Getting back to the Wizard of Oz, another thing I didn’t notice until the zillionth time is that Dorothy’s pig-tails fluctuate in length from scene to scene.
Not just from scene to scene, but within some scenes, too. In the scene where she meets the Scarecrow, and he does his “If I Only Had A Brain” song, her pigtails grow and shrink magically from cut to cut. First they’re really short and curly, then they’re really long, then they’re medium-length.
I’ve heard the British expression, “It’s a fair cop” before. It means “You got me. I’m guilty.” And that is exactly what the witch says.
If that’s all they could come up with to counteract the overwhelming gay hobbit undertone in the Peter Jackson LotR movies, they fell badly short of the goal. The “hobbits jumping on Frodo’s bed” scene at the end of RotK alone should have required at least a trip to the hobbit titty bar (titty tavern, perhaps? Probably in Bree) to balance it out.
“Hey. They’re not gay. They’re hobbits.”
-Clerks 2
Actually, everything suddenly fits! A friend of mine pointed out to me just last week that, after two hundred years of dark, damp, and hungry termites, the wooden stairs and the ropes for the elevator should have been nothing more than a pile of rotted vegetation at the bottom of the shaft. Seems like a filmmaker error, at first. But add in the shiny, modern nails holding it together, and it becomes obvious … Someone had found the hidden cache, probably during the twentieth century, and re-built those parts of the structure! Either they didn’t find the last secret door, or left the treasure for some reason. Maybe they’ll explain what happened in the sequel.
Duh. Of course there will be a sequel! :smack:
Charlie Callas started out a drummer who would make faces behind the singer’s back. 
Chiming in with another film with no female characters: Twelve Angry Men.
I noticed this the last time I saw The Godfather too. To me, it showed a lot of the differences between Michael and his father. Enzo showed up at the hospital, not to ask for a favor or to try to turn the situation to his advantage, but because he loved the Don and wanted to show his concern. The fact that he ended up helping Michael to save his life is almost beyond the point. The original Godfather did despicable thigs, but they were always motivated by his love for his family, an ‘honest’ attempt to build a life. For him, family and friends really were the most important things, and his people would go to the ends of the earth for him in return. Michael doesn’t have these qualities, and when he is the head of the family, he cares about them only as reflections of his own power and pride, and so he ends up losing everything. I guess I understood these things before, but thinking about the scenes with Enzo really crystallized it.
[quote=Sublight
This may not measure up with some of the others mentioned, but it’s one I just noticed. At the beginning of The Godfather, when Don Corleone is granting favors, one of the people who comes to him is an old baker who asks for help with getting the proper papers for his young assistant to stay in America.
Later, when Michael is is freaking at the hospital because all his father’s guards have been sent away, a young man who identifies himself as Enzo the baker arrives with flowers for the Don. It’s the same guy the Don helped with his papers at the beginning of the film.[/quote]
I didn’t notice these things until I read the book this year. Then I thought back to the movie and said “Oh, right.”
I stand corrected and apologize for assuming I was right.
The phrase didn’t make sense to me, while 'Tis a fair court does.
Those crazy Brits and their made up expressions :smack:
In reference to the Disney version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame:
So if Quasimodo’s parents are Gypsies, why does he have pale skin and light brown hair?