Audio problem: When Hynkel refers to the peace treaty and says "I'll sign it," you can hear the sound quality change abruptly, and when Hynkel is saying "Napoloni the grosse peanut, the cheesy ravioli," his lips are not in sync.
Sacha
17th Apr 2005
The Great Dictator (1940)
17th Apr 2005
The Great Dictator (1940)
Continuity mistake: The barber and Hannah's walk gets interrupted by Hynkel's speech. The barber runs to hide and his hat falls on the street face up. Angle changes to Hannah and when back to the barber the hat is now facing down.
17th Apr 2005
The Great Dictator (1940)
Continuity mistake: The first time the barber enters his shop he leaves his hat and cane in a coat rack. He exits and when he comes back they've disappeared.
17th Apr 2005
The Great Dictator (1940)
Continuity mistake: Inside the train, Napoloni says "I never get out without a red carpet", and then he faces left. A split second later he is facing the opposite side.
17th Apr 2005
The Great Dictator (1940)
Deliberate mistake: The barber is on the roof scarping from the stormtroopers and he falls down face through a window. When the shot changes to the inside of the house where the window is, he is falling on his back.
17th Apr 2005
The Great Dictator (1940)
Continuity mistake: When Chaplin is about to deliver his final speech, there's a bunch of people on the right side, just where the staircase is. When Chaplin is ascending the steps the people disappear.
17th Apr 2005
The Great Dictator (1940)
Continuity mistake: During dinner with Napoloni Hynkel asks fro strawberries. The spoon inside the English mustard moves to the right between one shot and the other.
17th Apr 2005
The Great Dictator (1940)
Continuity mistake: When the train station sequence begins the Bacterian ambassador extends his arm to salute twice.
17th Apr 2005
The Great Dictator (1940)
Continuity mistake: The second time the storm troopers enter the Barber's shop, the "W" in the word "jew" changes from partially visible to partially erased without the barber having touched it (probably because of previous shootings).
16th Apr 2005
The Great Dictator (1940)
Continuity mistake: During the first speech, when we see a back shot of Hynkel the mics on Hynkel's right hand side are closer than they are in the front shots.
16th Apr 2005
The Great Dictator (1940)
Continuity mistake: In the beginning, when Chaplin rescues the German officer and carries him on his shoulder, the officer's bag is first behind Chaplin's head, close to his back. When the angle changes it is now on the front, close to his cheek.
16th Apr 2005
The Great Dictator (1940)
Continuity mistake: In the first sequence in the Ghetto, inside Hanna's house, the man reading the newspaper's left hand swaps from being inside his pocket to holding the newspaper between shots.
16th Apr 2005
The Great Dictator (1940)
Continuity mistake: During the dictator's first speech, after the translator says "His excellency has just referred to the Jewish people", Chaplin crosses his arms and his tie changes from straight to slightly folded around the arms.
16th Apr 2005
The Great Dictator (1940)
Continuity mistake: When in the plane, after the German officer cries "Well loosen it", Chaplin is about to fall off the plane and the angle changes. The officer's white scarf then disappears, or at least stops moving, which is very strange since they're flying.
16th Apr 2005
The Great Dictator (1940)
Continuity mistake: When the plane crashes, Chaplin is sunk in a pool of mud. When the officer talks to him he is covered except for some of his hair, two seconds later he is totally covered and the mud is more liquid.
14th Apr 2005
Men in Black (1997)
Trivia: In many European countries, as in Spain and France, since Dennis Rodman's weirdness isn't that well known, the celebrity mentioned in the last line of the movie as being an alien was changed to Michael Jackson. (01:30:00)
14th Apr 2005
Toy Story 2 (1999)
Continuity mistake: The movie released in Spanish cinemas showed the signs on Al's Toy Barn written in Spanish, but only during the first shots. Moments later they magically change to their original English text.
13th Apr 2005
The Scorpion King (2002)
Continuity mistake: When Balthazar knocks Matathyus down, Matathyus falls face down and his hair gets covered with white bits of dust (sand or whatever). A brief second later, when he stands up, his hair is clean and shinny, but he hasn't had time to clean it, or even made a single move to take the dust away.
9th Apr 2005
Shakespeare in Love (1998)
Continuity mistake: Halfway into the film, Shakespeare is holding Viola's face placing his hands around her jaw, looking closely at her. When the angle is behind Viola, we see that her hair gets caught around his left hand's fingers. The angle changes to a wider side angle and his hand has no hair around, even though he hasn't moved it at all.
31st Mar 2005
Dead Poets Society (1989)
Audio problem: The first time all friends are in the bedroom together Charlie says "Unless you're a genius like Meeks." Meeks replies "He flatters me so I'll help him with Latin." Halfway through this sentence the shot changes to a sideway shot of meek and his mouth isn't moving.
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