Goofs for
Blue Velvet (1986) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: Jeffrey's cheek wound disappears in some scenes.
  
  
• Factual errors: The 1920s apartment building shown on the movie has 6 floors, but in the movie Dorothy Vallens lives on the seventh floor in apartment number 710. This floor does not exist.
  
  
• Continuity: Coke glasses appear out of nowhere when Jeffrey and Sandy are in the diner.
  
  

• Continuity: Jeffrey's earring seems to disappear and reappear.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: In the club, a guitar solo is heard, while no guitarist is present.
  
  
• Continuity: Frank's beer appears to change in color and level during the scenes at Ben's house.
  
  
• Continuity: During Ben's lip-syncing performance of Roy Orbison's "In Dreams", Frank abruptly ejects the cassette tape midway through the song. A short while later, he has Paul insert the tape in his car tape player. It immediately starts playing at the beginning of the same song without being rewound.
  
  
• Continuity: Jeffrey's hands jump between the top of his head and his ear between shots when he is kneeling before Dorothy when she first discovers him in the closet.
  
  
• Continuity: After Frank and Ben received their glasses there's some froth topping Frank's beer, but not Ben's. However, in the close-up of Ben there's clearly a thin layer of froth. Back to both in frame, and again Ben's beer has no froth.
  
  
• Continuity: Ben receives his beer from Frank - in the next two shots Ben holds the beer in different places e.g. round the glass, then the handle and back to around the glass.
  
  
• Continuity: Jeffrey is given a terrible beating by Frank and his gang, and we see swelling and bruising all over his face. Yet when he arrives for his date a few days later on Friday, there isn't a mark on him.
  
  

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