Continuity mistake: When Captain Jack Wander is handcuffed to the stairs, in the first shot you can see that the handcuffs aren't all the way clasped. When you see him from a different angle, they are clasped all the way.
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Factual error: Why is Hilts not wearing a uniform? A serving officer captured behind enemy lines in civilian clothing risked being shot as a spy. If a prisoner's uniform was too worn or damaged to wear, it was routine for the German authorities to replace it - a P.O.W. in civilian clothes is an obvious escape risk. He is wearing a pair of tan chinos, a cut off sloppy Joe sweatshirt, both ridiculously anachronistic - Sixties hipster fashions - and nowhere even close to a World War 2 uniform. He is also wearing Army Type III Service boots - something that would never have been issued to a fighter pilot.
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"Anne, honey, let's face it. All I know how to do is take off my clothes."
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Continuity mistake: When the elephants in the circus are making a pyramid on top of a ball, as it changes from shot to shot the colour of the blankets on their backs changes, and one of the elephants changes from grey to blue.
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Factual error: When the bus is shown entering Washington, DC for the competition, the shot shows the bus traveling over the Arlington Memorial Bridge with the Lincoln Memorial in the background. That bridge is on the southwest side of the city. Since NYC is to the northeast of DC, this means that to get to that bridge and enter DC that way, the bus had to drive all the way around the city and then come back in from the opposite direction. Even if the bus driver made a mistake and missed the most direct route into the city from the north, there are dozens of other ways to get to the heart of the city without adding a good 45 minutes to an hour to the trip.
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Continuity mistake: When Rey enters the Emperor's vault on the Death Star she is wearing her satchel, slung across her body. When she falls out backwards after seeing Dark Rey she is still wearing it, when she stands to confront Ren, it's gone.
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Question: Why was Zendaya considered as one of the "freaks" (like they called them), even though she looked normal?
Answer: I'm pretty sure because she was a person of colour.
Answer: Her brother said people of the time didn't want to see colored people on the stage. It's clear throughout the entire movie that she faces undue discrimination from the public just for not being white.
Answer: There were other people in the circus who were just normal but had amazing abilities.
She was half black and half white.
Answer: Because her actress, Zendaya, is mixed race (part African American and part Caucasian American), and Anne is either that too or African American (either way, she would have been ostracised at the time the movie is set), and so Anne would have been seen as a freak for that reason.
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Suggested correction: Hilts was a U.S. Air Force pilot, and light-colored khaki trousers (similar to chinos) were standard-issue uniform for some U.S. military branches, along with leather bomber jackets for Air Force pilots. Therefore, Hilts is dressed appropriately for his military branch. Hilts was a POW for a few years before being transferred to this particular camp and his clothing could have changed since being capture. The Geneva Convention required that POWs receive shelter, food, clothing, medical care, etc. The Red Cross delivered care packages to POW camps containing food, miscellaneous apparel, and other essentials. Also, sweatshirts have existed since the 1920s and changed little, and Chino pants have been around since the late 19th century. Hilts could also have obtained the boots in a variety of ways - - swapping with other prisoners, a community clothing pile, spare clothing from prisoners who died that is then distributed to other POWs, etc.
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And none of them would have been available to a prisoner in a German POW camp in the mid 1940s. Not one single item of hipster fashion would have found its way into the camp. Even if it did, do you really think the German authorities would allow a prisoner to lounge about in civilian clothing? Talk about an escape risk.
The camp was in Germany, not Poland. As I previously mentioned, other than the sweatshirt, Hilts appears to wear military clothing - a leather pilot's bomber's jacket with military sleeve insignia, and U.S. Air Force tan khaki trousers. So not "hipster" '60s civilian clothing. The sweatshirt could be military appropriate (even issued) and something Hilts acquired at a different camp. He arrived with a small duffel bag that presumably had some misc clothing and other personal items. He and two other POWs are the only Americans, and they have different uniforms from the British captives. The current camp commandant, who apparently disdained Hitler and his Nazi minions, would decide what POWs could and could not wear.
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