Summary
- Christopher Nolan’s films have gained him praise for his attention to detail, but they still have some noticeable mistakes that eagle-eyed viewers have caught.
- Examples of mistakes in his movies include disappearing headphones in Inception and a cameraman being reflected in the mirror during a scene in The Dark Knight.
- Even though these mistakes don’t affect the overall story, they serve as interesting tidbits for fans, such as a hidden camera setup inside a bus that was ultimately cut from the final film.
Christopher Nolan is known for his attention to detail in every movie he makes, but even his films have a couple of mistakes, some easier to find than others. Christopher Nolan’s career as a filmmaker began in the 1990s with a couple of short films, and his feature debut arrived in 1998 with the neo-noir crime thriller Following, which he also wrote, produced, and edited. However, Nolan’s big break was the 2000 psychological thriller Memento, starring Guy Pearce, which gave the audience a taste of the type of complex stories he likes to tell in his movies.
Since then, Nolan has explored a variety of stories, both original and adaptations of other media, with some of his most famous works being the sci-fi action film Inception, the epic sci-fi Interstellar, and his take on Batman and Gotham City in his Dark Knight trilogy. Nolan’s works have been praised by critics and viewers, but they aren’t exactly perfect. Although Nolan is known for paying close attention to every detail, there are some mistakes in his movies that have caught the attention of eagle-eyed viewers – and here are 10 of these goofs in Nolan’s films.
10 Arthur’s Disappearing Headphones In Inception
Inception sees a group of experts extracting and implanting information in a person’s subconscious through the process of entering their dreams. For this, whoever is dreaming the scenario wears headphones so everyone can be brought back from each layer of a dream as soon as a specific song plays. In the third act of Inception, the team goes on a mission that requires different dream layers, with the second level being dreamed by Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt). For that, the team falls asleep inside Yusuf’s dream (the first layer), and when the van they are in falls off a bridge, Arthur is seen without headphones – however, not long after, he is shown again, now with headphones as the van hits the water.
9 A Helicopter During The Dark Knight’s Bank Robbery
The Dark Knight begins with a carefully planned bank robbery led by the Joker (Heath Ledger), who disguised himself as one of his henchmen. Just one minute into the movie, an aerial shot takes the audience closer to a building where some of the Joker’s henchmen are preparing for the heist. For a very brief moment, on the far left side of the screen, the helicopter from which the scene was being shot can be seen. It’s a very subtle moment and it’s very easy to miss, but it has become one of the most famous mistakes in Nolan’s movies.
8 A Cameraman During The Joker’s Interrogation Scene
One of the most memorable scenes in The Dark Knight is when Batman shows up at the Gotham City Police Department to interrogate the Joker. Batman wasn’t counting on the Joker being way too intelligent and manipulative, and he ended up losing his temper while talking to the Joker. Batman took the Clown Prince of Crime and slammed him against a wall, and for a very, very quick moment, on the mirror to their right (at the 1:29:08 mark, approximately), a cameraman can be seen in the reflection. The camera moves fast as Batman quickly slams the Joker, so the cameraman is very easy to miss.
7 A Self-Repairing Wall In The Dark Knight’s Interrogation Scene
The interrogation scene in The Dark Knight has another continuity mistake, and this one is not that hard to spot. After Batman slams the Joker on the wall, the tiles crack around the Joker’s head, but in the next shot, as the Joker and Batman continue talking, the tiles are intact. This is one of the best-known mistakes in The Dark Knight, and while it doesn’t affect the scene or the story at all, a “self-repairing” wall is one of Gotham City’s biggest secrets.
6 A Hidden Camera Inside A Bus In The Dark Knight
Another memorable scene from The Dark Knight is when the Joker dresses up as a nurse and visits Harvey Dent at a hospital, a key moment in Dent’s villainous turn. Part of the Joker’s plan involved destroying the hospital with explosives, and as the hospital burned, the Joker entered a school bus to escape. Inside the bus, a whole camera set-up can be seen covered with a black cloth. The camera was there to shoot a close-up look at the Joker as the bus left and the hospital exploded, but the scene was ultimately cut.
5 The Gotham Times Can’t Spell “Heist” In The Dark Knight Rises
Gotham City has way too many problems due to its high crime rate, but it also has a couple of spelling problems. The Dark Knight Rises catches up with Bruce Wayne eight years after the events of The Dark Knight, with a recluse Bruce who has left Batman behind. After meeting Selina Kyle (Anne Hathaway) when she steals Bruce’s prints from Wayne Manor along with a pearl necklace that belonged to his mother, Martha Wayne, Bruce investigates Selina, and a page from The Gotham Times is shown on his computer screen. Turns out that the editors of The Gotham Times don’t know how to spell “heist”, as the headline reads “Police Suspect ‘Cat’ Burglar In Jewel Hiest”.
4 A Boom Mic In Interstellar
Interstellar is set in a dystopian future and follows ex-NASA pilot Joseph Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) as he travels through a wormhole near Saturn with a group of astronauts in search of a new home for humankind. Cooper has to leave his son, Tom, and his daughter, Murph, in order to go on this mission, though Murph tries to persuade her father to let her go with him to a secret NASA facility. In the scene where Murph tries to convince Cooper, he opens the door of his truck and throws some blankets in, and in the left wing mirror, a boom mic can be seen moving. Although the conversation between Cooper and Murph is the focus of the scene, the boom mic is so visible it’s hard to miss it.
3 Cooper’s Changing Drawing In Interstellar
Once in space, Cooper and the team came across various obstacles, and Cooper came up with an idea on how to approach the supermassive black hole Gargantua. Cooper made a quick drawing to explain his plan of landing on the water on a planet orbiting Gargantua, and his drawing changed between takes. It’s a subtle continuity mistake that doesn’t change the story of Interstellar, but it’s one of those details that slipped and no one expected would be caught someday.
2 A Cameraman In Tenet
Tenet is a sci-fi action thriller that became divisive due to its complicated plot, as it addresses themes like temporal paradoxes, time manipulation, entropy, and more. Tenet is packed with action and has some truly outstanding action sequences, but that doesn’t mean it’s safe from a couple of mistakes. One of these can be found in the scene where the Protagonist (John David Washington) passes through Sator’s turnstile to return to the ambush site and gets in the inverted car. A cameraman holding the camera can be seen reflected in the left wing mirror, and it’s hard not to miss it given that the Protagonist entering the car is the only thing happening in the scene at that moment.
1 The Wrong United States Flag In Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer tells the story of theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy), his direction of the Manhattan Project and the development of the atomic bomb during World War II, and his fall from grace due to a security hearing in 1954. Following the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Oppenheimer gives a speech to a crowd of cheering Americans waving American flags. These flags have the 50 stars representing the 50 states, but Twitter user Andy Craig noted that, back in the 1940s, the American flag only had 48 stars, and it wasn’t until 1959-1960 that the flag got its 50 stars.
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