Continuity Error


Thought I'd watch this for nostalgia purposes. Wow, it hasn't aged well. Too many things to list really, but there's one thing that really got on my nerves.

When Mace is investigating the creature in the tree in the first part of the movie (don't get me started about not grabbing indigenous alien creatures for no reason), his arm gets grabbed by a large animal in the hollow tree trunk. The ewoks help him and they go back to the village. While in the hut, one of the ewoks is tenderly touching his wounded hand and making sad sounds.

The problem is that the wounded hand at this point is his left hand. It was his right arm that was pulled into the tree. I even rewound it to see if it was simply a mirroring error (sometimes movies are shot in reverse to get the right angle), but that wasn't it. He wears a monitoring bracelet on his left wrist. You can clearly see it on his left wrist while his right arm is being chewed on by the tree creature.

To make matters worse, in the hut, while the ewok is touching his wounded hand, you can see that his right sleeve is tattered, as though something had chewed on it a little bit. I can't get over how downright stupid the crew must have been on this movie to not realize something like this. Like, they went through the effort to mess up his right sleeve, because that was the arm that was supposed to be hurt, but then the makeup guy says, "Screw it" and applies the wound to the other hand? Why does the actor not say anything? Or the director? Or any of the other people who should have known what they were doing?

Eh, doesn't really matter, I suppose. They're all out of jobs now anyway.

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Michael Streeter of LucasFan.com did an interview with Eric Walker in 2000 in which this continuity error was addressed:

"One scene that was cut out was the Man-eating Flower Scene. Because it was cut out, the biggest mistake in the movie was made. Remember my hand being eaten by the tree monster was my right one and then it was my left hand that was hurt later in the ewok hut. During the Flower scene the flower bites my left hand and begins pulling me underground and we see the core of the moon of Endor. It was decided that the effects would take to long. The scene was then re-written by George to be the tree scene and done during the re-shoot he directed." - Eric Walker

Check out the full interview here:
http://www.lucasfan.com/ewdr/ericwalker.html

http://www.trespasser.nl/div/pta/pta.pdf -->> Planes, Trains and Automobiles script

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I guess as long as there's a reason, then the mind-numbing stupidity is okay.

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No, I didn't mean that - it's still stupid :) It's just the why...

http://www.trespasser.nl/div/pta/pta.pdf -->> Planes, Trains and Automobiles script

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Uhhh wowww

That would have been interesting.

Would there have been Lovecraftian terrors at the core?

Really, all the way to the core?

That's insane!

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The Old Ones vs the Jedi Order.

I can dig it.

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