• At the end of the
Star Wars film
Revenge of the Sith, it is considered imperative to hide
Luke Skywalker from
Darth Vader, but
Obi-Wan Kenobi does so in plain sight on Vader's home planet, even using Luke's real name. He himself only slightly alters his name and makes no secret of his Jedi heritage. This plot hole was caused by the fact that
Star Wars movies weren't released chronologically. • In the narrative
climax of
The Lord of the Rings,
Frodo Baggins and
Samwise Gamgee are rescued from
Mordor by three
giant eagles after destroying the
One Ring. Some readers and viewers of the film adaptation have regarded this as a plot hole because the eagles could have flown a suitable Ring-bearer directly to Mordor in the first place, obviating much of the story's plot. Craig Elvy of
Screen Rant believes the perception of a plot hole might be due in part to the significantly compressed space and time dimensions of the film version, compared to the books. • The 1991 Disney film
Beauty and the Beast includes a line about a rose blooming until the prince's twenty-first year, and a song in which Lumière the candelabra sings "ten years we've been rusting" – implying that the Prince was 11 when the curse was placed upon the castle, despite a painting showing him to have been older than this. The
2017 remake removed the rose reference and changed the lyric to "too long we've been rusting". ==See also==