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They Live (1988)

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• Continuity: When Nada looks at the first alien at the book stand, the alien pays for a magazine. He then gets change twice.
  
  
• Continuity: The scars on Nada's face disappear by the time he is in the underground base.
  
  
• Continuity: When Nada takes Holly captive and forces her to drive, the passenger side door is unlocked, and then locked between shots.
  
  

• Continuity: The angle of the sun continually changes during the alley fight.
  
  
• Continuity: During the fight in the alley, Frank drops the sunglasses and tries to intentionally step on them before Nada stops him. The glasses fall on the lenses, but after Nada is kicked in the head and the camera pans down, the glasses are facing up.
  
  
• Continuity: At the beginning of the fight between Nada and Frank, both set down particular items in the exact same spot in the alley: a cardboard box from Nada and a backpack from Frank. Towards the middle of the fight, you can clearly see that both items have disappeared from that spot as Frank attempts to walk away the first time.
  
  
• Continuity: Frank's sweater comes up to reveal an undershirt as Nada pulls him to his feet after putting the glasses on him, but the sweater is still in place in the very next shot.
  
  
• Continuity: When Nada and Frank are trying to get to the roof of the television building in an effort to destroy the satellite, they are going down a hall and a worker is running away. In the next shot, that same worker is now closer to them.
  
  
• Continuity: The color of Nada's revolver changes from when he first takes it (chrome) to when he's sitting in the car (black).
  
  
• Continuity: When Nada hides in the abandoned building during the night police raid, he is peering through the blinds and it is clearly daytime.
  
  
• Continuity: At the book stand, when the cashier is talking to Nada, the money in the cashier's hand does not retain the same bends in the paper when switching from the real money to the "THIS IS YOUR GOD" money. At the book stand, when Nada looks at the money in the cashier's hand, there are fewer of the "THIS IS YOUR GOD" bills than of the real one's that they replace. Of the "THIS IS YOUR GOD" bills, there are only five, whereas of the real bills, there are six.
  
  
• Continuity: At the book stand, the money in the cashiers hand, the real money versus the "THIS IS YOUR GOD" money, the type of paper used for the TIYG currency does not appear to match that of the real kind. Real US currency is printed on a special type of cotton fiber paper, whereas the TIYG money appears to be printed on standard 20lb printer paper. The two types of paper take on different characteristics when they are bent and folded many times over.
  
  
• Continuity: When Nada and Frank are running through the TV station, they run down a straight hallway and ahead of them is a man in a gray suit who quickly turns the corner, and when the two guards pop out and are shot, you see the same man turn the corner again.
  
  

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