Willow

Willow (1988)

56 mistakes - chronological order

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Continuity mistake: On the cart, Madmartigan is face-up with a baddie on top of him. Madmartigan punches him with his right fist so the baddie should fall backwards or to the left. However, shot changes and not only is Madmartigan magically standing up, but the baddie is falling to the right, as if the punch came from a totally different position.

Sacha

Revealing mistake: Willow kills the walking cauldron (a stop-motion superimposed image) with a farmer's fork, but he's very obviously just mimicking and the fork is not pinching the cauldron at all.

Sacha

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Continuity mistake: When Willow burns a troll and it transforms into a blob of raw-sticky-flesh with two heads sticking out, he kicks it and in a mere frame it becomes a brownish ball that looks like a roasted turkey.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: After Elora and Willow's shield crashes inside the house, a man on the left walks towards the entrance and stops. A shot later he is a couple meters away repeating the previous walk.

Sacha

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Continuity mistake: When Fin gives Willow the book of magic, the people around rearrange themselves and come much closer together when the shot changes.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Kaiya is bathing Elora, the boy is toying with a necklace, hands raised. A shot later they're lowered and the necklace is gone.

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Continuity mistake: When Bavmorda lies on the floor after being spun around by Fin Raziel, her right arm changes position 3 times between shots.

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Continuity mistake: When Fin Raziel enters Madmardigan and Willow's cage, marks on the snow inside suddenly appear between shots.

Sacha

Revealing mistake: Whenever Rool and Franjean have been blue-screened into the movie, the ground does not react to their movements. This is particularly noticeable when they are standing by the base of a tree, surrounded with dirt and pebbles, and when the entire group of brownies are dragging Willow and Meegosh through the dirt.

Phaneron

Continuity mistake: When Elora is put on the cradle of branches in the river, two big branches in front of her swap from straight to fallen between angles.

Sacha

Revealing mistake: During a battle at the castle where a troll turns into a huge 2-headed monster, Willow charges with a sword. However, the sword wobbles; it's a rubber sword.

Willow: What are you doing?
Madmartigan: I found some blackroot. She loves it.
Willow: Blackroot? I am the father of two children and you never, ever give a baby blackroot.
Madmartigan: Well my mother raised us on blackroot. It's good for you. Puts hair on your chest. Doesn't it, Sticks?
Willow: Her name is not Sticks. She's Elora Danan, the future empress of Tir Asleen and the last thing she's gonna want is a hairy chest.

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Trivia: Horsemaster and stuntman Greg Powell appears in person in a small role, namely as the burly redbearded Nockmaar soldier at Raziel's Lake who roughs up Madmartigan.

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Question: Why did Queen Bavmorda need a ritual to get rid of the child? Why didn't she simply kill the baby on the spot?

Answer: Bavmorda's ritual was the Ritual of Obliteration - a spell that is used to destroy a living spirit's essence or soul. Presuambly if she'd just killed Elora, the soul would have been later reborn into another baby.

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