Give Wolfe his due, though – he warned her that (in those pre-DNA testing days) he would not be able to prove paternity, but she hired him anyway. Wolfe may be expensive and ecceentric, but he always warns his prospective clients about both his fees and the limits to his capabilities.
Unloaded firearms as well as ammunition are both still legal to carry in checked luggage in the United States; they must be declared when the bag is checked, and must be in proper containers.
Really? Because I saw one confiscated from checked luggage about 8 years ago. Maybe it was because the passenger didn’t declare it.
I wonder if it was ever really that easy even then. Hollywood often speeds us past the typical bullshit we endure everyday just to live in a society. It’s not like people say ‘hello’ or ‘goodbye’ on the phone on film either.
I’d like to think all people can do this; even my kids in the anecdote in my OP, when they expressed their surprise at the events of “Vacation” (at ages 10 through 14), they definitely understood that those technological devices were obviously “not a thing” when the movie was taking place, and that the situations were entirely (well, mostly) plausible in the context of the times, if absurd.
They just couldn’t believe that those times were something so recent as when I was their age, because what was missing (and what drove the comedic situations) seemed so completely… Essential to them. Instead of finding the situations funny, their reactions were consistently “I’m so glad I didn’t live back then.” Their pity overwhelmed their amusement, tinged with horror at the idea that they had just missed “having to live like that” by only one generation!
The lack of security checking at airports and whatnot from the past is also something that stands out to them in watching older movies/shows, but in the other direction. “Too bad that all had to end.”
Uma Thurman flew to Japan in ‘Kill Bill’ with her big honkin’ sword in its own seat next to her on the plane, lol. I don’t know if it was legal to do that at the time, I doubt it.
This is one of our favorite movies. Yes it’s a comedy, not intended to be hyper-realistic, but the scene you describe is the only one that ALWAYS interrupts my suspension of disbelief.
Free gift bonus reference: “Now here come two words for you…”
Which is something that always stands out to me in the classic Twilight Zone episode “Terror at 20,000 Feet”. William Shatner’s character steals a gun off of another passenger to shoot the creature on the wing. That could obviously never happen today.
Of course you can’t open the emergency exit on a modern plane while it’s pressurized, too, but I think that would have been true back then, too. Most of the piston engined airliners of the 1950s were pressurized as well. That bit might have been Hollywood taking some license.
It might even be “Didn’t do the homework.”
Yup, TV Tropes even has a page for that: Cell Phones are Useless.
It’s a police officer (IIRC he’s transporting a prisoner). Law enforcement officers (not just air marshals) are still allowed to carry guns in certain circumstances.
I’m guessing that’s a lack of foresight on the part of the writers; they were almost certainly thinking like 1960s people, whose mindsets imagined there would be a separate Medical library that would exist in a different physical space. Or at the very least, be accessed from a different physical space than the bridge computers. Their frame of reference, and probably more importantly, that of their viewers, was like that.
It’s a HIPAA requirement.
That was actually addressed with a great visual joke in the movie: if you look closely at that shot of her on the plane, you’ll see that the aisle has hooks where you can put your carry on swords, with a couple other swords from other passengers being stored in them.
our Walmart quit being 24 hours except in Nov and Dec due to it had a “crew” of homeless people literally living in it …apparently these people became so attuned to how to avoid the workers and security and even the cameras that it took months to catch them The only way they knew they were there was the trash and things they used like apparently they were using the hose in the garden and soap and towels from the store to bathe and people would find the remains later …
The only way they caught them was tye locked down the entire store unannounced one night and had sheriff deputies around the exits and inside with k9 and searched every inch nook and cranny … supposedly caught around a dozen or so people Now they close about 12 am
actually this was possible up until the 90s if you knew enough information about the person if fact you don’t nee that much info today to cancel a credit card … heck last year the neighbor wen through a thing where when crazy ex-girlfriend realized she was replaced she called and had all his utilities turned off … more than once … they set it up so if he needed them turned of he had to do it in person …
The Flintstones would very different with our knowledge of dinosaurs and flint knapping.
“Why is my phone always dead? I paid $13 for it!” - Jake Peralta
It is important to realize that Kill Bill and other Tarantino movies take place in a alternate dimension similar to, but not exactly like, our own.
The timeline diverged with the assassination of Hitler.