# Movie dialogue mistakes **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 20, 2013, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-dialogue-mistakes/658779 "2013-05-20T01:30:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![mr.jp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@mr.jp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.jp)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-dialogue-mistakes/658779/41 "2013-05-22T16:19:07Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > “But I’m a _ **superstitious** _ man, and if some unlucky accident should befall him, if he should get shot in the head by a police officer, or if he should hang himself in his jail cell, or if he’s struck by a bolt of lightning, then I’m going to blame some of the people in this room. And that, I do not forgive.” > > I’ve wondered if the line is supposed to be “I’m a _ **suspicious** _ man”, which would work a bit better. Superstitious has stronger implications than suspicious. Even if something happens that fully looks like the other mafia guys are innocent, like the lightning, he will still blame them (and not just be suspicious.) To me, this is fully in line with something Don Corleone would say. ---
**Author:** ![Dancer\_Flight](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dancer_flight/32/7601_2.png) [@Dancer\_Flight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dancer_Flight)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2013, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-dialogue-mistakes/658779/42 "2013-05-23T04:14:06Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > One from TV: in an episode of Bones, Brennan wants a chunk of concrete delivered to her lab. She says, “a 2 x 3 x 4 m section. It shouldn’t weight more than a ton.” > > That much concrete weighs almost 70 tons. Hell, that much **water** masses 24 tonnes, and I’m assuming this wasn’t special low-density air-entrained concrete either. A quick googling shows that expanded polystyrene (suitably painted and textured to match the appearance of concrete) at ~42g/L (range 10 - 50g/L) would mass just over 1 tonne. -DF ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2013, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-dialogue-mistakes/658779/43 "2013-05-23T10:54:11Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > One from TV: in an episode of Bones, Brennan wants a chunk of concrete delivered to her lab. She says, “a 2 x 3 x 4 m section. It shouldn’t weight more than a ton.” > > That much concrete weighs almost 70 tons. In **Bones** Booth routinely has to ask the scientists for conversion when they use metric terms. Thing is, Booth was in the Army ( it’s a major part of his character) and he should be familiar with the system, possibly moreso than the scientists. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2013, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-dialogue-mistakes/658779/44 "2013-05-23T11:17:17Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > Pearl Harbor, when the Japanese attack one character says “I think World War 2 just started” > > Actually, at that time, WW2 had been going on for several years. > > Bloody Yanks. Yes, but does this really count as an error? I presume the line is spoken by a American character at Pearl Harbor. So perhaps the subtext was “…for us!”. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2013, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-dialogue-mistakes/658779/45 "2013-05-23T11:27:13Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > There’s the scene in _Annie Hall_ where Marshall McLuhan says, "I heard what you were saying. You - you know nothing of my work. You mean my whole fallacy is wrong. How you ever got to teach a course in anything is totally amazing. " In Woody Allen’s _Love and Death_, early in the film there was a throwaway joke about “Old Gregor” being younger than “Young Gregor.” And then there was a scene in which a family servant called “Old Nahamkin” was struck by lightning. At the end of the film, when Woody Allen’s character is recounting some of the mysteries of life, he says that no one knew how “Old Nahamkin” could be younger than “Young Nahamkin.” ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2013, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-dialogue-mistakes/658779/46 "2013-05-23T11:46:21Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > I’ve wondered if the line is supposed to be “I’m a _ **suspicious** _ man”, which would work a bit better. In the same vein, in True Romance when Vincenzo Coccotti is giving his speech about Sicilian liars and how he is a worl-class expert at spotting lies, he says “You don’t wanna show me nothin’, but you’re tellin me everything.” I wonder if it wasn’t a mistake and it should have been reversed to “You don’t wanna tell me nothin’, but you’re showin’ me everything.” which would make more sense. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-dialogue-mistakes/658779.md?page=2)