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Post by peach on Jan 24, 2009 3:45:37 GMT
Gaffe: faux pas, blooper, blunder, error, goof, mistake  You know it's meaning, and for certain you've spotted many in tv, and films that you've seen. For instance, in the film "Presumed Innocent" with Harrison Ford, he's walking down the court steps and a reporter shoves a tape recorder in his face, only upon further inspection you notice, quote glaringly in fact that lo and behold there is no tape. Throughout your movie going experience and many a night watching tv, you've spotted one. Now think real hard and start listing the ones you've remembered. |
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Post by tipou on Jan 24, 2009 13:52:50 GMT
oh this is a great idea for a thread, peachy dearest!
so many of them...
one major goof was in "the flamingo kid" whcih was not a bad movie, but we kind of lost it when we saw the magnificent sundown over the ocean... only, it was supposed to be the atlantic ocean. ooops. the producers from hollywood forgot their story was taking place on the OTHER coast.
another unforgiveable one appeared in chinatown, an ALMOST perfect movie: there is a scene with close ups of faye donaway with a scarf on her head, and this crazy scarf keeps moving upon her head with each frame, its quite frightening to see...
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Post by tipou on Jan 24, 2009 17:52:24 GMT
just thought of a small faux pas in "the holiday"
cameron diaz is in bed with whatshisname, and the strap of her bra keeps coming up and down.
what is more embarrassing, the sequence, complete with the bra waltz, is also in the "making of" featurette.
now THAT is a faux-pas!
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Post by tipou on Jan 24, 2009 18:00:51 GMT
oh yeah, and i remember a great one from 20 years ago, its a pity because i cannot even remember the title of this major mini series on u.s. tv, but it was obviously a big budget production.
what i remember is this:
picture, if you can, a dune of sand on the outskirt of jerusalem. a group of roman soldiers have found a cave where a group of this new sectarian congregation, "christians", are hiding from persecution.
so the roman soldiers, brandishing their knives and swords, are lined up for attack. their leader walks on top of the dune, and tells his men:
"let us bring back to cesar the heads of those seditious bastards..." or something of the sort. then, he screams:
"READY? FIRE!!!!!!!"
i remember, i was sitting in the tv room with fellow students i was sharing a flat with, and we looked at each other in puzzlement: what does he mean, FIRE? will they pull their smith and wessons from their little skirts, there? or do they hide real CANONS underneath the tutus? we laughed so hard, we had to drop the show altogether.
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Post by catdishy on Jan 24, 2009 20:43:43 GMT
Sounds like Monty Pythons' Life of Brian
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Post by tipou on Jan 24, 2009 21:05:13 GMT
aaaahhhh ah!
no!!!! i swear, that was serious. a drama! at least, that was the original intention.
no, we would have known, we were all deeply into monty python by that time. we were totally into the "holy grail" cult, know all the jokes by heart!
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Post by catdishy on Jan 24, 2009 21:07:47 GMT
Maybe you were all deeply into something else before the show began?
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Post by tipou on Jan 25, 2009 4:56:26 GMT
hmmmm? what is this that i hear in your voice? sarcasm? i will bear no such outrage. although...
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Post by catdishy on Jan 25, 2009 21:20:05 GMT
Sorry, tipou...I misplaced my emoticons.
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Post by tipou on Jan 25, 2009 23:45:15 GMT
here they are... oh darn, they disappeared again.
hey, was that a gaffe or a joke?
i am, as you may know, tryi8ng to get through "helen of troy" without too many suicidal thoughts, because this may be among the worst series ever, but at one point i had to laugh out loud.
at the beginning, when "paris" (i dont know who plays that guy, but james franco looks like laurence oliver next to this guy) goes to town to win back his bull, we hear a man calling names of men who are going to take part in a fight. when i heard this particular name, i had to go back and get the subtitles, because i could not believe my ears, but there it was: the guy's name, i swear, is PRES BYTERIAN.
this has got to be a joke.
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Post by catdishy on Jan 26, 2009 2:21:13 GMT
Good ear, tipou.That's what IMDB says, too....hilarious.
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Post by tipou on Jan 26, 2009 2:27:16 GMT
no kidding? hilarious and plain weird!!!
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Post by dirtygirldiva on Jan 26, 2009 19:15:07 GMT
I know in Jurassic Park when the family is climbing into a tree, you can see the rope ladder that is supposed to be hidden along the tree trunk. Also in the beggining, when the guy falls off the trailer...he falls on his stomach, but then is shown on his back...Jurassic Park was chock full of mistakes.
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Post by dippyponge on Feb 1, 2011 12:06:27 GMT
In Bridget Jones' Diary there is one. When Daniel and Mark are fighting. Mark walks away after the fight, his jacket is normal when he puts it over his shoulder but it is inside out when he walks away.
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Post by kissmekate on Feb 1, 2011 13:44:20 GMT
There's a French movie about a lighthouse warden in Brittany, called "The Light" ("L'Équipier" is the original title). One of the main characters has a crippled hand on which he wears a bandage. During some scenes, the bandage is on the wrong hand  |
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