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Willow (1988) More at IMDbPro »

• Revealing mistakes: While sliding down the hill on the shield, runners are visible from the sled that was used.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: While sliding down the snow hill on the sled, a very modern glove can be spotted on Madmartigan's left hand.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: You can see the wire supporting Madmartigan when he is on the catapult outside the castle.
  
  

• Continuity: During the fight in the castle at the end, Bavmorda's magic turns a clear day into an overcast storm. However, in a few brief shots of the sky during the fight between Madmartigen and General Kael, the sky is blue and clear with a few white clouds.
  
  
• Continuity: While at Tir Aslean, Elora Dannan is taken from Willow by Kael, who gallops off with the baby in his arms. Yet as we see him quickly making his way through Arik's army he is holding no baby.
  
  
• Continuity: Willow's hair is wet when he returns from the island (the result of a deleted scene where Willow was caught in a massive storm and went underwater).
  
  
• Continuity: Scratches inexplicably appear on Fin Raziel's face after the battle. (A deleted scene showed her face get scratched up in the battle with Bavmorda.)
  
  
• Continuity: Before the journey to return the Daikini baby, Willow is seen with the papoose on his back, then off, then he puts it on again.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: After the cart chase when Madmartigan and Willow get off the cart with the two back wheels missing, the rubber stunt wheel used to allow the cart to roll is visible in the center of the axle as it moves away from the actors.
  
  
• Continuity: Madmartigan has his legs hanging out of the cage. In the scene directly following it, he has his legs in the cage and crossed.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Fin Raziel, as a goat, butts a soldier off the bridge, the hands of the goat wrangler can be seen guiding the goat to its target.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: After the cart chase, when Willow and Madmartigan are hiding, enemy horses gallop past with the sound of barking dogs, but without any actual dogs to accompany the sound effect.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: After Madmartigan rolls down the hill inside the giant snowball, a watchman shouts out that the soldiers are coming. Given how long and fast it took them to slide down, how did they get there so fast? Also, you hear clear clip-clop hoof-beat noises from the horses as they trample through loose powdery snow.
  
  
• Continuity: While hanging in the cage, Madmartigan's hand goes from fiddling with a chain on the side to gripping the front bars between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: Just before the village scene fades out during the end credits, the villagers milling around in the distance disappear.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Willow gives Elora to Madmartigan, what is heard is, "Goodbye, little one," when originally, he said, "Goodbye, Elora." It was after the scene was shot that the people realized that Willow didn't know Elora's name at this point.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Obvious stunt double and doll in some shots during the sled scene.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Just after Willow's wagon goes over the fallen tree during the cart chase, one of the horses steps on the tree and leaving an imprint showing that it is made of foam.
  
  
• Continuity: Two of the devil dogs attack the Nelwyn village, one is cornered and killed by the Vohnkar warriors. At the counsel shortly after, Burglekutt states, "One beast we can kill." Since it seems uncharacteristic of these creatures to abandon their quarry, what happened to the other one?
  
  

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