Continuity mistake: Linnet is enraged because apparently Salome Otterbourne featured her in her fiction book and equated her to "a nymphomaniacal baboon." Nonsense aside, she gets up holding the book. Angela Lansbury is looking at her, left hand upturned. Cut, and she is staring at her with both hands in her lap, downturned. (00:35:35)
Sammo
21st Feb 2022
Death on the Nile (1978)
21st Feb 2022
Death on the Nile (1978)
Continuity mistake: Mrs. Salome Otterbourne sits next to Linnet. Linnet is holding an object between her hands; when Salome says that writers can get flowery in their speech, Linnet replies drily, but the hands changed also position. They were at the same level in the first shot, they are one on top of the other in the follow-up. (00:35:00)
21st Feb 2022
Death on the Nile (1978)
Continuity mistake: Bowers and Van Schuyler retire in the cabin leaving Linnet behind them. The deck is dusky, but in the reverse angle that follows, there she is, on the fully sunlit deck. (00:34:30)
21st Feb 2022
Death on the Nile (1978)
Continuity mistake: During the conversation when Bette Davis' character is introduced to Lois Chiles', the background changes inconsistently between shots. (00:32:40)
21st Feb 2022
Death on the Nile (1978)
Continuity mistake: In the first conversation between Linnet and Mrs. Van Schuyler, Bette Davis' hands are positioned differently depending on the camera angle - either the right hand or the left hand on top of the other. (00:33:00)
21st Feb 2022
Death on the Nile (1978)
Continuity mistake: Simon and Linnet regain their wits after the unexpected encounter with Jackie on top of the pyramid of all places. They make out, and Linnet's hair changes radically position depending on the camera angle throughout the whole snogging. (00:14:35)
21st Feb 2022
Death on the Nile (1978)
Continuity mistake: When Simon frees the horse's reins from under the stone, the saddle blanket all of a sudden folds between shots. (00:13:25)
21st Feb 2022
Death on the Nile (1978)
Continuity mistake: On the top of the pyramid, Linnet whispers "Silly" to Simon's question about her happiness, and she holds him close. Her thumb is on display at the side of his bicep, but at the cut it's on the part of the arm that faces her. (00:12:20)
21st Feb 2022
Death on the Nile (1978)
Continuity mistake: In the introduction of her character, Bowers tells Mrs. Van Schuyler "What do I care" to her threat. She sits straight, with the cigarette hand slightly below chin level. In the wide angle she sits back, with the cigarette hand resulting at a higher position. (00:09:45)
21st Feb 2022
Death on the Nile (1978)
Continuity mistake: When Jackie tells Linnet that she has a favour to ask, she holds the box at different height and tilt during the conversation, and the position of her fingers on it changes as well. (00:05:40)
21st Feb 2022
Death on the Nile (1978)
Continuity mistake: When the butler tells Linnet Ridgeway that the architect isn't there yet, she turns towards him dramatically in the first shot, and in the following she again turns towards him. (00:04:30)
21st Feb 2022
Kindaichi shônen no jiken bo (1997)
Young Kidaichi's Murder: File 4 - S2-E4
Factual error: The bittersweet ending is powerful from a dramatic point of view, but also impossible, because law (in Japan, at least) explicitly forbids organs coming from suicide victims to go to their family members, to prevent behaviour exactly like the one displayed here.
21st Feb 2022
Kindaichi shônen no jiken bo (1997)
Young Kidaichi's Murder: File 4 - S2-E4
Continuity mistake: When Itsuki retrieves the floppy disk and shows it to the other people in the room, in the first shot the fingertip is on the plastic edge, in the second it's by the metal shutter. The color is off, since a few parts that are plastic are colored like metal. (00:05:00)
21st Feb 2022
Kindaichi shônen no jiken bo (1997)
Young Kidaichi's Murder: File 3 - S2-E3
Continuity mistake: The policeman's bandages join at the bottom in the first shot when they are visible (when he's behind the Nagano inspector), but join in the middle in the other shots. (00:09:40)
21st Feb 2022
Kindaichi shônen no jiken bo (1997)
Young Kidaichi's Murder: File 3 - S2-E3
Continuity mistake: When Hajime is looking at the photo of the crime scene, the outline of the body is correct when it comes to the arms position, but the torso is straight, when it was very much bent in the first episode. (00:08:55)
21st Feb 2022
Kindaichi shônen no jiken bo (1997)
Young Kidaichi's Murder: File 3 - S2-E3
Continuity mistake: Kindaichi uses his hands to free the policeman; his hands happen to be at different height in the reverse shot. (00:04:45)
21st Feb 2022
Kindaichi shônen no jiken bo (1997)
Young Kidaichi's Murder: File 3 - S2-E3
Continuity mistake: Kindaichi's head peeks from the corner of the window at different levels when he spots the silly policeman getting stuck. (00:04:35)
21st Feb 2022
Kindaichi shônen no jiken bo (1997)
Young Kidaichi's Murder: File 3 - S2-E3
Continuity mistake: Kindaichi is looking at the pictures he laid out on the train's floor. When we see the wide shot with all the pictures, they don't match any of the closer angle. (00:03:40)
21st Feb 2022
Ghostbusters (1984)
Revealing mistake: During the montage of the Ghostbusters starting the business, there's a shot (the one immediately following the Larry King cameo), where the trio are running down a street. Many people are staring at the camera; it may seem fine since the Ghostbusters are running towards the camera, and they are celebrities so it could be argued that the people are looking at them, not at the camera. Look at the guys to the left though; they are looking past them at the camera and one of them even quickly fixes his hair. (00:40:05)
21st Feb 2022
Ghostbusters (1984)
Revealing mistake: In the montage showing the Ghostbusters' rise to success, the body of the USA Today article has nothing to do at all with them, and in fact it is a copy/paste real life article that talks about Geoffrey Faux, economist. A faux article, the prop guy must have had a laugh with that. (00:39:30)
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