Movie anachronisms

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Anyone look for anachronisms in movies?

I was watching the movie "Trench" yesterday with the subtitles on and saw this. The movie is about the Battle of Somme, 1916 in the French trenches of WWI. If they had used "their fighter jets" it probably would not have lasted as long.

Technically not an anachronism, since it was in the subtitle, but close enough.

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Don't remember the movie title from a couple of weeks ago, took place in the early 1800's and in one scene, there was a wall plate/switch on the wall of the house.
 
One of my classic favorites was from Star Trek: Arena. So why would the Metrons place a road on a planet they just "prepared" solely for the purpose of the Kirk vs. Gorn combat? What were they expecting: Mad Max vs. The Running Man?

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I thought I had one in an episode of Seal Team in the last week or two. During a flashback scene (they were looking back at a moment in each character’s childhood), there was a song playing on the jukebox that came out well after when I thought the setting would be. They didn’t post up the year for the flashback, but it was enough difference that it didn’t matter if the kid was supposed to be 10 or 15, it was still off by 10+ years. Then I realized it was a different character’s flashback. 🙄
 
Under Siege 2,
Most of the mercenaries carry Glock 19s as their sidearms. After killing the mercenary "Herb", Casey Ryback takes a Glock 19 from him and gives it to Bobby Zachs (Morris Chestnut). However, he incorrectly tells Zachs that (A.) the weapon is a .45, and (B.) to take the safety off before firing. The Glock 19 is a 9mm pistol, and it has no external safety to remove before firing
 
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GoWolfpack said:
Glad you cleared that up for us. Wouldn't think that anybody here would be an expert.




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Actually I don’t know Glocks at all. I’d have to shoot a wall and measure the hole to find out what caliber it is.
 
It kills me to see cops or solders in movies, take out their carry weapon and rack the slide before they enter a building or some where. The movie Trench above, showed solders working the bolts on their Enfield's before they went over the trench wall. I guess everyone carries with an empty chamber.
 
beamernc said:
Anyone look for anachronisms in movies?

I was watching the movie "Trench" yesterday with the subtitles on and saw this. The movie is about the Battle of Somme, 1916 in the French trenches of WWI. If they had used "their fighter jets" it probably would not have lasted as long.

Technically not an anachronism, since it was in the subtitle, but close enough.

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Don't remember the movie title from a couple of weeks ago, took place in the early 1800's and in one scene, there was a wall plate/switch on the wall of the house.
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I have to watch TV with the closed captioning on due to my poor hearing, and there are plenty of mistakes. I think many of the TV subtitles are automatically generated, and God help anyone who is totally deaf and has to rely on them completely. In this case, I wouldn't be surprised if the actual sound was an artillery shell passing overhead, and whoever (or whatever bot) creates the subtitle knew nothing at all about WWI.
 
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Actually I don’t know Glocks at all. I’d have to shoot a wall and measure the hole to find out what caliber it is.
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Some folks think Glocks are made in Germany....

Die Hard 2

John McClane gets into an intense gunfight with two of the mercenaries in the luggage room, where he kills one and the other escapes. When he is speaking with the head of airport security, Carmine Lorenzo, he tries to convince him that the crooks were not just stealing luggage, but rather heavily funded mercenaries who kill for a living, using their gun as an example. He claims that the gun they used was the "Glock 7" a rare porcelain pistol made in Germany. He claims that the gun cannot be picked up on airport metal detectors and costs more than he makes in a month.
 
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One of my favorite shows of all time, The Rifleman, he carries a rifle that hasn’t been invented yet based on when the show is set.


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Lucas also fired one too many rounds in the opening scene
 
A great many westerns used the Colt SAA either anachronistically (in historical settings before it existed) or in numbers far exceeding their likely prevalence.

A fair number of other revolvers were in use for a number of decades after the SAA came along.
 
Tommy Lee Jones racks his Glock once or twice during the Fugitive. You'd think he'd carry condition 1.

Though one scene in the waterfall tunnel, he does grab his backup after losing one and racks one, but he does it again or twice during the movie.
 
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yes.
i look for them.
(an act of attributing a custom, event, or object to a period to which it does not belong)
they are sometimes more obvious than other continunity or other editing errors.

lots of historical movies have cars, planes, etc. in background before they were invented.
an anachronism is specific and intentional in the movie plot.

for example: Django Unchained.
The hero of Tarantino’s revenge fantasy, which is set in antebellum 1858,
wears a nifty pair of sunglasses throughout a significant portion of the film.
Shades have been around since the 12th century, when they were invented in China.
But they weren’t introduced in the U.S. until 1929.

so, this was intentional, not a mistake.
 
Terminator The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
The characters use Glocks, with the sound of the "hammers" being cocked.

Diehard 2- Glock 7 is not a real pistol. But there was no internet to prove when this floater was released.

Almost every single Steven Segall movie ever, back in the day, at Blockbuster or Hollywood Video, would feature this retard, who claims he was trained by the CIA, and worked with SEALS in Vietnam, with his finger on the trigger holding his weapon up near his face.
 
I suppose another classic was the Battle of the Bulge's (1965) use of M-47 Patton tanks for Pz. Kpfw. Ausf. B's.

That, and the headroom depicted in every single "wooden ships" film ever made. I suppose that's just a historical error for the sake of production convenience and not an anachronism per se, but I had to vent a bit.
 
One of my favorite shows when I was a kid, Combat!, had an episode which took place in a train station. In some scenes one could see a busy highway filled with cars speeding by through the trees in the background.
 
The period time frame for Bonanza was about 1861 to 1867. But all the major characters carried revolvers that weren't made until the 1870s. Remington Model 1875s and Colt SAAs.
 
In Kelly's Heros, when Oddball and his other 2 tanks came out of the train tunnel blasting "O for the love of the sunshine" over his tank mounted speaker and started kicking German butts, the fight supposedly took place in 1945, ( the movie was based on the real Kelly's Heros adventure), Hank Williams Jr was singing the song, but he wasn't born until May 1949.
 
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