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Legally Blonde (2001)

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• Factual errors: The graduates are all shown wearing identical hoods over their black gowns. In reality, graduates at Harvard Law School Commencement wear a hood with colors that represent the institution of their highest prior degree, which would differ for each individual.
  
  
• Continuity: When Warner is breaking up with Elle, the couple behind Warner pick up their wine glasses twice between shots.
  
  
• Factual errors: When the new law students are introducing themselves, Enid says that she has a Ph.D. in Women's Studies from UC Berkeley. Berkeley doesn't have a graduate program in Women's Studies.
  
  

• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Emmet is driving Elle back from the spa, his lips aren't moving as he talks.
  
  
• Factual errors: The portrayal of Harvard Law admissions procedures is not accurate.
  
  
• Factual errors: The judge refers to the case as "the State v. Brooke Windham". Massachusetts, like Pennsylvania, Virginia and Kentucky, is a commonwealth and would have been referred to as such by any judge.
  
  
• Continuity: Elle's make-up changes noticeably when she confronts Warner after Brooke is acquitted. This is because the scene was filmed separately in London while Reese Witherspoon was filming The Importance of Being Earnest (2002).
  
  
• Continuity: The position of Elle's hair changes from in front of her shoulder to behind to back in front while talking to the counselor about attending Harvard
  
  
• Factual errors: In the courtroom scenes the U.S. and state flags have been placed on the incorrect sides. The National flag is to be displayed to the right of the speaker, in this case the judge.
  
  
• Errors in geography: On the way to meet Mrs. Wyndham at the spa, Elle and Emett drive past assorted subtropical plants. The spa is in Massachusetts where the climate is far too cold for plants to survive.
  
  
• Continuity: The cover of "Seventeen" magazine that the old woman is looking at in the LA beauty shop changes. (This is because the cover was digitally changed the cover that featured the cast of Josie and the Pussycats (2001)).
  
  
• Continuity: During the last scene of the movie, we see Bruiser in Elle's handbag. When she leaves the courtroom a few minutes later, Bruiser is nowhere to be seen.
  
  
• Continuity: While Elle is presenting Brooke with her gift basket in prison, the flowers are alternately standing up/flopped over between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: When Elle visits Brooke in the prison, her hair changes for being over the phone to under the phone between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: When the group leaves after meeting Brooke for the first time, Elle's hair repeatedly switches from being down by the side of her face, to being behind her ear between shots.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Elle attends her first civil procedure class, the answer that Vivan gives is wrong - the court found that there was diversity jurisdiction - but she is not corrected.
  
  
• Factual errors: Characters make casual references to numerical class ranks at both Harvard and Yale Law Schools. Neither law school ranks students in this manner (Harvard has not done so since the late 1960s), and Yale Law School does not even assign grades (classes are pass/fail).
  
  
• Continuity: When Elle visits the beauty shop for the first time, her hands are alternately in/out of the bowl between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: While Elle is in her dorm room at Harvard and talking to her California friends on the phone, her bedside light turns on and off.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Elle is waiting in line for the drinking fountain, the woman in front of her bends down to make it look like she is drinking but does not actually drink.
  
  
• Continuity: Elle's hair is alternately smooth/wispy between shots when she talks to Vivian in her dorm room.
  
  
• Continuity: When Elle is talking to the woman in the salon about becoming a law student her hair goes from being tucked behind her right ear to hanging loose between shots.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Elle and Paulette drive to her ex-husbands house to pick up Rufus, the camera is reflected in the car door.
  
  
• Factual errors: When a witness is testifying in a trial, they are only sworn in once, before they are questioned. If they retake the stand for further questioning, they are reminded of their oath. However, Chutney is sworn in the first time - when she is testifying before her mother and the pool attendant - and then again when she goes to answer questions for Elle.
  
  
• Continuity: When Elle is giving her speech at the end of the movie, before she looks at the professor her hair on her shoulder is messed up and then when she looks back it is fixed.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Elle is saying goodbye to Paulette in the beauty salon, there is a shot in which Paulette's lips are moving but no audio is heard.
  
  
• Continuity: When Callahan asks Elle what kind of client she would rather have, Elle is first shown sitting in front of Vivian and Warner, and later she is shown sitting behind them.
  
  
• Continuity: When the new students are in a circle to introduce themselves there are 6 students shown in the shot of all of them, however when they go round all students individually there are only 5 (including the experienced student) because the fourth student is cut out.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Elle and Paulette are in the house as the snow begins to fall and they look out the window, we see a reflection of bar holing the camera in the window.
  
  
• Continuity: At the end, when the judge says, "Oh my God," her eyes follow Elle across the court. But in the next shot, Elle is still at the witness box and then she walks across the court.
  
  
• Continuity: When Elle goes into Callahan's office, she is only carrying files which she sets down on the table. When she comes out in a shock after he hit on her, she is now carrying her briefcase.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Elle makes her way to the Elevator and gets inside of it, in the gold mirror on the back wall, you can see a shadow of Vivian, who is waiting to come on set for her part of the scene.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Warner is breaking up with Elle in the restaurant, he states that he wants to be a Senator before he is 30. However, the Constitution requires Senators to be Thirty or older.
  
  

• Audio/visual unsynchronized: SPOILER: After Elle wins the case, reporters are surrounding her as she and Brooke walk down the stairs. After one reporter asks a question, you can clearly hear Brooke's voice answering the question, however, her lips don't move.
  
  

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