The day Sebastian visits Mia at her coffee shop, Mia entered work wearing black pants with a yellow bag. When Mia leaves work, she is wearing a blue skirt with a red bag. When they show a long shot of Sebastian and Mia walking on the lot, she is seen to be wearing black pants. Then in the next shot, she is wearing the skirt again.
At 1:02:15, as they are sitting down at the table, Sebastian picks up the beer with his left hand, but it is in his right hand after the cut.
At 0:42:59, when Seb and Mia walked down the street outside the studio buildings, her hair, which had been parted on the right side throughout the movie, was parted on the left.
At the very beginning of the movie, when Mia is leaving work to go to the audition, she bumps into a customer who spills a cup of coffee on her white shirt. You can see that when she leaves the audition, the big coffee stain on her shirt is very different from before (when she was leaving work).
When Seb first plays for Mia at the jazz club, he performs on a dinky little upright piano, but the soundtrack uses the tones of an expensive grand piano.
The opening scenes include Christmas decorations in the coffee shop, Mia's apartment, and the jazz club, and "Jingle Bells" on the soundtrack, but Mia's phone shows the date as January 25.
During the "Start A Fire" performance, in one shot about two minutes into the song, you can see the camera on the right side of the frame.
It was a performance in a club. A camera *was* in the audience - filming the performance. Not part of the movie crew and equipment.
It was a performance in a club. A camera *was* in the audience - filming the performance. Not part of the movie crew and equipment.
In the opening sequence (Another Day of Sun) the cars on both sides of the freeway are facing the same way.
It's a divided freeway. The oncoming lanes traveling the other way are seen at 0:04:25.
It's a divided freeway. The oncoming lanes traveling the other way are seen at 0:04:25.
When Sebastian is playing the opening piano solo for "Start a Fire" and he looks out into the crowd to smile at Mia, the people around Mia are already moving their heads to the main rhythm of the song (which hasn't kicked in yet).
Which fits right in with the general surrealistic tone of the movie - dancing in the night sky stars, head-nodding zombies, stardust fluttering in the air.
Which fits right in with the general surrealistic tone of the movie - dancing in the night sky stars, head-nodding zombies, stardust fluttering in the air.
When Mia and roommates are getting ready to go out, one of her roommates pulls out a strappy blue dress and gives to Mia to wear. Mia dances and sings with the dress insinuating that she is going to wear it out that evening.
When the girls all are finished getting ready and head out Mia is seen wearing a completely different blue dress that looks nothing like the one she was handed by her roommate.
It is same color, but different style of dress altogether.
During the road rage incident between Mia and Sebastian, Sebastian is seen wearing a brown-colored shirt. When he returns to his apartment and has the conversation with his sister, he is wearing a blue-colored shirt. In the next scene, when Sebastian is practicing on his piano, he is back to wearing the brown-colored shirt. Director Damien Chazelle acknowledged this mistake in the audio commentary.
During the opening freeway dance scene, several of the cars used for dancing have two visible, color matched strips on both the hood and roof. These are textured anti slip adhesive to prevent the dancers from slipping.
There is one car with decorative "racing" stripes. Anti-slip clear coating is easily available if needed.
There is one car with decorative "racing" stripes. Anti-slip clear coating is easily available if needed.
When Mia asks Seb to grab her keys for her, a tattoo on his left arm/elbow is visible. Later in the film, it is not.
In the first scene in Sebastian's apartment, the clock says 10:50, but later on it shows 9:50.
When Sebastian goes to check on the oven after the argument with Mia, the smoke rises out of the oven slowly and almost horizontally, a sign that fake smoke was placed inside. If the oven had actually started smoking due to extreme heat overcooking the food, the smoke would rise vertically and extremely fast upon being opened.
Actually, extreme heat isn't what burns food in ovens. Lower temperatures are the most common culprit. As food dries out and approaches the ignition point, smoke progresses from wisps to clouds then flames. There's no stage where extremely fast vertical smoke would come from a burnt casserole. If there were, the smoke detector would have sounded long before it did.
Actually, extreme heat isn't what burns food in ovens. Lower temperatures are the most common culprit. As food dries out and approaches the ignition point, smoke progresses from wisps to clouds then flames. There's no stage where extremely fast vertical smoke would come from a burnt casserole. If there were, the smoke detector would have sounded long before it did.
At 0:17:33, as Seb passes her stopped on the freeway, Mia shows him a finger gesture. Probably intended to be insulting, but she uses the wrong finger.
Near the beginning the lead male character is in his car rapidly switching between radio station but as the chrome wing ariel of his car is down he would not be able to pick up any radio stations at all.