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Production Mistakes I think they Made on the Movie
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Linda Higgins on April 01, 2007, 09:17:52 am ---I am still pissed they cut my scene! ::) My fingers were brown for a month standing there with that sopping wet coffee filter. :-X I wished I had ordered a hundred post cards now.
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You should've. You could sell them postcards a Brokeback Mountain for a lot a money, now. Maybe even clear enough to get out a friggin'-cold Wyomin'. Maybe go some place warm, like Mexico. ;D
ifyoucantfixit:
With all the memoribilia madness now. You should have kept the coffee
filters,, probably got something out of them too....and your little holywood obligatory sunglasses too.... maybe even some of jake and heaths butts....the cigarette variety of course... anything with dna janice
Toast:
I hate to admit that there are production errors in Brokeback Mountain, but there are some. I think it's unfair to say the it's loaded with errors. If we pick any other movie from the video shop and scrutinize it the way we do Brokeback, then I think we'd be amazed at the errors in these other movies. We just don't give a damn about most of the scenes or props in most of the movies we see.
However here's one production error I haven't seen presented.
The scene at Aguirre's trailer in the opening sequence:
When Ennis arrives at the trailer (which seems to be facing east) the sun is about 60 degrees overhead - more like 11 am as far as I can tell.
When they enter the trailer the sun is almost overhead, casting shadows straight down the front of the trailer, barely shining on the window sill inside.
When they exit the trailer the shadows are higher (as they should be) and the front of the trailer is almost in its own shade, with little or no direct rays entering the windows.
However - and this is the real production error as far as I can see - while they are in the trailer the sun is pouring into the front windows and crossing the trailer at a 45 degree angle as Annie Proulx described.
So the interior scenes were shot earlier in the day - substantially earlier - than the exterior scenes.
Solution: Simple - when Ang called "action," the least the sun could have done was to assume the correct position.
moremojo:
--- Quote from: Toast on April 04, 2007, 11:17:21 am ---I hate to admit that there are production errors in Brokeback Mountain, but there are some. I think it's unfair to say the it's loaded with errors. If we pick any other movie from the video shop and scrutinize it the way we do Brokeback, then I think we'd be amazed at the errors in these other movies. We just don't give a damn about most of the scenes or props in most of the movies we see.
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Very true. The Rocky Horror Picture Show has been seen dozens, even hundreds of times by many, many people since its 1975 release, and it's brimming with the kinds of continuity errors that have been remarked upon in this thread. The errors have gained such notoriety precisely because the film has been watched so extensively and so often. And The Rocky Horror Picture Show was made on a budget only slightly exceeding one million dollars (very modest funding for a commercial feature, even in 1974 and 1975).
It is the rule rather than the exception that a film will have at least a few errors, and by and large I find them negligible from an artistic point of view. Rather, they serve as reminders that the film in question is a work of artifice, and such reminders do not generally bother me.
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Toast on April 04, 2007, 11:17:21 am ---Solution: Simple - when Ang called "action," the least the sun could have done was to assume the correct position.
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Chortle! At least OUR sun follows directions on the Performance Thread!!
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