THE BIRDCAGE GOOFS
The transmission selector on the Senator's car is in park while
they're driving to South Beach.
The flames on the candles on the wall when Albert's wig almost falls off.
The amount of soup in the bowls at the dinner table.
There are two very obvious cuts during the beginning flyby, which is
assembled to look like one long shot from the opening over the ocean
to the close up of the stage inside the club. The first is when the shot
pans down to the street in front of the club. Most of the cars shift to the
right and some are different. Then again as the shot approaches the
front door, the action inside the door cuts to a different shot.
When Albert and Armand are sitting in the cafe after Albert learns that
Val's fiancee and her parents are coming, he tells Armand that he's obviously
not a Cultural Attache. However, in all previous dialog, it's never mentioned to
Albert what job Armand supposedly holds.
Armand's sweat on his shirt while talking to his son.
When Armand and Val are talking, the door behind Armand is
alternately open/closed between shots.
When Armand discovers that Val is getting married, he quickly drinks
all of his wine. But when he gets up to refill his glass, it appears that
there is still wine there.
While redoing the apartment, someone packs away the phallic stone
statue into a box. Later on during the movie Armand is trying to hide it
in a desk while the senator is there, as if someone had forgotten to hide it.
When Armand is calling Katherine from his car, he is supposedly leaving
Miami Beach on his way to Miami. But the cruise ships in the background
clearly show that he is heading east to Miami Beach *from* Miami.
When Senator Keeley and his family are about to leave the Goldman's house,
he says that he hopes that the evening will not influence their vote. The Goldman's
live in Florida and Senator Keeley represents Ohio.
Armand broke down when he discovered that Agador hadn't prepared an
entrée for dinner. Armand inexplicably forgot that he owned the restaurant
downstairs and could easily have had dinner sent up.
After Albert enters the kitchen, the placement of Armand's Turkish coffee
and newspaper change from where they were immediately prior to Albert's entrance.
Position of the wine bottle changes in Val's hand as he talks with Armand.
Then after Val sets the bottle down, we see the back label in all the two-shots
of Val and Armand and the front label in the one-shots of Val.
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