Plot hole: When Alana is backing up down the hill after running out of gas, she passes a single story house on the left which has an obvious motion detector light on the front of the house that triggers the light to turn on as her truck passes by. Motion detectors of that type were not around in the seventies.
Licorice Pizza (2021)
1 plot hole
Directed by: Paul Thomas Anderson
Starring: Sean Penn, Alana Haim, Cooper Hoffman
Revealing mistake: When Alana is walking toward the students, the hedges are mostly dark green, sheared level across the top, and reach to her elbows. Later (after Gary tells Alana he will take a mirror), the hedges turn mostly yellow and flower-like across the top, are quite uneven, and are as high as her shoulders in spots. (Use of a green screen is apparent). (00:00:40 - 00:01:26)
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Suggested correction: One look at the scene make it apparent this entry is totally incorrect. The bushes look natural. The yellowness is just colour grading. There is no sign of green screen usage whatsoever. It would make no sense for this film, especially if you realise that director PT Anderson is known to be very much against the use of any sort of VFX or green screening.
Trivia: Younger generations may not know this, but "Licorice Pizza" was a famous chain of record stores during the 1970s and 80s. Their slogan for many years was "The tastiest music in town." They went defunct in 1986.
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