War Horse

Continuity mistake: The 'over-the-top' trench scene in War Horse depicts a single soldier ordered to remain behind and shoot those who have retreated. In one shot he is seen standing guard while, a few feet away, a dead soldier lies in the trench being eaten by CGI rats. Cut away and the same shot of him again, the casualty and the rats are gone.

Continuity mistake: When the horse is caught in the barbed wire between the English and German trenches, the English soldier crosses a swampy area to get to the horse. As he crosses the bridge, it is submerged under the water level, but when the shot changes, the bridge is suddenly out of the water, then back in the water in the following shot.

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Factual error: Major Stewart addresses the Indian NCO as "Sergeant Major" and he is so described in the credits. There was no such rank in the British Indian Army. Indian cavalry sergeants were known as Daffadars. More senior Indian cavalry officers held VCO ranks (Jemadar, Risaldar and Risaldar Major) which had no British equivalent. Given the importance of rank and protocol, it is highly unlikely that a British commissioned officer would be unaware of this.

Necrothesp

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