It is a classic and repeats from the first installment, Agent 007 against the doctor no (1962): The villain on duty explains to James Bond his Machiavellian plan to conquer the world. On that occasion, even invites dinner and drink a champagne Dom Perignon From 55. In others, for example, the agent is tied to a mountain range that will cut him into two, while receiving a talk from his nemesis that, following continuation, will always confess his strategy; Instead, 007 usually solves your disputes with a quick shot. How can you be repeated error size movie after movie? And it’s not just Bond. Why wear Indiana Jones glasses when he teaches, if he never needs the rest of his life? And why do you defend that archeology is a science of rolling, if he is a relic thief? Why is there an Egyptian wall in the middle of the Indian Ocean in King Kong films? Why does some fire cylinders frighten Roman legions in Spartacus? How is the poster that covers the hole in which Tim Robbins escapes in Life imprisonment?
Juan J. Alonso (Gijón, 63 years old) always slapped him that in How beautiful is living Mary Hatch, the protagonist’s wife, became a boring and boring library if her husband had not existed. “It is very unfair,” explains this exprofesor of philosophy and author of several film books. “Mary would not have been happy without him? Wasn’t you gone to make a career to New York? And why do they sell us that librarian is a supporting profession? Why in that case he wears glasses, he wears in a gray way, he becomes a hunter woman? It is a moment that takes me out of the movie.”
Over time, Alonso was collecting more details, meaningless errors, which break the greatness of some master and classic cinema works. Starting with Frank Capra’s Christmas classic, following one of his favorite films, Laura, and ending The Lost World: Jurassic Park y The Lord of the Rings: the two towers. Thus, up to 41 films collected with their corresponding mistakes in Librarian, single and glasses (Row and live editorial).
But the book goes further. In each chapter the author, after ironizing “about those details that squeak in films that, on the other hand, are wonderful,” adds a philosophical contribution and a historical context to the matter. The volume does not refer to gazapos, those errors that appear on the screen for Rácord failures, such as hairstyles that come and go, empty and full vessels in the same sequence, shadows and reflexes of the plans’ shooting equipment, gas chocolates in the cars of Gladiator or the cross -eating julia Roberts in Pretty Woman and it becomes tortita on the next plane. “I collect base details that make the viewer think: ‘But what …?”, The writer revolts.
Thus, in addition to questioning why they never kill Bond, he delves into the curious fact that Seven girlfriends for seven brothers One of the brothers never dance (answer: he embodies a former baseball player who began his career as an actor); In addition to that, as rolled in studies, the artistic team felt that they had to give life to that dead nature and released birds on the set … that crash against the false funds of blue sky; or the meaningless gesture with the hands of Obi-Wan Kenobi in The Galaxies War To underline the use of force (“Do you really need the prestidigitation force?”).
Why do Francesca’s children still do not understand their mother even if they have heard their whole love story in The Madison bridges? Why in The Lord of the Rings: the two towers The Dwarf Gimli, after confessing that he is a denied walking field through, that is, on the long walks, he never loses his way with Aragorn and the elf Legulas even after three days of march? Why in Superman II, General Zod (embodied by the recently deceased Terence Stamp) wants to govern the Earth, if he then bores himself in the Oval Office?
“There are errors that are not even in the original films,” explains Alonso, “because they are born from Spanish translation, which, for example, changed The man who killed Liberty Valence, Even from the title, which in English is ‘shot’, did not kill. “A translator during the Franco regime, namely, decided to change, in addition, a menu in this western of John Ford. In Spanish, a character asks, to eat,“ the usual: the usual: roasted, peas, potatoes and large amounts of pineapple. ”Pineapple in the wild west? fillets; “apple pie”: apple cake. No pineapple trace. Although it does not appear in the book, that conversion resembles that of Mogambo, in which Franco’s censorship erased an adultery to, without noticing the barbarity, turning it into incest.
The author is open to new contributions from readers and cinephiles. It does not collect, but applauds them, the error of the poster that hides the gap that is excavating on the walls of its Tim Robbins cell in Life imprisonment. It can be granted that it is subject from above, but when the count arrives and the prisoner does not appear, the warden enters the dungeon and starts the poster, clearly stuck also at its lower edge so that a current of air does not delate the hole. Who has done it?
Another contribution from outside the book: Rafael Azcona said that, as a screenwriter, it seemed like a disaster that Save Soldier Ryan It was told from the point of view of the captain played by Tom Hanks, in order to let go that before the tomb he cries and remembers is the Ryan of the title, embodied by Matt Damon. A third: It is ridiculous to use a computer virus programmed by humans to use the ships of aliens that want to devastate the earth in Independence Day.
As Alonso emphasizes in its volume: why in Blade Runner The character of Deckard is not up to Roy’s poetic farewell in his death? Why in The Chiflated Professor, In the version of Jerry Lewis, the intelligent part of his character does not know the anecdote of Isaac Newton and the apple? Why would some decisions of lovers of The mailman always calls twice? And why did Conan de Arnold Schwarzenegger serve – in Conan the barbarian– Study as a young man and for years Zhong’s philosophy, if he solved everything? Moreover, when asked what is the best of life, Conan replies: “Crush enemies, see them shattered and hear the lament of their women.”
Fine, although just as deciling, are two absolutely misguided details that almost derail two masterpieces: Casablanca y Laura. In the first, in the romantic flashback Of the days of happiness of the protagonist couple in Paris, Ilsa asks Rick: “Has it been a cannonman or the heart that beats me.” And Humphrey Bogart replies: “It is the new cannon 77, it must be about 50 kilometers.” Alonso disturbs: “Does Rick really, is it time to get pretentious with a technical knowledge that also does not repeat at any other time of the drama?”
Laura She is one of the writer’s favorite films, even more, her daughter is called by the character to which Gene Tierney gives in this Otto Pre -Mistr. I would cut that sequence without contemplation. ”