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• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Vampires sparkle when exposed to the sun. When Edward and Bella come to school, he is wearing sunglasses, which would not be necessary if he was trying to avoid the sun. However, it's clear he is wearing them as a fashion accessory, and to make his skin look paler. It's also why the Cullens usually wear dark clothing.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bella confronts Edward in the forest, the flap on his right shoulder of his jacket is buttoned down, then unbuttoned, then buttoned again.
  
  
• Continuity: When Edward is telling Bella how much he could hurt her, his hand on the tree goes from being flat against it, to resting on his fingers and back again.
  
  

• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Bella is confronting Edward about being a vampire, there are what appears to be visible bite marks on the left side of his neck. However, these are moles, not bite marks.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: There's a scene where Edward and Bella are talking in the forest, it's raining heavily and they are soaking wet. Soon after they are shown talking in another forest location, and appear to be completely dry. This could, however, indicate the passage of time, especially given their change of clothes. It is therefore assumed that their conversation takes place over several days.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In the garage, Edward asks Rosalie and Esme to put on Bella's clothing to mislead the tracker. Edward throws clothes towards Esme. Esme was in the scene for quite a while, getting stuff in the background. She was just out of frame when he addressed her.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In the garage, Rosalie and Emmett put their belongings in Emmett's jeep and get in. In the next shot, the jeep is no longer in the garage, and Rosalie's convertible and Carlisle's Mercedes are driving off. However, the jeep hasn't left the garage, it's just out of frame in the next shot. Esme takes Rosalie's convertible, which is why it leaves at the same time as Carlisle's Mercedes.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Edward says in the movie that vampires never sleep. When Bella wakes up in the hospital, he appears to be sleeping. He was pretending to sleep in order to appear normal, and to give Bella and her mom privacy to talk.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In the very last scene, Victoria turns to leave the balcony overlooking the gazebo where Bella and Edward are dancing, with her hair tied up. As the camera cuts to her leaving down the stairs, her hair is flowing behind her. Victoria pulled out her hair pin at the top of the stairs.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In the scene where Bella goes to the ballet studio to give herself up for her mother, James the vampire is visible in all of the mirrors. As the legend goes, vampires' reflections are not supposed to be seen in mirrors. Yet both the movie and books often diverge from traditional vampiric legends, such as mirror reflections, burning in sunlight, wooden stakes, repelling from crosses, and so on.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Charlie takes Bella to her room, you see three naked Barbies: one on her desk under the bulletin board, and two are on the wall behind her, near the bulletin board. As the movie progresses, they disappear. As Bella makes the room her own, she is going to move things around, including the Barbies.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: After Edward saves Bella from the car crash, she overhears him, Carlisle, and Rosalie talking in the hospital. Vampires usually talk so fast and low that human ears cannot understand them, but they can also talk slowly and quietly. They were talking "human" because other people were around.
  
  
• Continuity: Throughout the film, dark roots appear and disappear from Rosalie's hair.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bella confronts Edward, her red book bag on the left of the screen seems to flip and move around in different shots.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: After Bella is out of the hospital she still wears a leg brace when she is heading to prom. But she doesn't have any bandage or mark on her right arm from when she was bitten. However, the venom that changes human to vampire heals the body in that process, thus also the skin. There might be a scar, but the wound would certainly be healed well enough for Bella to go without bandages.
  
  
• Continuity: When James breaks Bella's leg in the ballet studio, it looks broken. In a far away shot, she is holding her leg, and it doesn't look broken. Later, after Edward falls and she slides away, she moves both of her legs. If it was broken, she would be in too much pain to move it.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Throughout the film, various vampire's faces are paled out, but not their ears and necks. In one of the cafeteria scenes, Robert Pattinson's ears are extremely red.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Jacob confronts Bella at the prom, she is wearing her dress. A few shots later, when Edward cuts in, she is wearing a sweater. If you watch Edward closely, he is holding her sweater, then drapes it over her shoulders before turning away from Jacob.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Edward tells Bella "you better hold on tight, spider monkey" you can see his harness pulling his shirt up.
  
