13 details you probably missed in 'Holes'
Erin Ajello  Â
- It's been 20 years since Disney's "Holes" premiered, but fans may not have caught these details.
- There are a few continuity errors concerning props and costumes throughout the film.
Clyde Livingston is a fictional character, but the baseball team he plays for is real.
The shoes Stanley is accused of stealing at the beginning of the film belonged to professional baseball player Clyde Livingston.
Though Livingston is a fictional character, he plays for the Texas Rangers in the movie, which is a real Major League Baseball team.
The team colors are red, white, and blue, as shown on the posters and decor in Stanley's room.
There's a diagram showing how to dig holes in the office at the camp.
Stanley isn't given much direction on how to properly dig holes outside of the dimensions the Warden is looking for.
But there's a diagram in the Camp Green Lake office with instructions on how to avoid injuring one's back while digging.
Stanley's family's backstory seems to reference "The Princess Bride."
Stanley's great-great-grandfather, Elya Yelnats, worked as a farmhand where he met his boss' daughter, Myra Menke.
The situation is similar to how Buttercup and Wesley meet in "The Princess Bride."
Sachar told The Wrap in 2018 that the 1987 movie served as an inspiration for him while he was working on adapting his book into a film. He said he wanted "Holes" to feel like an adventure movie like "The Princess Bride."
Stanley's water canister disappears and reappears after he digs his first hole.
Stanley's shovel and water canister can be seen on the ground above his hole after his first day of digging.
When the camera switches to an overhead shot, the water canister has disappeared. But it reappears next to the shovel a few seconds later when the camera angle changes again.
The author of"Holes" makes a brief cameo in the film.
Sachar, the author and screenwriter of "Holes," makes a brief cameo in one of the flashback scenes of the film.
He plays Mr. Collingwood, a balding man who buys onions from Sam the Onion Man.
A scorpion warning is first shown after Stanley has already seen one.
Stanley is warned about looking out for poisonous lizards and is almost bitten by one before encountering a scorpion in his tent.
He later passes a sign in the rec room warning about the scorpions. There's also a sign next to it warning about poisonous snakes.
The rest of Stanley's mother's letter can be read on the screen.
Zero and Stanley start a conversation while Stanley is reading a letter his mother sent him.
Stanley stops reading the letter before getting to the end of it, but the rest of it is shown on the screen. It ends with his mother saying she loves and misses him.
The page Miss Katherine cries over shows the poem she was reading during class.
Miss Katherine, also known as Kissin' Kate Barlow, reads Edgar Allen Poe's "Annabel Lee" with a student, and Sam recites the poem from memory.
Katherine is later shown crying while holding that same poem.
Mr. Sir has a rattlesnake tattoo.
Rattlesnakes come up a few times throughout the movie. Barfbag gets bit by one while digging holes, the Warden wheres nail polish with rattlesnake venom and scratches Mr. Sir with it, and Mr. Sir has a tattoo of one on his right forearm.
Some scenes appear to show the tattoo enclosed by a shiny rectangle, which could be due to the use of a temporary-tattoo sheet during application.
Zero never calls Stanley by his camp nickname.
Stanley is the first camper to refer to Zero by his full name, Hector Zeroni.
Zero refers to Stanley by his real name as well. In fact, he's the only camper that refers to him as Stanley instead of his nickname, Caveman.
A newspaper in the film references the director's company.
The Warden has old copies of The Green Lake Register in her home featuring articles about Kissin' Kate Barlow.
One article mentions that Kate robbed the Chicago SW Pacific Railroad, but the headline just refers to it as "Chicago Pacific."
Chicago Pacific Entertainment happens to be the name of "Holes" director Andrew Davis' film company.
Stanley has a neon-green X on his costume while he's holding the treasure.
Clothing markers can be used on costumes to show where effects or props are supposed to be on a character.
When Stanley and Zero find the treasure, a green "X" can be seen on Stanley's orange jumpsuit.
This seems to be a marker showing where the lizard crawls over him in the scene.
A sign stating that it's illegal to have guns at Camp Green Lake is visible in several scenes throughout the movie.
Mr. Sir is arrested at the end of the movie for violating the rules of his probation, namely that he's not allowed to carry a gun.
During this scene, a sign that previously appeared in shots throughout the movie is clear. It reads, "It is a violation of the Texas penal code to bring guns, explosives, drugs, or alcohol onto the premises."
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