# Film Bloopers most people missed. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 31, 2014, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-bloopers-most-people-missed/685011 "2014-03-31T18:49:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-bloopers-most-people-missed/685011/81 "2014-04-03T15:41:25Z")
My favorite bloopers are always the ones where you can spot crew members/gear. Especially fun in period pieces. A great one is in Moulin Rouge, during the Roxanne number. At 2:35 of [this clip](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s12XiAOtjcg) of it, look at the right side of the screen (the action is happening on the left side, which is where most viewers would be looking), and you’ll see a second camera, on a dolly, complete with crew. It’s visible for a good second or two, especially as the lights come up with the dance choreography just a beat before the shot cuts. It’s not quite as visible on this shitty 480p YouTube version, but it’s really obvious on DVD. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-bloopers-most-people-missed/685011/82 "2014-04-03T15:49:29Z")
Moulin Rouge is such a fantastically complex movie, in visuals and editing, I am surprised there aren’t a lot of crew intrusions or set-structure visibility. I suppose some were fixed in post, but still… some sequences are like throwing the entire set, cast and crew in a blender and hollering Action! ---
**Author:** ![Incubus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-bloopers-most-people-missed/685011/83 "2014-04-03T16:10:29Z")
Leonardo Di Caprio really cut his hand in Django. In the scene when he is talking about “inferior” negro skulls he slams his fist down, which caused him to cut his finger on some broken glass. You can see him kind of react and fumble with his bloody hand as he tries to stay in character. They ended up going along with it as in the next scene he is menacingly smearing (fake, in that scene) blood on Hilda. Brad Pitt had broken his hand for real in Seven. I used to think it’s unusually consistent that his hand is bandaged the rest of the film. Apparently the only consistency you get in films is when actors get hurt for real 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-bloopers-most-people-missed/685011/84 "2014-04-03T16:21:53Z")
> [@Incubus](#): > > Leonardo Di Caprio really cut his hand in Django. In the scene when he is talking about “inferior” negro skulls he slams his fist down, which caused him to cut his finger on some broken glass. Similarly, Ian McKellan banging his head on the ceiling at Bag End in Fellowship of the Ring was an accident that ended up staying in the film. ---
**Author:** ![Incubus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-bloopers-most-people-missed/685011/85 "2014-04-03T17:08:14Z")
> [@Nonsuch](#): > > Similarly, Ian McKellan banging his head on the ceiling at Bag End in Fellowship of the Ring was an accident that ended up staying in the film. That’s hilarious. It really looked like a deliberate gag to depict ’ Tiny Hobbit houses’. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-bloopers-most-people-missed/685011/86 "2014-04-03T17:15:19Z")
It’s very marginal, but there’s a strange scene late in\* Babylon 5 \*- the episode where Sheridan figures out how to get the various civilizations to band together for protection by creating an imaginary threat. When he joins the others in the mess hall, he bangs his fist on the table so hard that juice, food and other things go flying. The scene continues, but the other cast’s reaction and glances off-set (especially Jeff Conaway) are priceless. ---
**Author:** ![Cayuga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Cayuga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cayuga)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-bloopers-most-people-missed/685011/87 "2014-04-03T17:36:28Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > I don’t think this really happened. I think this is just a meme that has a lot of legs. Yeah, I’m aware of the naysayers. But I heard it with my own two ears. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-bloopers-most-people-missed/685011/88 "2014-04-03T18:16:54Z")
> [@Cayuga](#): > > Yeah, I’m aware of the naysayers. But I heard it with my own two ears. And as the IMDb entry notes, lip-readers see two and only two syllables that look a lot like CARE EEE. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-bloopers-most-people-missed/685011/89 "2014-04-03T20:45:18Z")
> [@nevadaexile](#): > > That was filmed in the Eastern Kentucky Desert. A very remote area that and not well-known to outsiders… 😃 > [@ftg](#): > > There is a [region](https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=35.021563,-84.257711&spn=0.000798,0.001624&t=h&z=20) of eastern North Carolina that is nearly devoid of vegetation. No sagebrush, but very desert looking in parts. Far from forested. > > Persistent pollution from old gold smelters. Do a street-view there: you’ll see lush greenery along the roads, presumably to screen the damage. I won’t at all deny the damage that mines have done to Appalachia, and indeed that’s a significant part of Justified’s storyline. However, that’s a far cry from California sagebrush–looks nothing like. And anyway that’s not what they were going for in the establishing shot; they were trying to show some Appalachia forest road. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-bloopers-most-people-missed/685011/90 "2014-04-03T22:14:20Z")
> [@Cayuga](#): > > Yeah, I’m aware of the naysayers. But I heard it with my own two ears. I don’t think they are naysayers. It just didn’t happen. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-bloopers-most-people-missed/685011/91 "2014-04-03T22:52:20Z")
