Bloopers

[Artina Heartflash]

Does anyone love to catch bloopers in Literature and movies as much as I do?

I don't mean the easter eggs purposely hidden or the nuances of innuendo, although those are creative and appreciated also. I am referring to the mistakes
that make us smile or laugh.

Example: American Gigolo movie. Scene when Richard Gere stands by a window, cock fully exposed. How many folks saw the likewise phallic microphone overhead, in the left corner of the screen?

Neil Diamond's song, "Play Me".
Song she sang to me
Song she brang to me
Words that rang in me
Rhyme that sprang from me
"Brang" him lots of money anyway.

My submission to the Halloween contest here at Lit, titled "WITH TEETH---UHH".
Contains the word "sphincter" spelled as "spinchter" . Someone should have PINCHed me, as I wrote the story in my sleep. No really, that's more of a Halloween egg. Poetic license to make new words of imagery.

What are some of your fave bloopers?

 

[Biker_Type]

interesting things to take note of, my mind runs that way, too. i used to have a 'bloopers' reel from porn, just the kind of stuff you'd expect, i.e. male star can't get it up, or male star shoots before he's supposed to, female passing gas with some one going down on her, blown lines of course. really a fun tape to run for an adult party! wish i knew what happened to it.

 

[lovecraft68]

Not to long ago I had one pointed out to me from one of my chapters.

In the beginning of the chapter Megan was wearing black panties. They are mentioned several times as she is wearing a micro mini skirt and flashing her ass all over the seedy bar she is in.

later when her and Mark are having sex in front of someone who paid them to play for them I say she bends over and they can see her panties are soaked through

This of course can't happen with black so I switched them to red. I went back and shanged every where I mentioned them.

Or at least thought I did.

I received an e-mail from a female reader asking where she could get a pair of "mood changing panties" and a few others picked up on it as well.

I am not very tech savvy but have since learned how to search for a particular word so this won't happen again.

 

[estragon]

Every copy editor's nightmare is the homophone that got away; most recently I let "udder" get through when the word should have been "utter"--I was cowed by that experience. But the author was kind enough not to beef about it.

 

[SydneyBlake]

You were cowed, GQ? LOL

Homophones get by me all the time. Annoys the hell outta me.

Caught myself in one the over day. Had a character driving a Mercedes which later morphed into a BMW. When you read the same thing 20 million times, it's easy to miss those things. I caught an author once whose character was from Kansas until something like Ch 15. Then she was from Missouri. Changing eye color and hair color, esp. for minor characters, is another common one. That's why an outline is important, esp. for longer stories.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

I made the waist/waste mistake in one of my stories... Oops...

And then there is this, in the movie Bad Boys.

 

[Artina Heartflash]

YEH, that cam man. Gotta love it.

I catch the morphs in the stories and comics quite a bit too. HAmuses the hell outa me.

 

[Artina Heartflash]

interesting things to take note of, my mind runs that way, too. i used to have a 'bloopers' reel from porn, just the kind of stuff you'd expect, i.e. male star can't get it up, or male star shoots before he's supposed to, female passing gas with some one going down on her, blown lines of course. really a fun tape to run for an adult party! wish i knew what happened to it.

I had collaborated on a story once where the fellow was rimmed by the female in the front seat of a tiny vehicle. I kept telling my co-writer that to perform such a feat, the fellow would have to have his feet up on the horn, she would have to have a neck like a rubber chicken, and a tongue like a giant desert lizard. He didn't bother writing any of that; He just said "her tongue finally made contact with his sphincter". Oh well, it was a tale of supernatural characters. lol.

 

[mynameisben]

I once had one of the characters say, "Josh, the things you say are so damned stupid you're either a genius or a retard. You positively sleigh me."

And no, it was not a Christmas story.

 

[Artina Heartflash]

I made the waist/waste mistake in one of my stories... Oops...

ooo gawd. Do you recall the line exactly?

I can imagine something like "He wrapped his arms about her waste" would cause a romantic move to really stink.

 

[Artina Heartflash]

I once had one of the characters say, "Josh, the things you say are so damned stupid you're either a genius or a retard. You positively sleigh me."

And no, it was not a Christmas story.

Christmas. Does anyone recall the 1951 movie The Christmas Carol, starring Alastair Sim? I saw a blooper at end of it. When Scrooge looks in a mirror on the wall, there is face of a man offstage, clearly reflected in same mirror. Scrooge moves away from the glass a moment, then returns to laugh at himself in it again... Or maybe he was laughing really at the observing man who was still smiling in it.

 

[TE999]

If you watch closely in the old b/w movies when they show someone being carted off in an ambulance and they have a follow-up shot of them arriving at the hospital, 9 times out of 10 it's a different make of ambulance than the one they left in. It's usually stock footage and they figured no one would notice, or care.

