When movie "mistakes" get legitimised one way or another.
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00:00Who among us doesn't love spotting a totally ridiculous mistake in a movie?
00:04Filmmaking is so damn hard that it's frankly impressive that there aren't more mistakes in most films.
00:10Yet every so often a mistake will emerge that, for one reason or another, transitions into canon.
00:15And with that in mind, I'm Josh from WhatCulture.com and these are 10 Movie Mistakes That Became Canon.
00:20Number 10. Mrs. TV Doesn't Know Her Music, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
00:24An oft-cited mistake in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory occurs when Willy Wonka himself plays a tune on the keyboard to open the door to his chocolate room.
00:33A musical piece which Mrs. TV confidently identifies as a Rachmaninoff.
00:38But as it turns out, Wonka wasn't actually playing a Rachmaninoff composition at all, but rather Mozart's overture to The Marriage of Figaro.
00:46It's a gaffe that truly flew over the heads of most young viewers, myself included.
00:49Though some adults familiar with classical music have often pointed out the supposed error.
00:55Yet on the film's DVD commentary, it was actually clarified that this wasn't really a mistake at all.
01:00It was simply intended to demonstrate Mrs. TV's know-it-all personality that she's not nearly as smart and worldly as she evidently thinks she is.
01:08Ironically, it also ends up making those who point it out as a mistake seem a little overconfident in their own powers of observation,
01:15given that they missed that it was actually supposed to indicate this about the character.
01:19Though it's been parroted as a mistake for literally decades at this point,
01:22those in the know have made it abundantly clear that this character is the ignorant one, not author-screenwriter Roald Dahl.
01:29Number 9, Rocky's oversized robe, Rocky.
01:32You'd be forgiven for letting out a little chuckle when you first see Rocky Balboa in his distinctive red boxing robe at the end of Rocky,
01:40ahead of his clash with heavyweight boxing world champion Apollo Creed.
01:43The robe's clearly way too big for star Sylvester Stallone, and gives the impression of someone basically playing dress-up in their dad's gear.
01:51And as it turns out, this was a legitimate error on the part of the film's costume department, with an oversized robe accidentally being delivered to set.
01:59Without any backup costume or any means to get it altered before shooting, Stallone made the executive decision to work the wardrobe malfunction into the plot,
02:06resulting in a cute little moment when Rocky asks Adrian,
02:09you don't think this robe looks too baggy, you know?
02:11Ultimately, though, it only enhances Rocky's status as the underestimated underdog.
02:16I mean, if this guy doesn't even have a robe that fits him, how could he possibly go the distance against Apollo Creed?
02:22Sometimes, the happiest accidents end up creating the most organic movie moments.
02:26Number 8, The Overlook Hotel's impossible geography, The Shining.
02:30Stanley Kubrick maintains a reputation as one of the most meticulous and detail-orientated filmmakers who has ever lived,
02:36such that any notable mistakes in his films are more often than not entirely intentional, well-thought-out decisions.
02:43Case in point, many have pointed out over the years that the iconic Overlook Hotel in The Shining doesn't make much sense in terms of spatial geography.
02:51We get considerable glimpses of the hotel's layout throughout the horror classic,
02:54yet anyone who actually tries to map The Overlook will soon realise that, as seen in the film,
02:59there are doors that can't feasibly lead anywhere.
03:02In the hands of a lesser filmmaker, this might seem like just a colossal oversight,
03:06but coming from the pathologically fastidious Kubrick, it's probably unlikely that it's a gaff.
03:12Though Kubrick didn't ever confirm this himself during his lifetime,
03:16it is largely accepted among fans now that he chose to intentionally present The Overlook as incoherent and disorientating
03:22to further generate a mood of eeriness and uncertainty.
03:26Number seven, Simon Skinner breaks the fourth wall, Hot Fuzz.
03:29It's simply a matter of practicality that filmmakers can't catch every single mistake during shooting.
03:34And in the case of Hot Fuzz, director Edgar Wright didn't notice that the great Timothy Dalton
03:39briefly eyeballed the camera during one scene.
