Continuity mistake: Gillis enters Norma's bedroom and she is crying, saying she's got a gun. In the close-up she raises her head but a frame later, from a different angle, it's resting on the pillow.
Sacha
3rd Feb 2011
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
30th Jan 2011
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Continuity mistake: When Norma tells Gillis that "movies got smaller", the angle has changed from a wide to a close-up. After her line it cuts back to the wide angle. The position of her head doesn't match between these two.
5th May 2006
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Continuity mistake: Desmond throws a bunch of papers tied up with a string at Gillis. Shot changes to him catching them and the bundle is totally different.
5th May 2006
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Continuity mistake: Gillis is lying on his bed with the script pages all over the bed. Look closely and you'll see that they're all copies of the same page.
4th May 2006
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Continuity mistake: Gillis steps out of the pool, dries himself and then Norma Desmond helps him dry again. When the shot changes, his face is totally wet again.
4th May 2006
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Continuity mistake: When Gillis enters Schwab's pharmacy, the wide shot for the exterior shows a man and a woman on the left of the entrance. In inside shots they are gone. When Gillis steps outside, the prior exterior shot is used and the man and woman appear again.
4th May 2006
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Visible crew/equipment: Lightning equipment is reflected in Norma Desmond's glasses while she and Gillis are in the car, out on the road.
4th May 2006
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Visible crew/equipment: Lightning equipment is reflected in Norma Desmond's glasses when she is drying Gillis by the pool. (00:55:30)
28th Apr 2006
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Visible crew/equipment: When Gillis parks his car in Desmond's garage the crew and the 3 stage lights are reflected on the car.
28th Apr 2006
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Continuity mistake: When Gillis is seen floating in the pool, a photographer on the left kneels down twice to take the picture: First in the wide shot, and a second later in the closer shot.
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