  
• Errors in geography: In the dress shop, two flags are in front of the building across the street; the American flag and the Oregon flag (blue with a yellow symbol). Washington's flag is green with a picture of George Washington.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bella first sits next to Edward in biology and he visibly recoils, two samples are on their shared desk. Edward nudges one towards her and pulls the other towards himself. In the next shot, they're next to each other in the center of the desk.
  
  
• Continuity: In the meadow, Edward and Bella are lying very closely together at first. When the camera angle switches, they are suddenly farther apart.
  
  
• Factual errors: Many of the flags in the cafeteria are wrong. The Kenyan flag (green, red and black, with a shield) is upside down; the black stripe should be at the top. Another flag is blue, white, and red, with a red star. This is a Yugoslav flag from before the breakup of the country in the 1990's and is no longer used.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Throughout the movie you can see the vampires' breath. In the book Edward states they can breathe because it enhances their ability to smell and helps them blend in as 'normal', but you would not be able to physically see their breath because they have no actual body warmth.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Dr. Cullen treats Bella in the E.R., the x-ray on the upper left behind him is upside down.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the last close-up of the movie, Edward's face is close to Bella's, and his skin is at least 5 shades darker than hers. Vampires are supposed to be the palest of pale.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Bella is wearing a green shirt in her bedroom, you can clearly see the audio wire under her shirt when she lifts her arms up to do something.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Edward and Bella are in the car and she says she's warm enough they both go to touch the button, but you can see an early reaction on Edward pulling himself back a bit before they even show him pulling his hand away.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Edward is lying next to Bella on her bed, moonlight (sunlight reflected off the moon) is coming in through her window and hitting his face, chest, and hand, but they are not sparkling. However, this could be because Edward is not in *direct* sunlight, therefore it has no effect on him.
  
  
• Continuity: As Bella and Edward's fathers are at the second crime scene, Bella asks Edward to turn in to park up. The car moves right to turn in, then the next shot is the car still in lane, and hasn't moved right yet.
  
  
• Continuity: In the baseball scene when Carlisle hits ball, you can see Edward and Emmett start to run after it. But, after the close-ups of their faces, they start to run again.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Bella is on Edward's back and they are running up the mountain Bella's hair lies flat as if it she were standing. However, if they were going at the speed implied her hair would have been blowing back.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the final credits, "Emmett" is misspelled.
  
  
• Factual errors: Near the end of the closing credits, a few counties are thanked for their help during filming. Clallam is misspelled "Clallum".
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Edward passes Billy and Jacob Black on the road, a man with a cap and equipment is visible in the window.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the baseball scene, Rosalie's hat has a "G" on it instead of a "C".
  
  
• Continuity: When Bella is searching for information about creatures with the same characteristics as Edward's, you can see some information about Apontamkin (The Cold One: Apontamkin). In the next web page, the creature's/god's name is Apontampkin.
  
  
• Continuity: When the Cullens are playing baseball, Rosalie slides into home. When she stands up, there is a large stain on the right side of her white pants from the slide. Later, when they are in the garage getting into the various cars to run from James, Rosalie turns away, and her pants are unstained.
  
  
• Continuity: In the diner when Bella and her dad are eating, the label on the A1 bottle faces away from Bella's dad then towards then away in the same scene.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bella is walking up the hill at school before she tells Edward that she knows he is a vampire, she is wearing mittens. When she enters the woods and drops her backpack, her mittens are gone, though you never see her remove them.
  
  
• Continuity: The dent in the back fender of Bella's truck changes size a lot throughout the movie.
  
  
• Continuity: When Rosalie, Emmett, and Edward are leading the tracker away, Rosalie's hair is curled when they leave the garage, then frizzy when she rubs the jacket on the tree, then curled again when they realize the tracker changed course.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Throughout the movie, the vampires' contact lenses are clearly visible in close-ups.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Robert Pattinson's American accent seems to slip into his native British accent several times. However, this may be intentional.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Edward is driving Bella home, they approach the police station and wonder what's going on. Edward should have been able to determine what was happening by listening to anyone's thoughts at the station.
  
