Continuity mistake: When Sharon Stone has neutralised Schwarzenegger in the Mars hotel room, Richter tells her to bring him down in the service elevator. Along comes Melina with a machine gun who rescues him, but a body blocks the elevator door. Richter and his companion are on the ground floor watching the indicator stuck on 6, realise something is up, so they run to the regular elevator doors. But they still come out of the service elevator and discover the bodies.
Total Recall (1990)
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Directed by: Paul Verhoeven
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sharon Stone, Ronny Cox, Michael Ironside, Marshall Bell, Rachel Ticotin, Mel Johnson Jr., Michael Champion
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Question: There is a scene in the movie in which Arnie disguises as a woman to pass the entrance control in Mars. Moments later, the mask he's using starts to malfunction and he has to take it off. When he's doing that, we can see that the man who's playing Quaid is not Arnie but a stunt double. Why did the director choose a stunt double to replace Arnie in a scene that's not risky at all?
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Answer: It's not a stunt double, it's a mannequin (fake head actually) of Arnie, used for the artificial head shot.
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