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A few Goofs I spotted

posted 16 years ago by dodrade
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The film is set in 1983, yet the Milltown Massacre of 1988 is shown on TV, by which time the Supergrass system had been abandoned.

The official computer record says Gingy served time in Long Kesh in 1981, when it should refer to the Maze.

A couple of times characters,(one a policeman, who wouldn't regard Britain as a foreign country), refer to going to the UK, when Northern Ireland is part of the UK. They should have referred to England or Great Britain.

Lastly, I know a bit of dramatic licence was used, but in the climax a courtroom that noisy and rowdy would have been cleared by the judge.

[–] Nikon11 16 years ago

Only asking because you seem to know more - but aren't Long Kesh and the Maze the same place, and both names are used?

I have no idea, but I'd assume that the filmmakers might know something, and the actors too, about whether the police might still refer to the mainland as the UK, and still think of NI as being something else (even though we all know that it's part of the UK).

I thought the same thing about the courtroom.

[–] dodrade 15 years ago

HMP Maze was built on the Long Kesh site in the mid 70's and although many prisoners would still refer to it as Long Kesh, a police computer certainly wouldn't.

No policeman would ever make the mistake of referring to the UK as something distinct and separate from Northern Ireland, Britain or Great Britain possibly (though still unlikely) but never the UK.

[–] Nikon11 15 years ago

Thanks. I definitely don't know how the locals would refer to these.