  
• Continuity: After Edward reveals himself in the sunlight and tries to frighten Bella, he jumps into a tree. Bella walks under the tree and leans up towards him, while he leans forward towards her. In the close ups they are maybe 6 inches apart, his face beneath his arms, but in the wide shots his face is above his arms, and their faces are a couple feet apart.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Bella and Edward first meet in science class they are examining the stages of Mitosis. The correct order of stages is prophase, metaphase, anaphase and telophase, but Edward mentions anaphase coming before metaphase when he looks into the microscope for the third time. However, they have clearly been provided with prepared slides and are told to "separate and label them into the phases of Mitosis," so Edward was not identifying the order of the phases, but which one he was currently looking at.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene where Edward and Bella are talking outside in the rain, when the shot moves from slightly further away to close up, Edward's facial expression is obviously different.
  
  
• Continuity: In biology class, the owl behind Edward changes position through both scenes
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Clair de Lune is incorrectly listed in the credits as "Claire" de Lune.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Bella asks where Edward is in the hospital, it pans to a brief shot of Edward slumped against the wall, with his head facing towards Bella. In further scenes he is still slumped against the wall, but his head is facing the opposite direction. When people "sleep" they sometimes move in their sleep. Since Edward was pretending to sleep, he could've simply been fidgeting and moving to make it look more real.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: The second time Alice pitches to both Rosalie and Jasper, the runner is running from second base before she throws the ball. After both have hit the ball, the runner is just leaving second base. However, Esme states at the start of the games that "she knows they cheat", so this could just be an example of them cheating.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Edward is in Bella's house, waiting with Charlie to take Bella to the prom, he has a glass of water. When the two men move to see Bella come down the stairs, it is thought that Edward is carrying his glass of water. However, it is actually a corsage in a plastic case.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Eric is passing out fliers for their upcoming prom. Eric and all his friends in the circle are Juniors (as stated in the book). They are planning to attend their Junior Prom. However, the fliers Eric is passing out say Senior Prom. Almost always in High School the prom is the "Senior Prom" - but open to Juniors and Seniors. There would not be a separate prom for Juniors, however, traditionally, the Junior class hosts the prom for the Senior class - as a sort of "farewell party." So, the fact that a Junior is distributing fliers for an event called the "Senior Prom" would be fairly in line with HS tradition in the US.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: After Angela takes a candid picture of Bella, she looks at the back of the camera as if to check the picture. But there is a cover over the LCD screen so this would be impossible. It also happens after she takes a picture later in the film.
  
  
• Continuity: In the garage scene Edward closes the car trunk twice.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Edward is playing the piano for Bella, the sun is shining on his hands, but he isn't sparkling.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bella first gets her tuck, she visibly gets in and you hear the car door close. In the next scene, when Charlie and Jacob's father are talking, right before Charlie says "you're the bomb" you can hear Jacob shut the passenger side door. In the next scene Jacob shuts the door again.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bella is in gym and the ball comes toward her she hits it strait to the side. When it hits Mike in the back of the head the ball comes from above, as though it were thrown at an angle.
  
  
• Continuity: In the first lunchroom scene Bella's arms go from folded to in front of her between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bella and Edward are on the greenhouse field trip, right before Jessica interrupts, there is a girl walking behind them. In the next shot when Jessica comes up to Bella, the girl is bent over looking at some of the plants.
  
  
• Continuity: In the hospital scene in Phoenix Bella's oxygen tubes change location throughout the scene. when it is a close up, the tubes follow the line of her cheekbones, and when the camera zooms out the tubes are lower down, halfway between her eyes and mouth.
  
  
• Continuity: When Edward slides his arm under Bella in the parking lot scene, where he pushes the car away, Bella's hair is inside her coat, than outside, then in again. It looks like the stunt double had her hair out and Kristen had her's inside her coat.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: During the alley/parking lot scene where the young men harass Bella, above them on a warehouse porch is a crew person with a light or a camera. He is there in one scene and then he is gone.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Bella and Jacob are in the old truck for the first time. You can see through the passenger window in the background, crew people working with a large white screen and other equipment.
  
