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The Uninvited (2009)
goofs: grammar in news story
I haven't found the novel anywhere, so I can't tell if the author did it on purpose - or if the second unit people just didn't proofread the newspaper article as Anna and Alex were checking on the nanny. They read an article about Mildred Kemp and Alex was reading it aloud. Alex said - correctly - 'had become'. But the news printed copy was misspelled as 'had became'. Have I really been the only one who looked at the print while she was saying it? When I was a kid, my mother came home from the movie 'Fort Apache' complaining that it took place before 1900 and there were 48 stars on the US flag in the film. Since that day, I, too, have been interested in the bloopers and goofs that the second unit people feed into a movie. While manufacturing the Minuteman ICBM, I was Quality Assurance, and the men in the building had stencilled the gaping mistake 'Rocket Moter' instead of 'Rocket Motor' and this kind of error will go down forever in history.
Mustang Country (1976)
William Holden and Ricky Schroder Move Over !!!
I can't get over it. I thought "The Earthling" would never receive a decent competitor, but here it is. "The Earthling" takes place in another UK-founded country, Australia. And the boy is an orphaned son of a couple of tourists. Here, in "Mustang Country", the boy is a runaway Native American teen and the old man is an aficionado of horses since earlier than 1925. (The film starts as the two meet in a meadow while the old man is licking his chops to snare a black stallion.) Canada and its neighbor, Montana, are the venues in this one. But those are basically the only differences. Both stories tell of an old salt who decides to take a wayward young man in the wilderness under his arm. In each story, the old salt teaches the youth how to survive in the wilderness while teaching him essential characteristics of getting along well in life. Hmmm. Am I the only one who sees a tie-in to our contemporary "Challenger Program", where adults take real-life youths into the wilderness for the same purpose? The scenery would be like a National Geographic travelogue, if it weren't for the grand way the producers have brought together two great Thespians for the roles. (The Native American youth reminds me a lot of my 9-year-old grandson, as we visit the wilderness together in Utah.) I'm here to tell you, the teenagers and pre-teens are as clever and co-operative as the youth was in this film. As I have already indicated, I give it 10 of 10. Having taught in schoolrooms before I retired, I would suggest it as a three-day section of any middle-school or junior high school wilderness course. And, yes, we do offer those courses in Utah's secondary schools.