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How many intentional mistakes did you spot? (SPOILERS)


Here is a list of the ones I spotted. Please add any that I missed.
1. In the opening scene, when Will Ferrell goes to pick up the live brown calf, it suddenly becomes a fake black one. Also, it is heard bleating like a sheep!
2. When Will Ferrell and his friends are watching Onza kill someone from up in the hills, you can see the forest background is painted on a board.
3. When the maid hands a drink to Raul you can see that it is a man's arm.
4. In the same scene, Sonia is wearing a white flower in her hair but when she joins Raul, it has become a red flower. Also her dress has turned from a twin strap to a single strap.
5. When Sonia and Will Ferrell are riding, you can see the horses are fake. When they spur their horses to speed up you can tell they are actually being slowly pulled along.
6. The background at the lake where his mother died is also a painted background.
7. There is an intentional bad edit when Will Ferrell rides away from the burning car. One second he is there and the next frame he totally vanishes!
8. In the next scene, when the 3 friends are in the car, you can see the background is just a projected film and the car is actually not moving at all.
9. The scene of the car arriving at the bar is just a model of the street along with a load of toy cars!
10. When Will Ferrell and his two friends are singing and playing their instruments by the fire, one of them is holding a really large guitar and he isn't even making the effort to look like he's playing it at all.
11. The white lion is so obviously a puppet.
12. When the three friends ride again in the car, the same projected background is used. You can see the same truck past them.
13. In the family dining table scene, when Will Ferrell gets up to leave, he initially goes towards the door but then realises that it isn't a real door so he turns to exit to the right.
14. At Sonia's wedding, the drummer in the band doesn't even touch the drums with his sticks.
15. After the gun fight at the wedding, one guest is seen calmly smoking on his seat as all the other guests lay dead around him. The white rose seems to be dripping too much blood for it to have been splattered in that same scene.
16. Another bad edit when Will Ferrell is told about his father's shooting. His friend on horseback jumps from the left immediately to the right.
17. His father is seen taking his last breath and dies. As Will Ferrell cries, you can see his father's chest still moving up and down.
18. In the scene with the close up of the American official with the sunglasses, you can see the camera crew reflected in his lens.
19. In the love-making scene, at first they use a fat body double for Sonia and then a mannequin.
20. When the white lion saves Will Ferrell from the coyote, you can see the body being dragged away is a dummy.
21. When Onza is speaking to the corrupt policeman, he actually hangs up the phone while the policeman continues talking, then he is seen with the receiver in his hand continuing the conversation.
22. The amount of bullet shells landing on the floor as Raul and his gang fire their guns in the air is way too much for the amount fired.
23. In the gunfight at Onza's place, Raul is first seen with a gold gun in his left hand and a silver gun in his right. In the next scene, the guns have switched.
24. When Will Ferrell shoots someone inside Onza's place, there is a delay before the stunt body drops.
25. As Sonia is pushed off the balcony, we see the stunt body drop to the ground and then we see Will Ferrell carrying Sonia without an actual shot of him catching her.
26. Raul's dead body is seen floating in clear water, then as we pan out, there suddenly appears a mass of blood around his body.






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Number 21 was my favourite joke.

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In the scene where Armando, Raul and their father are arguing in the mansion (they're later joined by Sonia) Raul is standing in front of purple curtains that are clearly not part of the interior that Armando and his father stand in. In fact, during the entire scene Raul is always shot separately in front of that purple curtain to emphasize his scenes were shot at a different time (the maid's arm handing him a drink clearly being a man's add to this). When Sonia later enters the scene and is asked by Raul to join him. She walks towards his direction but when it cuts to Raul in front of the curtains she enters from behind the curtains.

During the family dinner scene and the wedding, mannequins can be seen used to fill up the crowd.

"You see Republicans and Democrats
I see wolves and wolves in sheep's clothing"

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Thanks for that Controverse. I did notice the purple curtains in that scene but just thought that they were the curtains for that room. I can see now, along with the man's arm and Sonia quick change of dress, that the intended error was meant to be his scene being filmed at a different location and a different time. They could have made it a bit more obvious by having Raul first speaking in the same room as the father and Armando, then showing him in the next scene with the curtains suddenly behind him.

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All great catches. I saw them all but wasn't counting. Just a couple to add off the top of my head: in the bar scene with Armando, Raul, and Onza, the position of Onza's hand (and whether it's the right or the left hand) holding the cigarette(s) changes drastically between shots. Also, the painfully obvious product placement of "Canadian Slims" cigarettes, and how the hand holding the package moves slightly to look better for the camera.

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It was made obvious. Their eyes' line of sights were so far off on purpose when they salute their drinks, to emphasize that was shot on a different set.

I was loving it and thought the whole film will be full of these, but was not.

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number 26, i dont think its a mistake. i think the clear water shot and bloody shot has just longer period of time between them, enough time for the blood to spill all over and make a pool of blood.

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No, it's intended. Another mistake is that Raul clearly died next to the fountain, so there's really no reason for him to lay in the fountain later on, except for it looking more dramatic.

"You see Republicans and Democrats
I see wolves and wolves in sheep's clothing"

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#19- Not sure which version you watched, but the one I saw there was no fat body double. Just a skinny naked woman, which I assume was actually the actress playing Sonia. He kept playing with her bum and then when they were on the ground it changed to the mannequin.



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#19- Not sure which version you watched, but the one I saw there was no fat body double. Just a skinny naked woman, which I assume was actually the actress playing Sonia. He kept playing with her bum and then when they were on the ground it changed to the mannequin.

Yes, that's how I saw it, too -- on Netflix.

#14 and #21 were especially funny to me.

Martha Washington was a hip, hip, hip lady, man.

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#19- Not sure which version you watched, but the one I saw there was no fat body double. Just a skinny naked woman, which I assume was actually the actress playing Sonia. He kept playing with her bum and then when they were on the ground it changed to the mannequin.

Yes, that's how I saw it, too -- on Netflix.

#14 and #21 were especially funny to me.

Martha Washington was a hip, hip, hip lady, man.

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#19- Not sure which version you watched, but the one I saw there was no fat body double. Just a skinny naked woman, which I assume was actually the actress playing Sonia. He kept playing with her bum and then when they were on the ground it changed to the mannequin.

Yes, that's how I saw it, too -- on Netflix.

#14 and #21 were especially funny to me.

Martha Washington was a hip, hip, hip lady, man.

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Twice in the movie Will Ferrel's cigarette disappears between shots.
Im glad they put all the mistakes in there it was the funniest thing about the movie.

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There was also two incidents where mannequins were used as extras. There is a male mannequin behind Armando in the engagement party/dining room scene and there is a female mannequin in the last row of seats on the left in the wedding scene.

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I was just going to mention the mannequin! Will Farrell's disappearing/reappearing cigarette first appears when he is trying to help Sonia onto the horse.

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I may be wrong, but wasn't the woman portraying the maid who sits at the bedside as Will Ferrel's father is dying the same woman who portrays his mother in the flashback sequence? If so, that would be a great gag--and I seem to recall a line of dialogue suggesting this as she gets up and moves out of the scene.

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9. If you watch Kill Bill, the scene where Uma's flight arrived at Tokyo was done the same, with miniature. But it was more of a homage than spoof in Kill Bill.

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In the same scene as #3 and #4, when Sonia joins Raul they both have completely different drinks than they had previously. Sonia had champagne and Raul had something like scotch or whiskey on the rocks. When Sonia joins Raul, she has a margarita on the rocks and he has what looks like a bloody mary.

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in what alternative universe is any of that supposed to be FUNNY or positive in any other way???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

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