Continuity mistake: In the scene where the Baudelaires and Aunt Josephine are looking in the photo album, Violet turns a page. You can see the photo Aunt Josephine does not want the orphans to see, but when Violet turns to the next page, the same photo is there. (00:49:10)
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: Brad Silberling
Starring: Meryl Streep, Jim Carrey, Billy Connolly, Jennifer Coolidge, Emily Browning, Liam Aiken, Kara Hoffman
Klaus climbs to the top of the tower to save sunny and discovers a giant magnifying glass pointed at the ruins of their house. Violet tries to convince judge strouss that the play is real but fails. Violet ends up marrying count olaf. Count olaf then preceeds to tell the audience his evil plan. Nobody can do anything because it's not illegal for him to marry violet. As count olaf is talking Klaus points the giant magnifying glass at the marriage certificate and sets it on fire. Count olaf tries to make a break for it but he is captured. The final scene has violet Klaus and sunny all sleeping as Mr. Poe drives them to their next guardian. Lemony Snicket tells us that Olaf has escaped and is now on the run.
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More mistakes in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Klaus Baudelaire: Did Ike die in a fire?
Aunt Josephine: No, silly child. He was eaten by leeches.
Trivia: The instrument that Uncle Monty plays to the children is called an autoharp, from the Appalachian mountains - it's like an accordion, but the piano keys have been replaced with harp strings. Billy Connolly can actually play this instrument in real life, and the song he sings to the children is a song about Scotland, Billy's homeland.
Question: As we know, the magnifying glass in Olaf's tower started the Baudelaire fire. This is the same tool that Klaus uses to burn up the marriage certificate. If the magnifying glass was powerful enough to cause the Baudelaire mansion to burst into flames, which was 37 blocks away, why didn't the stage burst into flames as well?
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Answer: A magnifying glass concentrates all the light that goes through it at its focal point, and it is this focal point that needs to be placed on the object which one wants to set on fire. The distance of the focal point to the lens depends on the magnifying glass characteristics, and it is more than likely that Count Olaf chose a glass where the focal point would be situated exactly "37 blocks" away from his house, that is, at the Baudelaire's mansion. When trying to set on fire an object much, much closer, the glass would concentrate much, much less energy, and would only be able to set on fire easily burnt objects, such as thin paper.
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