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V for Vendetta (2005) More at IMDb Pro »

• Revealing mistakes: When V says that he has never danced to any of the songs on his Jukebox, a song is playing in the background, yet there is no record seen playing on the jukebox. This occurs even after V presses the button to activate the song.
  
  
• Continuity: The detectives use a scrambler to fool police scanners in the area. The first time we see a scrambler the detective places it on top of a pile of what appear to be CDs and the following shot, the scrambler is placed next to the pile.
  
  
• Continuity: In the bar scene during V's takeover of the television station, the cigarette of the long-haired man is almost burned to the filter. In the next shot of the bar, the cigarette is longer. In a third shot, it is back to the original length.
  
  

• Continuity: When V kills the doctor and coroner, the rose he gives her falls to her side after she dies. In the next shot the rose changes and the petals are fewer and further apart.
  
  
• Continuity: The number of dominoes standing when all the other dominoes have fallen changes from two (the one V picks up, plus one other further back in the shot) to just one (the one V picks up).
  
  
• Continuity: When Finch hands the coroner the rose in the lab, it is in a plastic bag. In the next shot it is not. Next shot, further away, she is holding it, still in the bag. In the next close up, it is out of the bag.
  
  
• Continuity: The London Underground 'Roundel' sign on the pavement outside Westminster Underground Station is visible briefly in the closing scenes outside the Palace of Westminster still up and illuminated despite the Underground in the story having been closed several years earlier.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Right after all the soldiers have emptied their guns into V near the end of the film, he retaliates by throwing two of his knives at two of the soldiers. When he throws them, they are rotating at different speeds, but they impact at the same time in the same place on each soldier. You can see the knife farthest from the viewer stop spinning right before impact and slide into the soldier, even though it should have hit him at an angle.
  
  
• Continuity: When Evey is polishing the mirror, the amount of dust varies between the shots.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When the list of personnel at Larkhill is examined by Finch and Dominic, you can see that Anthony Lilliman is listed as Peter Lilliman.
  
  
• Continuity: When the little glasses girl draws a graffiti V on a poster, she drops the spray can. In the next shot, the can has been turned 180 degrees.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: While the two detectives are driving to the TV station, the speedometer in their car is on zero, while their car is visibly moving.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Finch tells Evey to back away from the lever towards the end of the film he pronounces the word in the American fashion (lev ver). In Britain the emphasis is is on the 'e' (lee ver). As the film depicts a Britain antagonistic to all things American it is doubtful that Finch would pronounce the word in this fashion.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Finch is looking at the employees of Larkhill, the address for Bishop Lilliman reveals that he works and lives at St. Paul's Cathedral. However, when V enters through the window to kill him, the towers of Westminster Abby are seen as part of the building he scales
  
  
• Continuity: During the final battle, when V throws one knife for the first time you can see in the lower-left corner that the knife is covered in blood. When the knife is seen again, close-up, it's clean. This happens again when he kills another Fingerman and throws him away and the knife in his left hand can briefly be seen with bloodstains on it and is, in the next shot, clean again.
  
  
• Continuity: While Evey is preparing for her night with Dietrich, when she stands up to put her dress on, she takes the clips out of her hair that were holding her bangs back. In the next shot, her bangs are pulled back again, and alternate between being pulled back and let down, until they are left forward, when she turns off the TV.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When V goes to chop off the suit of armor's head, while play-fighting, you can briefly see the metal rod that pops up to take off the head.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The scenes overlooking the newspaper articles regarding the virus include several headlines. Under these headlines, the articles have virtually no correspondence with the headline.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The newspaper article with a picture of St. Mary's has two articles, both with exactly the same text but widely differing headlines.
  
  
• Continuity: Dr. Surridge's diary is in Inspector Finch's possession when he speaks to the chancellor following the doctor's murder. But it appear's on V's train before Finch arrives to stop Evey.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: For a few brief moments, Hugo Weaving's unscathed wrist and throat peak out through V's uniform. V is supposed to be completely covered in horrific burns.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: When Finch is looking at the police record of Evey in the car, in the first part of Criminal History, it says Juvenile Reclamation Reclamation Project, when it should say Juvenile Reclamation Project.
  
  
• Continuity: The files on Percy, Keyes and Rookwood, the three 'black-baggers' who either died or vanished the day after the St. Mary's attack, places the attack in 2014. However, Bishop Lilliman's tax records show the events at Larkhill Camp, which predate the attack, occurred in 2018.
  
  
• Errors in geography: In the scene at Inspector Finch's home in one shot, bottom left, we see a European-style mains outlet, not the 13 Amp UK socket we should have. This betrays the German origin of the film's studio-shot sequences.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The device Inspector Finch uses in his office when wanting to talk privately (presumably an anti-listening device) is actually a common flip-out light for clipping on the back of books or clipboards only with a red LED.
  
  
• Continuity: When 'V' first meets Evey he scratches his mark on a marble. During scratching it is seen that there is an intersection in the bottom part of letter V. But in the next scene it is seen that the two lines just meet not intersect one another.
  
  

• Crew or equipment visible: SPOILER: When Eve launches the train with bombs and dead V, you can see camera and cameracrane in the back door of the train.
  
  

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