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Anachronisms (2) |
Character error (3) |
Continuity (9) |
Crew or equipment visible (1) |
Factual errors (2) |
Revealing mistakes (2)
Anachronisms
During the football game, when the men in the wheelchairs get tackled there are high tension power lines in the background.
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The football helmets worn in the game are of late 1960s vintage, with a plastic "shell" design and face masks. A football game during the Korean War would likely have featured leather-style helmets, and no face masks.
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Character error
Margaret's surname is scripted as "Houlihan". The 'O' was added due to a slip of the tongue by G. Wood and Roger Bowen, the only two people who refer to her as "O'Houlihan" in the whole movie.
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Hawkeye, in his diagnosis of the sick Japanese-American infant in Kokura, mispronounces "fistula," putting the emphasis on the last syllable.
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Trapper tells a joke about the racehorse Man o' War, saying that the horse died at age 36. Man O' War only lived to be 30 in reality.
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Continuity
Cars on a freeway in the background of the football game.
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In the shower, the dog joins the group and sits down between Trapper John and Hawkeye just before Trapper cues the drum roll. In the group shots after Hot Lips is down on the shower floor, the dog is gone.
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When Hot Lips confronts Lt. Col. Blake after she was exposed in the shower, she stands framed in the doorway of Lt. Col. Blake's tent. To her left, there is a mirror hanging on the tent wall that appears/disappears between shots.
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When O'Houlihan has a discussion with Hawkeye in the mess tent shortly after her arrival, there is a shot over Hawkeye's shoulder where you can see that his glasses have appeared back on his face even though they were off in the previous shot.
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When the chopper comes in while Hawkeye and Trapper are playing golf, Hawkeye is seen on the edge of the pad. In the next shot, he is seen below the edge of the pad.
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When the chopper comes in while Hawkeye and Trapper are playing golf there's a good aerial view of the camp and helipad. The nurses who are sunbathing at the bottom of the helipad when the pilot runs down the hill are not in that spot (or anywhere else) during the helicopters arrival. Also, the dirt hillside of the landing pad where Hawkeye and the pilot scuffle is already messed up from previous takes. The freshly turned over dirt is much darker there than elsewhere on the hillside.
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The dirt/stubble of Radar's face is inconsistent during the football game, as when he says, "Their ringer spotted our ringer."
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When Hawkeye first appears and is waiting for his driver, it is raining and there are puddles on the ground. When he and Duke drive off with the jeep, the sun is out and the ground is dry.
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In the mess tent scene after Hot Lips' and Frank Burns' tryst, Hawkeye's coat sleeve has a small wet stain BEFORE Hot Lips sloshes hot cereal on it. After Hot Lips spills the cereal on Hawkeye's coat no cereal appears on his sleeve. The camera cuts away and back to Hawkeye, revealing a large glop of the cereal. The camera again cuts away and back, showing the same smaller wet spot but no cereal.
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Crew or equipment visible
During the talk in the office about having a football game, a light, presumably from one of the cameras, can be seen reflected in one of the men's sunglasses.
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Factual errors
Hawkeye gives amphetamines to Ho John so that he will fail his draft board physical. However, Ho John displays the characteristics of depressant abuse; he basically just stands there in a listless stupor. Amphetamine abuse should do the opposite; he should be nervous, excitable, and talkative.
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An announcement is made that Yom Kippur cannot be held on Friday due to extenuating circumstances, but those who wish to observe may do so on Sunday. Yom Kippur never falls on either a Friday or a Sunday; an "alternate" day for the holiday that could actually occur would be Saturday.
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Revealing mistakes
When Hawkeye and Trapper John are in Japan, a "Japanese" nurse speaks in heavily American accented, awkward, and mispronounced "Japanese".
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When Hot Lips is saying good-night to Major Burns at her tent, she opens the door and inside you can clearly see another camp tent with the top of a stove pipe showing on top. Revealing that the front of her tent is actually just a one sided set piece.
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