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When Dr. King Schultz and Django ride in to Candyland for the first time, the fields in front of the gates are harvested/cut, but when Django and Broomhilda leave Candyland together, the fields have tall grass.

When Butch pulls a shotgun on Dr. King Schultz and Django at Calvin Candie's dinner-table, he pulls out his revolver to point at the doctor. Yet in the next cut, he is pointing only the shotgun at Django, then the next cut he is again holding both weapons.

When Big Daddy and his group of raiders first spy on Dr. King Schultz's and Django's camp, the Brittle brothers are all laying side by side. When the raiders ride into the camp, however, it appears as though the Brittle brothers have been suddenly stacked on top of one another.

During the bar scene in town while drinking beer and discussing what a bounty-hunter is, both characters' glasses have different amounts in between various shots.

When Django shoots Lara Lee Candie-Fitzwilly, the sister of Calvin Candie, from the balcony near the end, she is in the doorway to the large room downstairs. The angle of the shot would have her recoil in the direction that the gun is pointed and the way the bullet traveled, that is, directly away from Django. However, it does not. Rather, she is pulled off the seen when shot at nearly a 90 degree angle from the bullet's path.

Brünnhilde is a character from German mythology and a German female name. The form "Broomhilda" is known only from the comic strip "Broom-Hilda" (which started in 1970) and is meant as a joke.

Most of the dead, wanted criminals brought in for their bounties would have landed Dr Schultz and Django in front of a judge on charges of murder.

Despite popular culture, "Wanted Dead or Alive" was not a license to kill a wanted person unless during the arrest, the bounty hunter is met with deadly resistance and is forced to defend themselves. Even then however, there were always some unpleasant legal consequences.

That is not to say bounty hunters didn't embellish their stories to avoid charges of murder but it wouldn't have been as obvious and carefree as depicted throughout the film.

The profile on the door-sign to the Cleopátra Club and the bust in the entry hall is not Cleopátra (Kleopátra VII Theá Philopátor), but in fact Neferneferuaten Nefertiti.

When Django shoots Lara Lee Candie-Fitzwilly, he is shooting from above and to her right from an angle of about 70º, yet the impact blows her straight back through the doorway.

When Cora and Sheba are directed to make coffee, they start to go upstairs. On a Southern plantation of the time, the cookhouse or kitchen would have been in a separate building, and never on an upper floor.

The men in hoods pursuing Dr. King Schultz and Django are often mistaken for the KKK, which was not founded until 7 years after the events of this movie, in 1865. However, according to Quentin Tarantino, the men are predecessors to the Ku Klux Klan, called the Regulators.

During the opening credits, the Speck Brothers have Django and five other slaves in chains. When Dr. King Schultz catches up to them after the credits, there are only four other slaves. However, this is because the slave-march depicted in the opening credits takes place over a week or more. At least one of the actors is different, because slaves were swapped out along the march, possibly including death. It has been stated in interview that this was deliberate, to depict the way a slave-march would actually be.

At 1 hr and 15 mins, Django is seen wearing sunglasses. This is 1858/9 and sunglasses proper did not appear until the 20th century. This is almost certainly an intentional oddity introduced by director Quentin Tarantino.

Calvin Candie is seen smoking cigarettes in several scenes. The year is 1858. The cigarette was not mass-manufactured in the USA until 1881. However, cigarettes were widely distributed in Europe at the time, and since Mr. Candie is a wealthy Francophile, it is not unreasonable that he would have them imported from France.

Before Calvin Candie arrives, Stephen fills out a check to The Harris Feed Co. for "Sixty Five Dollars", the numbered amount is for $65.00, but is a very sloppy 5, not an 8 number. Writting starts top left, moving the stroke down, then dragging the pen to cross with the bar on top. In the Year of the check an 8 can be seen, and is written entirely different, as a top start/end infinite loop. True enough, after the drying pad, the camera shows a different check, this time with a stamped signature instead of written, and the numbered amount corrected, clearer.

During the "skull-monologue", the skull of Ben (the servant of Calvin Candie's father) is actually a woman's skull.

The cotton-field, where Ellis Brittle falls from his horse after being shot, does not contain cotton-plants. It is some other plant with lint glued to it.

