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Possible goof

posted 15 years ago by punkgirly
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The girls take the invitation to Natalie's debutante ball and run to the photocopy place at the mall and ask for 150 copies to be made. Then they run into the streets and pass out the invitations to every punk they see.

The goof is that the camera shows some closeup shots of the invitations, and they look exactly like professional wedding invitations that were printed. The "copied" invitations even have the fancy white embroidering the way a professional invitation would. If they were just photocopied, they would be on plain white paper.

There's no way the girls would have had the money to pay for 150 printed embroidered invitations. They were supposed to be photocopies, but they look too fancy!

[–] StarSeuss-1 15 years ago

i have thought of this so many times.

they went to an actual print store. not a place for copies.. so i always just assumed they got exact duplicates of the invites.

and yes.. as high schoolers they wouldnt be able to afford it.. but it sorta takes the fun out of the movie.

which is one of my all time favorites by the way. :)

god. where is that hot guy now...? lol

[–] Beannie75 14 years ago

Getting actual invitations wouldn't be possible "right away." Thermography or engraving takes a lot longer than that for 150 invitations. We're talking days or weeks. And I'm sure they were engraved because Natalie wouldn't accept a crappy invitation.

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[–] punkgirly 14 years ago

Exactly--they wouldn't be able to take them to a printing shop to get fancy embroidered invitations and then have them ready the same day.

That's why they made photocopies, which would only take a few minutes. But the "copies" look like fancy wedding invitations...so it's a goof!

[–] Cloudburst2000 10 years ago

It's called 'suspension of disbelief'. I think they were supposed to be exact copies...fancy looking invitations; otherwise, the security guard would have known that they were copies and would have turned all the punks away. You're not supposed to think about how much it would have cost the girls or how long making exact duplicates would have taken. Also, the guy at the shop, would likely have refused to make the duplicates as I think he knew the girls were up to no good, and everyone in the city knew who Mr. Sands was. Sands name would have been on the invite. If it got back to Mr. Sands who made the duplicates, the guy likely would have lost his job. He would have turned the girls away, IMHO. However, we are supposed to ignore what we logically know would have happened and pretend everything that happened was possible...'suspension of disbelief.' We have to do this for movies, TV, etc all the time. You are thinking about it too much.