Sunday, September 26, 2010

Whats A Man in a Cowboy Hat Doing on the Black Pearl?

If you go watch Pirates of the Carrabian: Curse of the Black Pearl, you will notice that in the shot where Jack Sparrow yells "On deck, you scabrous dogs", you will notice a crewmember with sunglasses and a cowboy hat to the left of Jack's head. While I did not personally find it, a person whose username is called omg posted it on this website called moviemistakes.com.

This website is entirely created to put every movie available under scrutiny and find every mistake possible. This is a great example of a collective intelligence website. How it works is that you create a username, find the movie the mistake is on, and if no one else has already posted that mistake you post your own. Then if enough people agree on this mistake (by pressing the green thumbs up button), your post will be kept up. Anyone can participate on this website and you can track specific usernames if you feel that credability is an issue. You will be suprised how many mistakes there are in the most highly acclaimed blockbusters.

5 comments:

  1. I love movie mistakes, it just shows even a 100 million dollar production can have mistakes.

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  4. You have to also take into consideration that many movies do not contain mistakes, but do contain intentional "errors". Many directors intentionally make mistakes sometimes to make a point and sometimes just for fun.

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  5. I think this is really neat. I had never heard of the site before but always tried to notice these "errors," whether intentional or not. I never really considered that these mistakes could be intentional... An interesting idea

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