# Most famous movie goof? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 21, 2002, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-movie-goof/133209 "2002-10-21T10:34:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bomzaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@Bomzaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bomzaway)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-movie-goof/133209/21 "2002-10-21T18:37:35Z")
That scene where Vic Morrow is killed by the helicopter blade in “Twilight Zone: The Movie”. That was so fake! Oh, wait… ---
**Author:** ![tanstaafl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@tanstaafl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanstaafl)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-movie-goof/133209/22 "2002-10-21T18:42:34Z")
During the chase scene in _Bullitt_ the car loses six hubcaps… ---
**Author:** ![tulley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@tulley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tulley)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-movie-goof/133209/23 "2002-10-21T19:00:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kantalooppi \* > \*\*Undoubtedly “Kessel run in 12 parsecs”. \*\* Actually, I brought this up some time back to my friends who are star wars nuts and they had an explanation for this. Apparantly the kessel run is a narrow channel with series of black holes on the sides. In order to make the run you have to dodge the black holes on alternating sides while going through the channel. The faster the ship, the closer they could cut the black holes, and the faster they could make it through the channel. Maybe a post-hoc explanation but it satisfies me 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-movie-goof/133209/24 "2002-10-21T19:05:25Z")
where does the stormtrooper bang his head? In which scene? ---
**Author:** ![Darwins\_Finch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darwins_finch/32/20304_2.png) [@Darwins\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darwins_Finch)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-movie-goof/133209/25 "2002-10-21T19:07:49Z")
I don’t know how famous it is, but the misspelling of “STEGOSAURUS” as “STEGASAURUS” in **Jurassic Park** was pretty grating, to say the least. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-movie-goof/133209/26 "2002-10-21T19:18:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by xizor \* > \*\*And didn’t the scarecrow totally screw up stating the Pythagorean theorem after he got his “brain”? Or did they mean to do that? \*\* No idea whether it’s intentional, but he did miss it rather badly. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-movie-goof/133209/27 "2002-10-21T19:28:24Z")
I read once that in Jurassic Park, toward the end when the young girl finds a computer and says something like “Linux. I know how to use this,” she’s shown working on a Mac Quadra, and the screen image is a Windows screen. My favorite though, is at the end of Back to the Future (and also in Back to the Future II). After Michael J. Fox successfully connects with the overhead wire and returns to 1985, Christopher Lloyd is shown walking a short distance up the street and then doing a celebratory dance. When he does this the camera pans back and up to a wider angle, and there’s no music for just a moment. During that moment you can clearly hear the hydraulics of the camera truck as it lifts up. The scene was repeated in the second movie, and the sound is still there. ---
**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:** [October 21, 2002, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-movie-goof/133209/28 "2002-10-21T19:48:13Z")
The weirdest I’ve seen is also from _The Wizard of Oz_, and also involves the scarecrow, albeit indirectly. During the scarecrow’s first song, the camera cuts back and forth between him and Dorothy. Watch Dorothy’s hair: they were apparently trying out different wigs on Judy Garland during that scene, and her hair length and style changes dramatically and repeatedly between cuts. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![Bomzaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@Bomzaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bomzaway)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-movie-goof/133209/29 "2002-10-21T19:52:37Z")
Not necessarily famous, but I saw _Panic Room_ last night and noticed something terribly wrong. Jodi Foster decides to light the propane that’s being pumped into the Panic Room, and when she does so, the flaming gas makes a dramatic blue display on the ceiling of the room. The problem is that propane is heavy, so the gas would have sunk to the floor. Lighting it would have toasted her and her daughter to a deep brown. ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-movie-goof/133209/30 "2002-10-21T19:52:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pseudotriton ruber ruber \* > \*\*where does the stormtrooper bang his head? In which scene? \*\* It’s when the stormtroopers bust into the Death Star control room where Threepio and Artoo are hiding. (“They’re madmen! They’re headed for the prison level!”) ---
