Movie Mistakes Take 5
by Jon SandysEdition: Revised
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-03-06
Publisher(s): Virgin Books
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Summary
Ever noticed the stagehand caught on set during the Tin Man's dance in The Wizard of Oz? Or seen the cliff in the middle of the sea in Pirates of the Caribbean? Everyone loves a good movie, but there's nothing we like better than finding a continuity error, a historical inaccuracy or a technical blunder in them. In this completely updated edition, Jon Sandys has included new mistakes from films such as Batman Begins, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,War of the Worlds and King Kong.
Author Biography
Jon Sandys is the creator of the website www.moviemistakes.com, which includes over 40,000 entries from about 4,000 films and get up to 50,000 hits a day.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgements | p. iv |
| About the site and the author | p. v |
| How are mistakes made? | p. 1 |
| How to use this book | p. 3 |
| Widely Held Misconceptions | p. 4 |
| Ultimate Mistakes: the most popular mistakes from www.moviemistakes.com | p. 6 |
| Most Mistake-Filled Films: The Top 10 | p. 8 |
| Lethal Errors: series of films with a series of mistakes | p. 9 |
| Lethal Weapon films | p. 9 |
| Back to the Future films | p. 11 |
| Alien films | p. 13 |
| Star Wars films | p. 16 |
| Indiana Jones films | p. 26 |
| Star Trek films | p. 27 |
| Things That Move Between Takes | p. 32 |
| Now That Was Just Plain Bad | p. 106 |
| We Can See You | p. 109 |
| The Amazing Changing Wardrobe | p. 116 |
| What Was That You Were Saying? | p. 149 |
| Lights, Camera, Action! | p. 160 |
| Sustenance for the Soul | p. 171 |
| Caught Out! | p. 182 |
| The Show Must Go On | p. 208 |
| Daylight Robbery | p. 226 |
| Run That Past Me Again | p. 231 |
| Once More Unto the Breach | p. 255 |
| Blood Stained | p. 268 |
| Let's Swap | p. 286 |
| Time for a Change | p. 303 |
| We'll Weather the Weather | p. 310 |
| Index | p. 313 |
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