Continuity mistake: While George W. Bush is walking along with his cabinet in Texas, on his ranch, Dick Cheney goes from walking in back of the group to being up front quickly and mysteriously. (00:25:00 - 00:26:20)
W. (2008)
Directed by: Oliver Stone
Starring: Elizabeth Banks, Josh Brolin, Ioan Gruffudd, Colin Hanks, Toby Jones, Dennis Boutsikaris
Factual error: Towards the end of the movie, George W. Bush is seen walking through the Cross Hall of The White House towards what is in reality The East Room. Behind him we see a large staircase with a plant next to it on the other end of the hall. These should not be there: that is where the door to the State Dining Room really is. In the next shot we see W. coming upstairs from a winding staircase that doesn't exist.
Factual error: In the scene where., we see George Bush's speech writers in the final stage of writing the speech, we see a shot of a man working on a computer. The operating system seen on the computer screen is Mac OSX 10.4 Tiger which was released in 2005. The year this scene happened in as noted at the beginning of the scene is 2003.
Trivia: Christian Bale was originally cast as George W. Bush, but left the production before filming started. Josh Brolin was cast at the last minute instead.
George H. W. Bush: Who do you think you are, a Kennedy? You're a Bush. Act like one.
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