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Anyone else notice this goof?

posted 19 years ago by rogerc210
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In Firebird, the final number, when the spirit of spring or whoever held on to the elk's antlers after the eruption, it started galloping & he/she started crying, the tears initially were correctly shown drifting tailward in the relative wind when tracking the galloping elk. When the stationary ground was shown however, the tears were still drifting at the same angle when they should have been either falling straight down, or moving in the same direction as the elk, but at a lower speed.It was because they were moving slower than the elk that they seemed to be moving the other way. Not quite the same as the disappearing baby racoon at the end of Bambi, but since noticing goofs is fashionable, I might as well vent.

[–] DeceptiveFox 17 years ago

No offense to you personally, but I don't understand what people hope to gain by pointing out faults or goofs in movies. If you just happen to catch something while you're enjoying the movie then that's alright, but I swear some of these people go out of their way to try and find something wrong with the films they watch. Sometimes though, some of these "I found a goof" threads are about something so miniscule that you find yourself thinking "why would anybody care?"

[–] arijanian 16 years ago

Interesting catch for those of us who pay attention to physics. (Or, in most sci-fi films, have to put our hands over our ears, hum la-la-la, and try to enjoy the movie in spite of the physics.)

I suppose the sprite's tears, like her hair and body, might have a naturally gravity-defying magic to them that causes them to drift like leaves? Or it might be an artistic choice, since--while it does make more scientific sense for the tears to fall in accordance with gravity--it /would/ be a bit jarring visually to see the tears flying back out of the range of the camera...and then dropping straight down to the ground. Angles and lines of motion and all that aesthetic whatnot.