nice try, Mr. Nolan but this posting is absolutely valid.
While Christopher Nolan's talked about the subjective/objective colour/black and white thing, which is entirely fair and no doubt exactly his intention, I don't think he's actually tried to "excuse" this by using that explanation, that's just other people trying to connect the two things. I'm not sure Nolan has commented on the flag issue in interviews at all.
Precisely, and I was in no way trying to invalidate the original mistake. I just found the whole theory interesting and posted it here. It is rather hilarious that a director with such attention to detail like Nolan would have missed something like this. We shall see if he gets it fixed for the streaming/physical release.
THGhost
It's not fixed in the home video version. However, the behind-the-scenes materials provide a reason for the mistake, in that putting a crowd in the scene was apparently a spur-of-the-moment decision. It's like that in their haste to bring in the crowd, the set decorators bought some modern miniature flags and put them into the scene without anyone realizing the 48/50 discrepancy.
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