Revealing mistake: During the Hy Brasil sinking sequence you can see a horizontal line in the water in the background, this is the edge of the water tank they used to film this sequence. It's also visible in several shots from the longship.
Erik the Viking (1989)
Directed by: Terry Jones
Starring: John Cleese, Tim Robbins, Mickey Rooney, Terry Jones, Eartha Kitt
Revealing mistake: As Erik falls of the mast of the longship you can see the breakaway panel in the deck that he falls through both as he hits it and as his legs break through the bottom.
King Arnulf: Now, I want you to be absolutely, totally, genuinely honest with me. Did you really, truly, honesty like it?
Erik: ...No.
King Arnulf: They didn't like it! Oh my God! I want to die.
Erik: And you, Sven, aren't you afraid of crossing the Rainbow Bridge to Asgaard?
Sven the Berserk: I will join my grandfather there.
Thorfinn Skullsplitter: He's not in Valhalla! He died of old age.
Erik: Maybe none of us will return.
Snorri the Miserable: Oh, well that's much more sensible than just Thorfin getting killed. Shall we all go and pack now?
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