I just finished watching the film, and my first thought was 'creepy'. My second thought was that the film was brilliantly created, and is one of the few that has managed to catch my attention and have me completely forget about what type of shot they were using or what mistake they made. My third thought was to watch it again. In the beginning of the film, I found two minor discrepencies that I'd like to share:
Oopsie #1:
When Jodie Foster is reviewing the newspapers regarding Hannibal Lector, she scrolls through pages quickly, allowing the audience only to read the headlines. I paused on one page, and realized that the mistake was a simple one. On either side of the newspaper, the same article is printed. It has nothing to do with Dr. Lector, but it is re-imagined twice on the same page. Copy + Pasted to fill space around the article of interest. Oopsie!
Oopsie #2:
When Jodie Foster is examining the garage in which she found one of Dr. Lector's former clients, or rather, his head, the camera moves to a piano. The piano is covered in dust. There are also fingerprints on the piano, ones that shouldn't be there. Jodie Foster and the man who owned the garage had established that no one had gone in there for 26 years. Oils from fingers would have worn off the piano, therefore allowing the dust to settle evenly. For the fingerprints to be there, someone had to have been in there in the past 26 years.
P.S. LOL@the RITZ Crackers in the background.
P.P.S. I expect to be posting more critiques on subtle discrepencies, like the sudden scenery change in "Cry Wolf", or the status of the open/closed present in "About a Boy". I also will be posting some random tutorials, more like "How to do's- cool effects in movies." That would be fun.
See ya around.
z.
Oopsie #1:
When Jodie Foster is reviewing the newspapers regarding Hannibal Lector, she scrolls through pages quickly, allowing the audience only to read the headlines. I paused on one page, and realized that the mistake was a simple one. On either side of the newspaper, the same article is printed. It has nothing to do with Dr. Lector, but it is re-imagined twice on the same page. Copy + Pasted to fill space around the article of interest. Oopsie!
Oopsie #2:
When Jodie Foster is examining the garage in which she found one of Dr. Lector's former clients, or rather, his head, the camera moves to a piano. The piano is covered in dust. There are also fingerprints on the piano, ones that shouldn't be there. Jodie Foster and the man who owned the garage had established that no one had gone in there for 26 years. Oils from fingers would have worn off the piano, therefore allowing the dust to settle evenly. For the fingerprints to be there, someone had to have been in there in the past 26 years.
P.S. LOL@the RITZ Crackers in the background.
P.P.S. I expect to be posting more critiques on subtle discrepencies, like the sudden scenery change in "Cry Wolf", or the status of the open/closed present in "About a Boy". I also will be posting some random tutorials, more like "How to do's- cool effects in movies." That would be fun.
See ya around.
z.
rogar-BigGrin(DBG) ). Sometimes, particularly in low budget, the errors are caught but it's too late to really do much about it as the cost-to-correction ratio just doesn't make sense.