Post by Herman Morrison on Jun 19, 2007 1:31:17 GMT -5
I see we have a lot of fans of this cult classic rotld 1.
So I thought it would be neat if you all read this and see how many you all knew about.
So I thought it would be neat if you all read this and see how many you all knew about.
Factual errors: The films starts out on Friday, July 3, 1984 when in actuality, July 3 fell on a Tuesday in 1984.
Revealing mistakes: When the skeleton rises out of the grave, you can see the wires that make his mouth move.
Revealing mistakes: When the punks arrive at the Uneeda Warehouse at the beginning, a train can be seen passing behind the wall where the cemetery was supposed to be.
Crew or equipment visible: When Burt and Spider are in the cop car, and they screech on the brakes to avoid hitting a horde of Living Dead, the camera man can be seen in the back seat of the car, as well as the camera (look for a red light).
Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Frank is explaining how the original Night of the Living Dead is based on a true story, he states that the true story occurred in 1969. However Night of the Living Dead was released in 1968, a year before the incident happened. In the original script Frank said the event happened in 1966, but O'Bannon changed the line because he felt it would be better if the character was unreliable.
Crew or equipment visible: When the first two police officers arrive on the scene of the two disabled ambulances, a man with black curly hair is visible in the backseat of the cruiser (seen through the rear-view mirror).
Crew or equipment visible: When Freddy is being shown around the warehouse at the beginning of the film, the shadow of the camera crew can be seen on the shelves.
Continuity: When Spider and Burt rush out of the embalming room toward the police cruiser, a character can twice be seen quickly looking out of the sliding peephole in the door. The second time, it is quite obvious that the person looking out is not Tina or Ernie who by now are the only two people left in the embalming room.
Continuity: The punks open the cemetery gates when the entered the graveyard. They were still open when Tina goes to see Freddy and they were open when Chuck and Casie were being chased by zombies to the warehouse, and they were still open when Trash comes out as a Zombie, but when Burt and Spider are driving through the graveyard they crash through the closed gates.
Revealing mistakes: When the Zombie calls for more paramedics, you can see where the white paint on his hand ends and his real skin is visible.
Continuity: When Burt, Frank, and Freddy initially show up at Eddie's mortuary, Eddie is working on breaking a large man's body of rigor mortis. However, in subsequent scenes after the cadaver burning scene in the crematorium, the body has mysteriously vanished from the table completely, yet we never see anyone moving it or doing anything else with it.
Continuity: When the movie shifts from the graveyard to the funeral home, it clearly states that the time is 9:20 on the screen. Yet when you look at the clock behind the dead body and Don Calfa (Ernie) the clock clearly shows the time is 10:20.
Miscellaneous: Zombies without lips clearly pronounce B and P sounds--sounds that, of course, require lips to make.
Miscellaneous: Dozens of zombies attack the paramedics in order to eat their brains. But when the cops show up, the zombies have disappeared and brains are literally pouring out of one paramedic's head. Were they not that hungry?
Errors in geography: Although the titles and characters mention the setting as Louisville, Kentucky, the skyline of downtown L.A., including the much-photographed dome of City Hall, is clearly visible as the crew cruise toward the warehouse early on in the film.
Continuity: The "Burt is a slave driver" eye test poster changes to a more common one.
Revealing mistakes: When the skeleton rises out of the grave, you can see the wires that make his mouth move.
Revealing mistakes: When the punks arrive at the Uneeda Warehouse at the beginning, a train can be seen passing behind the wall where the cemetery was supposed to be.
Crew or equipment visible: When Burt and Spider are in the cop car, and they screech on the brakes to avoid hitting a horde of Living Dead, the camera man can be seen in the back seat of the car, as well as the camera (look for a red light).
Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Frank is explaining how the original Night of the Living Dead is based on a true story, he states that the true story occurred in 1969. However Night of the Living Dead was released in 1968, a year before the incident happened. In the original script Frank said the event happened in 1966, but O'Bannon changed the line because he felt it would be better if the character was unreliable.
Crew or equipment visible: When the first two police officers arrive on the scene of the two disabled ambulances, a man with black curly hair is visible in the backseat of the cruiser (seen through the rear-view mirror).
Crew or equipment visible: When Freddy is being shown around the warehouse at the beginning of the film, the shadow of the camera crew can be seen on the shelves.
Continuity: When Spider and Burt rush out of the embalming room toward the police cruiser, a character can twice be seen quickly looking out of the sliding peephole in the door. The second time, it is quite obvious that the person looking out is not Tina or Ernie who by now are the only two people left in the embalming room.
Continuity: The punks open the cemetery gates when the entered the graveyard. They were still open when Tina goes to see Freddy and they were open when Chuck and Casie were being chased by zombies to the warehouse, and they were still open when Trash comes out as a Zombie, but when Burt and Spider are driving through the graveyard they crash through the closed gates.
Revealing mistakes: When the Zombie calls for more paramedics, you can see where the white paint on his hand ends and his real skin is visible.
Continuity: When Burt, Frank, and Freddy initially show up at Eddie's mortuary, Eddie is working on breaking a large man's body of rigor mortis. However, in subsequent scenes after the cadaver burning scene in the crematorium, the body has mysteriously vanished from the table completely, yet we never see anyone moving it or doing anything else with it.
Continuity: When the movie shifts from the graveyard to the funeral home, it clearly states that the time is 9:20 on the screen. Yet when you look at the clock behind the dead body and Don Calfa (Ernie) the clock clearly shows the time is 10:20.
Miscellaneous: Zombies without lips clearly pronounce B and P sounds--sounds that, of course, require lips to make.
Miscellaneous: Dozens of zombies attack the paramedics in order to eat their brains. But when the cops show up, the zombies have disappeared and brains are literally pouring out of one paramedic's head. Were they not that hungry?
Errors in geography: Although the titles and characters mention the setting as Louisville, Kentucky, the skyline of downtown L.A., including the much-photographed dome of City Hall, is clearly visible as the crew cruise toward the warehouse early on in the film.
Continuity: The "Burt is a slave driver" eye test poster changes to a more common one.
