Temple continuity errors

[JediIndy]

I was just watching Temple for about the 100th time and I noticed some continuity errors. In the scene with the car and the riksha driver. I noticed the sailor and his girlfriend seemed to switch from left to right several times.
Did anyone else notice this?

Also when they begin there journey on elephant from the village to Pankot Palace, when Willie is putting perfume on the elephant and Indy looks back at her oddly he is fatherly holding Shorty over the shoulders on his elephant. Then they switch to a wide shot crossing a stream with the elephant handlers and shorty is sitting on his small elephant!!!"

Is it just my recording..or did anyone notice this editing error. In fact I am noticing alot of editing errors in this film.

[Jay R. Zay]

gee that's weird. :confused: continuity errors...

( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087469/goofs )

[Michael Jones]

Michael Kahn was never a good editor IMHO. :o How he ever won an oscar is beyond me :rolleyes:

[roundshort]

gee that's weird. :confused: continuity errors...

( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087469/goofs )


picky picky picky

[AndyLGR]

gee that's weird. :confused: continuity errors...

( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087469/goofs )
Without going through this link, the ones that always stuck in my mind from first viewing were when Indy is faced with the 2 Thuggess and we get the play on the Raiders gun gag. Indy whips one of the guys swords over the cliff and then he has a sword in his hand. The other being his burning bag with the broken strap containing the sankara stones, when he starts to climb back up the bag is fine.

Picky I suppose, but stuff like that in a multi million dollar movie should be right, I agree on the editing comment above.

[oki9Sedo]

Here's one. How come when Indy's fighting the giant Thuggee slavemaster, his punches have no effect whatsoever initially, but when the fight moves to the rock-crusher treadmill thingy, he punches him and the Thuggee falls over and shouts in pain?

[deckard24]

I guess this may or may not be a continuity error, but I always thought it was odd how Indy had his jacket back on at the very end of TOD. He went into the tunnel in Pankot Palace wearing it and was captured by Mola Ram's guards. He doesn't wear it for the rest of the film until the return to the village. I guess he went back into the underground caverns of Pankot Palace to get it, after the British soldiers cleared out the thuggees. The place would have been a mess with the water, and it's kind of hard to believe Mola Ram stowed it away for him neatly in his quarters. I guess I thought once he was a Kali zombie they would take all his belongings and dispose of them:hat, jacket, whip, and bag. I guess it's just one of those things you have to overlook in movies. If not, Indy wouldn't have his trademark outfit and that would not be right!

[Viper]

In the list in the link, the error about the fortune cookies, isn't it possible that Indy gave him a fortune cookie? Or possibly took him back to the U.S., because I doubt Indy would live in China for several years, and I doubt he would trust Short Round had he only known him for a few days.

[Indy1986]

there is one thing i never understood and maybe it was so not important to spielberg that he didn't bother much if it gave sense....
club obi wan....willie scott is dancing and doing her song in mandarin....she gets inside that dragon mouth or whatever it is and suddenly she is on the huge stage with many dancers.....well how is that possible later on when u look around in that club there is no such big huge stage!
another thing is those red foulards that the dancers take out of their jacket...notice how willie walks under them and pulls on the end suddenly all those single red foulards are one single big red foulards...how is that possible? and then she runs back under those foulards and suddenly she is back in the "small stage" wiht the dragon mouth....
so can anyody explain this
i just guess spielberg didn't care much if it made sense it just had ot look good

[Attila the Professor]

there is one thing i never understood and maybe it was so not important to spielberg that he didn't bother much if it gave sense....
club obi wan....willie scott is dancing and doing her song in mandarin....she gets inside that dragon mouth or whatever it is and suddenly she is on the huge stage with many dancers.....well how is that possible later on when u look around in that club there is no such big huge stage!
another thing is those red foulards that the dancers take out of their jacket...notice how willie walks under them and pulls on the end suddenly all those single red foulards are one single big red foulards...how is that possible? and then she runs back under those foulards and suddenly she is back in the "small stage" wiht the dragon mouth....
so can anyody explain this
i just guess spielberg didn't care much if it made sense it just had ot look good

As I recall, part of the intention was to make a Busby Berkeley style dance number. In that era of musicals, it was frequently the case that a number would ostenibly be taking place on a stage, but really go far beyond the physical bounds of what the stage could be. In this context, then, we can understand his reason.

[Gear]

Hmm.... well you guys were talking about how Indy "loses" his jacket and then gets it back. Well this may not completly explian it but in Emporers Tomb (caution: I should say this just in case, for those of you who havent played ET, spoilers ahead) Indy is captured by the Nazis. When he is kidnapted he is wearing his jacket but when they take him to Istambul he isn't. You have to retrieve your satchel, wip, ect. after escaping your cell but when he does his jacket isn't there. Two chapters later he has his coat. Now I always asumed that (since his jacket has dissapeard in the movies as well) that he just folds his jacket up and puts it in his satchel... Maby when he was captured in ET Von Beck just wanted to save room... Peculiar...

[Indy1986]

As I recall, part of the intention was to make a Busby Berkeley style dance number. In that era of musicals, it was frequently the case that a number would ostenibly be taking place on a stage, but really go far beyond the physical bounds of what the stage could be. In this context, then, we can understand his reason.

ao do u basically mena that in order to do this great musical show they didnt care about whether or not it makes sense referring to the stage size ?

[Attila the Professor]

ao do u basically mena that in order to do this great musical show they didnt care about whether or not it makes sense referring to the stage size ?

That's what seems sensible to me, yes. It's an homage.

[Gustav]

Michael Kahn was never a good editor IMHO. :o How he ever won an oscar is beyond me :rolleyes:


Editing isn't making goofs disappear, contrary to popular belief.

[ClintonHammond]

"they didnt care about whether or not it makes sense"
It isn't supposed to be REAL....

[Aaron H]

That's what seems sensible to me, yes. It's an homage.
I understood it to be that Willie was just imagining the whole "big stage" thing, because that was her hope and dream to star in a big broadway production.

[Gear]

perhaps, every thing was all sparkly

[oki9Sedo]

I understood it to be that Willie was just imagining the whole "big stage" thing, because that was her hope and dream to star in a big broadway production.

I don't think that was the idea....I thought it was just supposed to be a nodding reference to old musicals where hundreds of backing up vocalists appear out of nowhere.