Serenity: Movie Mistakes

POSTED BY: Madrik
UPDATED: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 02:25
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MADRIK

Tuesday, December 11, 2007 7:30 AM

I'm not sure if you all have already seen this site, but here is the link. Also, if you don't feel like going to the site, I'll post the movie mistakes posted here. Also, I posted a 9th movie mistake I discovered on my own:

http://www.moviemistakes.com/film5195

1)Revealing: When the Operative is reviewing Mal's file, Mal's first name is initially spelled as "Malcom", in the next shot that has been corrected to "Malcolm".

2)Visible crew/equipment: In the closing scene where the Operative tells the Alliance soldiers to stand down, one of the soldiers (almost out of frame) lowers a set microphone.

3)Continuity: Watch the items on the table when Mal's giving the speech in Serenity after finding the holographic recording. There's a yellow cup, an orange object to the right of it, and a large bottle to the left. When the shot cuts to a close-up of Simon, the bottle disappears.

4)Other: When the camera changes shot to the security feed for the first time in River's bar brawl scene, you can see, on the top right, Jane and Mal sitting down with Fanty and Mingo and the Dancer preparing to block the camera's view. This is before the gang have even stepped into the bar.

5)Visible crew/equipment: In the vault scene, there's a part when the camera shifts and you can see the area outside the cylindrical vault set in the upper left of the screen.

6)Continuity: During the last fight with the Reavers, Inara is holding a blaster gun shaped like a bow and arrow in close up shots. In any shot that shows the whole crew, the blaster changes into an actual bow and arrow. The producers didn't like the bow so they actually enhanced it with CGI to make it bigger and "cooler", so those shots of the whole crew are probably shots where they forgot to add the CGI or assumed people wouldnt notice.

7)Continuity: In the very last scene when River and the Captain are flying the ship, Mal presses a button causing it to light up. In the next shot the light is off, and in the next shot it is back on again.

8)Factual error: According to Joss Whedon, people in the Firefly universe speak only English and/or Chinese (see Special Features and the movie's subtitles), and yet, the writing we see everywhere is Japanese (there's a difference between Japanese and Chinese script; it's obvious for those who know).

9)Wash died.

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Tuesday, December 11, 2007 8:08 AM

There are numerous posts I've seen with these scattered around, but I haven't seen I one thread, so you've started one before I got to it.

Most of the ones listed are pointed out by Joss and the cast in the commentaries. The "large bottle" is the mudder's milk bottle that Adam brought back for BDM, and he's always mesing with the continuity.

I'll repeat the one in BDM right after Serenity gets hit by EMP and is in freefall, the shot of wash in the cockpit shows a small panel by/under his right hand that swings like it's just hanging on a peg.

CHAPTERANDVERSE

Tuesday, December 11, 2007 2:49 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Madrik:
I'm not sure if you all have already seen this site, but here is the link. Also, if you don't feel like going to the site, I'll post the movie mistakes posted here. Also, I posted a 9th movie mistake I discovered on my own

9)Wash died.

You know, I only really noticed that one--but it was a glaring error!!!

DAVESHAYNE

Tuesday, December 11, 2007 3:20 PM

10) When the Operative is examining Mal's military record his rank is listed as captain.

David

'Geeks can't admit that anything worthwhile was invented before 1981. Soon, "making cocoa" will be called "milk hacking."' - Lore Sjoberg

SHINYSEVEN2

Tuesday, December 11, 2007 4:31 PM

About #7: Serenity is precisely the kind of ship where the electrical connections are loose enough for lights to flicker on and off unpredictably.

TINADOLL

Tuesday, December 11, 2007 5:29 PM

I didn't notice any of those..

Cept # 9 of course

MADRIK

Tuesday, December 11, 2007 10:16 PM

I didn't notice them either. With that site, you can go back to the scene it describes and look carefully. About the additional mistakes, you should submit them to the site, aye?

11) Jayne didn't get injured enough.

MISSTRESSAHARA

Tuesday, December 11, 2007 11:52 PM

The biggest error of all was the continuity of the story and the characters, but I'm a series as opposed to movie gal.

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RIVERFLAN

Wednesday, December 12, 2007 12:42 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Madrik:
I'm not sure if you all have already seen this site, but here is the link. Also, if you don't feel like going to the site, I'll post the movie mistakes posted here. Also, I posted a 9th movie mistake I discovered on my own:

9)Wash died.

Out of your list, I only saw that one (because it was glaringly obvious), pero here's another one

12) Shepard Book dies with his eyes open, y Mal never closes them, but when Mal lays Shepard's head down on a rock, his eyes are closed.

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PROTOTYPE7

Wednesday, December 12, 2007 12:52 AM

When the gang is running from the Reavers in the mule in the beginning of the movie Jayne's gun transforms!
In one shot, right when Zoe is getting ready to swing the Mule around for the barnswallow... in one shot its' an MP5k, the very small one. In the next shot it's a full size MP5, and in the next shot it's back to the MP5k.

The switches moving after the EMP hit has always bugged me... I see it every time!

And regarding Inara's bow being replaced by the cgi bow. That's all well and good but when they are running into the complex you can see her carrying the case that the regular bow is in. There's no way that mechanical bow and arrow that they created would fit in that case. Unless it had some Marry Poppins powers to it.

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