Continuity

I remember when I was an extra on that Gene Hackman/Barbra Streisand film, Gene Hackman was on set. "Were my hands in my pockets or out?" he asked the script supervisor, wanting to maintain continuity. We've been shooting (and mis-shooting) these certain scenes so long now that the continuity is becoming ingrained in my head. In the first scene, Ben is wearing the maroon shirt. His jacket is open. The scene with him looking and smoking is where he wears the orange shirt. The continuity comes from having shot it, captured it, edited it, like I remember the moment, a different kind of continuity.