**Author:** ![Kaitlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/73ab20/32.png) [@Kaitlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaitlyn)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-movie-goof/133209/31 "2002-10-21T20:01:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zebra \* > \*\*_ **Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn** _ > > Khan says to Checkov > I never forget a face. > > But Checkov wasn’t in the original series episode that Kahn was. He hadn’t joined the show at that time. \*\* He hadn’t joined the show, but he apparently had joined the crew. Chekov become the permanent helmsman at the start of the second season, but he may very well have been a crew member during the first and only been promoted to bridge officer to begin the second. ---
**Author:** ![Kaitlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/73ab20/32.png) [@Kaitlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaitlyn)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-movie-goof/133209/32 "2002-10-21T20:05:57Z")
D’oh. Chekov became the navigator. Sulu was helmsman. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-movie-goof/133209/33 "2002-10-21T20:06:42Z")
For those who are curious, here’s the Scarecrow’s take on the Pythagorean theorem: > [@](#): > > The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side. Oh joy, rapture! I’ve got a brain! The correct statement is: > [@](#): > > The sum of the squares of the legs of a right triangle is equal to the square of the hypotenuse. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-movie-goof/133209/34 "2002-10-21T20:08:02Z")
Re the stormtrooper banging his head, he’s on the far right, so I expect you can’t really see it unless you have a widescreen version of the video. Haven’t verified myself, though. ---
**Author:** ![Early\_Out](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Early\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Early_Out)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-movie-goof/133209/35 "2002-10-21T21:33:52Z")
One that most youngsters wouldn’t notice: in _The Godfather,_ when Michael sees a newspaper with a headline about his father being shot, he ducks into a phone booth to call home. While he’s talking on the phone, you can see the dial of the phone behind him, and it’s clearly broken. There’s no way anyone could make a call on that phone. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-movie-goof/133209/36 "2002-10-21T21:44:22Z")
In INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE, Indie, posing as a Nazi officer, gets Hitler’s autograph. Der Fuhrer was evidently too busy ruling Germany to learn how to spell his name: he signs it “Adolph” instead of “Adolf”. In one of my favorite movies, THE LION IN WINTER, there’s a great scene towards the beginning where Eleanor of Aquitaine is being rowed to a French castle in all her 12th century glory and you can clearly see a piece of 1960s camera equipment. In GODFATHER II, Vito’s Mama’and’em is crying over her dead son Paolo, murdered by a 1901 Sicilian don. Apparently he’s not quite dead yet as you can see his hands moving. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2002, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-movie-goof/133209/37 "2002-10-22T02:34:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by photopat \* > \*\*I read once that in Jurassic Park, toward the end when the young girl finds a computer and says something like “Linux. I know how to use this,” she’s shown working on a Mac Quadra, and the screen image is a Windows screen. > > \*\* It’s been awhile since I’ve seen it but I believe she says “It’s a Unix system, I know this!” And it shows some flashy 3D video. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Some\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ad7895/32.png) [@Just\_Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Some_Guy)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2002, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-movie-goof/133209/38 "2002-10-22T02:57:19Z")
> [@](#): > > It’s been awhile since I’ve seen it but I believe she says “It’s a Unix system, I know this!” And it shows some flashy 3D video. Quite right on the line; the graphics were one of the SGI demos which is likely why it was used. The flying building file system is a lot more interesting than a $ prompt, after all. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Darwins\_Finch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darwins_finch/32/20304_2.png) [@Darwins\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darwins_Finch)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2002, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-movie-goof/133209/39 "2002-10-22T03:45:34Z")
Another **Jurassic Park** goof / error / continuity screw-up / whatever-the-hell-happened: the “Flying Tyrannosaur”. At the start of the “_Tyrannosaurus_ attack” scene, we see the _T. rex_ bust through the fence of its paddock, acting all big and bad, and giving us our first really good glimpse of what we all _really_ came to see. So far, so good. Not long after, while the _T. rex_ is menacing one of the tour vehicles, Grant and Alex get knocked through that very same hole in the fence - only now there’s a big cliff there! The vehicle, with Timmy inside, gets knocked over the edge, etc., etc. Seeing as how there was nothing for the tyrannosaur to stand on in order to break through the fence at that location, there seems to be little other explanation other than that she could fly. Or at least levitate. She’s pretty stealthy, too, when she wants to be. ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2002, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-famous-movie-goof/133209/40 "2002-10-22T03:46:24Z")
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