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Pride & Prejudice (2005)

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• Continuity: When Mr Darcy confesses his love for Elizabeth, both characters' fringes change position throughout the confrontation.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Mrs. Bennet's sister comes, delivering Jane from London, Kitty comes into the room crying. When Mrs. Bennet's sister says, "They probably can't afford it," her mouth is still moving after the line has ended.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: During the ballroom scene, when Lizzie and Charlotte bump into Mr Darcy and he asks Lizzie to dance with him, if you turn the volume up you can hear the crew members discussing the position of the boom in the background.
  
  

• Continuity: At the dinner in Lady Catherine's house, the second candle from the left on the candle holder is alternately crooked/straight during Elizabeth and Lady Catherine's conversation.
  
  
• Continuity: During the second dance that Jane is dancing in, Mr. Darcy changes his position near the fireplace many times between shots.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In the Netherfield Hall ballroom scene, Mary is seen behind Mr. Collins when Mr. Collins loudly introduces himself to Mr. Darcy; she is then immediately heard playing the piano in the next room. The director, Joe Wright accounts for this in the DVD commentary, where he states that this scene is the start of a montage of the events that occur at the ball, but was shot as one continuous shot.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: During the first scene of the movie in the house when Mary is seen playing the piano, she is not actually touching the keys.
  
  
• Anachronisms: Pianos in the 18th century didn't sound like modern pianos.
  
  
• Anachronisms: On the green outside the Collin's Rectory is a cenotaph of a type which did not come into use until the 20th Century.
  
  
• Anachronisms: Lizzie is clearly wearing Wellington boots in many scenes.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: In the scene where Jane tells Elizabeth that Mr. Wickham has not come to the ball, Jane's lips keep moving after Elizabeth says "He must be here," though Jane says nothing.
  
  

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