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This is an article from the New Zealand Herald (5 August, 2016). There
are of course many more such mistakes in numerous movies and TV shows.

Hitchcock-ups and other film fails
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Here are seven movie mishaps you may not have
noticed which made it on-screen.

You'll never be able to watch these movies in
the same way again.

Some very famous films contain some very obvious
mistakes that have been picked up by eagle-eyed
viewers over the years.

Here are seven of our favourite examples:

- Gladiator
During a battle in the Colosseum, a horse-drawn
chariot flips over on to its side and if you
look closely, you can see a gas cylinder in the
back of the chariot. FYI: The movie is set in
180AD and stainless steel gas cylinders weren't
invented until the 1800s.

- American Sniper
There's a scene in the Clint Eastwood-directed
film where Bradley Cooper's character tries to
soothe his baby. But it's glaringly obvious that
the baby is a plastic doll. In a since-deleted
tweet, one of the producers explained, "Hate to
ruin the fun but real baby #1 showed up with a
fever. Real baby #2 was no show".

- Pulp Fiction
In Quentin Tarantino's classic, there's a scene
where Vincent and Jules get caught off guard by
a man with a gun who fires six shots at the duo
but fails to hit them. But there's a small
problem. If you rewind to before the guy started
shooting you can notice that the bullet holes
were already in the wall.

- Braveheart
What has more horsepower than William Wallace
and his merry men? A car. Yep, as Mel Gibson's
character leads his men into battle on horseback,
a car can be seen in the background of the shot.

- Dallas Buyers Club
It may have been nominated for a Best Picture
Oscar but it's not exactly the most accurate.
Despite being set in the 1980s, Ron Woodroof
(played by Matthew McConaughey) has a poster of
a Lamborghini Aventador on the wall in his
makeshift office. That model wasn't actually
released until 2011. Oops.

- Cobra
Sylvester Stallone went off-script in his 1986
film and ripped another guy's white singlet.
The rip exposed a microphone which was strapped
to the other actor's chest with gaffer tape.
Either the director didn't notice or didn't
care, because the mistake was left in the final
edit.

- North By Northwest
There's a scene in Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 movie
where a female character fires a gun in a packed
restaurant. The set if filled with extras,
including one young fella who obviously wasn't a
fan of loud noises. Before the gun is fired, the
boy can be seen in the background putting his
fingers in his ears.


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