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Re: OT: Cinematic continuity errors (< RE: Happy new year!)

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Thursday, January 4, 2007, 13:37
On 1/3/07, Antonielly Garcia Rodrigues <antonielly@...> wrote:
> What about the "Mr. Magoo" movie?
OK, I think you're expecting a little much if you want realism in a movie based on a cartoon. :)
> He is at the Amazon rain forest, > then quickly goes by helicopter to Rio (which is by the way full of > jungle and savage animals according to the plot of the movie > --???!!!), and, when in Rio, he falls with a parachute at Iguaçu > Falls!!! Is Brazil as small as the Vatican?
Yes. Brazil is actually a tiny country; it just looks big on the map 'cause of projection distortion, like Greenland. Also by comparison to Portugal. ;-) -- Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>