After Dr. King Schultz and Django have ambushed the cowboys, Dr. Schultz is seen removing a bullet-shell from the rim of his hat and drops the shell on the ground. A metallic 'ping' sound is heard when it falls on the ground off screen. But as they're standing in the snow, the sound of the shell falling on the ground would normally not be heard.

After Django shoots Billy Crash and the other two men, the stomach of the man lying apparently dead next to Billy Crash in two different shots is rising and falling from breathing.

In the credits, Tom Wopat is identified as "U.S. Marshall Gil Tatum". The correct spelling is "Marshal."

When Big Daddy and his men are attacking Dr. King Schultz's and Django's camp at 41:20 minute mark, one of the riders falls from his horse and is ran over by another horse as his horse continues riderless.

On the final page of the end credits, the word 'fictitious' is incorrectly spelled as 'ficticious'.

After Django shoots Billy Crash and he's rolling around on the floor in pain, he mispronounces Django with a hard "D". Django says "The D is silent, hillbilly". However Billy would've had no knowledge of how his name was spelled, having only heard it.

During the final shoot out, Django's bullets are shown going through one or two people, but when he is being shot at with the same guns or more powerful rifles, he hides behind bodies and they stop the bullets from hitting him.

When Django shoots Smitty Bacall, a puff of smoke comes out of Smitty Bacall's back and rises into the air. Since a bullet contains no powder, there should be no smoke.

Dynamite was not invented until 1867 (by the Swede Alfred Nobel), while this film features it on several occasions and is set in 1858.

Calvin Candie compares a slave to a teddy-bear, even though teddy-bears were not invented until the time when Theodore Roosevelt was president, hence the name "teddy". Oddly enough, the film is set in 1858, that president's birth-year.

Stephen (Samuel L. Jackson) uses the word "motherfucker" four times throughout the film. This is a linguistic anachronism as the word did not exist until the WWI era (the Oxford English dictionary lists the earliest use in 1918).

The movie depicts the characters having and using guns that employ metal cartridges. Those would not be available in 1858, the standard round at the time being a paper cartridge containing powder and ball and a separate percussion-cap.

The film mentions Lubbock, Texas. Lubbock did not exist in 1858 and would not come into being until well after the Civil War (Lubbock was founded in 1876 and the film is based in 1858 and proceeds through the winter into the spring of 1859). In 1858, the Panhandle of Texas was not traversed by the faint-hearted as it was essentially populated by only Kiowas and Comanches.

When Dr. King Schultz is casually mentioning to Broomhilda that there is a "friend" on the other side of the door behind her, many reflections of activity by the crew and camera are seen reflected in the glossy bedpost behind Schultz, as he sits in his chair. Neither character, in this scene, is moving.

In the film, there is a cotton-plantation located in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. This region (The Grand Division of East Tennessee) is very mountainous and inhospitable for cotton, preventing large plantations from arising. As a result, the region had a low slave-population which translated to anti-slavery and pro-Union sentiments in the years leading to the Civil War.

The plantation in Tennessee is covered with Spanish Moss. Spanish Moss is native to the deep south and doesn't grow as far north as Tennessee.

When the Australians release Django while traveling to the mine, the backdrop is no longer Mississippi or the South, but the Southwest desert, yet Django rides back to the plantation that day.

While in Gatlinburg, Tennessee (which is in the Great Smoky Mountains of the Appalachian Mountain range), the mountains in the background are actually the Rocky Mountains in the western United States.

Much is made of the fact that a black man would not ride a horse, But Django, and later Broomhilda seem like experienced equestrians as soon as they mounted for what should have been the first time on a horse.

At this time, the distinct modern Australian accent did not yet exist and would not develop until the 20th century. Instead, people from Australia in the 1850's sounded more English or Irish, so the LeQuint Dickey employee would not have said words such as "fellah" or "buggah" in what is commonly known as an "ocker" accent.

Dr. King Schultz warns Spencer Bennett and his posse that taking deadly force against an officer of the court would result in the perpetrator being "hung by the neck until you're dead". The correct word should 'hanged'. Although Dr. Schultz is a non-native speaker, his command of English is constantly accurate and voluble, suggesting the misuse of 'hung' was a mistake on the part of the scriptwriter.