  
• Continuity: Throughout the film, Esme's name is pronounced differently by Edward. When Edward is telling Bella that he and then Esme were changed by Carlisle, he pronounces her name as "Ez-mee", but when he is introducing Bella to his family in their kitchen, he pronounces her name as "Ez-may".
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In the book, it is clearly said that the Cullens never touch the food on their plates. The only time that they do eat is when Bella asks Edward if he can eat food, and he takes a bite of pizza. Even so, in the movie, you can see Emmett eating in the background of a cafeteria scene. (as stated by Stephenie Meyer, they had to keep re-shooting this scene because he kept accidentally eating).
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In the hotel room, when Alice has the vision of James in the mirror room, light is shining in through the window. They're in Phoenix, where it's sunny, so they should be sparkling. However, later in the movie when Bella goes to meet James in the studio, it is clearly visible that its night. Therefore, it must have been the moon and not the sun shining down on them.
  
  
• Errors in geography: During the La Push Beach scene, a lighthouse can be seen in the background. There is not a lighthouse at La Push. The lighthouse is actually Tillamook Rock Lighthouse, about 2 miles off shore at Cannon Beach (Oregon Coast).
  
  
• Continuity: When Edward drops Bella off at the police station on the way back from Port Angeles, she doesn't have her bag, which contained the book she picked up from the book store that she uses later on to research the "cold ones". She should have her bag with her because she uses the book that she bought later on in the movie.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Bella goes to meet the Cullens. Esme has a large dark line on her forehead near her hairline which is actually her natural skin showing next to the pale makeup skin.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In the first gym scene, a girl who looks about 6 years old is running around in the background. However, many high schools also have a pre school in the same area, especially if they teach child development and childcare, or health and social care.
  
  
• Continuity: In the first scene, with the little deer, you can see that it's not the same animal. The first one, drinking water, has a dark and white tale and then, when it is running, it changes to a deer with a dark tail only, with no white fur.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Bella first arrives to her bedroom at Charlie's, as she stands near her bed, you can see a black wire between her jeans and her sweater.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Bella starts school in March. A few weeks pass before Billy and Jacob come over "to watch the Mariners game," meaning baseball season has started. Later, when Bella is talking to her mom, she says Phil is still in spring training. Minor League spring training ends in March, before the Major League baseball season, but it is possible that Phil is still in Spring Training as some players participate in a team's "extended spring training" before joining one of the organizations minor league teams during the season.
  
  
• Continuity: When Edward first brings Bella to the Cullen's house, we see that there is a two car garage on the entrance level. In the garage scene, however, we clearly see three cars parked in the garage: Emmett's Jeep, Rosalie's convertible, and Carlisle's sedan.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In the cafeteria scene "edible art" Bella is eating something when discussing "La Push" then, in the next scene she seen at the salad bar preparing her lunch. However, Bella was only eating a cucumber slice, which she could have easily gotten from a friend's lunch.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The license plate on Edward's car is from Oregon. It should be Washington.
  
  
• Continuity: The armadillo shows up on a shelf behind Edward when he smells Bella coming into the science class. The next time he is in the science class (when he's nice to Bella), there is no armadillo on the shelf behind him.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When we first meet James (the boat scene) part of his "godspeed" tattoo on his left hip is visible.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene where Bella confronts Edward about being a vampire, as she is walking up the hill, there is no backpack dropped on the ground. In the next pan it is there, and in the next it is gone again.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene in the greenhouse, when Bella and Edward are talking, there are two girls walking in front of them. After the closeup, the girl on the right changes to a different person.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene in which Edward and Bella are dancing in the gazebo, when the two dancing couples stop dancing and leave, one couple walks down the steps to the side walk, the frame changes and they walk down the steps again.
  
  
• Continuity: In the driving scene in Port Angeles, Edward speeds into oncoming traffic, but while in the car the outside background moves at a very slow speed. Then when an outside shot of the car zips around other cars on the street it is at very fast speeds.
  
  
• Boom mic visible: When Bella pulls into the school the first day you can see the boom reflection in her truck window.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the baseball scene when Emmett and Edward were running to catch Carlisle's ball you can visibly see them (especially Emmett) jump up on something and hear the sound of a trampoline.
  
