# The best movie set in every year... but not made in that year **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 15, 2013, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457 "2013-05-15T22:13:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 20
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/381 "2013-05-30T21:13:23Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > … > > There are already movies for these years, but I’ll also suggest: > > … > 1874 Disraeli > … [QUOTE=Family Guy] (cut to man writing at a desk circa 1850) —: Benjamin Disraeli: [to the camera] You don’t even know who I am [/QUOTE] 🙂 I knew at least that he had been a British literary figure and former Prime Minister during the reign of Queen Victoria. When I worked at UC Berkeley I got respect from my then new technical coworkers, because it was indeed unusual that an immigrant from a 3rd world country should not know things like that. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/382 "2013-05-30T21:43:00Z")
Another good 1969 movie is **Four Days in September** (O Que É Isso, Companheiro?) ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/383 "2013-05-30T21:46:27Z")
And a movie which I think is better than any of our 1984 choices: **The Lives of Others** ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/384 "2013-05-30T21:57:58Z")
Of course, English grammar is still my nemesis, I meant to say that: it was indeed unusual that an immigrant from a 3rd world country to \*\*know \*\*about things like that. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/385 "2013-05-30T22:44:09Z")
1853 Dimples (1936) ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/386 "2013-05-30T22:56:27Z")
1853 The Bushido Blade (set during Perry’s opening of Japan) ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2013, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/387 "2013-05-31T04:15:47Z")
Seeing how challenging some of the old dates are, I thought that _[Jason and the Argonauts](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_and_the_Argonauts_(1963_film))_ (1963) was going to be hard to pin. But the BBC historians already had it: > **[BBC - History - Ancient History in depth: Jason and the Golden Fleece](https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/greeks/jason_01.shtml)** > > A fresh look as this famous adventurer. > [@](#): > > Classic tale > > The Greek tale of Jason and the Golden Fleece has been told for 3,000 years. It’s a classic hero’s quest tale - a sort of ancient Greek mission impossible - in which the hero embarks on a sea voyage into an unknown land, with a great task to achieve. He is in search of a magical ram’s fleece, which he has to find in order to reclaim his father’s kingdom of Iolkos from the usurper King Pelias. > > The Greeks have retold and reinterpreted it many times since, changing it as their knowledge of the physical world increased. > > The story is a set a generation before the time of the Trojan War, around 1300 BC Here is to you Ray: **BC 1300 Jason and the Argonauts.** ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2013, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/388 "2013-05-31T13:36:07Z")
1839 Amistad ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2013, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/389 "2013-05-31T13:57:12Z")
1401 - 12 Paces without a Head 1453 - The Conquest 1453 1458 - The Conclave 1480 - Flavia the Heretic 1500 - Prince of Foxes ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2013, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/390 "2013-05-31T14:35:01Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > BC 227 **The Emperor and the Assassin** Is this the Chinese movie that was released in the US as **Hero**? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2013, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/391 "2013-05-31T15:19:05Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > 1839 Amistad Already on the list for 1841. The mutiny took place in 1839, the trial in 1841. I think the trial is more important in the movie, and serves as the climax, so I would give the movies the 1841 date. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2013, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/392 "2013-05-31T15:21:46Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Already on the list for 1841. The mutiny took place in 1839, the trial in 1841. I think the trial is more important in the movie, and serves as the climax, so I would give the movies the 1841 date. Sorry, obviously I missed it. I agree, the trial date is more important. ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2013, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/393 "2013-05-31T15:22:35Z")
> [@Tom\_Scud](#): > > Is [The Emperor and the Assassin] the Chinese movie that was released in the US as **Hero**? **The Emperor and the Assassin** stars Gong Li and is a completely different movie than **Hero** , which stars Jet Li (among others). ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2013, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/394 "2013-05-31T15:42:19Z")
Should we move Django Unchained from 1858 to 1859? It starts in '58, but recall what Christoph Waltz said: _work with me through the winter; I’ll give you a third of my bounties and teach you what I know; when the snow melts, we’ll find your wife._ Near as I can tell, the majority of the movie – including everything with Leonardo DiCaprio and Samuel L Jackson – comes after that, in '59. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2013, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/395 "2013-05-31T16:31:17Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > Should we move Django Unchained from 1858 to 1859? It starts in '58, but recall what Christoph Waltz said: _work with me through the winter; I’ll give you a third of my bounties and teach you what I know; when the snow melts, we’ll find your wife._ > > Near as I can tell, the majority of the movie – including everything with Leonardo DiCaprio and Samuel L Jackson – comes after that, in '59. I agree that 1859 would be a better year for Django. As a substitute: 1858 The Song of Bernadette (won four Oscars, including Best Actress for Jennifer Jones) ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2013, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/396 "2013-05-31T17:10:10Z")
1932 The Green Mile. ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/397 "2013-06-01T00:50:45Z")
NM; already addressed (Amistad issue). ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/398 "2013-06-01T01:35:50Z")
Umm, anybody here seen **The Great Waldo Pepper**? Umm, you, **Other Waldo Pepper**? 😃 Wiki says 1926-1931, but I’m wondering if there is something of a definitive year of the movie within those dates. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/399 "2013-06-01T15:42:22Z")
_ **Waco Kid:** _ “I must have killed more men than Cecil B. DeMille.” - Blazing Saddles. \* Time for another old epic from Hollywood: Celic B. DeMille’s [The Ten Commandments.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049833/) Yul Brynner is now the Egyptian. And in this case while there is lots of doubts on who the most likely pharaoh of exodus was, one goes for the movie’s Ramesses II and the most likely last years of him to report then that: \*\* BC 1213 The Ten Commandments. \*\* - An update to that joke could be: “I must have killed more people than Quentin Tarantino!” ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457/400 "2013-06-01T15:54:10Z")
> [@Moonchild](#): > > Umm, anybody here seen **The Great Waldo Pepper**? Umm, you, **Other Waldo Pepper**? 😃 > > Wiki says 1926-1931, but I’m wondering if there is something of a definitive year of the movie within those dates. The climatic scene makes clear that after the dogfight the planes are too damaged to land and the old picture in the album makes it clear that Waldo did not make it. So: **1931 The Great Waldo Pepper** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457.md?page=19) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-movie-set-in-every-year-but-not-made-in-that-year/658457.md?page=21)