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Stardust (2007)

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• Continuity: When Septimus is threatening the redheaded goat-man, the angle is from the side of the two and the knife is behind the goat-man's ear. When we are looking at them from the front, the knife is in front of his ear.
  
  
• Continuity: Whenever Lamia appears to her sisters in the mirror, she is always the exact same physically as she is when she calls them. In the middle of the movie she appears in the mirror as a young woman exactly as she was when she first set off. However, when she travels to the mirror, she is old. In all other instances of her contacting the sisters, the mirror shows her as aging or old.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In one of the scenes where Mormo and Empusa are talking to Lamia in a mirror (and telling her that the star has returned to Earth and is also being pursued by a prince) the scene is shot from above. It is clear, however, that Mormo's words are not synched with the sound. In one shot she is saying the same thing but out of synch. In another, the sound of her speaking is not related in any way to what she's saying. Though not actually stated much in the film, the reflection of the witches in the book is always a reflection of their younger selves.
  
  

• Continuity: When Tristan and Yvaine are taken captive by the pirates, the Snowbud Tristan was wearing is missing. A few scenes later, we see Tristan's clothes being thrown out of the flying boat. However, somehow this flower shows back up on Tristan's new clothing later in the film.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Lamia was laughing and there was a close up shot of her mouth. All her teeth were dirty but the back few teeth on each side were stark white
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Near the beginning of the movie, there is a wide, rotating shot from above of Tristan and Yvaine walking on a road. Near the end of the shot, you can clearly see grass being blown by the wind from the helicopter that shot this shot.
  
  
• Continuity: When Victoria goes to the shop where Tristan works, as she is walking in her hair bow is to the left. In the next shot her bow is centered. Then it goes back to being on the left side again.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: In the montage where Yvaine and Tristan are learning different talents, there is a piano being played. The audio plays major thirds, but the picture shows whole tones being played on the keys.
  
  
• Continuity: During the scene in which Tristan and Victoria are drinking champagne at their picnic, the glass of champagne switches back and forth from Victoria's left to right hand when the camera angle changes.
  
  
• Continuity: When Septimus is holding the sword to Bernard's face: The sword goes from in front of Bernard's ear to behind his ear every time the camera angle changes.
  
  
• Continuity: When Tristan and Victoria are sipping champagne, Victoria's glass changes from empty to full to empty and just as Tristan asks her if she wants a refill, it's half full again.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Toward the end of the movie, Lamia uses a steel on the edge of her glass knife (presumably to sharpen it). Steels are only used to correct a curled edge on a regular knife. A glass or crystal knife's edge cannot curl, so a steel would not help and might actually damage the edge.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: In the scene were the Pope is talking to Primus about leaving quickly to find the stone before his brothers, during the camera pan from the ceiling to the actors the audio of the Pope doesn't match his lip movements, but in the close up shot everything realigns.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: At the beginning of the scene between Primus and the Priest the camera pans down towards Primus at the altar. On the upper far right edge of the screen the doors through which Septimus and Tertius come through are visible. When they do the doors are open, yet during the previous shot of the room the doors are closed and the actors can be seen standing behind them.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene where Tristan fights Lamia, he knocks her left blade out of her hand at 1:53:29, however two seconds later Lamia is wielding two blades.
  
  

• Continuity: SPOILER: In the final fight between Tristan and Lamia, when Lamia is thrown towards the fountain where she will reach for the puppet to control Septimus' corpse, she pulls herself up on the border of the fountain with her right hand - the hand's skin and complexion are young and fresh despite her overall aged and tattered appearance.
  
  

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