Did You Notice? Movie Trivia of the Seventies
This is a list of the hard to notice items you come across in movies. These aren't trivia questions.
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- American Graffiti
Somewhere in the movie is a car with license plate number THX 1138-the title of George Lucas' first film in 1971!
- Grease
After the part in the movie when they play "The Hand Jive" everyone slides or just comes together and the end of the song. If you look closly you can see that Marty has knee pads on and you can see them under her dress.
- Grease
When Vi and Frenchy are in the Frosty Palace, Vi is closing up and she comes down the steps with a tray in her hand and turns off the light with her elbow. If you watch, you'll notice she misses the light switch by a mile.
- Grease
Frenchie's name is spelt two different ways from the opening credits and the closing credits.
- Now and Then
In the scene where the girls take off with the Wormer's clothes, one of the boys puts a burlap sack around his waist. As he runs after the girls, he drops down to pick up an article of clothing. As he does this, you can see right up the burlap sack, and his entire "package" is visible.
- Rocky Horror Picture Show
In one of the last senes when Tim Curry is in the pool he doesn't have the heart tattoe on his arm
- Rocky Horror Picture Show
After watching the Movie "one too many times" I have seen many things that were different. First the one scene Columbia,Magenta, and Riff Raff are doing the time warp facing left,and the next scene they are facing right, and then when Magenta is undressing Brad his shirt its unbuttoned,but the next scene it is buttoned again. The last scene in the "superheroes" number, Dr. Scott is laying not on a flattened wheelcair,but a bicycle, and when Frank is turning on the Electro-magnet to get Dr.Scott he lifts his left knee up,then in the next scene its his right.thats all I can think of now,theres a lot.
- Star Wars
When the Y-wings sweep in to destroy the deathstar one of the disappears before he reaches the edge of the screen.... Itīs just one or two frames, but it shows....
- Star Wars
In the ORIGINAL one, when the storm troopers are invading the ship at the start of the movie, one of the troopers runs into the edge of the doorway! when C-3P0 and R-2D2 hide in the escape pod.
- Star Wars
During the first run down the trench with the Y-Wings, the older, heavyset pilot is first referred to as "Gold 5" and then later referred to as "Gold Leader".
- Star Wars
In The Empire Strikes Back, when Chewbacca is running along one of the corridors in Cloud City you can see the actors white trainers under his Wookie costume.
- Star Wars
When C-3PO and R2-D2 are hiding in the control room and a squad of stormtroopers breaks into the room, one of the stormtroopers on the right side of the screen hits his head on the door (which hasn't gone fully up).
- Taxi Driver
When Robert DeNiro is in a cafe talking to Jodi Foster she wears two very different sunglasses in the same scene
- Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
OK, you need to pay attention for this one. All the husbands and wives have matching names! Veruca's father is Henry and her mother is Henrietta. Charlie's grandmothers are Georgina and Josephine and his grandfathers are George and Joe. Also, If Grandpa Joe hasn't left the bed in 25 years, how did he buy Charlie the Wonka bar that he gives to him late at night?
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