movie mistakes?

Question

I was listening to the radio this morning, and they were talking about the little mermaid and another disney movie the prince had a "male problem". And in the wizard of oz there are rumors of the guy dieing in the background.

Does anyone know of any youtube videos or pictures or something of either of these so that maybe i can get an idea of if they are true or not. (i dont think they are, but it is kinda an arguement at school and i want proof either way) or if you know of any other movie mistakes such as these...thanks

Answer 1

Snopes.com has a lot of these. Click on the link below and when you're done reading scroll all the way to the bottom and click on "next legend"...it will show you a whole bunch.

Answer 2

In Anaconda the waterfall flows upwards as they are leaving the docks.

There is also rumor of there being a figure behind a curtain in Three Men and a Baby. they claim it was filmed on the 3rd floor of a building and it had to be a ghost. It is in the scene that ted danson is talking on the phone.

In the laserdisk version of the little mermaid there is a full frontal nudity shot of her as she walks across the beach, but you have to view it frame by frame.

There is also the word sex written in the prairie grass in the Lion King, but I think that that was intentional.

In the movie white noise in the very last scene there is what looks like a camera glare floating above the van as it drives away from the cemetery, if you pause it and zoom in on it the glare is a persons face. That I know as a fact.

As far as the wizard of oz, the story is true, but it can only be seen in the original, like the vhs version of the movie. It takes place when they are moving down the yellow brick road i think just after they meet the scarecrow. There is a man in the background(Far background Center Screen) swing from a ope hanging from a tree. From all I have found it is legitimate, but like I said it was edited out in newer versions of the movie.

I am a bit of a movie buff, so if you have any other questions about movies let me know...

Answer 3

I have spotted a number of errors on both TV and the movies. None of them are applicable to your question but generally they are technical matters. I am retired military and have noted countless uniform and appearance errors on numerous shows. I am also a trained gunsmith and the technical errors there are beyond belief. Things like 1894 model weapons carried by men in Confederate uniforms, 30 shots fired from a 6 shot revolver without reloading and things like that. Part of a job I had involved aircraft accident investigation, In one of the Airport movies a Boeing 747 dipped a wing into the water and pulled it out, That ain't going to happen. Another part of the same job dealt with weapons for A-10 aircraft. A movie opened with an A-10 dropping napalm. The aircraft is not certified to carry that weapon. On The West Wing an F-117 was shot down while patrolling a no fly zone. The F-117 carries two bombs. That's it, it has no air to air capabilities at all and is not used to patrol anything.

That's the sort of things I notice. See, I told you it wasn't applicable to your question.

I hope you find the information you are looking for.

Answer 4

The wizard of oz one is true, they cut it from the movie, he had hung himself, The little mermaid is a joke because it was an animated movie. They add stupid things to the ends of the new one like cuts and things, but that one is not true. I don't know where you can look them up tho. Only IMDB. They have everything.

Answer 5

Claim: A lovelorn actor portraying one of the munchkins hanged himself on the set during the filming of The Wizard of Oz, and his death was captured on-camera and used in the final print.

Status: False.

Origins: The
so-called "munchkin suicide" scene occurs at the very end of the Tin Woodsman sequence, as Dorothy, the Scarecrow, and the Tin Woodsman head down the road on their way to the Emerald City. This sequence begins with If they only had a brain! Dorothy and the Scarecrow trying to pick fruit from the talking apple trees, encompasses their discovery of the rusted tin man and their encounter with the Wicked Witch of the West (who tries to set the Scarecrow on fire), and ends with the trio heading off to Oz in search of the Wizard. To give the indoor set used in this sequence a more "outdoors" feel, several birds of various sizes were borrowed from the Los Angeles Zoo and allowed to roam the set. (A peacock, for example, can be seen wandering around just outside the Tin Woodsman's shack while Dorothy and the Scarecrow attempt to revive him with oil.) At the very end of this sequence, as the three main characters move down the road and away from the camera, one of the larger birds (often said to be an emu, but more probably a crane) standing at the back of the set moves around and spreads its wings. No munchkin, no hanging -- just a big bird.

The unusual movement in the background of the scene described above was noticed years ago, and it was often attributed to a stagehand's accidentally being caught on the set after the cameras started rolling (or, more spectacularly, a stagehand's falling out of a prop tree into the scene). With the advent of home video, viewing audiences were able to rewind and replay the scene in question, view it in slow-motion, and look at individual frames in the sequence (all on screens smaller and less distinct than those of theaters), and imaginations ran wild. The change in focus of the rumor from a hapless stagehand to a suicidal munchkin (driven to despair over his unrequited love for a female munchkin) seems to have coincided with the heavy promotion and special video re-release of The Wizard of Oz in celebration of its 50th anniversary in 1989: someone made up the story of a diminutive actor who, suffering the pangs of unrequited love for a female "little person," decided to end it all right there on the set, and soon everyone was eager to share this special little film "secret" with others. Since (grossly exaggerated) tales of munchkin lechery and drunken misbehavior on the "Oz" set had been circulating for years (primarily spread by Judy Garland herself in television talk show appearances), the wild suicide story had some seeming background plausibility to it. (Other versions of the rumor combined elements from both explanations, such as the claim that the strange figure was actually a stagehand hanging himself.)

The logistics of this alleged hanging defy all credulity. First of all, the forest scenes in The Wizard of Oz were filmed before the Munchkinland scenes, and thus none of the munchkin actors would have been present. And whether one believes that the figure on the film is a munchkin or a stagehand, it is simply impossible that a human being could have fallen onto a set actively being used for filming, and yet none of the dozens of people present -- actors, directors, cameramen, sound technicians, light operators -- failed to notice or react to the occurrence. (The tragic incident would also had to have been overlooked by all the directors, editors, film cutters, musicians, and others who worked on the film in post-production as well.) That anyone could believe a scene featuring a real suicide would have been left intact in a classic film for over fifty years is simply incredible.

Additional information: The sound clip below is commentary about the munchkin rumor by Oz expert John Fricke, taken from the soundtrack of The Ultimate Oz laserdisc set. The video clip show several seconds of the scene in question -- watch the middle of the screen as Dorothy, the Scarecrow, and the Tin Woodsman head down the Yellow Brick Road.







also in the lord of the rings where pippen and mary are w/ the ork things, when the horse is about to stomp pippen his hands are tied, then the camera goes to his brother then when it goes back to pippen, his hands are free...where did the rope go??

Answer 6

In Phantom of the Opera, Christine goes into the Phantom's lair wearing stockings. And when I say stockings, I mean STOCKINGS. They go all the way up her thighs. She is seen wearing them all through Music of the Night, and when the Phantom carries her to the Swan bed. When Christine gets out of the bed just before Stranger then you Dreamt It, she is obviously not wearing the stockings. Considering that the Phantom was the only other person there at the time, it kind of makes you wonder...

Answer 7

There is one in Gone With The Wind.

During the scene where Atlanta is burning you can see electric street lights OOPS

Answer 8

check out www.imdb.com. each movie has a trivia and goofs section

Answer 9

put
"hidden disney signs"
on google or try snopes:
http://snopes.com/disney/films/films.asp