The Mask of Zorro

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The Mask of Zorro Goofs/Mistakes

Movie Goof (continuity error): When Alejandro tells the soldiers to touch their toes, one of them is in front of the other. But when Alejandro kicks them out the window they are side by side.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Don Raphael and Captain Love are seen in the hacienda's study discussing the plans to destroy "all the evidence" (the mine and its workers), we see plainly Captain Love's sword belt, with no bowie knife scabbard attached. When, shortly thereafter, Zorro fights Love and Raphael because of the missing map to the mine, Love's bowie knife scabbard has reappeared.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): As Zorro is swinging on a tree branch just before kicking Captain Love, the parallel bars used for the tree limbs are clearly visible.
Movie Goof (factual errors): The Mexican flag appearing in the headquarters when Zorro is fighting the soldiers has the red and green areas reversed.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Don Rafael arrives in the lifeboat, the camera in the boat shows six rowers, all wearing navy blue army uniforms and hats. In the next shot, there are only four rowers, and the two on the left side are wearing white bandannas on their heads.
Movie Goof (anachronisms): Don Rafael Montero that says he came via Lisbon and San Francisco. In 1841, San Francisco was still Yerba Buena. The name change didn't occur until January, 1847.
Movie Goof (audio/visual unsynchronized): After the big chase scene, as Zorro and his horse canter up the hill, the horse's steps don't match the hoof beats heard.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): When Don Rafael Montero shows a gold bar to the other Dons, he holds it only with two fingers and shows no signs that it's heavy. A gold bar this size would be much too heavy for anyone to hold like that.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Alejandro is fighting Captain Love at the gold mine, he stops the large wheel from spinning by sticking something in it. The next time we see it, the ladder is in there holding the wheel, but it is not broken anymore. When he jumps off the platform the wheel starts moving and then stops again.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): When Zorro is surfing down the gulch on a shovel during his fight with Captain Love, a strap holding his foot to the shovel can be seen.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Zorro is cheered by crowds near the beginning of the film, the shots of him were taken at sunset, but the shots of the crowd were taken closer to midday.
Movie Goof (incorrectly regarded as a mistake): In the confessional, Elena says she broke the fourth commandment. For Roman Catholics, "honor thy father and mother" is the fourth commandment, not the fifth.
Movie Goof (continuity error): During a training exercise, Alejandro knocks Diego's sword from his hand and catches it. As he throws it back, the blade points down; when Diego catches it, the blade is pointed up.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Zorro is knocking off guards from their horses in order to get to his horse in the front, during a moment when he's standing upon two horses you can hear him yell and the sound of grunts. Then when you see Zorro attack two guys by slamming them together, the same sound plays.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): When we first meet Alejandro's soon-to-be horse, you can see changes. The horse's mane changes consistency from straight to wavy as the horse is rearing in two different shots.
Movie Goof (anachronisms): The movie was set around 1841, but a pressure gauge measures in metric units which were not adopted in Mexico until the 1860s.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): When Alejandro calms the horse gone wild in the crowd, the rope tied to the horse can be seen dropped by someone off screen the moment Alejandro grabs for it.
Movie Goof (continuity error): In the barn, there is clearly a different horse used in the bucking section. Zorro's soon to be horse is large with a thick, wavy mane and tail. The horse that is actually bucking is smaller, with a thin straight tail.
Movie Goof (continuity error): Alejandro, dressed as Zorro, fights the guards and grabs the "chandelier". The candles were lit, then when he swings on them, they are blown out. In the next shot, they are lit again.
Movie Goof (audio/visual unsynchronized): When Don Diego is about to confront Don Rafael for the first time, he begins talking in the shadows but his voice isn't in sync with the picture.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): When Zorro undresses Elena with his sword, the clothes are clearly ripped off by a string attached to them, rather than falling off by themselves. (See also the item in the trivia section.)
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): When he dismounts to stop the burning wick, it is obvious Captain Love's saddle cover is made of fake leopard skin material.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): When we see Alejandro in the guards place were the black Andalusian was taken, he picks up a barrel of gunpowder to stop it from exploding and as he goes out the door leaving a trail of it. When he comes out of the door you can quite clearly see the trail of gunpowder already laid down in front of him before he gets there.
Movie Goof (continuity error): After Zorro undresses Elena with his sword, she covers her breasts with his hat. When he snatches his hat away from her, the hand in the close up is not wearing a glove, even though Zorro was wearing gloves throughout the entire sequence.
Movie Goof (crew or equipment visible): When one of the Dons comes into the room where de la Vega is hiding at the party, stage lighting is briefly visible when the door is opened.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): When Zorro first appears, saving the men from execution, he leaps down from a rooftop unto a balcony. Shot from overhead, it's quite obvious he lands on a stunt pad (the stone yields just like a cushion).
Movie Goof (anachronisms): Elena has a nylon zipper on her dress in the last scene. Zippers were not used in the 1840's and nylon was not used for this purpose until after WWII.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): When Zorro rides up the steps while cheered by crowds near the beginning of the film, his shadow is on the wall behind him even though the setting sun is *behind* the building.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Don Diego is fighting Alejandro in the Cantina, there are some hay stacks in the corner. When Alejandro attacks Zorro, one of the hay stacks falls down but in the next scene it's up again in the corner.
Movie Goof (errors made by characters, possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Tornado, the black horse of Zorro, isn't an Andalusian (as called by Diego) but a Friesian. (It has the typical feathers on its hoofs and is of stockier build.)
Movie Goof (crew or equipment visible): When the two prison guards return with the bag to carry away the dead prisoner in, an iron door swings back before they pass through. The crew member who pulls it open it is briefly visible at the far right of the screen (widescreen only).
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Alejandro is fighting Captain Love, his hat falls off when he is swinging on the tree branches. When he lands to pick up his sword, the hat is back on again.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): SPOILER: When Alejandro (Zorro) kills Capt. Love, only a little part of the sword crosses the Captain. In the next scene, from above, the sword crosses him to the half, and the point of the sword clearly doesn't match with the rest.
Movie Goof (audio/visual unsynchronized): SPOILER: During Zorro's big duel at the end, he carves an 'M' on Captain Love's cheek. The letter 'M' is made of four lines, therefore four cuts would be required to carve one. If you listen carefully however, you can hear five cuts being made.
Movie Goof (continuity error): SPOILER: When Zorro is fighting Captain Love in the mine, and Zorro pushes him down and Captain Love rolls down the way until he stops at some boards, when Zorro pushes him you can see he loses his sword, and the sword falls all the way with him. In the next shot, when he's already at the bottom, you can see he's holding the sword, like he never lost it while he was falling.