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Posted: **Fri Aug 11, 2006 8:24 am**

or does he?

This is a filmmaking thing that someone actually noticed.

There are some decent explanations in the comments, but none explain why a grown man wouldn't be able to throw a baseball without hurting someone or breaking something. I mean, he does it at least once in that scene.

The real mistake that goes unnoticed is the trajectory of the baseball that breaks the window.

Posted: **Fri Aug 11, 2006 9:39 am**

Eh, filmaking is the art of deception. This sort of thing goes on all the time, and back before there were VCRs and DVDs it never even got noticed.

Posted: **Sat Aug 12, 2006 5:46 pm**

Good catch by someone.

I don't think there's anything to it, though. If you see a movie set on a close up like that, things are pretty tight. Plus if they've done the scene all day, it would get pretty tiring after a while to have a ball in his hand. Or it could have been what they thought would be a test/rehersal take and the director/editor decided that was the best take.

That sort of thing happens a lot in movies.

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Cruise throwing a baseball