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This is completely pointless
Jun. 12th, 2008 11:36 amThis is completely random, but it just cracked me all the hell up, so I figured I'd post it. :) I regularly read Jane Espenson's blog, where she gives writing advice - mostly directed to aspiring TV writers, but much of it is applicable to any kind of writing. Anyway, someone wrote to her recently asking about continuity errors (the jist of it being, "Why can't the friggin' writers pay attention to what they wrote?"), and the example she used was this:
Early in the film, the main character explains that her mother never liked her husband because they met when she was 19 […] Then, 3 weeks after the husband dies, she has a 40th birthday. […] Later, she's all upset and yells that her husband was only 35 when he died. […] Then, there is a flashback scene from their first meeting…[and]… there's no way he's 15.
I had to read it twice, but then I went, "OMG! That's P.S. I Love You!" I will admit, I didn't notice any continuity problem, mostly because it had nothing to do with our darlin' Jimmy (and because I've blocked large chunks of that movie from my memory in order to preserve sanity). But I just had to giggle when I read it.
My joy at this apparent error was much lessened when I remembered that it was her 30th birthday, not her 40th. (Seriously, Hilary Swank looks like a horse, but she doesn't look forty.) I do love Jane trying to reason it out, though, without ever having seen the movie.
Early in the film, the main character explains that her mother never liked her husband because they met when she was 19 […] Then, 3 weeks after the husband dies, she has a 40th birthday. […] Later, she's all upset and yells that her husband was only 35 when he died. […] Then, there is a flashback scene from their first meeting…[and]… there's no way he's 15.
I had to read it twice, but then I went, "OMG! That's P.S. I Love You!" I will admit, I didn't notice any continuity problem, mostly because it had nothing to do with our darlin' Jimmy (and because I've blocked large chunks of that movie from my memory in order to preserve sanity). But I just had to giggle when I read it.
My joy at this apparent error was much lessened when I remembered that it was her 30th birthday, not her 40th. (Seriously, Hilary Swank looks like a horse, but she doesn't look forty.) I do love Jane trying to reason it out, though, without ever having seen the movie.
