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Larry Rayder: If a man was smart, you know what he'd do right now?
Deke: What?
Larry Rayder: I don't know. I thought maybe you'd know.
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (1974) - 34 mistakes
starring Peter Fonda, Susan George (add more)
Revealing: When the Charger hits the red truck, the truck turns over with the assistance of a 'pipe cannon' (note the sudden eruption of white smoke from under the truck). This device is like a large gun, pointed down that fires a cylindrical wooden 'bullet' at the ground, and the pressure behind it forces one side of the truck upward, causing the flip. Evidence of its use is seen when the passing cop drives away and in the street is a perfectly circular 'dent' in the asphalt with a burn mark surrounding it.
Continuity: After trying to ditch Mary at the general store, the blue Impala is chased by two cops in a patrol car. Shots looking rearward from the Charger's backseat at the police car show only two of its headlights are on, but shots showing Larry's face show the police car over his shoulder with all four lights on. This goes back and forth for several shots.
Continuity: At the end of an argument, Mary turns to bite Larry's shoulder. As she turns, the view out the side and rear of the car is of a wire fence surrounding an open, golden field. But the moment of her actually biting Larry has a totally black background- possibly shot while the car was stationary with a tarp behind it.
Visible crew/equipment: As the Charger approaches the bar/pool hall, a side shot of Larry driving shows a duplicate of his car reflected in the side of his door mirror. The film's budget was so small, there were no 'camera trucks' and such, so the extra two Chargers they had doubled as camera platforms when needed.
Continuity: In various scenes, an odd pattern of scratches appears and disappears from the top portion of the car's driver's-side door. These are due to the car's use as a 'camera platform' during some scenes (like filming Larry through his own window), and the camera mounts have made the scratches. It is obviously not collision damage. Because the camera isn't visible in these shots, this is a continuity error, not a visible equipment error.
Continuity: As the '69 Charger turns onto a dirt siding to avoid a police car that approaches from the left, a side shot of the car shows it is suddenly a '68 Charger driving alongside the police car. The round tail lights are quite obvious, as are the missing square side marker lights of a '69 model.
Visible crew/equipment: As the Charger races toward the railroad tracks, the view from above and behind the car shows a cable is pulling the car forward. The cable runs under the tracks (note the discolored pavement that crosses the tracks), then the cable emerges on the other side and turns left around a horizontal pulley. The cable disappears to the left where an off-screen truck is driving further to the left, pulling the car.
Continuity: At the end of the chase between the Charger and the 'hot rod' police car, they speed into an intersection and turn left. Just before the police car is struck by a gray station wagon, the Charger can be seen leaving the road surface, headed into the trees and grass while braking hard (the stunt driver took the turn too fast and overshot it). The shot changes and the Charger is seen speeding away on the pavement without having had time to turn around, to get back on the road nor to return to high speed.
Continuity: When the blue Impala is shown early in the film from the rear, it has a crooked rear license plate, intact tail lights and trim, a 'Chevrolet' emblem at the right side of the trunk lid, and a pair of square stickers (red, blue) at the right end of the rear bumper. As it enters the flea market, the stickers are gone and the trunklid is dented. As it approaches the drawbridge, the plate is straight, a piece of trim is missing, a tail light is broken, and the 'Chevrolet' emblem and stickers are gone, and the dented trunklid is fixed. From shot to shot, these conditions swap back and forth repeatedly.
Continuity: While making a sharp left turn, the Charger is struck in the left rear quarter panel by the 'hot rod' police car, deforming that panel severely. But as the Charger again turns left onto a dirt road to 'powder' the cop's face, the panel is undamaged. The shots that follow next show the damage is back for the remainder of the film.
Continuity: As the Charger emerges from the groves after repairs, it is spotted by the cop in the modified police car. The close-up of the cop beginning to smile shows that the insignia on the car door has only black outlines on the white door, yet all the shots after show it is properly filled in with gold.
Continuity: In some scenes the Charger has emblems on the rear roof pillars that say 'Charger' but in others, there are no emblems there. This is very obvious just before and after the crash with the red truck (before hitting, there are none; stopping, they are back; crawling away, they are gone again).
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