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Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

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• Anachronisms: As the gang leave a bank robbery in 1934, and 1940 Ford firetruck almost hits their getaway car.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): The character of Ivan Moss is referred to as "Malcolm" by Bonnie in one of the final scenes.
  
  
• Continuity: Blanche is eating a doughnut in the back seat during a motor scene. It goes from one bite missing to half-gone, then mysteriously back to one bite missing again.
  
  

• Continuity: While Clyde is consoling Bonnie in the field (after she tries to run away), his hand is alternately on/off her shoulder between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: When CW offers Eugene back his hamburger, there are several small bites taken out of it. When we cut to Eugene's reaction, it is one large bite.
  
  
• Errors in geography: While fleeing Texas law enforcement after a bank robbery, the gang drives into Oklahoma on dry land instead of over some bridge as one might expect. The substantial Red River forms the boundary between Oklahoma and the parts of Texas (northeast and north-central) in which they were active criminals. The dry-land section of the Texas-Oklahoma boundary lies to the north and east of the Texas "Panhandle" which is quite far (about 200 miles at the least) from any of their known bank robberies.
  
  
• Continuity: Near the end of the movie, as they are riding on their car, Bonnie picks up a pear from a grocery bag and starts eating it. In the following shot, she shares the pear with Clyde but the pear is upside down.
  
  
• Continuity: When Clyde enters the Ritts Groceries to make a robbery, Bonnie stays in the middle of the street holding a cooler bottle. But when they run toward the car the bottle disappears.
  
  
• Continuity: After he calls Bonnie to follow him, Clyde turns and goes to the car. Then she calls him and points to him with her left hand, keeping her right arm by her side. The next shot shows her with her right hand touching her own shoulder.
  
  
• Continuity: Otis Harris takes the gun from Davis holding it by the barrel and passes it like this to Clyde. In the subsequent shot Clyde is holding it by the barrel too, instead of the handle.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bonnie says to C.W. that the car is a "stolen four-cylinder Ford coupe", she has her left arm leaning on the car door and the right one inside. In the following shot she has her arms crossed on the door.
  
  
• Continuity: During the frustrated love scene on the bed, after he kisses Bonnie, Clyde turns to his back and puts his left hand on his chest. Next shot he takes his left hand from her breast.
  
  
• Continuity: Still on the bed, after Clyde stands up, Bonnie appears with a gun near her face in close-up. The subsequent shows her standing up with no gun nearby at all.
  
  
• Continuity: When Clyde is taking a picture of Buck and Blanche, he takes the cigar from his mouth and holds the camera with both hands. In the next shot, the cigar is in his mouth again.
  
  
• Continuity: Inside the car, when Blanche and C.W. go to buy some food, she lights a new cigarette with the butt of the other. In the following shot the butt has disappeared.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the very first scene when Bonnie is flailing around her bedroom, there is an obvious jump in film just as she begins to beat the bed frame with her fist.
  
  
• Factual errors: In the final scene where Bonnie and Clyde are killed, the Ranger and his deputies are wielding Thompson sub-machine guns. In actual fact, the weapons of choice were Browning Automatic Rifles (B.A.R.).
  
  
• Factual errors: On the opening credits, the card giving Bonnie's background mentions that she was born in Rowena which is in west Texas just outside of San Angelo. However later on when Bonnie and Clyde are in the café and Clyde is talking about her background, he says "You were born around east Texas, right?" to which she incorrectly responds "Yeah."
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: At their first major shoot out at the cottage, when it begins, Blanche begs of Buck "Buck please get us out of here!" to which Buck yells "Shut up!". If you look at Gene Hackman's mouth, he's not saying anything.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the tourist court shoot out near the end of the film, CW throws a grenade at the armored car and it hits the front fender. The fender breaks in half before the explosion. Since the car is presumably a heavy steel vehicle (which it was in real life), the light weight grenade shouldn't have broken the fender.
  
  

• Continuity: SPOILER: During the final attack on Bonnie and Clyde, Bonnie's dress alternates between showing gray powder/squib stains and bloodstains.
  
  

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