set designs, production assistants and the cameras catching them all, the finished movie

is just a tiny glimpse of the actual work – and talented people - that goes into making

it. Usually, it’s the editor’s job to make sure that what’s outside of each shot

stays there – but they’re only human. Which means some truly incredible mistakes

can make it into the final product for our viewing pleasure. Here are Screen Rant’s

Movie Mistakes That Slipped Through Editing.

The Bourne Identity

Matt Damon’s role as a CIA Assassin suffering from amnesia singlehandedly re-defined modern

spy thrillers, showing Jason Bourne to possess superhuman levels of stealth and battlefield

awareness. When he first arrives on land after being rescued from the sea by a fishing crew,

he quite literally disappears into the surrounding city, illustrating how effective his innate

ability to remain undetected truly is. Until viewers take a closer look at his disappearance,

and notice the pair of extras attempting – and failing – to conceal actor Matt Damon ducking

behind the truck driving across the set, with his feet and bright red jacket clearly visible.

Maybe another take would have been wise.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

By the time the Chamber of Secrets rolled around, Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy were

already each other’s worst enemies. So it’s no surprise that when the children of Hogwarts

began their training in magical duels, the two wound up crossing wands. As always, Harry

winds up getting the better of his foe to the delight of the students present. The students,

and the camera man who the director either didn’t notice, or somehow assumed audiences

wouldn’t spot. How this unplanned cameo wasn’t defeated by some editing magic is

beyond us.

Back to the Future

Aside from the questions of time travel and parallel universes, Marty McFly’s trip backwards

and forwards through the decades is home to several small mistakes or inconsistencies.

But it’s the most inconsequential error that has become the most well-known – and

frankly, the most unsettling. When Doc Brown returns with his family in tow in the final

scene of the trilogy, his youngest son offers a gesture that once noticed, can never be

ignored. Most accept that the young actor was simply signaling that he was in need of

a washroom break, but we’re not buying it. They don’t have toilets on time-traveling

trains?

Jurassic Park

The fact that Steven Spielberg’s dinosaur adventure has aged better than most other

special effects-driven films is usually credited to Steven Spielberg’s use of real dinosaur

models along with completely CGI creatures. But that decision didn’t come without a

few drawbacks. No fan will forget when a pair of raptors pursued the movie’s child stars

through the park’s kitchen, but it turns out the dinosaur models were less graceful

than their CG versions. Apparently needing a crew member’s hand to help keep their

balance.

The Hurt Locker

It isn’t just dinosaurs that can use a hand from an off-screen crew member. In this story

of a bomb disposal team deployed during the Iraq War, soldiers on the ground had more

to worry about than just explosives. When investigating an enemy-controlled warehouse,

someone on the film’s set decided that star Jeremy Renner needed some help moving through

a curtain of plastic sheeting, putting his entire hand into frame. Why the shot wasn’t

cut a moment sooner is a mystery, meaning it’s entirely possible it was missed altogether.

Gladiator

In a film as massive as Ridley Scott’s Roman epic, audiences are willing to overlook some

small mistakes. But the director put that theory to the test, peppering the movie with

too many mistakes to count. There’s the crew member who somehow stumbled into a shot

as hero Maximus greets a Roman horse, Barbarian extras who decide to take a break in the midst

of a fierce battle, an exposed air canister used to flip a chariot in the Roman Coliseum,

and the downright awful body padding used to protect one actor from arrows and swords.

But nothing beats star Russell Crowe’s famous question, posed after he singlehandedly wiped

out multiple opponents. It’s taken as a political statement for those watching the

fight, but it was clearly directed at the camera crew visible in a wider shot.

Jaws

When word first breaks of a man-eating shark off the shores of Amity, everyone in possession

of a boat takes off in search of the bounty placed on the great white’s head. The chaos

that follows is a nightmare for Police Chief Brody, but is clearly perfect for the filmmakers.

Apparently, director Steven Spielberg got so captivated by the excitement, he assumed

audiences would be as well, leaving the entire camera crew’s boats visible in the middle

of frame, revealing to audiences exactly how they had captured the shots shown immediately

beforehand.

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Given the number of extras used in the first Indiana Jones adventure, and how large some

of the movie’s action sequences were, a mistake or unfortunate error is impossible

to avoid. Take, for instance, the reflection of the entire camera crew in the cockpit of

a Nazi aircraft, or the infamous ‘gun vs. sword’ sequence starring the world’s worst

butcher. But the film’s most ridiculous mistake is also its most ironic. To make sure

their Tunisian backdrop resembled 1936 Cairo, the crew famously removed over 300 TV antennas

from surrounding rooftops. That level of dedication pays off in the finished film... until a man

wearing blue jeans and a t-shirt strolls through the background just minutes later.

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

The second chapter of Peter Jackson’s fantasy trilogy begins with three of the Fellowship

stumbling into the land of Rohan, leading to a tense introduction with Eomer, a noble

soldier and ally in the rest of the story. An embodiment of honour and dignity, Eomer

ends the standoff by giving his new allies horses and sending them on their way. Unfortunately,

allowing his entire sword to slide out of its sheath in the process. Clearly too embarrassed

to acknowledge the mistake, we can only assume he left as quickly as possible to find a suitable

replacement.

Frozen

Just because animated films are created a single frame at a time, that doesn’t mean

mistakes won’t slip by just as easily. One of the most well-known sequences in Disney’s

smash success Frozen stars the magical Queen Elsa, embracing her powers with a performance

of the award-winning song “Let it Go.” In all the excitement, it seems the artists

decided to let the laws of physics go as well, allowing Elsa to let down her hair, and have

it pass from front to back, phasing through her left arm in the process. The ability to

control ice and snow and create an eternal winter is one thing, but we have to draw the

line somewhere.

Those are some of our favourite movie mistakes that seemed to slip by the filmmakers unnoticed.

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