7 mistakes in popular films that viewers didn't even notice

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

Sometimes viewers compete in observation and while watching films, they deliberately look for inaccuracies and outright "blunders" made by the creators. Most often, the costumes of the heroes become the object of ridicule, which do not always correspond to the time, place, or even just the previous scene. It's worth noting that sometimes such inconsistencies were planned by the costume designers to enhance the character's image. True, simple mistakes could not be avoided either.

In defense of costume designers, it is worth saying: now you can just shoot a movie character on a smartphone camera and then simply reproduce his costume in the smallest detail. In the past, the dresser had to have a phenomenal memory so that even the pattern on the knotted tie would match the one in the previous scene. Many tried to sketch costumes from scenes, but tiny details were still overlooked.

But in some cases, costume designers made "deliberate" mistakes that helped to distinguish the hero from the crowd, to give his image volume and brightness.

"Hussar Ballad", 1962, director Eldar Ryazanov

Today, military historians will find many inaccuracies in the film by Eldar Ryazanov. The legendary Olga Kruchinina worked on the costumes, creating costumes for many Soviet films. Some of the uniforms, which were sewn according to Olga Kruchinina's sketches, were later used in the filming of the epic War and Peace by Sergei Bondarchuk.

In "The Hussar Ballad" the hero of Yuri Yakovlev says to Shurochka: "You are wearing a Pavlograd uniform, I see." In fact, Larisa Golubkina was wearing the uniform of the Sumy regiment. But Olga Kruchinina deliberately put on a costume for the heroine, in which there was a combination of pink and gray colors. This made it possible to create the necessary contrast between Shurochka and the rest of the hussars. But the mistake will seem to historians simply monstrous, as if today the paratrooper was called a border guard.

"Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!", 1975, director Eldar Ryazanov

Today, no one will pay any attention to the dress that the main character is wearing. When Barbara Brylska first tried it on, she was very upset. The strange ocher color and unfashionable style greatly upset the Polish actress. But costume designer Olga Kruchinina deliberately chose the style and color of the outfit. He softened the harsh features of Barbara Brylsky, adding femininity and lyricism to her heroine.

"Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears", 1979, director Vladimir Menshov

While working on the film, costume designer Zhanna Melkonyan put on touching white socks on the heroines. It was, in general, a forced step, because the shoes of the second half of the 1950s were very rough and mercilessly rubbed the feet of the actresses. In the post-war period, socks were really calmly worn with shoes and even sandals, but in the late 1970s, and even in Moscow, they were already embarrassed to walk in socks.

But then it turned out that this element of the costume not only protects the legs of the actresses, but also visually makes the performers younger, because the roles of young provincial women who came to conquer the capital were played by young ladies who have crossed the 30-year mark. By the way, when the film was shown in the USA, there was even a fashion for white socks overseas.

"The meeting place cannot be changed", TV series, 1979, director Stanislav Govorukhin

An ordinary viewer may well have failed to notice this fact, but fashion historians could not ignore the discrepancy between the Ruchechnik's costume, played by Evgeny Evstigneev, and the fashion of the post-war period. The thing is that the actor categorically refused to wear a single-breasted jacket with wide shoulders and baggy trousers, made especially for the film. As a result, Evstigneev's hero appears in the frame in a stylish Czech costume of the late 1970s.

"Hipsters", 2008, director Valery Todorovsky

For this film, the artist Alexander Osipov planned images that best suited the era of the 1950s. But it turned out that the dudes do not stand out so much against the background of the crowd scene, they do not seem as defiantly bright and original as the director wanted. As a result, a certain compromise was reached, which played into the hands of the filmmakers, but practically had nothing to do with what the "dudes" actually wore. In the film, their outfits look downright canary, although the "Soviet hipsters" wore much more modest and less defiant clothes.

"Pelagia and the White Bulldog", TV series, 2009, director Yuri Moroz

The series, based on detective stories by Boris Akunin, takes place at the end of the 19th century. But Naina Georgievna Telianova, played by Victoria Isakova, is dressed according to the latest fashion of the 1910s. The director deliberately took this step so that it was possible to show how the girl did not correspond to the time in which she lived, and how much she differed from her contemporaries. In this case, the screen suit looked like a challenge to society.

"Matilda", 2017, director Alexey Uchitel

In the scandalous film by Alexei Uchitel, costume designer Nadezhda Vasilyeva also had to deliberately go “ahead of time”. The thing is that at the end of the 19th century, ballerinas appeared on stage in rather thick tights, and not in thin nylon tights, which came into use only in 1939. But in the frame, the leotards would not look as elegant as the tights, and the movements in them would be a little more constrained, because in the film the choreography also did not quite correspond to the time at which the events took place. True, in order to achieve the effect of "aged" tights, the artist ordered to make a slightly crooked seam on the back of each pair.

Films, familiar and beloved by many viewers, were created by living people who have invested colossal work in the works of cinema. Many of these tapes have become Russian classics. And the blouse changing in one episode on the main character is another reason to watch the film and check yourself for attentiveness.