Time Bandits

Correction: The minotaur was a mythical beast, half-human half-bull. The person that King Agamemnon is fighting with is not the minotaur, rather he is a warrior that wears a bull's head as headgear. The camera shows a wide shot of the warrior lying on the dead on ground after Agamemnon has removed the bull's head and placed it on his saddle. Also Theseus fought the Minotaru in the labyrinth of King Minos of Crete, not out in the middle of a desert.

Correction: And Agamemnon was played by Sean Connery of James Bond fame. Reproducing the credits of the film is not trivia.

Corrected entry: The "invisible" barrier shown in the film is, in fact, very visible indeed; as the scene on it doesn't line up with what's actually behind it.

Correction: Since the barrier is magical, it could very well have been 'programmed' to create an illusion of a vast wasteland beyond it to discourage unwitting wanderers from going any further in this direction, or drawing their attention to the dark fortress in the first place. The barrier itself seems to serve only as a backup against too curious or too persistent travellers who want to investigate whatever they have run into.

Corrected entry: When Kevin and the dwarves are on the Titanic, the camera shows a close-up shot of a lifesaver hanging on the ship's deck. The lifesaver reads "S.S. Titanic". Being a British ship, the lifesavers on the Titanic should actually be labeled "R.M.S. Titanic".

Correction: All of Titanic's lifeboats were labelled "S.S. Titanic". At the Merseyside Maritime Museum you can see a lifeboat name plate that confirms this. http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/maritime/collections/liners/titanic/nameplate.aspx If the lifeboats were labelled "S.S.", it's only likely that the life preservers read the same. The reason for this is that the Titanic was both an S.S. (Steam Ship) and occasionally an RMS (Royal Mail Ship). She would only have the second designation when carrying British mail, which would not necessarily be true for every voyage she ever made. Labelling the boats and preservers with the "S.S." monicker would be accurate no matter what the purpose for her trip was.

Twotall

You are both wrong, though the posting is correct. The life preservers were labelled "TITANIC" at the top and "LONDON" at the bottom. Some had 19 to the left and 12 to the right, some had small black stars instead of numbers. None were labelled "SS" or "RMS".

Factual error: When the roast ox is cut in half by the swordsman, fruits spill out which were totally unknown to the ancient Greeks - most notably pineapples, mangoes and papayas. None of these fruits were available to Europeans for another 3,500 years when they were discovered in South America and the South Pacific. (And Greek explorers did NOT discover them independently, nor did they trade with anyone who did.). (00:54:45)

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Supreme Being: Oh, I do hate appearing that way, it's an entirely noisy manifestation. Still, rather expected of one, I suppose.

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Trivia: Throughout the film there are several references to a character named Horseflesh, (such as "Horseflesh would never get us into this mess"). Despite the character being credited at the end of the movie he's never properly shown onscreen. There's a paragraph devoted to him in the published "Time Bandits" screenplay: "The trouble is quite frankly that if Horseflesh had been in it he would have made seven dwarves, and we'd have libel suits from Disney and all sorts of things. But we liked the name, so he remains the mystery dwarf." According to the interview with Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam on the extras DVD (produced in 2002), Terry Gilliam states that Horseflesh is the dwarf seen with Evil, though it isn't mentioned who he is; in the original script he had quite a few lines, but they were cut, eg "The map! Evil one, the very map I promised you, is yours" (from script excerpt shown on DVD).

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Answer: None of them appeared in Time Bandits, but all four have worked with director Terry Gilliam (Pitt and Stowe in Twelve Monkeys, Plummer and Ruehl in The Fisher King) - presumably their interviews were about Gilliam generally. The Supreme Being was played by Sir Ralph Richardson.

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