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Thelma & Louise (1991)

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• Continuity: Level of Coke in Thelma's glass in the bar.
  
  
• Continuity: Level of Louise's Margarita in the bar.
  
  
• Factual errors: Bullet holes fired at an angle into sheet metal will leave elliptical holes, not circular ones. Additionally, they will cause the metal to bulge away from the gun that fired the bullet, not towards it.
  
  

• Continuity: Right after Thelma meets J.D., we see an old man sitting down. On the glass behind him is a sticker that says Victorville, CA. Thelma and Louise are supposed to be in Oklahoma City.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: The lights are reflected off Louise's sunglasses as she and Thelma are waiting for the train to pass.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Reflection of a truck in rear of the mirrored tanker. The truck is supposed to be the '66 Thunderbird.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Thelma is on the car about to be raped Louise comes up from behind with the handgun. Just before you see her put the gun to the guys neck we hear the gun being cocked. When we see the gun placed to his neck it is not cocked.
  
  
• Continuity: In the wide shot of the state police cruiser, in whose trunk Thelma and Louise have locked a state trooper, just before the Rastafarian cyclist approaches the car it is just in the shadow of the mountain on the left. In the close-up shots of the cyclist approaching the car, the car is completely in sunlight.
  
  
• Continuity: When Louise is laying out her plan to go to Mexico, the cut on Thelma's lip from hours before is gone. When she bumps into J.D., he comments about it and then Thelma sits in the car and the cut is there again.
  
  
• Continuity: After Louise shoots the man who was raping Thelma, her face is clean. When she looks at herself in the mirror in the ladies room she notices some of the man's blood on her face.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Hal looks up Thunderbird owners in the Arkansas State Police database, each owner's name is listed in alphabetical order. The corresponding list of vehicle's year / color is listed in chronological order, a coincidence unlikely to happen in real life.
  
  
• Continuity: The chase between Thelma and Louise and the police happens at high noon. Yet, whenever we cut to Thelma and/or Louise, the sun is either behind them or the sunlight is deep orange, indicating dusk.
  
  
• Continuity: Towards the end the windshield from the front shows the lines from the windshield wipers, but from the driver's seat looking out, the windshield is clear.
  
  
• Continuity: When Darryl is being talked to by the police about having his phone bugged, it's clearly supposed to be raining, but in other shots, while you can still hear the rain it's bright and sunny in the background.
  
  
• Continuity: In the big chase, when all the police cars are getting off the road, you can see the tire marks of at least two cars, while only the Thunderbird's marks are supposed to be there
  
  
• Continuity: When Louise comes out of the diner and gets in the car, the top is down, and even though it has obviously been raining (ground is wet, etc.) the car's interior is dry.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Just after they pick up JD and get back on the road, you can see oncoming traffic in the distance being re-routed to clear the road for the film shoot.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Thelma robs the gas station somewhere in Oklahoma, she tells the clerk to throw in a bottle of Wild Turkey. In Oklahoma, you can only buy hard liquor at a liquor store, not at a gas station.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Louise sits down next to an old man with a long white beard who is wearing glasses, in the shot where its just his face you can see the camera crew in the reflection of his glasses.
  
  
• Continuity: When J.D. comes up to the car to ask Thelma for a ride his sunglasses keep changing position. Sometimes they are in his hand and sometimes they are hanging from his shirt
  
  
• Miscellaneous: Thelma and Louise leave for their trip on Friday night, the next day after the shooting they are in the car trying to figure out what to do, in the background you can hear the AM radio giving the Dow Jones Industrial averages like the stock market is open. This would not happen on a Saturday.
  
  
• Continuity: When Louise threatens to shoot the man raping Thelma, you can hear her draw back the hammer on the revolver. When you see the gun she is holding, the hammer is at rest.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: In one of the parking lot scenes, and this is mentioned in the 'making of' documentary, the shooting lights are clearly visible at the back of the parking lot. Not subtle at all.
  
  

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