10 More Movie Mistakes You Can't Believe You Didn't Spot
2. Obvious Library Facade Is Obvious - Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade
Much as we all love watching 4K restorations of classic movies, it creates an absolute cluster headache for the filmmakers themselves, because higher resolution releases ensure that audiences can pick out mistakes which weren't visible on lower-detail earlier versions.
Case in point, we have Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
Roughly 30 minutes into the movie, Indy (Harrison Ford) heads to a Venetian library in pursuit of his father Henry (Sean Connery), and when he climbs a staircase and discovers the giant X on the library's floor, take a look at the bookshelf behind him.
In the 4K version of the film in particular, it's hilariously obvious that the bookshelf is just a thin facade, with the books all being superficial semblances of actual books at absolute best.
Fans went decades never noticing this on prior releases of the movie, but in its Ultra HD glory it's incredibly obvious.
Sure, you can try to convince yourself that it's a mere intentional decoration in the world of the film itself, but let's be honest, it was simply that the production designers never expected that viewers would be able to fixate on a crystal clear, high-resolution screen grab of their work. Oops.