Corrected entry: When Ed Rooney presses the phone button to take Ferris' call he says nothing but Ferris speaks right up to ask him to get his sister to get his homework assignments. How did Ferris know Rooney was on the phone?
Leonard Hassen
21st Sep 2004
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
15th Sep 2004
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Corrected entry: In the courtroom scene in the beginning, Andy is convicted and sentenced to two life sentences. Even if Andy was representing himself (it appeared there was no defense lawyer present) the State of Maine still has had a Court of Appeals since 1789, yet it seems like Andy doesn't even care about appealing his case.
Correction: Explained in the book. Andy is in such a funk over the trial and results, as well as his cheating wife, it takes him most of a year to decide he wants to live again. Presumably, he begins making appeals then.
14th Sep 2004
Back to the Future (1985)
Corrected entry: When Marty saved his father from being run over by his grandfather, he had automatically altered the future. Shouldn't he and his siblings have disappeared altogether?
Correction: The timestream, as portrayed in the films, is quite resiliant and resistant to change, which is why Marty doesn't vanish immediately. As time passes in the new configuration, that resilience is overcome and things begin to disappear from the timeline, beginning with his older siblings (who are closer to the point of disruption) and ending with Marty himself. Fortunately Marty is able to get the timeline back onto a course that includes him and his siblings before that happens completely.
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Correction: Ferris would have been put on hold, so was most likely having to listen to music. When Rooney pressed the appropriate phone button, Ferris would be taken off hold - the music would have stopped, so Ferris would know that somebody was now listening - as he'd presumably asked to speak to Rooney, he simply assumed, correctly, that that was who he was speaking to.
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