Continuity mistake: When Eliza is singing 'I could have danced all night' her maids help her put on her nightdress. The sleeve on the left arm is left undone as she enters the bathroom and is washing her face. However, when she exits the bathroom, the sleeve can now be seen tied up.
Continuity mistake: Mr. Doolittle's friends are kicked out of the pub and roll on the floor, which makes the guy on the left's hat fall off. He sits up and crawls to grab it, but a frame later he is sitting up again, though now his hat on.
Continuity mistake: During "Loverly", a man throws lettuces up in the air. The amount on the floor changes between shots.
Continuity mistake: When Higgins shows his notebook to Eliza, his hand disappears in the close-up.
Continuity mistake: When the "Loverly" song is about to start a man in a cart says to take the hats off. In the wide angles he is leaning on the cart, but in the close-ups he is grabbing a bag. This changes back and forth.
Continuity mistake: Higgins leaves with Pickering and Eliza kicks a basket at them, which lands in the middle of a huge empty street. When she kneels down to pick it up, the whole place changes completely, and a curb and market stalls are barely a couple of meters away from her.
Continuity mistake: Higgins, 5 meters away from Eliza, tells her she talks like a bird, to which she replies with a loud cry, then closes her mouth. From a different angle her mouth is open, her head is down and Higgins is standing a couple centimeters away from her.
Continuity mistake: During the first song, Higgins sits by a column and talks to a fruit seller while Pickering's shadow is projected on the column. From a different angle the shadow is gone.
Continuity mistake: After Eliza drops her basket and is kneeling on the curb, from her POV there are cars coming towards her, yet they disappear in the immediate opposite angles.
Continuity mistake: Eliza bumps into a man looking for a taxi and drops her basket three meters behind. When she stands up the basket is on her hand.
Continuity mistake: When the move starts and rain is pouring, a worker uncovers a tarp from a fruit stall, half a second later the tarp is on and he uncovers it again.
Continuity mistake: In the scene where Eliza starts to sing the song "Loverly". She goes "all i want is a room somewhere." and at ". oh wouldn't it be Loverly" she sits down and her apron is halfway between her legs. When she continues the song the angle changes and her apron is now covering both her legs, at her right a man disappears and at her left a woman, at her left a man walks later than in previous angle the sacks behind her change formation and the carriage wheel is now lighted.
Other mistake: When Eliza throws the slippers at Higgins, one bounces off him and falls in the area of the doorway and the other lands in the middle of the hall. One slipper is seen in the hall in two different scenes, then when Higgins goes to pick them up they are both together in the hall.
Answer: Higgins is eccentric and a bit anti-social. He does not always follow social norms and protocol. He somewhat enjoys upsetting his snobbish peers, as well as his mother. He's also highly focused in the moment on passing off Eliza as a high-society lady.
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