American History X

When the police officer is pulling Derek off the ground after the shooting, he has his right arm over Derek's chest.

In the next shot, he has his left arm, and then in the next shot his right arm again.

(This is the second flashback to this incident, occurring about 1 hour into the film.

) When Dr.

Sweeney is telling Danny to do a report on Derek, the reflection of the boom mic is clearly visible in the glass window of a cabinet behind Sweeney's head.

Camera operator reflected in the coffeehouse window.

When the two brothers are sitting in the bedroom and Danny gets up off the bed, you hear him talking to Derek but his mouth is not moving.

Shadow of camera visible on Seth when he and Derek walk together during Malcolm's party.

When Danny is hanging around the basketball courts, his backpack slides off his shoulder onto the ground.

In the next shot, it is back on his shoulder.

After Danny is shot, we see his essay "fly" out from his hand and to the right of his body.

When Derek goes into the bathroom there's a close-up of the paper on the same side of his body, but after we see Dr.

Sweeney and then go back to Derek and Danny, the essay moves to the left of Danny's body.

When Danny is shot he drops his "American History X" essay, but a few shots later he's lying on the ground holding it.

When Derek enters, it's back on the floor again.

In the opening scene, Derek fires 24 shots without reloading from a Ruger P94, which could hold no more than 10 rounds in the magazine and one in the chamber.

When Danny is printing his essay, the ink-jet printer makes a dot-matrix sound.

While Sweeney is at the prison infirmary, he is playing with his beard in the close-ups, but not in the wider shots.

Derek has his top button buttoned when the doors open to exit is cell.

Once out of the cell, the button is unbuttoned.

Position of Dr.

Sweeney's hands during conversation with Derek after the attack in the shower.

When Murray leaves Dr.

Sweeney's office, the clock in the lobby jumps from 8:10 to 8:20.

The shadow of the handheld camera falls several on the basketball players.

When we see a close-up of Danny's hands while he is typing his final draft, he never hits the space bar.

The first time when Derek was stacking the sheets, he threw a stack of sheets onto the shelf behind him, where they lay all disorganized.

In the next few seconds, the sheets that had been thrown keep changing positions, and the piles of sheets on the table change positions between shots.

In the closing scene in the bathroom, when the camera looks up from the floor at Derek holding his brother, some kind of equipment can be seen disappearing off the top right corner of the screen.

During the riot at the mini-mart, someone throws a cash-register through an office window.

In the shot before the throw, the glass is reinforced.

When the register goes through the window, it is not.

Derek forces the victim to bite the curb before smashing his head.

After this incident, you can see the victim in an all together different position in the background as Derek walks away.

When Derek tells Cameron he and his brother are out, the reflection of the cameraman is clearly visible.

In the black vs.

white basketball game, Derek makes a shot and then Seth says, "Should've passed it to me I was wide open.

" His mouth doesn't match these words.

When Murray is eating at the Vineyards and says, "Its an expression of rage by people who feel neglected.

Etc" Derek drops his fork on the plate, but in the next shot he is holding it again.

During the basketball game, a member of the crowd is present and then is not there between shots.

In the beginning of the film, when Derek runs out of the house and finishes shooting at the thief stealing his truck, in slow motion he turns around facing the camera, with the gun still in the same hand he was using to fire it.

Later on in the movie, when this scene is replayed from a different shot, he turns around and puts the gun in his other hand.

Near the end of the film, when Derek and Danny are outside of the school, there is a man in the background with a green handkerchief on his head sitting.

As shots alternate, he is standing speaking with a group of people, and then sitting alone again.

When Danny is pulling his Nazi memorabilia out from his wooden box a knife appears on the bed that was never pulled out of the box.

While the group is walking to the supermarket after Derek's speech, you can see a shadow of the Steadicam on the road.

When the family is fighting around the dinner table and it gets so bad that everybody is standing and yelling at each other, Derek's mom pulls on his shirt, opening up several snaps or buttons.

When the scene is ending, Derek opens up his shirt by pulling it open quickly, but all of the buttons or snaps are closed again for this effect.

In the first flashback where Derek has fired at the car and is returning to the guy he shot, he leans down with the pistol in his hand, as if to pistol-whip the guy.

In the second flashback, it shows the same scene with Derek approaching but this time, when he gets to the guy, he just drags him into the street.

As Derek and Danny are leaving the coffee shop, Daniel's hands are empty when he tells Sweeney he'll have the paper ready, however a moment later, Danny has a bag and a drink in his hands.

When Derek and Danny are in the dining room, after Derek mades Seth leave the room, Danny's cigarette length changes from long to short, then to long again when Derek makes him put it out.

When Derek is confronting Cameron in his office at the party, the shadow of the boom mic is clearly visible on the wall and on the floor on the right side of the screen, following the actors as they talk.

In the flashback to Dennis Vinyard's death, it is stated that he was an LA County Firefighter.

In the flashback scene with Danny at the breakfast table, Dennis Vinyard has an eagle on the badge.

The Los Angeles County Fire Department has a bear on the badge.

The Los Angeles (city) Fire Department has an eagle.

Murray says the Jewish people have been persecuted for 5000 years, but the Jewish identity has not existed that long.

When Seth is spitting out the jelly beans just before he and Derek are about to leave the Vinyard home, you can see assorted colors shoot out of Seths mouth.

Although, just a second before, the bowl was filled with all white jelly beans and one black ones until Seth picks out the black one and tosses it.

When Derek and Murray are arguing at the dinner table, Stacy's hand is on the table.

As the camera cuts back and forth from other characters back to Derek, her arms are folded.

The front door in Derek's house opens to the outside (we see him kicking it open when he goes out to shoot the guys stealing his car).

No front door opens to the outside for two reasonsit will be easy for anyone blocking it from the outside, trapping the people inside; also, it will be easy for robbers to dismount the door and enter the house.

A really great movie that deals with a heavy topic, that is as relevant now as it was back then.Gritty and violent and very very passionate but nothing is done here just to titillate, it provides a truth to the story that would be insincere if it wasn't included.

This movie is supposed to be realistic, yet fails on a number of occasions, and that alone should be enough to bump it out of a top 250 list.When Norton split from his gang in prison, the opposing gang would've at least beat him.

What has to happen to transform a committed member of a skin head gang into a person willing to die to free his family from his mistakes? In American History X (1998), rated R for graphic brutal violence including rape, pervasive language, strong sexuality, and nudity, the story focuses on Derek Vinyard as he struggles to overcome the hate taught to him by his father and friends.

American History X is possibly one of the best movies I have ever seen. I never seen a movie such as this.

Edward Norton stars as Derek Vinyard in American History X (1998) a gripping story of a man who leads a group of young white supremacists. After being released from jail for a brutal hate crime, Derek quickly tries to right the wrongs he's committed in his life before they affect the people he loves.

It is a powerhouse performance by Edward Norton that drives this compelling drama to a whole new height. Mr.

I watched this movie yesterday, and it was absolutely intriguing. This is something that you don't see very often!

A brutal and crude Neonazi history of racism with some dyes melodramatics getting a captivating and disturbing effect on spectators. The film shows several stages that could through ways of seeing things from the so-called skin-head without become this absolute truth.