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The scene where Jaccapo is buying the estate for the count...


Granted, when you're watching a movie, you have to have some suspension of disbelief, but something about that scene irks me. I like the movie, but every single time I watch this scene, the "emeralds," "rubies," and diamonds they show cascading out of the back of the cart along with the coins just look way too fake. They're cut (shaped) too similarly, because clearly they're plastic, molded into a "jewel" shape.

I really don't understand why they made the choice to include those fake jewels in that scene, because every other time you see the treasure, like when Danglars is stealing part of the treasure at the docks, and opens a chest to check what's inside, it only seemed to consist of coins. If they'd made the fake jewels out of colored glass, it still would have looked fake, but the way the light refracts through them reminds me of translucent dice. Even watching in standard definition they look fake, now watching it in 1080p, they look even worse.

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So you expect every scene in a movie like this to look incredibly real? It was such a short scene, I didn't give it much thought although I knew those things weren't the real deal, they couldn't be. It's a movie! LOL


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"As any war, ma'am, a waste of good men." (Poldark)

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Did you read my post? Did you not get from my post that I understand about suspension of disbelief, and I liked the movie, regardless of errors? I was pointing out something that looked glaringly fake to me, that no one else seemed to notice, and nothing more. I didn't say that you should break into the Touchstone Pictures vaults, and burn the original prints, because the jewels looked fake.

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Of course I read your post. The fact that you wrote it made it seem like this issue was very important to you. I guess I was wrong.


"How was the war, sir?"
"As any war, ma'am, a waste of good men." (Poldark)

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