We all love bloppers…er…we mean bloopers. Here are some great ones from the silver screen.
Movie: The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Scene: The film’s opening credits.
Blooper: This blockbuster won seven Oscars, but not for spelling. They misspelled the star’s name, Alec Guinness, as “Guiness.”
Movie: Clueless (1995)
Scene: A close-up shot of Cher’s (Alicia Silverstone) report card.
Blooper: The name on the report card is Cher Hamilton, not the character’s name, Cher Horowitz.
Movie: Vanilla Sky (2001)
Scene: Julie (Cameron Diaz) and David (Tom Cruise) are in the car. Julie goes crazy and drives it off a bridge.
Blooper: The exterior shot reveals there’s no one in the car.
Movie: Die Hard (1989)
Scene: When Sgt. Al Powell (Reginald VelJohnson) crashes his squad car, his forehead is bleeding pretty badly.
Blooper: Throughout the remainder of the film, no evidence of the wound is present.
Movie: Double Indemnity (1944)
Scene: Fred MacMurray plays a bachelor.
Blooper: Then why is he wearing a wedding ring?
Movie: North by Northwest (1959)
Scene: In a restaurant, Eve (Eva Marie Saint) pulls a gun on Thornhill (Cary Grant).
Blooper: Just before the shot is fired, a boy sitting at a table in the background puts his fingers in his ears to muffle the sound of a gun he has no way of seeing…but obviously knows is there.
Model president: As a struggling actor, Ronald Reagan once posed nude as an artist’s model.
Scene: The story chronicles one of the biggest tornadoes in Oklahoma’s history.
Blooper: Most of the road signs are from Texas.
Movie: Shrek (2001)
Scene: Shrek (Mike Myers) and Fiona (Cameron Diaz) blow up some balloons and let them go.
Blooper: The balloons fly up in the air. (Okay, we know they’re fairy tale characters, but that doesn’t explain how they could exhale helium.)
Movie: Independence Day (1996)
Scene: Inside a tunnel, Jasmine (Vivica A. Fox) and her son, Dylan (Ross Bagley), escape through a service door just before they’re overtaken by a wall of fire. Then Jasmine calls the dog.
Blooper: Even allowing Hollywood its usual “artistic license,” the fact that Jasmine and Dylan make it out is barely plausible. But the dog? A shockwave is tossing cars like toys, yet somehow superdog manages to jump out of the way barely a few feet in front of it.
Movie: Kate & Leopold (2001)
Scene: Spectators on a bridge are waving American flags.
Blooper: The flags have all 50 stars… in 1876.
Movie: Pulp Fiction (1994)
Scene: Vincent (John Travolta) and Jules (Samuel L. Jackson) are in an apartment when someone bursts out of the bathroom and starts shooting at them.
Blooper: The bullet holes are in the wall before the gunman starts shooting.
Movie: Cocktail (1988)
Scene: Tom Cruise goes into the Regency Theatre in Manhattan and gets into a fight.
Blooper: It must have been a long fight—when he went into the theater, Barfly appeared on the marquee. When he exited, it was Casablanca.
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