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Batman Begins goofs

Audio/visual unsynchronised

As Ra's Al Ghul fastens the blue rose to Bruce's lapel, he asks "Tell me, Mr Wayne, what do you you fear?" The word "you" is repeated (presumably having been resynchronised).

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At the end, whilst Bruce is talking to Rachel, the shot is on her; although Bruce is speaking, his jaw, as seen from behind, remains motionless throughout.

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Continuity

After Rachel slaps Bruce in the car outside Falcone's, his hair is dishevelled; in the next shot it looks neatly combed, and in the subsequent one it is dishevelled again.

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When Bruce is hurled from the lorry after being released from prison, his bag is lying several metres away from him; in the next shot it sits at his feet.

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While he speaks with Rachel in the car parked outside Falcone's, Bruce's seat belt is clearly fastened, yet he later exits the vehicle without unfastening it.

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When the burning timber strikes Bruce, it rolls off him down to his feet as he falls backwards and slumps to the floor. Once he hits the floor and loses consciousness, the timber is positioned as though it had come to rest on his chest.

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Upon discovering Falcone bound to the spotlight, Gordon instructs a nearby officer "Cut him down", and the officer promptly vanishes.

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Whilst Bruce steps up to Falcone in the restaurant, his hair differs from shot to shot.

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When Batman rescues Rachel and the young boy from the released Arkham maniacs, the boy can be seen with his arms wrapped around Rachel and his face pressed against her chest. Yet when the camera angle shifts, he is shown seated and facing an entirely different direction.

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In the burning-house sequence, as Bruce and Alfred flee, a table ablaze with a globe on it is shown; shortly afterwards the table is no longer ablaze.

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While Rachel is driving Bruce home from the court hearing and the car is travelling along the main street, it is daytime. When she suddenly turns into a side street, it is night-time.

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When Batman grabs one of the men who is unpacking boxes of "toys" from the shipping container, another man moves towards the container to check on him. The boxes visible through the container's entrance shift position from one shot to the next.

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Once the mansion had burned down, Bruce and Rachel are talking on the grounds; Rachel has her hand on Bruce's face, but its position shifts between shots.

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Crew or equipment visible

At approximately 1:34:05, in the wide shot showing the Batmobile sitting idle on the roof of the car park, a swift sweep of the SWAT helicopter's searchlight uncovers dozens of cast and crew crammed into the lift waiting area.

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A stunt ramp is visible when the second police car overturns during the urban chase.

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Factual errors

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In the newspaper report about Wayne Manor being burnt down, several factual, grammatical and spelling errors are apparent. The article claims the manor has been in the family for four generations, whereas earlier in the film Alfred says it housed six generations of the Waynes.

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At the end of the film, when Batman's tied to the underground carriage, he could not realistically be swinging in mid-air for that length of time, nor swinging from side to side, since the underground infrastructure would clearly impede him.

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A newspaper report features the phrase "loose faith" when the intended wording is "lose faith". In the same piece, the word presented in uppercase as "METHAMPHETAMINE" is incorrectly spelt as "METAMPHETAMINE".

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Before setting off in the Tumbler, Batman asks Gordon whether he can drive a manual and simply produces a small gadget. That has nothing to do with operating a car with a manual gearbox (aka "stick").

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Incorrectly regarded as goofs

The film appears to be set in 2005, yet sequences from Bruce Wayne's childhood feature the same early-2000s cars as the present-day scenes. Wouldn't his childhood more logically be placed in the 1980s–90s? In Batman comics it is common to include deliberate anachronisms in portrayals of Wayne's childhood to keep the exact period of his origin deliberately ambiguous.

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Before Bruce anaesthetises Rachel in the Batcave, he tells her that the two antidote samples must be given to Gordon, and he leaves them on the table beside her as she loses consciousness. Bruce later instructs Alfred to take Rachel home, but he does not tell him to take the samples or to leave them with her. Yet she wakes to find the antidote on her bedside table. Alfred would have had no way of knowing to bring the antidotes with him when he escorted Rachel home.

IRAAG: Alfred has ways of knowing things; this has been consistently demonstrated. He pays close attention and takes great pride in his work and his life. He would have spotted those incongruous items and appreciated that they were important.

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Miscellaneous

On the sides of Gotham City police vehicles the bold marking reads "GPD", while the initials on officers' jackets are rendered as "GCPD".

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Plot holes

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Because the toxin had been introduced into Gotham's water supply weeks before the finale, whenever someone boiled water for any purpose, chiefly for cooking, they would have been affected. Tens of thousands of people would have been admitted to hospital each day, and the source would have been discovered almost immediately.

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Revealing mistakes

The primers of the rounds in the revolver have been coloured blue to signal to the entire cast and crew that they are inert.

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In the brief scene where Rachel Dawes drives to Arkham Asylum, the road is clearly marked with three lanes separated by white dashed lines indicating a one-way flow, yet vehicles are travelling in both directions.

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When Bruce pulls Ducard back from the edge of the cliff, Ducard is depicted gripping Bruce's hand as a person dangling from a cliff would if conscious. Yet Ducard is unconscious, so Bruce ought to be holding a limp hand or grasping Ducard's wrist.

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As the Batmobile fishtails through the tunnel, you can see tyre tracks on the ground from several earlier takes of the same manoeuvre.

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It's evident that the man Bruce hauls up the cliff after Ra's al Ghul's temple is engulfed in flames is plainly a stunt double.

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The speedometer on the Rolls-Royce shows "0" even though the car is apparently in motion.

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As the SWAT officer moves to affix the explosive charge to the wall, a faint outline is visible marking where the hole will appear once it detonates.

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