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| Here's a collection of bloopers or intresting things to spot about The Fellowship of the Ring. If you have any please send them in. :) But we don't really want anything to about how the film is different to the book because as you should know they couldn't make everything identical to the book. If they had even the most die hard fan would have been falling asleep! Thank to www.movie-mistakes.co.uk for these. :D When the hobbits enter Bree, right after the wheel of the carriage passes in front of them, there is a man you see to the right who burps. That is Peter Jackson making a cameo appearance. In one shot of Gandalf's first appearance at Bilbo's front door, he is wearing light-brownish hiking shoes under his robes, and when he walks in, he's got his normal grey ones on. Aragorn has a ring on his right index finger with a marquise shaped stone. When we first see it, as Boromir is teaching Merry and Pip to fight, it is whole. Next as Aragorn prepares to draw his sword on Boromir if he does not return the ring to Frodo, it is broken. After the Fellowship is buried under snow, we see it again and it is whole. Finally we see it as Aragorn lets Frodo go, and it is broken again. Look at the faces of Boromir, Legolas and Merry after they leave Moria and get outside. They have dirt on their faces in a particular pattern. Then they make their way to Lothlorien and get cleaned up. But in the final scene, the dirt returns in exactly the same places. When the Uruk-Hai strings his bow to shoot Boromir for the first time, the arrow he pulls back looks much different from the one he lets fly a few seconds later. The arrow he pulls back has a nice feather on it (looks striped, like a turkey feather). The feather he actually shoots Boromir with is tattered and black. Right at the end, when Aragorn is telling Legolas and Gimli what they are going to do next, Legolas' arrows change colour from bright yellow to bright green in two shots. While at Weathertop, after Frodo puts out the fire, they hear a Ring Wraith. When they are all standing Sam is holding a small pot with a cloth on the bottom to hold it with so he won't burn himself, but his thumb is actually touching the pot and he doesn't get burned. When Frodo is first seen, he is reading a book. When he gets on Gandalf's cart, he no longer has the book. Did he just leave it in the woods? After the hobbits take the tumble from farmer Maggot's field, they land in a heap with twigs in their hair. Frodo stands on the road and looks down it. He says, "I think we should get off the road" and the twigs are there. He looks back down the road and the smoke and leaves come swirling at him, he yells, "Get off the road" - no twigs. They hide from the wraith, then make their escape. Merry says, "What was that?" - and they have the twigs in their hair again. As the fellowship approaches the Argonath, you can see in the long shot that the statues stand with the top half in sun and the bottom half in shadow. But as they move by in the close up of the foot, they are all in full sun. In Isengard, while Saruman is talking to the Uruk-Hai, there is a blue liquid running down the Uruk-Hai's chin, and is dripping to the floor. Saruman then says "Whom do you serve?" the Uruk-Hai says "Saruman!" but in that shot the blue liquid is completely gone. When Gandalf arrives in Hobbiton, some children start chasing the cart yelling for fireworks. At this point we can see a hobbit couple watching the children run past. The female hobbit places her hand on her hip, and then in a closeup she puts her hand on her hip again. In the scene where the now invisible Bilbo returns to Bag End he chats with Gandalf then leaves dropping the ring on the floor near the door. As Gandalf goes to pick it up the ring is on a tile with a crack in it and the ring is about 3" from the crack. In the next shot from side on, the ring is almost touching the crack. As Bilbo leaves the Shire, he drops the ring just inside the door. The ring is seen on the floor over Bilbo's shoulder after he walks outside. You can see Gandalf step over the ring and through the doorway without touching the door. The door is FULLY opened, and the ring is in the light. Why then is Gandalf opening the door and a shadow cast over the ring as he goes back inside to examine it? After Bilbo turns himself invisible, we see a view from on top of the hill of Bilbo going back to his house. At this point, we can see down below at the party, and everyone is running towards where Bilbo was before he turned invisible. That had to have only been a few seconds after Bilbo disappeared. Magic ring or no magic ring, there's no way anyone, never mind a hobbit, could have run up the hill in that time. When Frodo pulls Sam into the elvish boat after saving him from drowning, you can see Sam's foot for a second, and you see he doesn't have his hobbit feet on. Sam pulls his foot under his cloak right away to hide it. Nevertheless, it is noticeable and a bit funny. At the end, when Aragorn leans over to kiss Boromir's forehead, watch Boromir. When Aragorn's hair touches his face, Boromir closes his eyes tight. In the Amon Hen battle scene, at the start of the fight with Lurtz, Aragorn is slammed backwards against a tree knocking his sword out of his hand. There is then a shot of Lurtz throwing his shield at Aragorn, and in the following shot, where the shield pins Aragorn against the tree, his sword is still in his hand, only to fly out again on the shield's impact. At Bilbo's party, when Merry and Pippin set off the dragon firework, they are shown inside a small tent. The tent has dishes and other things in it, and is quite full. When the firework launches, taking the tent with it, you can see that all of the things inside the tent (with the exception of Merry and Pippin) have disappeared. |
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