Did anyone noticed the painting in Whitmore's office kept disappearing? the one with the upside down budda. what was that all about?

I didn't notice it disappearing but I did notice that it had a polar bear in it and also the word 'Namaste' written backwards.

Oh man, can't wait for the screen cap on that....:smile:

There are screen caps in the Easter Egg thread of the painting and the advertisements (Hanso, Apollo bars,etc.) shown during the soccer match.

Someone also said that the room flipped. Desmond was in the right chair at first, with the bar to one side. Then they showed it from another angle and he was sitting in another chair. Is that true? I didn't notice!

Probably chalk this one up to poor continuity coordination between shoots.

can someone please let me know how to get to the easter egg thread? would love to check that one out. especially with the painting. thanks for any help. :smile:

The room did flip...in this screen shot, the painting is to Desmond's left and you can see that "Namaste" is wriiten correctly not backwards.

http://gallery.lost-media.com/displayimage.php?album=1250&pos=355

can someone please let me know how to get to the easter egg thread? would love to check that one out. especially with the painting. thanks for any help. :smile:

The Easter Egg thread is in this section but I can't provide a link as searching has been disabled.


The room did flip...in this screen shot, the painting is to Desmond's left and you can see that "Namaste" is wriiten correctly not backwards.
http://gallery.lost-media.com/displa...m=1250&pos=355


Wow! Way cool. I did not notice that when I watched the eppy. I will look for it though when I watch it again tonight.

All indications that what you see is not necessarily what you see. Maybe you just simply saw it before.

I don't know if that makes any sense at all :)

wow, TPTB have been pretty careful with continuity issues, I wonder if they are slipping...or if they slipped this one in on us.

The room did reverse, that is a pretty major change to be only a continuity mistake.

I trully believe that the room itself didn't rotate.
While editing this scene, they might have flipped it horizontaly (on purpose), that's why we now see "NAMASTE" on it's correct orientation, and everything else "backwards".

Here, compare the pictures. The painting moves from the right side of Desmond to the left. It is realy to big a thing to be a continuity error.

http://gallery.lost-media.com/thumbnails.php?album=1250&page=9

http://gallery.lost-media.com/displayimage.php?album=1250&pos=333

http://gallery.lost-media.com/displayimage.php?album=1250&pos=334

http://gallery.lost-media.com/displayimage.php?album=1250&pos=337

http://gallery.lost-media.com/displayimage.php?album=1250&pos=336

Are we sure it's the same painting? Maybe it's two paintings of similar color.

The one to Desmond's left is clearly the polar bear/buddha one, but the other just shows the bottom corner (at least in these pictures), and it could be anything, really.

The scene is shown first in a mirror image view (ie "namaste" is spelled backwards). When you see it again to Desmond's left "namaste" is written correctly. I don't think this was a continuity error. The entire scene is shot from an angle to the left of Desmond. This shot of the picture is the only time the angle changes. It had to have been shot from Desmond's right and flipped to look like it is from the left side.

might be a mirror wall or two paintings of the same kind

I like the idea of a mirror wall.....perhaps with others watching the interaction?

Take a look at these two pictures.

In this one, Desmond is sitting in the right chair, facing the desk. To his right is the bar and a blank wall. To his left you can see a picture (which is what I believe is the picture we're all taking about) inbetween two wood panels.
http://gallery.lost-media.com/displayimage.php?album=1250&pos=333

Now, in this picture, you can see Desmond is sitting on the left side of the desk. (See the empty chair to his right?) And, also to his right, past the empty chair, is the painting we're all talking about, inbetween two wood panels.
http://gallery.lost-media.com/displayimage.php?album=1250&pos=334

The room does flip, but it could also be a continuity error, or an editing error. Not sure if it is on purpose or by accident. I'll leave that up to you all....

Did anyone noticed the painting in Whitmore's office kept disappearing? the one with the upside down budda. what was that all about?

it is not dissappearing. it is on right side facing from mr.widmore's view.

or if this is a "dream" or "flashes", the room was flipped just like the tie scene with penny in their flat. maybe for us to notice that this is indeed a surreal "flashback"

Or...someone is just messing with our heads.


:cool:

I hope this thing is intentional, because man, you'd have to work really hard to make this kind of screw-up.

If it's not intentional, that means that there were likely some after-the-fact revisions made that required Desmond's medium shot to be reshot (script changes, or perhaps the last-minute decision to make the polar bear art more noticible?). Sometime between the day they shot the wide shot with Des and Widmore and the day they reshot Des' medium shot, they forgot which side the painting was on (they would have only had to reconstruct a partial set for that shot).

Again, I'm really hoping it was intentional, because the editors could have caught the error, even if the production crew had not. There's no way the editors would miss this, particularly in a scene where (if I remember correctly) there's some match-frame editing on Widmore as he crosses to get the billion-dollar bottle of whiskey. Plus, if the editors had caught it, they could have easily flipped the frame and gotten rid of the error without having to reshoot ("Namaste" would have even read correctly, then).