Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Continuity mistake: Helena places her mug on the upper middle part of a magazine, where a greenish band with the title is. A shot later, the mug has moved to the left edge of the magazine. (02:19:15)

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Indy horseback rides on the subway platform, the people stand behind the columns. A shot later from the opposite angle, they're all standing in the middle of the platform.

Sacha

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Continuity mistake: When the waiter arrives at the room where the Nazis are, all the papers and books on the table, plus the pencils, change positions between shots.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Renaldo gives instructions on diving, he holds several cables. From the shot from behind, he is grabbing them close to a tape that holds them together. Shot changes and the grip differs, and the tape is gone.

Sacha

Revealing mistake: During the parade, after the red convertible skids, Indy's horse rears. When it turns around, check Indy's face and you'll notice that it's Harrison Ford's stunt.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Helena is doing the magic tricks, Renaldo reaches for the cards with both hands. Shot changes, and he is reaching just with one.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: Before the tuk tuk comes to a stop, a man in a blue djellabah is walking by next to it. When the tuk tuk stops, the man is suddenly 3 meters behind, repeating all previous movements.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: Before Indy jumps on the horse during the parade, a man in a plaid shirt runs away. Shot changes, and he is back in the previous position, yet he is now walking slightly faster.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When the staff member at the college runs away from the bad guys to get help, and is quickly shot in the back by Voller's henchman, she falls forward on the floor, face down. Dead. But a short time later, when Indy discovers her body on the floor, he kneels down to attend to her (and looks at his hand to see her blood there), she is now lying face-up on her back.

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Suggested correction: The scenes take place many seconds later, thus the corpse could have been moved around. Check the furniture around her and you'll notice that she's been moved.

Sacha

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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.

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

Sallah: Give 'em hell, Indiana Jones.

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Trivia: This is the only film in the series in which the Paramount logo does not match-dissolve to a similar shape. The Lucasfilm logo does instead.

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Question: Is it ever explained how Voller managed to survive his encounter with being hit square in the face and falling off the speeding train without a scratch? My thoughts were that he touched the spear of destiny earlier (focused on in a scene) and became immortal, but Indy said it was fake. Plus, Voller dies at the end in 217BC. He also seems to have aged little compared to Indy. Is that a plot point they dropped or forgot about or something?

lionhead

Answer: It was never explained and seems impossible that anyone could survive such an impact. My own thought was the scene was deliberately exaggerated to appear as if Voller was killed in order to fool and then surprise the audience when he later turns up alive. I also thought it looked as if he hadn't aged. Voller may have been much younger than Indy, possibly as much as 25-30 years. When Voller reappears in the 1960s, he looks more like actor Mads Mikkelsen's actual age. The film should have made him look younger at the beginning. There's a lot of "suspension of disbelief" here.

raywest

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