Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site dg_rtp.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!mcnc!rti-sel!dg_rtp!throopw From: throopw@dg_rtp.UUCP Newsgroups: net.movies,net.tv Subject: Re: blooper in "Diamonds are Forever" Message-ID: <101@dg_rtp.UUCP> Date: Tue, 21-Jan-86 18:07:01 EST Article-I.D.: dg_rtp.101 Posted: Tue Jan 21 18:07:01 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 23-Jan-86 21:15:00 EST References: <3232@hplabsb.UUCP> <839@asgb.UUCP> Lines: 30 Xref: watmath net.movies:9002 net.tv:3904 > >racing down the narrowing alley, he grabs the steering wheel with his left > >hand, the girl with his right, runs the left wheels of the car up a ramp > >and proceeds down the narrow alley by balancing on the right wheels. > >However, the next scene shows the car emerging from the alley balanced on > >its LEFT wheels. Did anyone else notice this? > yes, indeed. a rather blatant error which should not have passed > continuity. i wonder if that entire scene was reversed... I don't have it taped, but I had always assumed it was a straightforward continuity error. It is understandable when you remember that the camera angles are different between the two scenes. Going into the alley, the car makes a lower-right-to-upper-left diagonal on the screen (on the right wheels). Comeing out, it again makes a lower-right-to-upper-left diagonal, (but this time on the left wheels), since the emergence is shot from a camera angle almost 180 degrees different. That's probably why it wasn't noticed when screening it for continuity errors... the car makes the same sort of shape on screen in both scenes. I have wondered if the stunt man did it that way on purpose, to see if it would be caught before printing. Surely the person driving the car would be able to tell what was going on (but maybe there were at least two stunt drivers....). >> <3232@hplabsb.UUCP> bl@hplabsb.UUCP > -brad ...!seismo!hao!asgb!brad -- Wayne Throop at Data General, RTP, NC !mcnc!rti-sel!dg_rtp!throopw