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• Revealing mistakes: Some shots were reversed. The most obvious is when Paul Atreides takes the Water of Life; the nose piece of the stillsuit changes sides many times during that scene.
  
  
• Continuity: In scenes that appear only in the television edition, Fremen eyes are frequently not colored blue the way they are in all theatrical scenes.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: When the Guild navigator visits the Emperor in the beginning, as the black container enters through the two gold doors, an assistant to the navigator trips and falls on the left side of the container.
  
  

• Continuity: Leto bites down on, and breaks, the false tooth, but it reappears in a subsequent shot.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The ropes pulling away the back wall are visible when the Baron is swept outside the Emperor's ship and into the mouth of a worm.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the morgue scene in Arrakeen, the establishing shot shows two Harkonnen corpses, one in the foreground and one in the background. The body in the background adjusts his head to find a more comfortable position.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the final battle, when the atomics are detonated, you can clearly see a large section of wall falling inward, wobbling in different directions without breaking as if made of Styrofoam.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: During the first battle of the film Rabban is seen throwing Atreides' conscripts off of a bridge. When Rabban throws a man off the bridge you can clearly see the ground shake a few feet around the man as if he lands on some type of padding rather than solid ground.
  
  
• Continuity: As Paul walks into the room of prisoners after the final battle, Thufir Hawat is seen in the crowd behind the emperor. In the next shot, he's no longer there. He is suddenly seen again a few shots later watching the knife fight.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In the scene when Stilgar marks the Fedaykin shoulders with red paint, blood, he says there are fifteen of them. In the scene before Paul takes the water of life freeze frame and you will see sixteen of them.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: After the baron is struck with the Gom Jabbar and is flying through the air, a sandworm turns, opens its mouth and takes the floating baron. As the sandworm is turning and comes to a stop, the made-of-rubber creature wobbles like jello and looks, unfortunately, exactly like what it is: a miniature molded latex creation that is stopped too abruptly and jiggles like a slinky.
  
  
• Continuity: When the Baron is gloating over Jessica and Paul after they've been captured, the Baron spits on Jessica's face. After he has left the room, every subsequent close-up of her face in the rest of the scene, her face is completely dry, no trace of spittle is seen.
  
  

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