When Nicolas Cage dies at the end, right before it cuts to the next scene, you can see him blink. [I watched this scene again and again and Nicholas Cage doesn't blink it the picture fading to the next scene.]
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Windtalkers (2002) - 9 corrections
Directed by John Woo, starring Christian Slater, Jason Isaacs, Nicolas Cage, Peter Stormare (add more)
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When Nicolas Cage dies at the end, right before it cuts to the next scene, you can see him blink. [I watched this scene again and again and Nicholas Cage doesn't blink it the picture fading to the next scene.]
During the battle of Saipan we see a battleship firing and it's clearly stock footage. [Considering there are no longer any battleships available to actually shell an island for the purpose of making a movie, they had no choice but to use stock footage (or CG). At best this is triva but it's not a mistake.]
Right before the Saipan D-Day battle scene, it says "The Japanese Island of Saipan June 16, 1944". Saipan's D-Day was actually June 15, 1944. [There is nothing in the movie that indicates that the filmmaker is trying to say the invasion occurred on the 16th, and no reason not to assume that we are simply picking up the storyline on the second day of the battle.]
In the early scene where Enders is in the hospital, the nurse gives him his pills in a plastic cup. Plastic was not in use in that manner in the 1940's and chances are the nurse would have given Enders the pill by hand. [The cup is made of paper.]
Corrected by AdmRose
All through the movie when Enders fires his Thompson even in the close up shots you never see a single shell casing come out of the weapon. [This is not true. In some of the first scenes on Saipan (the slow motion ones where he is mowing down the Japanese) you can see the Thompson ejecting spent shells.]
Corrected by AdmRose
During Enders patrol on Guadalcanal, all but one of the Marines with him are carrying M-1 Garand rifles. Marine riflemen landed on Guadalcanal with the older 1903 Springfield rifles. Only a handful of M-1's found their way to Marine hands which were stolen from follow-on Army landing troops. [They aren't necessarily on Guadalcanal. That island was secured in February 1943. It is more likely they were on another island in the Solomons, such as Bougainville.]
Corrected by AdmRose
In the scene where Enders and Ben first meet, Enders is watching pelicans. They are supposedly at Camp Tarawa, Hawaii. There are no pelicans in Hawaii. [Take a closer look at your pelican. It is in fact an albatross.]
The clip on a Thompson submachine gun from World War II can only hold twenty rounds. In certain parts of Saipan's D-Day and the ambush, Enders shoots more than twenty rounds from his Thompson in one clip. He wouldn't be able to reload without getting shot in these situations. [The Thompson held either 30 rounds in the straight magazine as used in Europe or 50 rounds in the round magazine which was almost exclusive to the P.T.O.]
When Enders gets stabbed by a bayonet during the middle of the movie he gets his gun and shoots the man stabbing him, this causes blood to splatter everywhere, including the camera lens and for 2-3 seconds there are blood splatterings on the screen. [That was probably an intentional effect.]
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