Movie Mistakes: Take 3

Ever noticed a digital watch in a historical film? Or seen a camera crew in a mirror?There's nothing we like more than finding a continuity error, a historical inaccuracy or a technical blunder. This third edition of the bestselling Movie Mistakes brings you over a thousand slip-ups to look out for.

Auteur

Jon Sandys is the creator of the website www.moviemistakes.com, which includes over 40,000 entries from about 4000 films and gets up to 50,000 hits a day. He is also an in-demand media film spokesman.

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Ever noticed a digital watch in a historical film? Or seen a cameral crew in a mirror?
There's nothing we like more than finding a continuity error, a historical inaccuracy or a technical blunder. This third edition of the bestselling Movie Mistakes brings you over a thousand slip-ups to look out for.

• In the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time: in Pirates of the Caribbean, as Jack says 'On deck, you scabrous dogs', over his shoulder is a crew member wearing sunglasses just standing there looking out to sea.
• Run That Past Me Again: in the chariot race in Ben-Hur nine chariots start the race; six crash and four finish - where did the tenth one come from?
• Things That Move Between Takes: in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, when Gollum accuses Sam of eating the lembas bread, the crumbs on his shoulder don't appear until the shot when Gollum brushes them away.

Résumé
What if everything in life could be reduced to a simple formula? What if numbers were able to tell us which partners we were best matched with not just in terms of attractiveness, but for a long-term committed marriage? Or if they could say which films would be the biggest hits at the box office, and what changes could be made to those films to make them even more successful? Or even who out of us is likely to commit certain crimes, and when? This may sound like the world of science-fiction, but in fact it is just the tip of the iceberg in a world that is increasingly ruled by complex algorithms and neural networks. In The Formula, Luke Dormehl takes you inside the world of numbers, asking how we came to believe in the all-conquering power of algorithms; introducing the mathematicians, artificial intelligence experts and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who are shaping this brave new world, and ultimately asking how we survive in an era where numbers can sometimes seem to create as many problems as they solve.