10 Strangest Mistakes Kept In Movies

3. Spelling Errors In The Credits - Dr. Strangelove

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No director dead or alive is as reputed for their perfectionism as Stanley Kubrick, and so it's hilarious that something as basic as a couple of spelling mistakes made it into his satirical classic Dr. Strangelove.

In the opening credits, a disclaimer mentions that the characters and incidents depicted are "ficticious" rather than fictitious, and the screenplay credit mentions that it's "base" - rather than based - on Peter George's book Red Alert.

This is perhaps because the lettering was hand-penned by title designer Pablo Ferro and initially only intended as a placeholder during production. And yet, Kubrick liked the handwritten look so much that it was used for the final film, with neither Ferro nor Kubrick noticing or caring about these incredibly basic spelling mistakes.

Then again, it's easy to chuckle at such errors given the film's generally idiosyncratic tone, even if they fly in the face of Kubrick's public image as the most obsessive, detail-fixated filmmaker who ever lived.

 
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