As a confirmed pedant - sorry - I've long noticed the dismal standard of text displayed in movies, such as
- obvious spelling errors
- headlines in newspapers that are nothing like real headlines in style
- computer screens with absurdly error-strewn text
I was watching David Fincher's The Game (1997) in which Michael Douglas's character returns home to find a "Notice of Forclosure" [sic] attached to the gates. Didn't anyone notice the notice? In another successful film whose name I forget (possibly The Reader), a shop's name, prominently shown, has an obvious mis-spelling. How can that happen, when someone has to paint the name, someone else has to mount it, and lots of people see it on the set?
Can anyone enlighten me as to why this is the case? Who in a movie has the role of creating written documents? Why do they fail so often? We've had home video, with the ability to pause the motion, since the late 1970s. Don't the filmmakers care, when such mistakes take us out of their story?
- obvious spelling errors
- headlines in newspapers that are nothing like real headlines in style
- computer screens with absurdly error-strewn text
I was watching David Fincher's The Game (1997) in which Michael Douglas's character returns home to find a "Notice of Forclosure" [sic] attached to the gates. Didn't anyone notice the notice? In another successful film whose name I forget (possibly The Reader), a shop's name, prominently shown, has an obvious mis-spelling. How can that happen, when someone has to paint the name, someone else has to mount it, and lots of people see it on the set?
Can anyone enlighten me as to why this is the case? Who in a movie has the role of creating written documents? Why do they fail so often? We've had home video, with the ability to pause the motion, since the late 1970s. Don't the filmmakers care, when such mistakes take us out of their story?