  
• Continuity: In the forest scene where Edward jumps off to a tree, he leans closer to Bella's face when she asks why he hated her so much when they met. When he answers, Edward is shown sitting straight up (and far from Bella) to deliver his first sentence of "I did, only for making me want you so badly." The next sentence, Edward is seen leaning over closer again to utter his next line of "I'm still not sure if I can control myself."
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the restaurant scene when Bella has a garden salad, you can see some of the vegetables (tomatoes, mushrooms). When you come back to that scene a second later they are in different positions or missing.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scenes at the Prom, Bella initially is carrying a clutch purse, which changes to a drink midway through the dance hall. When she is outside with Edward, she is not carrying anything.
  
  
• Plot holes: As Alice and Jasper take Bella to Phoenix, the car should have tinted windows. None of the Cullens car have tinted windows to protect from sunlight. A shot of Bella on the phone leaving a message for her mom shows un-tinted windows. At least that car should have tint, especially since they are going to Phoenix with no cloud cover.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When the Cullens are preparing dinner for Bella, and Rosalie breaks the glass bowl out of anger, she is clearly wearing gloves. This would not be necessary if she was a vampire. However, Nikki Reed had cut her hand in a previous take of this scene, and was to wear gloves to hide the cut, because a vampire cannot receive cuts from glass.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bella pulls into the school lot her first day, Tyler is sitting there with a hoodie on. When he says "Nice ride," he has a vest over his hoodie. The shot pulls out again, and he has no vest on.
  
  
• Continuity: In the car scene where Jasper and Alice are taking Bella to Arizona, you see the car driving through California hills/savannah and then when the camera is zoomed into Bella in the backseat, you see Oregon forest in the car's rear window.
  
  
• Plot holes: James, Laurent and Victoria not noticing the fact Bella was human when they first arrived at the baseball field. Not only would they smell her blood (James in particular, being a tracker) but their enhanced hearing would allow them to hear her heart beating.
  
  
• Continuity: When Edward exposes his skin in the sunlight to Bella and when they are laying in the field, Edward has no hair on his chest. However, when Edward and Bella are in Edward's room and are dancing, Edward visibly has chest hair. (It is stated in the director's commentary that this is caused by the CGI covering his hair with sparkles, therefore no hair is visible, but it is still a goof.)
  
  
• Continuity: In the garage scene, Jasper is seen bent over in the background putting things in the trunk of the car. When the scene switches to a close-up of Alice, Jasper is standing upright and looking in Alice's direction.
  
  
• Continuity: At the diner, where Bella and Charlie have dinner, Bella picks up the ketchup bottle and holds it over her plate, shaking it and pretending to squeeze the bottle to dispense the ketchup. However, the camera shows her from behind as well as in front, clearly showing nothing coming from the bottle, and no red on her plate.
  
  
• Continuity: In the first cafeteria scene right after Mike falls and right before Jessica scoots closer to Bella you can see Jessica bend over and her face is in the bottom left side of the screen. Then the shot changes and she moves next to Bella.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In the scene where Edward passes Billy and Jacob on the road, Billy is driving. Billy is paralyzed from the waist down, he wouldn't be able to operate the pedals, and therefore couldn't drive. However, there are specially modified vehicles so people with a paralysis can drive.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: When Edward is approaching Bella to tell her that they should not be friends, the bus in the background is labeled Quillayute Valley School District. The correct spelling from the book and in the rest of the movie is Quileute.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Bella is running away if you look very closely when she opens her bedroom door you see Edward standing to the side waiting for her. However, in the book it is explained that in Edward's fear he climbs into her window to help her pack and figure out what she is going to say to Charlie.
  
  
• Continuity: When Edward picks Bella up for the Prom she is wearing a purple dress. When they are dancing outside she is wearing a teal dress.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Bella first meets Eric, he calls her Isabella and doesn't give her the chance to correct him. Then in the next scene with him, he calls her "my home girl Bella," even though she never told him to call her Bella.
  
  

• Factual errors: SPOILER: In the ballet studio, James breaks Bella's leg just below the knee. In the prom scene, Bella is wearing a walking brace, intended for ankle or foot injuries. Bella's injury would require a cast or brace that immobilizes her knee.
  
  

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