Film goofs - page 84

When Muhammad Abou-Sweilam speaks with the men in one of the houses during the "We were real men" scene, the camera's shadow can be seen moving as Muhammad Abou-Sweilam approaches the window. This happens again in more than one shot in the same scene.

When the victim died, her eyes were closed, but when the men find her, her eyes are open.

When Diab sits beside Muhammad Abou-Sweilam in the field and says, "Bravo, Abu Mohamed," Muhammad Abou-Sweilam looks at him, but in the next shot from another angle he is looking down and covering his mouth.

When Sheikh Hassouna visits Muhammad Abou-Sweilam's house, Muhammad Effendi's hands are behind his back, but in the next closer shot they are in front of him, holding a stick.

When Mahmoud Bek draws an explanatory sketch of the project he wants, the drawing is different when Muhammad Effendi looks at it again: the first drawing is in the middle of the table with the village at the edge of the drawing, while the second is at the far end of the table, with Mahmoud Bek's mansion at the edge of the table and the village no longer at the edge of the drawing as before.

When Muhammad Effendi recites the line by Imru' al-Qais, he says the last word incorrectly as "Fahawmal" instead of "Wa Hawmal".

Some words do not match the mouth movements.

Before the song that Anwar Abdel-Mawla sings to the animals, we hear the monkey's voice, but it does not move its mouth, making it clear the sound was dubbed over the image without the animal actually making the sound then.

After Sayed drives his car at the end of the film, the sound of the tires scraping the ground is heard after the car has stopped.

When Farag holds the sharp object in the houseboat while seated, sunlight is on his hand, but in the next shot from the other side the position of his hand, the object, and the sunlight is different. The cigarette smoke also drifts sideways in one shot, then upward in what is supposed to be the next shot, and Raouf's hand is behind him from the front but straight from behind, indicating the scene was filmed at two different times, perhaps on the same day.

During Farag's conversation with Raouf in the car, both his hands are on the steering wheel, but in the next shot from the other side, his other hand is propped on the window.

During Sayed's conversation with Sherifa in a houseboat in Alexandria, the shadow of the moving camera can be seen as they enter the room from the balcony.