Dirty Mary Crazy Larry

Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (1974)

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Corrected entry: The Charger explodes twice after crashing into the train.

Correction: Actually, three. Twice at normal speed from different angles, then once in slow motion from a third angle. But this isn't an 'error' as it is not meant to suggest three explosions - just the same one shown from three angles for emotional effect. Deliberate artistic license.

Corrected entry: In the scene where they are leaving the pool hall/bar they crash into another vehicle. Later, that fender is seen in pristine condition.

Correction: No such incident. They leave the bar, get gas, then speed off as a police car spots them. The cop car slips on a fuel spill and crashes as the Charger drives off without hitting anything (1:07:30-1:07:50). Later on (1:12:50-1:13:00), they collide with a red pickup and seriously crush the driver's front fender. It remains damaged this way for the rest of the film.

Corrected entry: Near the beginning of the movie, Larry and his friend are fixing a car. Larry asks Mary, who is sitting on driver's bench, to turn the driving wheel, but she has fallen asleep. Larry wakes her up, and Mary starts to turn the wheel, without knowing that Larry wants her to turn it.

Correction: Not true at all. When she wakes, she grabs the wheel and bobbles it a bit as she clasps her fingers at the top, draping her forearms down the sides of the wheel, then rests her chin on her hands to await instructions. She doesn't turn the wheel 'til asked to by Deke.

Revealing mistake: When the Charger hits the red truck, the truck turns over with the assistance of a 'pipe cannon' (note the sudden eruption of white smoke from under the truck). This device is like a large gun, pointed down that fires a cylindrical wooden 'bullet' at the ground, and the pressure behind it forces one side of the truck upward, causing the flip. Evidence of its use is seen when the passing cop drives away and in the street is a perfectly circular 'dent' in the asphalt with a burn mark surrounding it. (01:12:50 - 01:16:20)

johnrosa

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Suggested correction: A cannon roll uses a large device, usually a metal pipe that is pointed down, but it does not fire a "bullet" wooden or otherwise. It is just the force of the explosive charge focused downwards that causes the cars to roll over.

A cannon roll shoots out a wooden log to flip a vehicle, it's not just shooting out air.

Bishop73

This is just nonsense, a wooden log would be too dangerous to use, would be highly conspicuous on screen, and would take up room inside a vehicle.

Jukka Nurmi

Then you don't know how they use to do car stunts. It does take up room, but even modern methods do. Cars have to be modified heavily and of course it's dangerous, they're flipping a car with a driver inside. Film makers do everything they can to avoid the stunt car from being detected (just the same way they do everything that can to avoid a dummy being detected). Here's a article that talks about car stunts before the pneumatic flipper. Https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a15364815/the-inside-story-of-the-academy-award-winning-car-inversion-device-or-how-to-flip-cars-real-good/.

Bishop73

Bishop73 is right. For example, from Raiders of the Lost Ark: https://www.moviemistakes.com/picture6238.

Jon Sandys

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Larry Rayder: If a man was smart, you know what he'd do right now?
Deke: What?
Larry Rayder: I don't know. I thought maybe you'd know.

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