Smokey and the Bandit - 11 mistakes
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Mark
Sheriff Buford T. Justice gets out of his car and leaves the door open. A
few moments later, we see a different shot of the car with the door closed.
Then a truck drives by and tears the car door off which is open again.
When the Bandit first pulls over and picks up Sally Field, then he screeches
off, if you look at the road you can see all the skid marks from where they
practiced it, even down to the bit where the van pulls out of the junction
and the bandit brakes suddenly then speeds off.
When sheriff Justice stops the kids in the van, his gun belt keeps appearing
and disappearing.
In one scene where the Bandit and the Snowman are on there way to pick up
the beer, you can see Frog (Sally Field) riding with the Bandit. They did
not pick up Frog (Sally Field) until after they were on there way back to
Atlanta.
Toward the end, when Snowman's truck comes roaring triumphantly into the
fairgrounds, the band is playing "Marching Through Georgia". This is a
YANKEE song describing General Sherman's devastating invasion in 1864 and
would most emphatically NOT be played in Atlanta to celebrate anything!
The Bandit is being chased on a dirt road by a police car. The police car
then goes off the road into a lake. At first the police car is a Pontiac
LeMans. The police car that goes into the lake is a Dodge.
When Bandit decides to turn himself in, and Snowman objects, you can see
that Jerry Reed is not wearing gloves. When they are entering the
fairgrounds, and they show the entry through the windshield from the back of
the cab, the person driving the tractor is wearing gloves.
There is a scene that is filmed with a camera mounted outside the passenger
door of the Trans AM as it is being driven. Frog is in the passenger seat,
Bandit is driving. Look at the bottom of the screen at the reflection in the
car door. The camera is clearly visible.
Every time they show how fast the car is driving, there's fewer miles on the
odometer...
In different scenes the rear view mirror is shown and then it is gone. This
happens several times throughout the movie.
At the beginning of the movie, during the song, a train is coming when the
bandit slams on his brakes. But he doesn't hit the brakes, instead he
stepped on the gas.
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thuss
wrote:
Notice how obvious Burt Reynold's back brace (read "corset")
was in some of those scenes? Hah!
Anyway, the story was about Southerners, so you can expect
that mistakes will be made.
thuss