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The Princess Bride (1987)

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• Continuity: In the king's palace, Inigo battles four of Count Rugen's henchmen. He stabs all four of them, yet there is not a drop of blood on his sword. Later, while battling Count Rugen, his sword suddenly has a lot of blood on it, but this is before he has stabbed Rugen. Meanwhile, Rugen's sword has blood on it from stabbing Inigo, until it all disappears in one shot, and he's fighting with a clean sword.
  
  
• Continuity: The car at the head of the bed moves.
  
  
• Continuity: The state of the Grandson's peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: Fezzik obviously being pulled up the cliff by a wire.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Fezzik is being suited up for the Cliffs of Insanity, a crewmember can be seen briefly standing behind the ship at the bow.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When duelling, Inigo and the Man In Black sometimes have two shadows.
  
  
• Continuity: The dust on the Man In Black's clothes shifts constantly throughout the duel with Inigo.
  
  
• Continuity: When the Man-in-Black knocks Fezzik out and is rolling him over, there's a large rock in the way. At the end of the shot, the rock has moved over to allow room for Fezzik's head.
  
  
• Continuity: Inigo confronts Count Rugen and four attackers while Fezzik holds the man in black. Inigo kills the four attackers and chases Rugen. Whan Fezzik returns to find the man in black after breaking the door down for Inigo, the bodies of the four attackers are no longer in the same position that they were when Inigo killed them.
  
  
• Continuity: In the sword fight between Man in Black and Indigo, when MIB throws his sword down and then proceeds into his flip from the "horizontal bar" onto the ground level, he lands a good five feet from the thrown sword. In the next cut, he reaches a foot away to grab the sword's handle.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: While the Man in Black is on Fezzik's back during their fight, one of Fezzik's lines is heard while his lips aren't moving at all.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Fezzik leans Westley on the castle wall, the wall moves.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Westley, Inigo and Fezzik storm the gate guarded by 60 men, Fezzik is set on fire. But in multiple shots where he is far away, you can tell it's a dummy.
  
  
• Continuity: During the scene on the castle wall when Fezzik and Inigo give Westley the miracle pill, Westley's right hand is by his side in some shots and resting on his chest in others.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: On the castle wall, Inigo says "I'll say" without moving his lips.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Several continuity errors are a consequence of the fact that the bulk of the film is a visualization of a story being told by the Grandfather. Additionally, the story itself contains one scene where events depicted as happening were subsequently revealed to be a nightmare.
  
  
• Continuity: A "He-Man" figure by the grandson's headboard is standing and lying down in different shots.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Obvious stunt rider for Fezzik in the final scene.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Count Rugen hits Westley on the left side of his head, towards the middle, to knock him out before sending him to the Pit of Despair. In the Pit, the bump on his head is on the right side of his forehead, but this might be from his fall.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Inigo, Vizzini, and Fezzik kidnap Buttercup in the woods, Inigo looks like a cardboard cut-out, but in fact can be seen to blink. He's apparently just standing very still.
  
  
• Continuity: In the battle of wits scene, the knife that is near the three apples moves in different shots.
  
  
• Continuity: During the battle of wits, the blood on Buttercup's neck disappears and reappears between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: Buttercup's hair and shadows on her face during the match of wits.
  
  
• Continuity: When Inigo meets Count Rugen for the first time, it is just after Humperdinck and Buttercup's wedding, which is at night. Yet a window behind Count Rugen clearly shows it to be day.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Fezzik is being suited up to climb the Cliffs of Insanity the front of the boat gets caught on a rock revealing that it is not made of wood.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Clear landing pad in the first fight scene when they jump off the rock. The landing is elevated and one can see the rubber mat ripple as they land. The pad can also be seen when Inigo and Fezzik walk to the edge to look down at Westley climbing up.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Westley is fighting the ROUS, you can see a techie by the tree step in and out of the picture.
  
  
• Continuity: When Inigo is being nursed back to health by Fezzick his wet hair changes drastically between shots.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Obvious stunt performers (one with a mustache) when Buttercup pushes Westley down the hill, and then follows him down.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The flame spurt that sets Buttercup's dress ablaze in the Fire Swamp is about three feet away from her. The flame doesn't even touch her, the dress just suddenly catches fire.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Buttercup sees Westley in the bedroom, she can be heard saying "Westley!" even though her lips are obviously not moving.
  
  
• Continuity: In the Pit of Despair, Humperdinck stands beside Westley as he lies on the table before The Machine. The dual-ended hose on the suction cups strapped to Westley's chest are facing forwards, away from his shoulder. But in the next shot, when Humperdinck talks to Westley, the hoses are facing backwards, with the hoses facing his shoulder.
  
  
• Continuity: In the final scene, in the close up of the grandfather saying, "As you wish," the wall color is different from the color of the wall in the wide shot. This is because the close-up was a pickup shot done well after the original scene was shot.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: During The Man in Black's fight with Fezzik, graffiti (particularly the letters E and A) can be clearly seen on the rocks.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: During the fight with the ROUS in the fire swamp, when the ROUS attacks Buttercup and bites her dress, you can see the silhouette of a crew member's hand holding the dress in the ROUS's teeth.
  
  
• Continuity: Westley's mustache changes throughout the film, sometimes it is uneven, sometimes it's longer on the sides than at other times.
  
  
• Boom mic visible: During the conversation between Count Rugen and Prince Humperdinck outside the Pit of Despair, a boom mike dips down. It blends in well with the tree. It can be seen very close to Count Rugen's head.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Buttercup is talking to the Man in Black on the hill, some obviously modern houses are visible in the valley behind her
  
  
• Miscellaneous: When Fezzik is climbing the Cliffs of Insanity, on the long shots it is obvious that he is carrying dummies on his body instead of Inigo, Vizzini and Buttercup.
  
  
• Continuity: When talking to Inigo while climbing the cliffs, the man in black is closer from one point of view (looking up at Inigo) than the other (looking down at the man in black).
  
  
• Miscellaneous: When Wesley is fighting the ROUS, he punches one in the head and then you see the ROUS's hands pull the headpiece back on and straighten.
  
  
• Continuity: When Inigo is looking back on the boat to see if anyone is following them, in the first couple of shots, Vizzini has a piece of food in his hand. In subsequent shots, the food disappears.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Westley is wrestling the R.O.U.S. in the fire swamp, the tube which shoots the blast of fire is clearly visible just before the R.O.U.S. is set ablaze.
  
  
• Continuity: When Montoya and Westley fight the rope is wrapped 4 times around the rock and comes off the near side. When Humperdinck gets there the rope is around twice and comes off the back.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene in the fire swamp, when he dives in to get Buttercup out of the Fireswamp, his sword is lying on a tree root. In the next shot, it is gone. Then when he pulls her out, it is back.
  
  

• Miscellaneous: SPOILER: Right after the Man in Black beats Vizzini in the battle of wits, a person can be seen standing on the cliff far in the distance.
  
  

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