Romeo and Juliet Goofs

  • Continuity: The Nurse’s position in the church.
  • Continuity: When Romeo bumps into Fulgencio Capulet while high at the party, his mask moves up and down on his face during different shots.
  • Continuity: Romeo’s wound swaps sides when he’s with Juliet.
  • Continuity: The poem book disappears from Romeo’s hand when he stands up.
  • Continuity: Juliet’s hair as she falls into the pool.
  • Continuity: After Juliet has taken the drug which puts her to sleep, her left hand changes between being above and below the cover.
  • Continuity: The vial of poison falls from Romeo’s hand when Juliet touches his cheek, but later she takes it out of his hand.
  • Continuity: The position of the gun on the floor after Romeo shoots Tybalt.
  • Continuity: Juliet’s hand and gun after she shoots herself.
  • Continuity: The buttons on Romeo’s shirt after he learns of Juliet’s death.
  • Continuity: Romeo falls from the balcony into the pool as the Nurse appears. He should have fallen hard on the pavement around the pool edge. He could not have reached the pool, even if he’d leaped out on purpose.
  • Revealing mistakes: When we first see Juliet’s house, the fountain footage is running in reverse.
  • Continuity: When Abra shouts ‘Boo!’ at the petrol station, his sunglasses disappear.
  • Crew or equipment visible: When Romeo is in the pool hall you can clearly see the cameraman in the mirror behind him who looks up and then carries on with what he is doing.
  • Boom mike visible: At the gas station showdown, a boom mike is visible in a car window as the camera moves past it.
  • Continuity: When Romeo buys the poison, he runs up some stairs to visit the old man and we see nothing against the wall. However, when he drives off in the car, we can see a sofa and some clutter leaning up against the wall.
  • Continuity: Captain Prince says, “I have lost a brace of[i.e. two] kinsmen.” In the play, this is true, as Paris is also killed, but in the movie, Paris does not die.
  • Continuity: When Juliet meets Friar Laurence in the church she’s wearing gloves. When he hands her the vial, her gloves are off.
  • Continuity: In the church, the nurse and man in the long shot are sitting down. In the next scene they’re in the isle again