Defective Yeti has a couple of interesting posts about how the author’s wife, a Botanist, points out annoying ‘botanical inaccuracies in movies.’
The Queen spent much of the Lord of the Rings trilogy leaning over to me in the theater and whispering, “pfff, I can see why they call this a fantasy–they have polystichum munitum growing in a tropical upland climatic zone.”
Which is fair enough, I have found myself yanked out of none-too-few narratives by a stupid inaccuracy. My initial thought on this is Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. I cringe at the thought of the line Tom Riddle (AKA Voldemort) shouts after Fawkes the Phoenix blinds the basilisk: …but it can still hear you!
It’s. a. snake! Snakes do have ears, but it’s thought that the range of sounds they can hear is fairly poor. In the book, the basilisk uses its tongue to find Harry, but that doesn’t lead to the tense scene with Harry in the pipe, because it would easily detect and eat him.
Another one, which I have mentioned before, is the misuse of sound effects (and dubbing). In fact, to aid with spotting the offending clip, here it is.
Yes, I do realise they’re just movies.
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