Continuity mistake: While escaping from the boulder, right before the spiderweb scene, Indy runs facing forward and makes a right turn. A shot later from a wide angle he is facing backwards.
Sacha
30th Aug 2019
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
23rd Jan 2017
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Continuity mistake: While Indy is chased while running towards the plane, he is in an open field where Jock the pilot can perfectly see him, but when the angle changes Indy is suddenly next to a forest.
23rd Jan 2017
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Continuity mistake: Belloq grabs the idol from below its ear. When the angle changes he is holding it by the idol's temple.
23rd Jan 2017
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Continuity mistake: After Indy steals the idol, while he is hanging in the well, in the front angle his left leg is bent and already outside, in a quite comfortable and secure position; yet in the angles from behind both legs are inside, hanging loose.
23rd Jan 2017
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Continuity mistake: The huge rock rolls down to ground level, but when the angle changes it's back on a levelled position.
23rd Jan 2017
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Continuity mistake: The position of the door through which Satipo escapes with the idol is inconsistent in every shot, sometimes it's higher, then almost closed, then back to open.
31st Oct 2010
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Continuity mistake: In front of the idol, Indy shows Satipo the trap on the floor. Satipo's head position is different in all 3 shots in barely 2 seconds: First he's looking downwards, then straight, then his head is turned sideways, and then back to straight. (00:08:20)
29th Oct 2010
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Continuity mistake: When the temple collapses, Indy is holding the idol with his right hand against his chest, and the left hand free and arm extended. A frame later, both arms are extended and holding the idol.
28th Oct 2010
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Continuity mistake: The amount of moss behind the idol increases between shots.
28th Oct 2010
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Continuity mistake: When the temple collapses, Satipo is crouching looking at the chaos. Indy starts to run and there's a wide angle of the passage ahead but Satipo is nowhere around. He couldn't have managed to run that distance in half a second.
Suggested correction: He had a couple of seconds to run away from that spot.
28th Oct 2010
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Continuity mistake: After Indy replaces the idol for a bag filled with sand, the position of the bag changes between frames.
27th Oct 2010
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Continuity mistake: The position of the Top Secret sign and the whole text is put on the ark's box across vertically laid planks. A shot later the sign appears slanted across horizontally laid planks. Though it could be argued that there could be a second sign on the opposite side with horizontal planks, when the warehouse guy turns left to store the crate, we get a glimpse of the left side and it's not painted.
27th Oct 2010
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Continuity mistake: During the shooting at the bar, Marion covers her ears to muffle the sound, but a frame later they are around the wall in front.
27th Oct 2010
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Continuity mistake: After the door to the Well of Souls is opened, Indy and Sallah take a sneak peek at the inside, immediately after, from a new angle, Indy sneaks in again.
27th Oct 2010
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Continuity mistake: Indy climbs on a plane's wing, and a German mechanic arrives and asks him what he's doing, raising his left arm and ordering him to approach. A shot later, the arm is down.
27th Oct 2010
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Continuity mistake: In the map room, after Indy has discovered where to put the stick in, the sun rays lights the head and shoulder of a painted figure and the whole body of the figure to the right of it. A frame later the first figure is now completely lit. Too fast a change.
27th Oct 2010
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Continuity mistake: While Indy is in the Well of Souls, Belloq greets him and is standing by one of the four sides of the rectangular hole. A frame later he stands by one of the corners.
27th Oct 2010
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Continuity mistake: From the outside, the sides of the hole to access the map room are in shadows, from the angle inside they are sunny.
27th Oct 2010
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Continuity mistake: The position of the dead monkey and the date next to him changes between the first and second angle.
27th Oct 2010
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Continuity mistake: The morning after Indy makes out with Marion, when he goes to check why the boat engines have stopped, the position of her hands, the wrinkles on the blanket and the dress behind the bed change positions between angles.
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