Continuity mistake: During the mine cart scene, Indy is sometimes seated on the back, others on the front, with no logic whatsoever, and sometimes between one frame and another.
Sacha
2nd Nov 2012
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
20th Oct 2012
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: When the mine cart is about to stop, Indy's left hand is alternately covered by Willie and Shorty's or not, depending on the angle.
20th Oct 2012
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: When Indie and Willie are about to jump out of the bar's window, there are some cables along the window which disappear when they crash through it.
20th Oct 2010
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: When the three heroes arrive at the village there's not a single bit of grass around. When they leave the place the morning after there's vegetation everywhere.
20th Oct 2010
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: When the heroes leave the village, the shrine where the Indian is standing swaps from having a blue sky to a dark grey one, and smoke from a campfire all over.
17th Oct 2010
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: When Willie and Short get to the bridge there's a big tree on the left. In subsequent shots it's gone.
21st Sep 2010
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: The dancers pick up some red handkerchiefs creating a narrow tunnel for Willie to walk through. A frame later they are spread 15 meters apart and just two dancers are parallel to each other holding the fabric.
20th Sep 2010
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: During the hanging bridge scene, the brown mountain has some white rocks on the right side which sometimes disappear, or even appear on the opposite side as when Mula Ram throws the Thuggee down.
20th Sep 2010
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: A man takes the wooden blocks off of Laoche's plane wheels but disappears in the next angle.
20th Sep 2010
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: The beginning of the bridge scene is really chaotic: Short walks several meters ahead, the wide angle shows he's alone, then a frame later he's several meters back plus with Willie next to him, then it cuts to him and again he's alone.
20th Sep 2010
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: When the Maharajah enters the palace for the first time he is escorted by two guards. A frame later the guards are gone from behind and are already formed along the aisle.
20th Sep 2010
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: In the angle from below where Short falls through the hole on the bridge, there are no ropes hanging off the sides. In all subsequent shots there are many ropes.
20th Sep 2010
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: The movie starts with a guy playing a gong, holding its hammer from the lower part. A frame later his upper hand is holding the hammer from a much higher position.
20th Sep 2010
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: While hanging from the bridge, when the Thuggee flies down, Indy is sometimes in a higher or lower place, depending on the shot.
20th Sep 2010
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: The dozens of balloons next to the gong base suddenly disappear when it falls down.
20th Sep 2010
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: When Short starts to jump on the bridge, the part where he's standing is in the shadows, while the rest is on the sunny side. When he falls through the hole, the whole bridge is shadowy.
20th Sep 2010
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: Before Mola Ram hides through a trap door on the floor, his hat is off except for a very brief moment when it's on.
20th Sep 2010
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: During the fight on the conveyor belt in the mine, the buckets and huge rock used to defeat the bearded giant keep changing positions all the time.
20th Sep 2010
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: When the rickshaw crashes, the sailor jumps out. One second later, from a different angle, he is inside the rickshaw jumping out again.
20th Sep 2010
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Continuity mistake: Short is in the mine pretending to hammer some rocks and a guard whips at him. Short's fringe style is different depending on which angle focuses.
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