03:42When Dalton's smug villain Simon Skinner proposes a toast to the newly dead Martin and Eve,
03:47for a few fractions of a second, his eyes actually dart into the sightline of the camera lens,
03:51ensuring that he locks fleeting eyes with the audience.
03:55On the film's DVD commentary, Wright pointed this out and added that he originally considered
04:00using visual effects to correct Dalton's gaze, but ultimately decided that it would be funnier
04:04to turn it into a meta moment instead.
04:07And so Wright had his sound team add the sound of a cash register clinking in the background
04:11to draw greater attention to it.
04:13And considering that Skinner is basically outing himself as a villain throughout the entire scene,
04:17it is pretty hilarious, if initially unintended, that he basically ends up winking at the audience
04:23for a tiny sliver of screen time.
04:25Number 6, All the Editing Mistakes, Shutter Island.
04:28Shutter Island is easily one of Martin Scorsese's most mainstream skewing movies,
04:32if not his absolute most.
04:34So it tracks that it's also this film that's been put under the most scrutiny for being filled
04:38with so-called mistakes.
04:40In fact, also many armchair continuity supervisors online have called the film out for its uncharacteristically
04:46rough editing, most often pointing out the sequence where US Marshals Teddy and Chuck
04:51interview a patient at Ashcliff Hospital, Bridget Kearns.
04:54In one shot, Kearns is seen drinking a cup of water, except there's no glass in her hand
04:59if you look closely.
05:00Yet in the next shot, it is actually visible.
05:02Even if you very generously assume that Scorsese was going to CGI the glass into the shot later
05:07on for some reason, isn't it far more plausible that this was a case of a master filmmaker
05:13collaborating with his equally masterful editor, of more than 50 years by the way, to straight
05:18up screw with the audience?
05:20Considering that there are other strange editing and continuity choices through the film, it
05:24was clearly a case of Scorsese trying to keep audiences on their toes while approximating
05:29Teddy's own slipping sanity.
05:31Number 5, The Talkative Extra, Star Trek IV The Voyage Home.
05:34Star Trek IV The Voyage Home is just one hell of a wild movie, revolving around the Enterprise's
05:39crew traveling back through time to 1986 San Francisco.
05:43The characters are all portioned off into their own respective subplots, with Uhura and
05:47Chekov being tasked with finding a nuclear reactor that will let them return to the 23rd
05:52century.
05:52And it's at this point we cue a hilarious skit where the duo start asking random locals
05:57how they can locate the nuclear vessels.
06:00Though the extras in the area were under strict instructions not to speak to the pair, but
06:04simply keep walking, one extra evidently didn't get the memo.
06:08This extra, Leila Saracalo, decided to shoot her shot in the moment, telling the pair,
06:13I don't know if I know the answer to that, I think it's across the bay, in Alameda.
06:17And if you look closely at the actors in this scene, you can definitely see their genuine
06:21surprise at her response.
06:22Yet, ever the pros, they managed to keep in character with the response themselves.
06:26Ultimately, director Lennon Nimoy liked this contribution, and so the small but memorable
06:31interaction was actually kept in the film.
06:33Number 4, The Anachronistic Period Detail, The Village
06:36M. Night Shyamalan's wildly divisive The Village was dinged for many things upon release,
06:41and for anyone paying attention while they were watching it the first time, they might
06:45have had a few criticisms about the production and costume design.
06:48See, while viewing it without any prior knowledge of its inevitable plot twist, you might be a
06:52bit mystified by the noticeably contemporary buildings built from materials only used since
06:58the 1950s, despite the film itself allegedly being set in a 19th century village.
07:04Furthermore, many items of clothing worn throughout by the commune's characters shouldn't have
07:08existed until around 1970, and during the first hour of the movie, you'd be forgiven for just
07:13thinking that Shyamalan simply got lazy where the finer details were concerned.
