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From: reiher@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: second blood and mistakes
Message-ID: <5882@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 6-Jun-85 16:19:39 EDT
Article-I.D.: ucla-cs.5882
Posted: Thu Jun  6 16:19:39 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 9-Jun-85 03:33:30 EDT
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Reply-To: reiher@ucla-cs.UUCP (Peter Reiher)
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Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
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In article <1765@think.ARPA> gary@think.ARPA (Gary Sabot) writes:
>
>	There are two girls bright blue dresses that you can see along
>the riverbank, and they appear a few minutes AFTER the girl that rescued
>Rambo is killed.
>
>	Do mistakes like this, or the very visible tow rope that pulls
>the car Grace Jones is supposed to be pushing into a lake in A View To A
>Kill, often appear in major movies?

They are moderately common in lower budget Hollywood films (I'm talking about
budgets around $3-$5 million) and in films with lots of complex action
sequences, particularly those which are expensive or difficult to repeat.
For instance, in the car scene in "A View to a Kill", every time they reshot
it they had to drag the car out of the water again, give it time to drain
completely so that it wouldn't drip on camera, probably wash it and do some
refurbishing to make it look OK, before they could reshoot.  (They might have
used several identical cars, but since it was a Rolls Royce, if memory serves,
I doubt if they would have gone to that expense.)  In fact, they may have just
shot this scene once.

In "Second Blood", probably no one noticed the girls in the background until
after they had wrapped up shooting.  Once you notice, you don't take the
film crew back to Mexico at a cost of several hundred thousand dollars, you
just try to make sure that the mistake isn't too visible.  Alternately, if this
sequence involved lots of explosions, etc., in the same shot, then the 
producer may have thought it too expensive to set everything up again just to
cover one small problem.
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        			Peter Reiher
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