Goofs in the first HP Movie

[Iggy McSnurd]

Iggy here:

I found this on the IMDB site, and thought you all might find it
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Iggy McSnurd


Goofs for 
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)     
   

Crew or equipment visible: The mechanism which makes the Quidditch box
shake can be seen when the box falls over.


Miscellaneous: As the three children run across the field to Hagrid's
hut, Harry says a few lines ending with "...why didn't I see it before?"
Hermione is mouthing Harry's lines with him.


Factual Errors: The snake that Harry talks to blinks. Snakes don't have
eyelids, making it impossible for them to blink. It is repeatedly
pointed out that snakes can't talk, either, but in the context of the
movie, this is acceptable while the snake's blink is a simple mistake.


Continuity: When Harry is taking notes in Snape's class his handwriting
is small and neat. When seen from Snape's point of view it is large and
sloppy.


Crew or equipment visible: When Harry, Ron, and Hermione are struggling
in the Devil's Snare, a puppeteer can be seen on the left of the screen,
working at least some of the masses of tendrils.


Continuity: During the train journey, Ron's hair is parted in several
different places.


Crew or equipment visible: The shadows of a cameraman and a camera are
visible on the wall in the Mirror of Erised scene.


Continuity: Harry's glasses sometimes have lenses, and sometimes don't,
as do Dumbledore's.


Continuity: On the train scene, the same hill as well as lake (as seen
by the waves in the middle of the water) are seen multiple times


Audio/visual unsynchronised: Harry, Dudley, and Uncle Vernon during the
flying letters sequence.


Miscellaneous: When Harry receives his first letter, Uncle Vernon says
"Your letter? Who would be writing to you?", Dudley is standing next to
him and is seen mouthing Uncle Vernon's lines.


Continuity: When Hermione runs across the field her bag switches arms.


Revealing mistakes: In the scene with the flying keys, we can see the
string holding up the broomstick just before Harry grabs it.


Continuity: When Harry goes looking for a book on Nicolas Flamel in the
restricted section he opens up the screaming book to the first page.
When the book starts to scream he is in the middle of the book.


Crew or equipment visible: When Harry, Ron, and Hermione just left
Fluffy for the first time and walk into their dorm area, we see, under
the painting, the feet of someone closing the painting.


Continuity: The note that Hagrid gives to the teller in the bank is
wrinkled in one shot, neat and clean in the next, and then back to
wrinkled.


Continuity: When Hagrid's cabin is shown the windows are so high up that
even Hagrid can't see through them while standing on the ground. Later
in the film, when Draco Malfoy spies on Hagrid through the window, the
window appears to be at his eye level, and he turns and runs away,
revealing that he wasn't standing on anything to make him tall enough to
reach the window.


Continuity: When Harry and Hagrid are walking down Diagon Alley, the
same group of people walk past them, in the opposite direction, twice.


Continuity: In Diagon Alley, Harry and Hagrid walk past the same cart
and storefront three times. In the opening wide shot, they walk past the
purple storefront with the yellow moving scissors and the cart of market
goods in front of it. Three shots later, the storefront and cart are
shown again in detail, as Harry and Hagrid pass. The next shot shows
them passing the cart (with a stack of cauldrons in the background).
Several shots later, after passing the store with the owls, they are
seen once again passing the cart with the same stack of cauldrons in the
background.


Continuity: Just after passing Madam Malkin's shop and before the owl
emporium in Diagon Alley, a woman dressed all in black and a man with a
burgandy top hat and mutton chops pass on Harry's right walking in the
opposite direction. In the next shot, as Harry looks to his left, the
same pair can be seen standing and chatting in the doorway of the owl
emporium.


Continuity: In Diagon Alley, Harry and Hagrid pass many groups of people
multiple times, though they appear to be walking continuously in one
direction. Watch for the wizard with curly red hair, the man with a top
hat and mutton chops, and the group of three girls who cross in the
foreground of the opening shot.


Continuity: When Ron gets drooled on by Fluffy and gets wet, but two
shots later he's completely dry.


Errors in geography: When Harry arrives at Hogwarts, Professor
McGonagall announces that the Sorting Ceremony will begin "momentarily".
In UK English, momentarily means "for a moment" (i.e. briefly), and a
Scottish witch as pedantic and precise as McGonagall would never use the
American meaning of the word ("in a moment" or "soon"), even though the
American meaning might be well understood.


Continuity: Harry appears older in the flashback of Voldemort killing
his parents than he does when Hagrid brings him bundled up to the
Dursleys' at the beginning.


Continuity: When the first years climb the stairs and meet Professor
McGonagall for the first time, Ron's robe is hanging partly open in one
shot, but is closed in the next.


Continuity: In Olivander's, Harry tries two wands, and puts each in the
same place. But during Olivander's explanation, the camera shows the
area where he put the wands, but only one is there.


Audio/visual unsynchronised: When Harry and Ron are fighting the troll
in the girl's toilet, they use a spell to lift the troll's club over its
head and drop it. The club does hit the troll and makes an appropriate
sound effect, but then the club falls to the floor, it makes no sound at
all.


Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Many viewers believe that the infant
Harry in the flashback is wearing anachronistic Blue's Clues pajamas.
The design on the sleeve is actually a rabbit.


Crew or equipment visible: During the chess scene, the shadow of a
figure can be seen covering a light shining on the chess board near the
bottom of the screen.


Continuity: When Harry is struggling with his broom in the first quidich
game, he almost falls off and is hanging from it. Near the base of the
handle a large wire bracket is clearly visible. Possibly to support the
rider's feet while riding it. The bracket isn't visible on any of the
other brooms, and it doesn't appear on Harry's broom at any other time
in the movie.