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12 centrespread centrespread 13 MAY 12-18, 2019 PULP FICTION (1994) MAY 12-18, 2019 Director Quentin Tarantino is known for using non- linear story structures and violence. Add two mob hit men and a gangster to the script, John Travolta, Samuel L Jackson, Bruce Willis and Uma Thurman to the cast and you get an action rollercoaster. When hit men Vincent Vega (Travolta) and Jules Winnfield (Jackson) come to an apartment to collect a suitcase for their boss, an assailant starts shooting at them. They kill the attacker and Winnfield calls their luck divine intervention. But what god, and the direc- tor, missed was the walls of the room had a bullet hole (above Winnfield's left shoulder) before the hit men were fired at, though the wall was clean when they entered the room. GLADIATOR (2000) BRAVEHEART (1995) Maximus, played by Russell Crowe, has only one goal in life: kill Mel Gibson plays William Wallace, a Scottish rebel who leads an uprising against the the emperor who massacred his family and sold him off as a English ruler. But Gibson, who also directed the movie, acknowledged that the film was slave. The general becomes a gladiator fighting in the Colosse- heavily fictitious and changes were made for dramatic purposes. But the dramatisation um, Rome. During a recreation of the “Battle of Carthage”, the was a tad too much. In one battle scene, the English cavalry charges at William Wallace slaves find themselves hopelessly outnumbered. The battle and his men. At the last minute, Wallace’s army breaks the fury of the charge using sequence is gripping, with the slaves even overturning a chariot wooden pikes. The scene is engrossing enough but if you look closely, there is a white of the enemy. War veteran Maximus guides them to victory, but car behind the galloping horsemen. More horsepower, perhaps. not before the camera captures a gas cylinder hidden inside a chariot. The cylinder of compressed air was presumably used to flip the chariot over. The filmmakers might find it difficult to clear the air about this, given that the movie was set in 180 AD and steel gas canisters were invented in the 1800s. But a Starbucks cup was takes a look at some bloopers in movies that slipped past the final edit ET Magazine :: Ram Mohan AfterSCENE a long and hard battle, you can’t really blame Daenerys SPOILERS Targaryen, or anyone for that matter, going for a cup of coffee. too much for Game of Thrones fans. JURASSIC PARK (1993) When Steven Spielberg gave reel life to AMERICAN SNIPER (2014) Michael Crichton’s novel, it became a movie ahead of its time. A billionaire and his team The war drama directed by Clint bringing back dinosaurs to life and setting up Eastwood retells the story of Chris a wildlife park with extinct animals was a Kyle, who joined the US Navy SEALs box-office hit and set off a string of sequels. and became a legendary sniper. It Spielberg hired a group of special effects has several scenes that will make the experts to create dinosaur robots that could viewer hold her breath as the sniper PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: move. Some of the creations were full dino- takes aim. After the release, the saurs, others were just the upper half or the movie was criticised for not being CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL (2003) lower half, depending on the script. The true to the memoirs of Kyle, played scenes where these monsters chase a cast Captain Jack Sparrow is shrewd, full of wit and eccentric. Johnny Depp’s por- by Bradley Cooper. But one scene around the island are gripping. Then the trayal of the character with a slightly drunken swagger and flailing limbs has that misfired is of Cooper holding movie takes the suspense a notch higher made the pirate endearing to viewers and led to five movies in the series, and his baby at the hospital. The baby when a velociraptor opens the door of a kitch- several goof ups. Towards the end of the movie, after Sparrow gets back on his was a doll. Probably to make the en where two children are hiding. As the face beloved ship, he barks at his crew: "On deck, you scabrous dogs". Just at that doll look realistic, Cooper moves of the carnivore, enters the room, a hand can moment, as the crew scramble to their positions, the camera also captures a his thumb to make it look as if the be seen supporting the puppet from behind. grip crew member — in a tan cowboy hat, white tee shirt and sunglasses — star- baby’s hand is moving. It did stick Talk of getting a helping hand. ing at the sea. Luckily for the movie makers, the movie sailed through just fine. out like a sore thumb. Source: IMDB, Rolling Stone, bestlifeonline.com, news.com.au.