A shooting mistake

[dubeau]

I watched the movie a second time, and I saw the same mistake in shooting (I think). Spock and Kirk are going to the Romulian ship, Spoke leave in the future craft and ensue a fight for Kirk, Nero leaves him and then he jump on the platform below...when he lands there is a pistol on the platform, it's even in the close ups. The romulian take him by the neck, he says "I got your gun" shoot, and put the gun on the ground where the previous gun was. Since he never took the first gun, there should be two of them...

Obviously, they shot the killing sequence prior of the landing, and forgot the gun there...I think. You can always argue that the first gun fell tho...

- I hope this subject isn't old news. Sorry if that's the case.

 

[writergal]

I'm still trying to figure out how Kirk managed to jump about 20 feet through the air and hit that platform full force with his chest, and not break every rib in his ribcage. I mean, OW!!

 

[Trekker4747]

I watched the movie a second time, and I saw the same mistake in shooting (I think). Spock and Kirk are going to the Romulian ship, Spoke leave in the future craft and ensue a fight for Kirk, Nero leaves him and then he jump on the platform below...when he lands there is a pistol on the platform, it's even in the close ups. The romulian take him by the neck, he says "I got your gun" shoot, and put the gun on the ground where the previous gun was. Since he never took the first gun, there should be two of them...

Obviously, they shot the killing sequence prior of the landing, and forgot the gun there...I think. You can always argue that the first gun fell tho...

- I hope this subject isn't old news. Sorry if that's the case.

Yes.

It's called a contnuity error. They happen all the time in movies as different shots are filmed at different times -sometimes on different days- and getting little details like a gun on a floor can get over looked. Movies -and tv shows for that matter- are supposed to have contnuity directors who catch stuff like this. But when it comes to the chance of someone noticing a small detail like this -which can be ignored if people are watching the movie and not paying attention to dropeed guns- or spending 10s or 100s of 1000s of dollars to reshoot a single shot most movie directors and prouducers opt for the former.

 

[Jedi Marso]

I'm still trying to figure out how Kirk managed to jump about 20 feet through the air and hit that platform full force with his chest, and not break every rib in his ribcage. I mean, OW!!

Every time I see a scene like that in a movie like that I assume shipboard gravity is set lower or there is an artificial gravity 'null zone' that makes it possible.

Yes, I know that's weak. Throw me a freakin' bone heah!

 

[Jeri]

I'm still trying to figure out how Kirk managed to jump about 20 feet through the air and hit that platform full force with his chest, and not break every rib in his ribcage. I mean, OW!!

Indeed; he should have been in traction already for all the other fights, vaccines, monster chases, space drops, ledge hangings, etc. I don't know how he did any of it in that shape.

 

[Borgminister]

I thought this was a TNZ thread for a minute...

 

[Squiggy]

 

[Trekker4747]

Um, Squiggs...

 

[Squiggy]

Si?

 

[Trekker4747]

Si?

Well, you fixed mistake one.

 

[Jackson_Roykirk]

I'm still trying to figure out how Kirk managed to jump about 20 feet through the air and hit that platform full force with his chest, and not break every rib in his ribcage. I mean, OW!!

Because he's Kirk. Duh.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

I watched the movie a second time, and I saw the same mistake in shooting (I think). Spock and Kirk are going to the Romulian ship, Spoke leave in the future craft and ensue a fight for Kirk, Nero leaves him and then he jump on the platform below...when he lands there is a pistol on the platform, it's even in the close ups. The romulian take him by the neck, he says "I got your gun" shoot, and put the gun on the ground where the previous gun was. Since he never took the first gun, there should be two of them...

Obviously, they shot the killing sequence prior of the landing, and forgot the gun there...I think. You can always argue that the first gun fell tho...

- I hope this subject isn't old news. Sorry if that's the case.

Well i'm not really understanding what you're saying but i'll just point out that there are 3 pistols involved, Kirks, Neros and the the second in command Romulans. The second in command Romulans pistol is in his belt which is how Kirk grabs it leaving the other pistol to either be Kirks or Neros that was probably dropped when they were scrapping.

I'm still trying to figure out how Kirk managed to jump about 20 feet through the air and hit that platform full force with his chest, and not break every rib in his ribcage. I mean, OW!!

Adamantium Skeleton.

 

[dubeau]

Well, those continuity errors always makes fun facts. It all shows that it's a human film made by Youman. You can put 100 million in a movie, it will still have mistakes in them. Isn't human nature great or what ?

 

[Maurice]

Movies -and tv shows for that matter- are supposed to have contnuity directors who catch stuff like this.

Technically it's the job of the script supervisor, who notes any deviation from the written script, tracks which shots cover how much of a given scene, the shot running time, and notes things like which hand actors use, where they put props, etc., and tells the director when they notice an actor does something differently. But given the sheer complexity of a film set, it's easy to miss things, and sometimes editors choose to use footage from a different part of a scene to fix something, which creates a continuity error where there wasn't one on set.

There's no such thing as a continuity director.

 

[Trekker4747]

Movies -and tv shows for that matter- are supposed to have contnuity directors who catch stuff like this.

Technically it's the job of the script supervisor, who notes any deviation from the written script, tracks which shots cover how much of a given scene, the shot running time, and notes things like which hand actors use, where they put props, etc., and tells the director when they notice an actor does something differently. But given the sheer complexity of a film set, it's easy to miss things, and sometimes editors choose to use footage from a different part of a scene to fix something, which creates a continuity error where there wasn't one on set.

There's no such thing as a continuity director.

I've seen "Continuity Directors" listed in credits.