I’m willing to bet that 20 years from now, people will be asking “What’s with all those 2020s haircuts in period films made in the 2020s?” Unless its something super-trendy, people simply don’t see contemporary haircuts. We filter them out of our consciousness, and just register their wearers as looking “normal”.
Hell, there were a goodly number of Nonwhites in the UK in the 19th century (Pablo Fanque fron the Beatles song was an actual impressario from the time and was Black).
Of course not. They were British and much too polite to cringe in public.
That’s part of the same phenomenon. If the actors didn’t have contemporary but period hair, it would be a distraction, to many viewers.
How about pictures painted by an artist who had visited Montana, Kansas, New Mexico, and Arizona in the 1880s?
Funny enough, I thought his accent as the older banker guy was decent.
AFAIK, that is a period photo of black cowboys, and none are wearing Bowlers, mostly some sort of wool felt braod brimmed hat.
The other pic did fool me, I thought it was period.
The banker was an old man and not a Cockney chimney sweep. His voice was completely different and well done.
As I said above, I knew about the fact that there were a lot of black cowboys. I knew that a lot of our mistaken image of cowboys came from Wild West shows. I now know that they typically wore hats that were neither Stetsons nor derbies. So you don’t have to point out any of these to me again.
Bob Clark, the director, has a cameo as one of the neighbors admiring the Old Man’s “major award”, wearing a Miami Dolphins hat. The Dolphins didn’t begin playing until 1966.
Just to add another point to the hat discussion - the men in the famous Wild Bunch photo are wearing derbies because it’s a formal portrait, from a time when getting your photo taken was a special occasion. The men in the picture are wearing what were probably their finest, most expensive suits, as well as gold watches and chains; they’re certainly not wearing their everyday work attire.
Then what is your question?
We let Kid Cheesesteak choose the weekend movie and he chose 10,000 BC
My entry for the most anachronistic thing I’ve seen in a fictional work is 10,000 BC
Set some years in the past (10,000 BC, one would assume) we had iron work, pyramids, pharaohs, corn, horse riding, tamed mammoths, sweet lord it was some kind of mish mosh of sorta historical themes all dropped into one place.
My favorite thing in Star Was is it’s supposed to be entirely divorced from any aspect of Earth culture, but Han Solo says “I’ll see you in hell!” in The Empire Strikes Back. So they had to invent an entire new Hell that holds a culturally identical role to the Hell we know.
I don’t see that as an anachronism. Lots of different Earth cultures developed the idea of a place bad people go after they die. It seems likely that alien cultures would have similar ideas, and “hell” is just the English word for that concept.
No, I agree, it’s not really an anachronism, but It’s as relevant to this conversation as every other mention of Star Wars in this thread.
I was going to go as far as say that Star Wars “Can’t be anachronistic in the way this thread intends” but in all actuality, given the amount of detail that folks have put into the Star Wars timeline and the way current Star Wars media jumps around in said timeline it’s entirely possible. One thing that comes to mind is a character seemingly getting killed in the Obi-Wan series despite the fact he was introduced in a cartoon set later in the timeline. Presumably, he gets better.
Yeah, considering the next episode features a guy who previously had all his limbs chopped off before being dipped in lava, it’s not hard to buy the Inquisitor coming back from having a hole poked in his tummy.
I can’t name one specific offender here, but I have seen so much use of slang and speech from the 2010’s being used in shows set in the 80’s, 70’s, and earlier. i.e. “You got this”, “that’s not a thing”.
I’m guessing it’s a symptom of screenwriters born in the late 90’s who assume that the way they talk is just how people have always talked.
10,000 BC is technically a fantasy right? I only saw it once when it came out (I didn’t think it was very good), but if I recall correctly, the “advanced” humans who had those things were founded by “survivors of Atlantis” who had brought advanced technology to them and built them up into an early empire. I.e. not remotely historical or intending to be.
I would assume that they’re practicing some sort of sleep discipline that didn’t warrant showing onscreen. Once they knew they learned that they needed to move the fleet every 33 minutes, presumably they could have worked out a way for people to get 60 minutes of sleep here and there. Which still isn’t great, but it’s a huge improvement over zero minutes for days and days.