Goofs for
The Passion of the Christ (2004) More at IMDbPro »

• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: As always, discrepancies between the movie and the source material are specifically exempt from listing as goofs, as are most artistic decisions.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Similarly, historical inaccuracies, especially where they're caused by reliance on Biblical accounts and Christian tradition, are also exempt.
  
  
• Continuity: During the sequence when Jesus carries his cross, he often falls down. His hand placement on the cross changes several time between shots.
  
  

• Continuity: As Jesus carries his cross, the blood on the cross disappears and reappears between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: Flopped shot: Jesus stumbles and falls to the ground while carrying the cross, his injuries are to his left eye for one shot. By the next shot the injuries have returned to his right eye.
  
  
• Continuity: Flopped shot: when Jesus is whipped, before the Centurion says, "Pick him up," the swollen eye changes from right eye to left eye, then back in the next shot.
  
  
• Continuity: The loin cloth dripping in blood Jesus was wearing before he started carrying the cross changed back to a clean loin cloth as soon as he started his journey.
  
  
• Boom mic visible: When Mary goes to clean the blood, as the camera pans over the bloody cobbles, the boom is reflected in the largest pool of blood.
  
  
• Continuity: In the flashback scene where Jesus kneels to draw a line in the sand, he reaches across with his right hand. The hand that actually draws the line is a left hand, with the palm facing away.
  
  
• Continuity: A shawl appears on Mary Magdalene's head between shots after Jesus, on the cross, says, "Son behold your mother...".
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Before Judas commits suicide he puts his hands to his face and we can see that the makeup on his right hand is peeling away.
  
  
• Continuity: After Jesus has first taken the cross on his shoulders a close-up of his face (before the shot with the donkeys and palm leaves in the background) shows that his left eye is blue instead of the digitalized brown.
  
  
• Continuity: In one shot of Jesus on the cross, the cliff or bank in the background is falling before the "earthquake" starts.
  
  
• Continuity: When Pontius Pilate talks to Jesus alone he moves to the right of Jesus. In the next shot he appears on his left-hand side.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Pontius Pilate first enters the court and rests his arm on his stone chair, the chair wobbles.
  
  
• Continuity: In the opening scenes, when Jesus prays and gets arrested, his eyes are blue instead of computerized brown.
  
  
• Continuity: During the first half of the scourge scene, Jesus' hands are dark and bloodied by his shackles. Then a dramatic close-up shows them nearly blood-free.
  
  
• Continuity: At the beginning of the crucifixion, the nails were bent from behind the cross to secure them. During the scene where Jesus was taken down from the cross, the nails shown are not bent or do not show signs of being bent.
  
  
• Continuity: During the sequence when Jesus carries his cross, the Blood of Christ on the cross disappears and reappears.
  
  

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