10 Strangest Mistakes Kept In Movies
The most bewildering mistakes that made it into the final cut.
Mistakes are simply a part of the filmmaking process that's totally unavoidable. Even the most obsessive director shooting with the most dedicated actors on the most controlled set cannot stop errors slipping into their work, because when hundreds of people are working together to make something, perfection is simply impossible. And that's totally fine.
While most movie mistakes are of the boring, ordinary sort - basic continuity errors and the such like - sometimes mistakes sneak into films that are so bizarre, so eyebrow-raising, that they leave audiences wondering how the hell they made it in there at all.
That's absolutely the case with the following mistakes, each of which is baffling by their mere existence, both that they happened, and that they ended up in the final cut of the film without anyone noticing. They're categorically moments that can't be unseen once you've seen them, so they'll forever change how you view these scenes. But if nothing else, they're a testament to how much of a bizarre, ridiculous beast filmmaking is, and how it's a miracle that anything actually gets made at all.
10. Henry Cavill Grows A Beard - Mission: Impossible - Fallout
Let's kick things off with a really weird one that people are still debating. Few who've seen Mission: Impossible - Fallout will forget its instantly iconic bathroom fight scene, especially for the awesome moment where August Walker (Henry Cavill) "reloads" his arms mid-fight to keep doing battle.
During this shot, however, look closely and you can see a most peculiar "mistake" - Cavill's beard appears to grow bushier as he walks towards the camera.
As soon as this was noticed in the movie's trailer, fans began to debate whether it was a bizarre trick of the light, or Cavill's facial hair had been given a digital enhancement. It's a particular oddity given that Cavill was famously prevented from shaving his facial hair during reshoots for Justice League because he needed to keep it for this movie, and yet, it certainly seems like there was some digital fakery going on here regardless.
Though Cavill himself hasn't shed much light on the matter, he did hilariously claim that he punched so hard with the arm reload that it grew out his beard.