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Russell Crowe in The Pope's Exorcist (2023)

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The Pope's Exorcist

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Continuity

The Ferrari sticker on Russell crowe's Lambetta moves locations.
Towards the end of the movie, when Father Amorth and Father Esquibal meet the Pope, the latter's ear is intact, without so much as scarring lines where he had been bitten by the boy, earlier.
During the first exorcism the afflicted goes from being bound with ropes on both wrist to unbound back to being bound.
At 01:21:16, Henry looks completely normal without any damage inflicted by the possession.

Factual errors

The symbol used for The Spanish Inquisition is NOT in fact correct. They apparently Google searched Inquisition symbol and used Dragon Age:Inquisition..a video games symbol.

If they had searched Spanish Inquisition they would have gotten the correct one.
Father Amorth, the Pope's exorcist, does not actually use the Catholic rite of Exorcism when performing exorcisms.
The movie starts in a village in Italy, then in Rome and in Castille, Spain (where I am from). When construction workers speak, before they get burnt, the one who speaks does not have a Spanish accent from Spain. Then, when they take the boy to the hospital, the doctor and the interpreter do speak in Castilian Spanish, but in the subtitles in English they say they are speaking in Italian.
In flashbacks,. young Gabriel's partisan comrades wear red neckerchiefs. Actually, red neckerchiefs were worn by communist partisans in the Garibaldi Brigades. Gariele Amorth belonged to Catholic-led Brigata Italia, whose members were supposed to wear a tricolor kerchief.
In the movie, Father Amorth rides an elderly Lambretta motor scooter all the way from Rome to a location implicitly near Burgos in northern Spain: a journey of almost 1,200 miles. This is an absurd distance for a vehicle capable of - at most - 60mph for short bursts. Had he somehow managed to average 40mph on that journey, and ridden non-stop, that still represents over 30 hours of riding. Yet he dismounts the scooter and proceeds immediately to the work of exorcism.

Miscellaneous

At 51:08 when the scooter is tied tot the well you can see the knot unraveling as Gabriel puts force on it.

Anachronisms

The movie is set in 1987, yet a Swiss highway toll sticker from 2021 is visible on the windshield of Julia's car.
There is no mention of the Iron Maiden device prior to the 19th century. Additionally, there is no evidence that it was ever used by the Inquisition and may, in all probability, have been a myth fabricated to sell tickets at a tourist attraction.
In one scene at the cave it is shown a map of the time of the previous exorcism there and the characters talk about the year 1475. The map shows the Americas, which were discovered in 1492.
Father Gabriel tells he joined the Italian resistance movement against the Nazis in 1942. Actually, it started only in September 1943, after Italy was invaded by German troops.

Errors in geography

When introduced to the American family that moves to Spain, the aerial shots, both for the proximity to the sea, its cliffs, and the green mountains, seem to belong more to the northern coast of the country rather than to the central and inland area of Castile.

Plot holes

The crypt under the Abbey has been sealed for centuries. Almost all of the shots inside it show daylight coming in from above, as though through skylights or ventilation ducts.
Fr Amorth finds what appears to be an old well sealed with the symbol of the Vatican. He must have known this was for a reason yet pulls off the cover thereby breaking the seal and releasing the demon. His actions therefore endanger the family much more than if he had left it alone.

Character error

In the library, both Father Amorth and later the Pope translate the note "Peccata tua inveniente te" as "Our sins will seek us out" but "tua" means "your" and "te" means "you".
When Father Amorth and Father Thomas are in the crypt under the abbey, Fr. Amorth opens a map and says, "The great dragon was hurled down. Hurled into the earth, where he was bound." Then Fr. Thomas replies, "And his angels with him. Revelations."

The correct name for the final book of the Bible is Revelation, not Revelations. The word revelation comes from the Greek word apokalypsis, which is singular. The name "Revelations" is sometimes used in English, but it is considered incorrect.

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