07:17Yet, that was all proven hilariously, if bafflingly wrong, in the third act, when we learn that the
07:23village itself actually exists within the present day, providing a plausible reason for the period
07:28inaccurate buildings and clothes.
07:31Number 3, Joel Can't Shoot Arrows, Adam's Family Values
07:34The Adam's Family Values is a stone-cold masterpiece of a comedy sequel, and in recent years seems to
07:40finally be getting its due. Now, admittedly, not everything in the shoot went quite according to
07:45plan, though in this case, it did end up only making one scene that much funnier. See, the film
07:50features a legendary subplot in which Wednesday and Pugsley are sent to a chirpy summer camp, where
07:56Wednesday meets a similarly unenthusiastic outcast called Joel Glicker. Among the many camp activities
08:01the trio are forced to participate in, they're made to shoot arrows, resulting in Joel growing frustrated
08:07as he struggles to load and fire his arrow instead of just throwing it on the ground. Now, this throwing
08:12it on the ground wasn't part of the initial script, however, as the actor was apparently not much of a
08:17practically-minded kid either, and couldn't load the arrow for real, and amidst his struggle got
08:23legitimately annoyed and just threw it on the ground. This apparently generated uproarious laughter on
08:28the set, enough that director Barry Sonnenfeld decided to use it in the film.
08:32Number 2, Lando Mispronounces Han's Name, Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back
08:36For literally more than 40 years at this point, Star Wars fans have wondered why Lando Calrissian just
08:42can't seem to pronounce his uneasy pal Han Solo's name correctly, which by the way I've
08:47since learned, I've also been doing my entire life. See, in The Empire Strikes Back, Lando
08:52pronounces Han as if to rhyme with Can, no matter that Han himself pronounces it to rhyme
08:57with Non, essentially. Oh, not in my accent. Now, many at the time simply pawned it off as
09:02actor Billy Dee Williams, offering up his own eccentric interpretation of the name, and because
09:06Empire was directed by Irvin Kirshner rather than George Lucas, there perhaps wasn't the same
09:11impetus to correct it. But nearly four decades on, fans finally had the pronunciation error
09:16fully canonized in Solo, A Star Wars Story. See, in this prequel, Han and Lando meet for
09:22the first time during a game of sabacc, where Lando mocks Han's incorrect pronunciation of
09:26the name. But moments later, Lando then gets Han's name wrong himself, which of course goes
09:32commented on. It's a cute little moment that demonstrates the origin of Lando's weird
09:36pronunciation and his ongoing refusal to say it right, which again, I can totally vibe
09:42with. Number one, Hal's incorrect chess player, 2001 A Space Odyssey. Throughout the years,
09:47chess fans have periodically pointed out to an alleged mistake when Dr. Frank Poole plays
09:52the Discovery One sentient computer Hal 9000 at chess in Stanley Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey.
09:59In the scene, Hal wins by persuading Poole to resign the game after pointing out his future
10:03moves. But if you're much of a chess player, which admittedly I definitely am not, you
10:08might have noticed that Hal actually describes an incorrect set of moves. Hal says Queen to
10:13Bishop 3 when he should have said Queen to Bishop 6, yet the latter move would have allowed Poole
10:18to stay in the game a little longer. Now, is it easy to believe that Kubrick, himself an
10:23avid chess player, didn't think fellow chess lovers would notice, or is it more likely that
10:27he included Hal's error intentionally? After all, it's easy to interpret Hal's mistake
10:32as both a sign of his impending malfunction, and him testing his ability to deceive the
10:37astronauts even at something as comparatively trivial as a chess game. While chess fans might
10:42want to hold onto this one as a mistake, knowing Kubrick and his deliberate mindset as we do,
10:46it's basically accepted as canon today that Hal intentionally cheated. He is, after all,
10:52putting it mildly, a little rascal. So, that's our list. I want to know what you guys think down
10:56in the comments below. Did you notice these so-called movie mistakes, and are there any of the ones that
11:00are wrongly identified that wind you up as well? Let me know in the way down there. If you could,
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