> [@Anamorphic](#): > > My favorite bloopers are always the ones where you can spot crew members/gear. Especially fun in period pieces. A great one is in Moulin Rouge, during the Roxanne number. At 2:35 of [this clip](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s12XiAOtjcg) of it, look at the right side of the screen (the action is happening on the left side, which is where most viewers would be looking), and you’ll see a second camera, on a dolly, complete with crew. It’s visible for a good second or two, especially as the lights come up with the dance choreography just a beat before the shot cuts. It’s not quite as visible on this shitty 480p YouTube version, but it’s really obvious on DVD. My favorite scene like this was in [The Man With The Golden Gun](http://youtu.be/L8VdrmJo5qc). Keep your eye on the mirror at around the 13 second mark. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2014, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-bloopers-most-people-missed/685011/92 "2014-04-03T23:14:19Z")
> [@ryan](#): > > OK, here’s one I spotted. Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, during the final duel between Obi-wan and Darth Maul, just before Obi-wan is knocked into the shaft via a force push. Darth Maul blocks with both hands on his (now single-bladed) lightsaber, releases the hilt with his left hand, does a force push with his empty right hand (in close-up) and then the POV shifts to a medium shot with the saber back in his right hand and his left extended from delivering the force push. > > Something bothered me about this scene for a long time until I finally figured it out. > At 4:22 in [this clip](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN2k6VgUyBo) I just watched that sequence as slowly as I could about 10 times and I don’t see him ever using his right hand. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-bloopers-most-people-missed/685011/93 "2014-04-04T01:02:59Z")
> [@fachverwirrt](#): > > To be fairer still, based on the map linked, **ftg** _meant_ western North Carolina. Oops, definitely western NC. ---
**Author:** ![aktep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f0a364/32.png) [@aktep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aktep)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-bloopers-most-people-missed/685011/94 "2014-04-04T01:59:31Z")
> [@MaxTheVool](#): > > I just watched that sequence as slowly as I could about 10 times and I don’t see him ever using his right hand. Pause it when DM’s hand is extended out in close-up, and check the orientation of the thumb. It’s his right hand. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-bloopers-most-people-missed/685011/95 "2014-04-04T16:15:47Z")
> [@aktep](#): > > Pause it when DM’s hand is extended out in close-up, and check the orientation of the thumb. It’s his right hand. Hard to tell just from the grainy youtube, given that we only see the hand from the side, although I do see what you’re talking about. ---
**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-bloopers-most-people-missed/685011/96 "2014-04-04T19:09:34Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Anything filmed in LA is full of location errors. One that drives locals nuts was in _Lethal Weapon_, where Mel Gibson starts a foot chase of a car in the Valley, turns a corner and is suddenly on Sunset Blvd. Nice running, Mel. And you aren’t even out of breath. It seems to me that most films made on location contain this kind of geographic fudging (places depicted as close together when they’re actually far apart, and vice versa). In my opinion these are not bloopers, since the filmmakers were obviously aware of them. They’re just examples of dramatic license. ---
**Author:** ![Svejk\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@Svejk\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Svejk_1)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-bloopers-most-people-missed/685011/97 "2014-04-04T19:19:49Z")
> [@banjoDavid](#): > > FERRIS BEULLER’S DAY OFF > If you know Chicago like I know Chicago, they could not have traveled to all the locations in 1 afternoon of ditching school. > > David They must not have known Chicago like you do. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2014, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-bloopers-most-people-missed/685011/98 "2014-04-04T19:23:58Z")
> [@Skammer](#): > > I noticed when I saw _Die Hard 2_ in the theaters that the pay phones in the Washington, DC airport were labeled “Pac Bell” (the west coast phone company at the time). This was later fixed in the video release. Haha, yes! Because they filmed at the airport in Moses Lake, Washington (which is also surprisingly an alternate landing strip for the Space Shuttle.) ---
**Author:** ![HyacinthBucket](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hyacinthbucket/32/3063_2.png) [@HyacinthBucket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HyacinthBucket)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2014, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-bloopers-most-people-missed/685011/99 "2014-04-05T23:42:32Z")
> [@Nonsuch](#): > > Similarly, Ian McKellan banging his head on the ceiling at Bag End in Fellowship of the Ring was an accident that ended up staying in the film. They even did a tongue-in-cheek\* homage \*to that fortuitous blooper when he bangs his head on the chandelier in Bag End in the first part of The Hobbit. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sterling\_Archer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Sterling\_Archer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sterling_Archer)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2014, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-bloopers-most-people-missed/685011/100 "2014-04-07T02:45:37Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I don’t think they are naysayers. It just didn’t happen. It didn’t happen? Clearly Luke yells something as Leia is running up to hug him. Sounds like hay-ee! But it does sound kinda like “Carrie” too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-bloopers-most-people-missed/685011.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/film-bloopers-most-people-missed/685011.md?page=6)