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• Continuity: Carl's glasses are back on after he takes them off.
  
  
• Boom mic visible: Reflection visible in the window of Bud's apartment when Gekko is giving a speech to Carl.
  
  
• Continuity: Gekko's shoes during the meeting with the union representatives.
  
  

• Continuity: As Bud is leaving Gekko's office during their initial meeting, Bud's tie is perfectly straight and all the way up to his neck. When Bud reaches the other side of the door, his tie is crooked and half way down his chest.
  
  
• Continuity: The amount of water on Gekko's coat during the scene at the end in the park.
  
  
• Continuity: Bud is arrested on a federal offence, yet walks into the NY State Supreme Court at the end of the film, not the Federal Court, which is next door.
  
  
• Continuity: When Gekko drops Bud from the limo, the street is completely dry when just a couple of blocks before it was raining abundantly.
  
  
• Factual errors: Only two .45 Lugers were made, not six.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Davidoff Cuban cigars were available from 1970 to 1992. Not all Davidoff cigars were made in the Dominican Republic
  
  
• Continuity: When Gordon Gekko is walking away from Bud Fox in the dressing room, Bud Fox says, "I am not just another broker..." If you look at Gordon's shoes as he comes around the lockers he is wearing a suit with a pair of tennis shoes (full screen)
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Lou Mannheim gives Bud the speech about money making you do things you don't want to do, the mic under Mannheim's tie is visible.
  
  
• Continuity: Wildman is shown typing on a computer keyboard. The camera pulls back to reveal a darkened, blank screen.
  
  
• Continuity: The painting behind Gekko changes with reaction shots while he is negotiating with Wildman upstairs at the beach house.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: In the poolside meeting between Bud, Gekko, and Gekko's lawyer, when Bud puts on his sunglasses and replies "piece of cake", the lighting is visible in his sunglasses.
  
  
• Errors in geography: When Gekko gives bud fox his ''wake up'' call from the beach, the sun is in the west.
  
  
• Anachronisms: In the opening of the movie it is established that it is 1985. The character Marvin tell Bud Fox that Gecko sold NASA stock short after the Challenger Disaster. The Challenger vehicle was not destroyed until 1986. The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster occurred on January 28, 1986, when Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, leading to the deaths of its seven crew members. The spacecraft disintegrated over the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of central Florida, United States at 11:39 a.m. EST (16:39 UTC). The character of Marvin was speaking about an event that had not yet happened.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: At the beginning of the movie, Bud Fox and Marvin (John C. McGinley) are talking about the Challenger Explosion, and how Gordon Gekko was shorting NASA stock right after the explosion. While NASA is a government agency and has no stock to short, the notion that Gordon Gekko would do such a thing is clearly intended by Marvin and a joke: hyperbole on the theme that Gekko always thinks always of a way to make a profit before anything else.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In his first meeting with Gekko, Bud refers to Bluester as having "eighty medium body jets." There's no such thing as a "medium" body aircraft: just narrow and wide. Bud may just be revealing his ignorance about aircraft, though he otherwise seems fairly well-informed about Bluestar and the airline business.
  
  

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