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Can you find SCRUPLES in the dictionary, a word of which Eisenstein and his fellow Bolsheviks were totally ignorant?

If I wanted to depict the USA govt. oppressing the USA citizenry, would I be justified in depicting the riot police attacking a crowd in front of the White House, something that has never happened?

Which movies have been particularly nefarious at distorting history? SANTA FE TRAIL distorts the story of John Brown so much, his descendants should have sued for defamation of character.

In the 1970s WIPR, the public TV station of my Puerto Rico, broadcast a series of classic films. Its organizer obviously loved Cocteau, for the series included every movie that Cocteau ever made. I was moved to tears by the beauty and poetry of those films, which I watched with great enthusiasm. Which movies would you describe, praise and recommend as poetry in celluloid?

Every time I access a period movie on IMDB.com/ practically the first section I access is GOOFS in order to know the mistakes (?) and manipulations of which its makers are guilty.

I just read in WIKIPEDIA that the Odessa steps scene is all a lie--a fabrication perpetrated by Eisenstein. I hate and loathe this manipulation! What is propaganda but an euphemism for falsehood???

It was Russia that attacked Germany in 1914.

A grandmother with her grandson was watching a newsreel featuring Roosevelt. She looked carefully at FDR, and when the newsreel was over she turned to her grandson and told him: Child, what you saw in front of you was a dying man. Mr. Roosevelt will not live another year. That was in October of 1944; in 12 April 1945 FDR suffered the stroke that killed him.

If you include everybody who died in China because of Mao the number increases enormously. Aren't the 12 million who died because of the Shoah a part of the overall casualties of WWII?

Two goofs: Even though this story takes place in Germany, all the written and printed material is in English. The note that Raymond Massey sends to Andrea King is not only in English, but also in American handwriting, which is very different from the script that Germany used in 1945.

... screed at the end--signed by Churchill, FDR and Stalin--is a rather humorous reminder of the nefarious intentions that the Allies had towards Germany. There was serious consideration of the possibility of depriving G of all its heavy industry and making the country a basically agricultural state. There was even an organization, SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF WORLD WAR III*, presided by Rex Stout and William Shirer, that plotted the possibility of breaking up G into different countries, so that there would no longer be an unified German state. Only the betrayal of the Allies by Stalin--who wasted no time in picking up where Hitler had left off--prevented these twisted schemes from being put into effect. *For some inexplicable reason, WWIII is known by the euphemistic name of Cold (!!!) War.

I was not impressed with a dull flavorless ,,comedy'' where the big joke is that Hurt does not understand the news that he is reading. Where do I go to reclaim the time that I wasted watching movies that I loathed? (five sour faces)

Does anybody here do calligraphy, which is one of my hobbies? In ROBIN HOOD, PRINCE OF THIEVES, Brian Blessed--playing the father of Kevin Costner--writes his son a long letter in the calligraphy that was invented in the 17th century, and which is the basis for modern longhand. That is a mistake that appears in many movies set in the Middle Ages; the actual script of the time of Richard the Lionhearted was very tight and hard to read, partly because it didn't have such features as exclamation points and question signs, both inventions of the Renaissance.

It's from THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH, when Bond teases Cleese about being R because he is the subordinate of Q (Desmond Llewelyn).

Q (John Cleese) to 007 (Pierce Brosnan): I have heard of your reputation as a wit. I see they were half right.

How about this: how many movies have been made about the British departing India? It honestly seems the movie world was so fond of making movies like THE LIVES OF A BENGAL LANCER and GUNGA DIN that it could not get over the divorce of John Bull and the Subcontinent.

Don't tell me you don't find anachronisms amusing. As for DARLING LILI, the one obvious goof is that the hair of Rock Hudson varies in length from scene to scene, which falls under CONTINUITY. The people who detect anachronisms at IMDB are truly amazing! One example in GOODFELLAS is the fire extinguisher in the kitchen through which Henry Hill and Karen walk towards the café. According to the GOOFS section, that is a model of extinguisher that did not yet exist. How many people would notice that?

Yesterday I checked the IMDB GOOFS section of DARLING LILI, and it had no anachronisms, so there is a chance of other period movies having no anachronisms. Now simmer down now and don't go around looking for fights where there are no fights.

Does not matter; a 30 star flag in that period would still be a mistake. The fact remains that mistakes with symbols are among the most common anachronisms. In the silent THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, De Mille's KING OF KINGS, and SOLOMON AND SHEBA, the Magen David, a symbol from the Middle Ages, is very visible

Quinn and Akim Tamiroff were unique; they could play many ethnicities. Eli Wallach, not so much; in all my years in my Puerto Rico, and in all the telenovelas I have watched, I have never seen anybody who resembles Wallach. All right, the title has been changed; who will now contribute trivia about BHOWANI JUNCTION?

That was it; thank you (thumbs up).

Watching movies is difficult for my 85 y/o mother because she is so easily distracted, it seems at times she is watching everything but the TV screen. She tells me that, when she watched this movie on the 17th--for the first time--, there was a twist at the end that she could not understand. Since I was not watching with her I have no idea what she referred to; does anybody here have an idea what it was?

So how do you change a title, something I don't know how to do? How about this alternate?: In Search of Good BHOWANI JUNCTION Trivia As regards Gardner as an Indian, 'tis very irksome to cast people like Debra Paget and Natalie Wood as American Indians* simply because, like AG, they were brunettes. *Native American is everybody in the American continent who is born in an American country, from Canada in the north to Chile and Argentina in the south.

I am very sore with Scorsese and Spielberg because they are very careless with anachronisms. Check movies such as GOODFELLAS, AMISTAD and LINCOLN at IMDB.COM/, and you will see that their GOOFS sections have very long lists of anachronisms.

All right, since you are so sensitive, let's change it: MANKIEWICZ NEEDS BHOWANI JUNCTION TRIVIA. I would have liked to know why Ava Gardner was cast as an half Indian woman. In Tampa, where I lived until 2013, I met many young Indian ladies, and Gardner didn't look like any of them.