NancyFelix

21st Dec 2003

Life is Beautiful (1997)

21st Dec 2003

Life is Beautiful (1997)

Continuity mistake: When the two plain-clothes policemen take Guido from the bookstore Giosuè is sitting at the table with both arms on top. When the camera angle changes his left arm is under the table, but in the next shot both arms are on the table again. (00:58:55)

NancyFelix

21st Dec 2003

Life is Beautiful (1997)

Continuity mistake: After Guido has been escorted from the bookstore by the police his mother-in-law comes to the store. Giosuè picks up a pile of books from the floor with a red book on top, but when the camera angle changes there's a white book on top of the pile. (00:59:25)

NancyFelix

21st Dec 2003

Life is Beautiful (1997)

Life is Beautiful mistake picture

Continuity mistake: When Giosuè is hiding in the small cupboard Guido puts some flowers on top and some of the blossoms hang over the edge. In the next shot they are all lying on the cupboard, but when the camera angle changes they are hanging over again. (01:01:45)

NancyFelix

21st Dec 2003

Life is Beautiful (1997)

21st Dec 2003

Life is Beautiful (1997)

Continuity mistake: The train enters the concentration camp at night, but the prisoners get off in the middle of the day. However, the engine is still puffing steam as if the train had just arrived. (01:08:40)

NancyFelix

21st Dec 2003

Life is Beautiful (1997)

Continuity mistake: When Guido and Giosuè enter the barrack a lot of newcomers have already gone in before them. But when the camera cuts to the old inmates staring at them you see no new prisoners inside the barrack. (01:11:35)

NancyFelix

21st Dec 2003

Life is Beautiful (1997)

Continuity mistake: When Guido and Giosuè enter the barrack there are symmetrical rows of bunk beds on both sides. When Guido returns after his first day of labor there's a shot of the door where the end of the left row of bunk beds isn't visible even though the perspective should include it. (01:11:35 - 01:17:10)

NancyFelix

21st Dec 2003

Life is Beautiful (1997)

Continuity mistake: When Guido and Giosuè speak over the camp's public address system the sun is shining from a cloudless sky. Also when Dora hears them, stops working and walks to the door the sun is in her face. However, when she stands in the door the sunlight is gone, to be back in her face in the following close-up. (01:25:30)

NancyFelix

21st Dec 2003

Life is Beautiful (1997)

Continuity mistake: When Guido pretends to quit the 'game' and walks out of the barrack Giosuè first follows him slowly, then stops. Seen from the back he is standing further back than from the front. (01:31:55)

NancyFelix

21st Dec 2003

Life is Beautiful (1997)

Continuity mistake: When Guido stands in the rain outside the barracks, calling Giosuè, the way the blanket is hanging over his left arm changes from smooth to crumpled between shots. (01:32:00)

NancyFelix

21st Dec 2003

Life is Beautiful (1997)

Continuity mistake: When Giosuè climbs out of the metal box the door is only half open, but when the camera angle changes it's fully open. (01:54:05)

NancyFelix

21st Dec 2003

Life is Beautiful (1997)

21st Dec 2003

Life is Beautiful (1997)

Continuity mistake: Giosuè spots his mama from the tank when they go down a mountain road with rocks left and right, but when he runs over to her he crosses a lush meadow. (01:56:40)

NancyFelix

Continuity mistake: Amaro gets beaten up by Ruben and receives some bruises in his face. A little later, when he meets Amelia in the church, the bruises are gone. (00:57:50)

NancyFelix

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Amelia tries to persuade Amaro to leave town with her, her cardigan covers her dress over the shoulder only partly, but the dress is fully covered from one shot to the next when Amaro stresses the importance of his vocation. (01:14:55)

NancyFelix

Continuity mistake: When Amaro takes the dying Amelia away from the abortion clinic her head keeps changing between an upright position and leaning against his shoulder. (01:43:15)

NancyFelix

21st Dec 2003

Money Train (1995)

Continuity mistake: When Dr. Keener feeds her demented mother the old woman is looking into her daughter's eyes. When the camera angle changes she is looking to the side, then, when it changes back, again into her eyes exactly the same way as before. (00:03:45)

NancyFelix

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