Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)

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Continuity mistake: Inside the plane, Indy looks at his bleeding wound. Note how shiny and wet it is, as opposed to an instant shot later when it looks dry.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Renaldo is shot in his chest, Helena jolts forward nervously in shock while she grabs a handrail. An instant cut later, she is calmly sitting as if nothing had happened.

Sacha

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Continuity mistake: When Voller grabs the Grafikos tablet from the chest, it's covered in sea snot. When he shows it to Indy, most of the snot is gone. Though a couple of drops dripped while taken out of the chest, the missing amount of moss is really big. This happens in a matter of 2 seconds, before Voller rinses the tablet.

Sacha

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Continuity mistake: When Voller grabs the tablet from the chest, he holds its upper left side. A shot later, he is holding its lower left side. When he shows it to Indy, the grip changes again twice.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When the kid and the sailor are on the boat, watching the sea, the man leans with his hands on the handrail. A shot later, he's leaning on his forearms.

Sacha

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Factual error: When Jones and Shaw rans out of the Hotel back alley in Tanger, there's a modern Scooter moped with 5-spoke plastic wheels.

Factual error: In the prelude scene, when Indy enters the car where a number of German soldiers are having supper, the latter are singing "Lili Marleen", a popular soldier's song in the 1940s. The only problem here is that the song was banned in Nazi Germany from 1942 after its last performer, Lale Andersen, was found to have sympathized with Jews. With common soldiers singing it while a strict officer might burst in among them at any time, it would have meant extremely harsh penalties for them.

Continuity mistake: When Indy grabs the dial, his thumb surrounds its border, touching the carved words on it. When the shot changes, his hand is suddenly on the left side of the dial.

Sacha

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Continuity mistake: On the boat, when Indy lights up the wax block, it is next to the edge of the table, together with the whiskey bottle, lighter, and cork. Two seconds later, the block is on the center of the table and the rest of the objects are on the opposite side they were.

Sacha

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Continuity mistake: On the boat, when the kid hands Helena the dial, she touches it with her right hand. A shot later, her right hand is away and her left arm is leaning towards the dial.

Sacha

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Continuity mistake: When Indy is hanged, the bomb falls downwards slowly. Check the writing on it, and you'll notice that a shot later, the bomb has moved upwards and is repeating the previous movement.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Indy is hanged, the bomb is stuck parallel to the ground. A shot later, it's perpendicular to the ground.

Sacha

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Revealing mistake: When the AA machinegun on the train goes berserk and destroys everything, Indy hides behind some crates. For several shots, Harrison Ford is replaced by a lame CGI, which transforms his head into a videogamish, lifeless face.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: In the tuktuk, Indy tries to snatch the bag from Voller, who grabs it strongly. His left hand changes positions depending on the shot.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: Indy asks the students if they've done the reading. A boy and girl in the front row turn their heads to the right and stare at him. Shot changes and they are looking away and repeating all previous movements.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: Indy's horse gallops past a blue car, and then a white one. Shot changes, and now it's metres behind, riding past the white car again.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: While on top of the train, Basil waves one arm, pleading for the train to stop. The shot changes, and he's waving both arms.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: At the farewell celebration for Indy's retirement, the dean calls for the gift to be presented to him, mentioning it is "a token of our gratitude." There's a cut in the middle of the sentence, and Prof. Plimpton is waving a young student in with his left hand, then the right hand.

Sammo

Sallah: I miss the desert. I miss the sea. I miss waking up every morning wondering what wonderful adventure the new day will bring to us.
Indiana Jones: Those days have... come and gone.
Sallah: Perhaps...perhaps not.

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Trivia: This is the first movie in the Indiana Jones series not directed by Steven Spielberg, nor with a story written by George Lucas.

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Question: Maybe I missed some dialogue, but why exactly did Voller think the fissure they were flying towards would take him to his desired date in 1939? I get that the dial detects fissures in time, but why would he think that particular fissure was the one he needed to travel through?

Phaneron

Answer: There is a bit of dialogue en route to the airport when Voller sets the instrument that says, "the first hand sets the destination," as in the time you want to travel back to. This would make the device completely absurd in principle if true (that's why I wanted to mark it as a plot hole/stupidity). Since it's supposed not to open portals but just detect them, it can't be that there are infinite portals for every moment in time you can choose to go back to (and they even close). The sky, while vast, is not infinite. We then find out that it is a trick since it is set to actually bring you to just one destination, but they don't know it yet.

Sammo

Answer: We're supposed to accept that the dials are pointing to the rift in the sky, which is what makes this plot decision so ridiculous. There's no common reference point (magnetism wouldn't be discovered until and used in compasses for another 2,000 years), and the dial is 2-dimensional. Thus, you could turn your body 90 degrees and aim it down, and there's no indication from the movie that the dial would in any way turn to face the previous rift.

I think, technically, the fact that there's no common reference point is addressed when Voller mentions that the coordinates given are 'Alexandrine coordinates'... which I think might be another anachronism since all I can think it means is the ones used by Ptolemy in his Geography, which was hundreds of years after Archimedes' time. The dial is 2-dimensional, but there are 3 hands. It can be argued that when all 3 align, it does show that the direction you are headed is definitely correct, including the height you are pointing at. I definitely think it's entirely implausible, but the way the unknown mechanism works, attuned to something that does not exist such as time rifts, is kind of a lesser problem. Even if it is supposed to work by some mathematical principle, and then acts as some dowser rod.

Sammo

Not true. The Chinese were using compasses around 200 BC, and Vikings are believed to have had them as well.

Answer: As they approach the rift, all three of the dial's hands are suddenly pointing towards it. If that is no clear indicator, then what is?

Daniel4646

The dial pointing towards it only indicates that they are heading towards the fissure. How does that give Voller any certainty that this is the exact fissure he needs to travel through in order to reach his desired destination, especially considering it ended up not being the one he needed? Were there coordinates in Basil's diary that indicated where the exact fissure would open? I only recall the date of August 20 (?), 1939 being written down.

Phaneron

Only the time is written in the diary (the date you mention is next to August 20, 1969, which would be then supposedly when the finale of the movie takes place). For the coordinates, you need to have the device, which, apparently, allows you also to input with firsthand your desired destination. Voller couldn't know that to concoct his plan, though, since he did not have the diaries at the beginning of the movie.

Sammo

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