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Thursday, September 20, 2007

IT'S OUT


SO BUY IT AND PURCHASE IT FOR EVERYONE YOU KNOW - IT'LL BE THE BEST GIFT THEY EVER GOT!

posted by Veronica Bravo @ 11:51 PM  

4 Comments:

  • At 9/20/2007 11:56:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    My co-worker, Ron, bought it for me the day it came out - he said "consider it an engagement gift"

     

  • At 9/21/2007 11:19:00 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    I bought it at the Wal-Mart. I was disappointed with the bonus features, but it has a cool promo for W.V. (dub v for my ninjas).

     

  • At 9/21/2007 01:00:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Fun things to do while wearing pants:

    Goofs in We Are Marshall

    Anachronisms: During shots of a conversation between Nate Ruffin and one of the other varsity players on the roof of a campus building, the new Library and Football Stadium (both built in the 1990s) appear in the background. The Stadium appears only once and is edited out of subsequent shots. However, the stadium is gone completely in the DVD version.


    Continuity: When Coach Lengyel comes to the dinner and decides to have the pie, he picks up a spoon from the silverware container, but when he goes to sit down with Paul Griffen and begins to eat the pie he is eating it with a fork.


    Continuity: When Nate Ruffin goes to the middle of the football field to place the football on a tee (to honor the dead players) his arm sling is slung over his back with both arms free. However, when he walks away his arm is back in the sling.


    Anachronisms: Shortly after the crash in a locker room scene where there is a discussion over whether to continue with the football program or not, there is clearly a new 1971 football helmet hanging there.


    Continuity: In the final game of the movie, I believe at one point, Xavier had 7 points after scoring a touchdown. Later on after adding a field goal, the scoreboard showed that they had only 9 points as opposed to 10.


    Continuity: During the Moorehead State game, when the Moorehead player scores a touchdown the shot zooms in to the scoreboard reading 28. It then goes to a shot of the player in the end-zone and the scoreboard reads 22.


    Factual errors: When Coach Lengyel talks to President Dedmon about getting the NCAA to let them play Football (1971), they are in a basketball gym. The court has a three-point line which was not adopted in NCAA basketball until the 1983 season. The National Federation of High School Rules did not include the three-point line until the 1984 season.


    Factual errors: The title before the game against Xavier says Marshall University v. Xavier. The home team is always listed last; it should therefore have said, Xavier v. Marshall.


    Revealing mistakes: Even though the story takes place over several months, Coach Lengyel's son's two front missing teeth do not grow back.


    Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Anne's hand is shaking pretty hard when she reaches out to give Paul the engagement ring back (the shot is from Paul's point of view). The camera cuts to a view from behind Anne and her hand is suddenly very still for the duration of that shot. The shot changes back 10 seconds later to be from Paul's view and Anne's hand is shaking again.


    Audio/visual unsynchronized: During the Xavier game, Xavier returns a fumble for a touchdown. The radio announcer says "That puts Xavier up 6 to 3" while showing the scoreboard that says, Home 3, Visitor 3.


    Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Nate places the football on the tee at the ceremony there is a voice speaking over the loud speaker through the microphone. The camera angle rises above Nate and no one is at the microphone.


    Continuity: When Red and Coach Lengyl are talking on the top of Red's half built shed the railroad track behind red curves slightly to the right coming from the left side of the screen to the right. When Coach Lengyl asks Red if that's the train that crashed the year before, we see the train on a completely different track that curves to the left.


    Factual errors: When the tall player is recruited off the basketball court, the basketball hoop is a portable hoop with breakaway rims, as are the rims in Marshall's basketball gym. Breakaway rims were not invented until after 1981 when Darryl Dawkins (Philidelphia 76ers) broke two backboards in consecutive nights.


    Factual errors: The memorial service after the plane crash was shown to be held at Marshall's football stadium. In reality, the memorial service was held at Veteran's Memorial Field House, the school's basketball arena.


    Anachronisms: The drumline music playing on the soundtrack at various times is much too modern a sound to reflect college marching bands of the early 1970s. Its style is very busy, more complex and higher pitched, more akin to the 1990s and later.


    Factual errors: When the President of Marshall was calling potential coaches, he crosses out a 910 area code. The area code 910 wasn't established until 1993.


    Miscellaneous: When Lengyel runs out of the house chasing his son and sees Marshall fans walking to the first 1971 home game against Xavier you can see the pink and white blooms on the dogwood trees in the background. The scene for the film was shot in April, a time when dogwoods are in bloom in W.Va. In reality, however, the actual game was played in the fall (September 25, 1971) a time when dogwoods are clearly not in bloom, only the green leaves are visible.


    Audio/visual unsynchronized: In the campus church scene where Jack is talking to Red he says the word "darn" but his lips clearly look like they are saying "damn". They probably edited the word damn out due to them being in a church.


    Factual errors: In ads for the movie we hear the city of Huntington referred to as a small West Virginia "town." And during the film, the word "town" is repeatedly used to describe Huntington. When in fact, Huntington was the largest "city" in West Virginia at the time, with a population of about 75,000 in a metropolitan area of about 300,000 - known affectionately as the Tri-State (Huntington, Ashland, KY, Ironton, OH). This fact was completely lost on Hollywood. But if you closely examine the opening shots of the film along with a few other key scenes, you can plainly see just how large the city really is.


    Anachronisms: There is a scene with a train in the background. One of the freight cars has the CONRAIL logo on it. CONRAIL was not formed until 1976.

     

  • At 9/21/2007 04:57:00 PM, Blogger Suzy "We Rule This School" Byrne said…

    I'm glad I'm not in charge of continuity on a movie. jesus!

     

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