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| IMDB Rating: 8.6/10 out of 274,173 votes |
“American Beauty” 1999 by Sam Mendes – Movie Goofs
“American Beauty” Plot Summary
Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation for his daughter’s attractive friend.
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“American Beauty” Goofs List
- Continuity: The white decorative pillow Lester picks up and throws off Carolyn’s precious blue and white striped silk sofa bounces off the floor and lands in the armchair behind him, returns to it’s original position against the arm of the sofa in the next shot and then reappears in the armchair when the camera cuts back to Lester..
- Continuity: The amount of hair over Angela’s shoulder when she stands up after asking about the stereo.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In Jane’s phone book, she has Lester’s work phone number as 555-1251; he gives it as 555-0199, but he may have multiple lines. However, this is not her mother’s work number of 555-0195, despite some reports to the contrary.
- Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: The angle at which the blood flies when Lester is shot is too low to be from his head. Earlier, the same shot shows his head to be much higher in the frame.
- Continuity: When Colonel Fitts breaks into Ricky’s room in a rage and punches him, the blood is already on Ricky’s nose before the fist makes contact.
- Continuity: The level of Lester’s carrot juice in the blender cup which he drinks from is 1/2 full at the beginning of the scene, 1/4 full in the middle of the scene and 1/3 full at the end of the scene..
- Continuity: When Ricky and his parents are looking toward the television, three framed pictures are visible on top. In the reverse shot from behind the television looking at the Fitts on the sofa the frames disappear, then reappear again in the Fitts’ POV.
- Revealing mistakes: Ricky Fitts walks from the Fitts house to Colonel Fitts, who is washing his car, into a giant, rectangular shadow. That shadow is not possible through real-world causes, because the Fitts’ house is simultaneously casting a shadow forward, towards the street.
- Continuity: When Ricky Fitts walks from the house to Colonel Fitts washing his SUV, the garden hose is relatively straight. Later shots (Lester jogs up to and introduces himself to Ricky’s father) reveal it to be serpentine.
- Continuity: We see the reflection of the three joggers in the rear window of the Fitts’ car because of the angle at which the camera is shooting the scene. Colonel Fitts appears to react to the reflection of the joggers, despite the fact that he would not be able to see it from the angle at which he’s facing the rear window.
- Continuity: The covers on Carolyn’s side of the bed are down and then up when she threatens to divorce Lester.
- Revealing mistakes: When Lester is driving his Toyota Camry while smoking pot, it can clearly be seen that there is a stuntman driving the car as it passes during the beginning of the scene.
- Continuity: When Ricky is filming Jane while she strips for him, the light in his room is on, and it should have given the room enough illumination as to create a reflection in the glass.
- Continuity: While Carolyn is driving home from shooting practice, she turns the wheel quite sharply several times but the scenery never turns with her.
- Continuity: When Buddy King is having lunch with Carolyn, his hair is mostly gray. But in the subsequent spread-eagle sex scene, there’s no gray.
- Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Ricky begins recording Jane, the camera makes the sound of ejecting the tape.
- Revealing mistakes: When Carolyn drives up to her home in the final scene, the rain sounds like it has an echo, as if it were inside a stage.
- Revealing mistakes: When Lester pulls into Mr. Smiley’s for the first time, the logo for Green Burrito is visible in the upper left corner of the drive-thru menu.
- Revealing mistakes: When Ricky opens his father’s glass case to remove the Nazi plate, there is no glass in the door.
- Continuity: After Ricky Fitts’s father has beaten him up for opening the cabinet containing his Nazi plate, he has no evidence of any facial scarring that would have been the result of the open wounds caused by the attack.
- Crew or equipment visible: After he is beaten by his father for looking at the Nazi plate, Ricky Fitts looks in the mirror to examine his wounds. The edge of the camera is visible in the mirror for about a second, then the frame is rearranged so it is no longer visible.
- Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Carolyn slaps Jane in the face, Carolyn can be seen yelling at Jane, from behind, even though the soundtrack is silent.
- Continuity: The finger pulling the trigger at the end is bare but in the next scene the killer is wearing plastic gloves (full-screen version only)
- Continuity: When Ricky Fitts is being videoed by Jane; filmed from the front, the waistband of his shorts is clearly visible. When shot from behind, he is naked (full screen version only).
- Continuity: After closing the blinds/curtain in the “for sale” house, the chain is hanging on Carolyn’s right shoulder. The following shot when she starts walking the chain is already from her shoulder.
- Continuity: Lester driving to the song “American Woman” appears to be making a continuous right turn by the tilt of his steering while driving down a straight road (compare the position of the steering wheel in the next scene where he is actually driving the car into Mr. Smiley’s). The Camry is obviously being towed on a process trailer for this shot but someone has neglected to straighten out the front wheels of the car before turning the engine off and securing it to the trailer.
- Continuity: When Lester wants to dial up Angela while his daughter is in the shower, you can hear that the first two digits he’s dialing are the same and the next one is different. However, the phone book says that Angela’s number starts with (yes, you guessed it) ‘555′, so all three tones must be equal.
- Continuity: When Lester calls Angela for the first time using Jane’s diary, her number starts with 555. But when he uses the phone, he doesn’t even touch the button “5″, he starts dialing with button “2″
- Crew or equipment visible: At the beginning of the movie, when Lester is in the shower, you can see a reflection/silhouette on the shower door.
- Continuity: When Jane and Angela are outside talking to Ricky at school, Angela’s cigarette keeps growing and shrinking throughout the conversation.
- Continuity: When Lester blackmails Brad, Brad’s fingers alternate between interlocked and overlapped.
- Continuity: Carolyn is wearing her gardening gloves in the garage as she lectures Lester about smoking and “setting a good example for our daughter.” When she warns him that “you will not get away with this,” she is not wearing them.
- Continuity: During the fight Lester and Carolyn have after he quits his job, Lester’s beer bottle moves as the camera switches back and forth between the two of them.
- Crew or equipment visible: When Lester is driving in his car after leaving his advertising job, the trailing motorcycle cop escorting the picture vehicle (Camry) being towed on the process trailer behind the camera car can be seen going in and out of the shot in the rear window.
- Continuity: When Lester hears that Angela is staying over for the night, he spills beer on the sink. In the next shot the beer is gone and the sink is clean. Also the beer bottle is held differently, showing the label from another side.
- Continuity: When Angela meets Lester for the second time (by the refrigerator) her head is touching the corner of the wall. In the reverse angle of Lester, her head is away from the wall (so the camera can see Lester).
- Continuity: Before Lester wakes up at the beginning of the movie, his slippers are pointing towards the bed and at an angle. When he gets out of bed, his slippers are in a position so that he can easily slip into them.
- Continuity: When Ricky comes home and finds his parents watching TV, it is night and he is wearing his catering tuxedo even though he just came home from school (as he is carrying a backpack). (The scene – which wasn’t in the original script – was moved from after the real estate party to earlier in the movie.)
- Miscellaneous: When we see Carolyn scrubbing the kitchen counter preparing for her open house, the kitchen sink and window are on the wall camera left. Later when she is showing the house to prospective buyers the kitchen sink and window are on the wall camera right from the same POV. The 180 degree change in the room layout is evidence that the negative has been flipped from one scene to another.
- Miscellaneous: When Caroline opens the garage door to Lester working out, she opens it with her hand from the outside handle (manually) but it continues to open with an automatic garage door opener from th
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