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Huge plot mistake

posted 12 years ago by dsbonev
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All the three stooges take part of the "Jersey Shore"'s audition. The Old Spice (OS) guy hires Moe only and conviniently "pretends" that there was nobody else on the stage besides Moe by commenting on the Moe's stage performance only.

Later Larry and Curly visit Moe at the "Jersey Shore"'s filming location and the OS guy says surprisingly "Are you kidding me? There's three of them?" as he "pretends" that he sees them for the very first time. The fact that there are not one, but three stooges, inspires the OS guy to think up a new reality show and to pay the orphanage's debt which is the great goal of the stooges.

From the "Jersey Shore"'s audition scene onward the movie's script should be reworked which is more than a third of the movie's runtime.

PS: I liked very much the acting of the three main actors.

[–] Cletus-Vanne-Damme 12 years ago

I'm not much for finding plot holes in comedies, but this is a good one. Can't believe I didn't notice it.

[–] Pumpkin_Man 12 years ago

Oh wow, I didn't even think about that.

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[–] willydoe71 12 years ago

How is that "huge"? It's a simple mistake. Nothing "huge" about it.

[–] dsbonev 12 years ago

As I said there are several scenes based on that mistake, furthermore this includes the movie's outcome and happy ending.

[–] LeeVing88 11 years ago

Huge plot mistake! The Stooges drop a two ton bell on a nun and it doesn't kill her!

[–] MuggleFan 12 years ago

The only thing I can think of is that the OS guy thought Larry and Curly were just actors, and Moe was the only one for the audition.

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[–] dsbonev 12 years ago

To the very last 5 or so seconds no one can tell who is there for audition. They come at the stage at the same time, they are dressed in similar clothes, their acting behavior, gestures, talking is similar. There is no performance introduction where one would say "I am here for audition and these are my stage partners". So this puts us, the viewers, and the OS guy in the same position - watching the three stooges as a whole and paying attention to every one's acting skills, i.e. you have no basis for deciding to pick one of the three from the audition's start.

The three's stage performance is very distinguished one - it has violence, emotion expression, drama. In contrast all they do at "Jersey Shore"'s filming location is a short conversation in a hurry - they are watching each other and talk. But yet this short conversation has impressed so much the OS guy that his face is like "Oh WOW!". This is odd to say the least - a dynamic stage performance for 2 and a half minutes did not deserve a single comment from the OS guy, but the 30-second static conversation deserves an Oscar in his eyes.

The Wikipedia states that the casting took a whole decade so my assumption is that the movie's script is reworked over the years and this led to this mistake.

[–] JrnlofEddieDeezenStudies 12 years ago

To the very last 5 or so seconds no one can tell who is there for audition.

Two things you're not thinking of, though:

(1) You actually can't tell who is watching the audition or when they begin watching. The end of the scene, prior to the TV guy coming up and complementing Moe, is all Moe. Maybe the person in question (the guy who is surprised that there's three of them) wasn't there the whole time.

(2) You're reading the scene "literally", but it doesn't have to be literal. The Three Stooges has a lot of surreal humor, so you can read that scene rather as a seamless segue into a very different idea.

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[–] diddymuck 12 years ago

explanation: he thought Moe was the actual auditioning figure and the other guys were hired extras! Fits?

[–] dsbonev 12 years ago

Man, have you read the thread at all? This has already been discussed and it is half of the story, more like an aftermath of the mistake than a source.

[–] holbrookp 12 years ago

Maybe the OS guy's brain was so fried with drugs he didn't remember what he'd seen before? I mean, that'd make the scene plausible in this day and age!

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[–] ri4534 11 years ago

Ifr you people READ anything about their history, you would know how full of it this is.

[–] PurpleProseOfCairo 12 years ago

@ Willydoe:

A "simple mistake" that makes its way onto the screen and into the final cut IS a "huge plot mistake". An actor in a medieval drama who forgets he's wearing his baseball cap would be a simple mistake - if everyone concerned in the making of the movie allowed it to stay in until the movie was released, that would be somehting bigger altogether.

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[–] conquerorsaint 12 years ago

yeah this bothered me a bit too when he says this at the end.

[–] TheFatDruidofNacyl 12 years ago

I noticed this too, but it could be that the guy was focused on Moe at the end instead of the whole bit.

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