Continuity mistake: After the kliegs and generator explode, there is a shot of Belloq and Toht on the altar. Belloq has the ivory rod in a vertical position. In the next shot, the rod is horizontal.
Big Game
23rd Jun 2024
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
23rd Jun 2024
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Continuity mistake: When Indy and his excavation team arrive at the true location of the Well of Souls, we can see that it is on a low hill, just a few meters from the Nazi excavations. However, when it gets dark, we can see that the excavations have disappeared from view and now the Well of Souls appears to be on a considerably high mountain (taking as a reference the illuminated camp on the right of the screen).
23rd Jun 2024
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Continuity mistake: In Hangar 51, the size and position of the text in the Ark's box changes between shots.
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This is not the same mistake as the one you listed. Yours speaks about the style of the box (that changes from vertical planks to horizontal planks). Mine speaks about the size and position of the text.
Mine is about the box and the text "The 'Top Secret' sign is put on the crate across vertically laid planks. A shot later the sign appears slanted." Yours is a duplicate.
23rd Jun 2024
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Continuity mistake: Major Eaton's right hand moves from his ear to his mouth between shots. (00:17:34)
9th Jun 2024
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Other mistake: The Angel of Death attacks the altar and Toht and Dietrich scream because of its revelation, but Belloq, for some reason, doesn't seem to see it. Just before the fire column rises, he's still calm. (01:47:10)
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Suggested correction: If you don't know the reason, perhaps you should ask a question instead of assuming it is a mistake. Belloq studied the ark and probably better predicted what might come out of the ark. He is also looking directly into the ark and is mesmerized by what he is seeing, until eventually he does scream before his head explodes. The other two are terrified at seeing the apparitions.
Actually, it's pretty impossible that Belloq studied the Ark. If he knew what would come out of it, he literally committed suicide by opening and watching the Ark open, which doesn't make sense. He believed during the whole movie that the Ark contained the Ten Commandments tablets, not some kind of ghastly things.
He didn't know what would come out, but it doesn't mean that he, like Indy, expected just 2 stone tablets. He expected power, for him mostly.
9th Jun 2024
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Continuity mistake: When the camera shows the back of the truck, there are two soldiers on each side of the truck, plus the sergeant inside it. As there were seven soldiers and one of them fell off the truck - there's a missing soldier in the scene. (01:25:50)
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