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Windtalkers (2002)

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• There is a 50-star US flag (instead of 48) at the Navajo enlistment ceremony.
  
  
• When PVT Yahzee is pretending to be a Japanese soldier to get to the radio, he has the gun in the sergeant's back in the close-up, but in the long shot it is pointed up and to his left.
  
  
• Just before the convoy is hit by the friendly artillery, the ground charge used to simulate the first shell impact can be seen as the truck drives past it.
  
  

• At the end of the film, a back-shot of Ben Yahzee's little boy shows a dog-tag chain around his collar, before Ben ever places the dog-tags around his neck.
  
  
• The shadow of the camera crane is visible at the beginning of the Marine friendly-fire sequence when Enders' squad is getting out of the truck.
  
  
• When Enders is describing to Yahzee how he threw the first medal he received into the ocean, his raised hand alternates between right and left between shots.
  
  
• In the opening sequence, a man reacts to being shot by another man before the gun goes off.
  
  
• In the final combat, just after the Japanese uncover their guns, one of them take a shot but the recoil is a good half second too late.
  
  
• When Sergeant Enders sits down with his food during the first time he meets the Navajo radio operators, for a brief moment a modern radar site on a mountain top comes into view.
  
  
• Enders is receiving his mission briefing in the Admiral's office, you can see a blue-taped "X" on the floor indicating where the Admiral is supposed to stand at the scene.
  
  
• Just before Pete Anderson joins Private Whitehorse in their flute/harmonica-duo, Whitehorse plays solo. However, the flute plays on, just for a second while he is clearly taking in air, and thus, obviously, cannot play.
  
  
• When Enders is pretending to be taken prisoner by Yahzee, and he goes to move behind Yahzee after being hit, you can see the shadow of a cameraman on the floor, moving with the shot.
  
  
• In the scene where the Codetalkers are doing a transcription from an audio recording, we briefly see the machine playing the audio. The first Wire Recorder was not manufactured by Webster-Chicago until 1948. The machine used in Windtalkers is the "Webcor Model 181 Wire Recorder" which was not manufactured by Webster-Chicago until 1953. The movie is supposed to be set in the early 1940's.
  
  

• SPOILER: After Enders' death, the close-up reveals him to be blinking.
  
  
• SPOILER: A little before Enders dies lying on the ground, there is blood gushing from his mouth (shot from above him), no blood (side shot), dried blood (next shot from above).
  
  

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