 

[estragon]

That's why I don't edit for continuity. Funny that Serenissima Syd mentioned the BMW that morphed into a Mercedes. I copy edited a story recently for the Halloween competition where a Mercedes morphed into a Porsche; I made the change back to Mercedes to keep it consistent, but sent the author a note to make sure the change was OK, as I was exceeding my remit. I want to give full credit to the continuity editors--I thought I was obsessive-compulsive, but they're in a league by themselves.

And speaking of bloopers, the ultimate one was the $91 million misunderstanding. This was one from my part of the country. It was a ship financing deal, and it closed at 4 a.m. after two straight all-nighters. The documents had been drafted and re-drafted and finally a junior lawyer was proofing the last version as everyone was howling how they had to sign. The word processing op typed $92,000,00 in the magic paper when it should have been $92,000,000. The kid missed it, the documents got filed, the shipowner went bankrupt, and the bankruptcy judge said sorry, I know it was a mistake, but the lender is secured for $92,000.00, not $92,000,000; the recorded instrument controls as to third parties. The law firm's insurer settled for $15 million, and the firm broke up. True story (slightly obfuscated and embellished). Gives me the shakes just thinking about it, and I wasn't even involved.

 

[Artina Heartflash]

The Matrix, Reloaded: huge closeup of Neo kissing woman--whose name I forget, sorry. I was feeling the smoooch, enjoying it until I saw saliva strings. Who was the sloppy kisser? lol...

 

[Artina Heartflash]

Several years ago I visited the Warner Robins AF military base in Georgia.
I am a little embarassed to report this: the BIG metal letters on outside wall of a building read MILITERY.

Who was the flit who put those letters up?

Hopefully the error has been corrected by now.

 

[mynameisben]

I read a full page casino ad in last Sunday's newspaper that boasted, "We have the loosest slots in Vegas!"

There's no actual typo in that, but I just think it's funny as hell.

 

[oggbashan]

Plan 9 From Outer Space (Trailer) probably has the most movie bloopers of any film released to the public.

I like the Police Car that arrives in daylight and leaves minutes later in the dark, and the villain who was Bela Lugosi who died during production and was replaced by the local mortician who was nothing like him.

In a film set in ancient Scandanavia, during a coastal shot, a turning airliner is in the sky above the actors, and a property truck drives past in the background.

 

[Artina Heartflash]

those are all interesting examples.

Ben Hur, Wizard of Oz, many well known movies have lists of GOOFS on the IMDB pages. Yet these became very cherished works in spite of the errors.
Our writing efforts here at Lit can also be appreciated as entertainment, even when we consider our booboos "classic". And I do appreciate seeing folks express themselves in any art form.

So If I happen to leave feedback a story of yours, I would be thrilled if you are kind in doing same for me. My one submission is not yet up on the boards , being rich text format, but it should be soon. It is short but, hopefully, impacting.

More bloopers cited here are appreciated. Enjoy

 

[Artina Heartflash]

The Blooper No One Ever Caught

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6107/6221222426_7a46e6abb0_b.jpg
phantom and artina no words by aheartflash, on Flickr

 

[SydneyBlake]

Not really a blooper, more like a dumbass award.

An unnamed chemical company manufactures certain chemicals that can function as precursors to certain illegal drugs. A tanker carrying millions of dollars worth of one of these precursors was stolen near Juarez. The company and the government were freaking out. They just knew the tanker had been stolen by one of the drug cartels. Not so. They eventually found the truck in the desert, stripped of all its tires, but still fully loaded.

What a bunch of maroons!

 

[Artina Heartflash]

An unnamed chemical company manufactures certain chemicals that can function as precursors to certain illegal drugs. A tanker carrying millions of dollars worth of one of these precursors was stolen near Juarez. The company and the government were freaking out. They just knew the tanker had been stolen by one of the drug cartels. Not so. They eventually found the truck in the desert, stripped of all its tires, but still fully loaded.

What a bunch of maroons!

And they haven't figured out who owns the maroon bra left in the front seat?


My matching panties are hanging off a military base flagpole.

 

[Artina Heartflash]

never mind me. I'll just go look at my screamsaver. oh BLOOPER. Screensaver.

Um...Hey... when did Captain America's eyes turn brown? I thought they were green.

 

[mynameisben]

And they haven't figured out who owns the maroon bra left in the front seat?


My matching panties are hanging off a military base flagpole.

You're a nut, but a lovable nut.

 

[Handley_Page]

And they haven't figured out who owns the maroon bra left in the front seat?


My matching panties are hanging off a military base flagpole.

you been supporting the troops again ?

 

[estragon]

you been supporting the troops again ?

What she's been supporting would delight the hearts (and other parts) of some brave soldiers.