You Probably Missed These Glaring Mistakes in Your Favorite Films

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, there is a scene in which Dr. Jones rushes to save his father's book from being burned. However, this is not historically accurate. The movie is set in 1938, but in reality, the book burnings took place five years earlier.

 

Dirty Dancing

There's no doubt that while Patrick Swayze had every girl in the room swooning with his performance in Dirty Dancing. During a scene where the car is clearly meant to be moving, there's a brief shot of the gearshift, which is stuck firmly in the "park" position. Even if he can move his body like a god, no man on earth can drive a parked car.

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The More You Know

  • In the movie 'The Hangover', no effects or prosthetics were created for Stu's missing tooth. Actor Ed Helms never had an adult incisor grow, and his fake incisor was taken out for the parts of filming where Stu's tooth is missing.
  • Darth Vader only has 12 minutes of screen time in the original Star Wars.
  • After a slew of drug related offences, Robert Downey Jr. was a semi-blacklisted celebrity until Kiss Kiss Bang Bang reignited his career.
  • Walt Disney refused to allow Alfred Hitchcock to film at Disneyland in the early 1960s because he had made “that disgusting movie Psycho.”
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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.