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I was watching an episode of Monk, and a man from the mint killed somebody over 5 pennies that had been struck without a reverse. They were saying the coins were worth millions!
Any other blatant anachronisms or errors?
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Your kidding of course. Errors in movies are common. With coins too they make many mistakes and seldom worry about the few that will notice. There is a horror type show by me on Saturday nights and the MC is always pointing out all the errors in those movies. I remember once seeing a cowboy and indian movie and a plane flew over the Indians. In movies and on many TV shows errors are common. If you ever watch the old Dennis the Mennis reruns, a man named Mr. Wilson is a coin collector. They show him handling all kinds of so called rare coins with his hands.
The main thing movie makers or TV show makers realize is that only about a fraction of the people watching will have the expertise to see and know the errors made.
One of the reasons Those movie and TV makers switched from faster than light ships to worm holes. Ships just can't go faster than light.
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01/15/2013 9:41 pm
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Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining. I just think it's funny and interesting to see little errors like that!
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01/15/2013 10:06 pm
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Fiction writers often intentionally invent such devices. It keeps the story from seeming dated years later because whatever device they created for their story was never true. Also, it can't be challenged. If someone wrote about the value of a coin, obviously that would change, but what if they wrote that such-and-such was the most valuable, most precious, etc. coin. I doubt there would ever be agreement on something like that and it distracts from the story. Other writers think the aforementioned writers are lazy.  There was a 'My Three Sons' episode in which Ernie loses his IHC. It was dated something like 1930..... |
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I watched an episode of Bones where they found a 1943 copper penny and pointed out its value and how rare it is. I also saw a new NCIS that featured the new, not yet released, $100 bill. Interesting episode!
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Quote:Quote: Ships just can't go faster than light. Lest we forget Tachyon Drives... http://www.npl.washington.edu/av/altvw61.html Quote:
Tachyons (if they exist) would behave in an inverted way, so that when their mass-energy is smallest (E=0) they would have infinite velocity (1/ß = 0) and when their mass energy is very large compared to their rest mass (E >> |M|) they would have a velocity slightly larger than c.
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I watched an episode of Bones where they found a 1943 copper penny and pointed out its value and how rare it is. I also saw a new NCIS that featured the new, not yet released, $100 bill. Interesting episode! And did you notice how everyone just handled it as if only a Cent? Same on a Perry Mason program where that detective almost spent a coin worth a lot of money at a restaurant. I sometime wonder if TV and Movie writers don't purposely do things like that to get your attemtion. |
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One of the ols Las Vegas episodes featured a 1943 copper penny. They said there were only 30 of them made and the value was about 50K.
Movies & TV make errors about firearms all the time also.
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A much more recent example from Lincoln... "In one of the movie's most riveting scenes, a trio of smarmy political operatives tells Lincoln they are having a hard time bribing undecided Congressmen to vote "yes" on the amendment because so many 50-cent pieces of the day bear the president's unpopular likeness. Good joke, to be sure, but Lincoln's face did not actually appear on 50-cent currency until four years after his death, and even then on paper notes, not coins." from..... http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...n-movie.html |
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"In one of the movie's most riveting scenes, a trio of smarmy political operatives tells Lincoln they are having a hard time bribing undecided Congressmen to vote "yes" on the amendment because so many 50-cent pieces of the day bear the president's unpopular likeness. The should have said $10 bill (demand note of 1861, legal tender notes of 1862 and 1863) |
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Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere's Nina with the expected Stephen King example!!
There's a story in Full Dark, No Stars called "A Good Marriage" about a woman who discovers 27 years into her marriage that her well-mannered husband actually leads a double life as a woman-torturer/serial killer who's been wanted since before they were married. His other, non-lethal hobby is coin collecting and the story revolves around his "dream coin," the '55 double-die. At one point in the story he finds one in his pocket change (stretching it, but possible) and comes running home, waving the coin in the air clenched in his fist. My first thought when I read it was "If your hands are sweaty, you better hope you're not passing any sewer drains." (Especially if you live in Derry. Coins are one thing that don't float. Ahem.)
Given how much research it's obvious King did on the hobby, it makes the error all the more glaring.
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01/17/2013 3:46 pm
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I've always admired Scooge McDuck. Not only his swan dive but his backstroke through piles of gold coins.
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In The Hudsucker Proxy, a Cohen Brothers flick, it takes place in 1958 (with only the last few minutes of the movie taking place in the first few minutes of 1959). However, the main character, Norville Barnes, pays for his coffee -- in 1958 -- with a Jefferson nickel... but tips with a few Lincoln Memorial Cents. Jumping the gun, just a *wee* bit? :-) Awesome movie, by the way. :-) |
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I watched the latest episode of The Americans ("Gregory") on FX last night. The show is set in 1981, so anachronisms are bound to happen. *** Spoiler Alert ***There is a scene where a briefcase full of money is forced open after Phillip uses it in a fight. As expected, there is money all over the floor. Unfortunately, some of it appears to be 1996+ large head federal reserve notes. Ooops.  At least I did not see any of the 2004+ the colourized versions.  |
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Ooh, I have another fun one from Stephen King. Not so much an error as an omission that, if you're "in the know," seems very "off."
In the book 11/22/63, a man uses a magic doorway to go back in time to try and rescue President Kennedy. Before his trip, the man preparing him hands him appropriate money, including a "fifty-cent piece." The character's response is "maybe you should hang onto this, it might be valuable." "Of course it's valuable, it's worth fifty cents." (<-- PRICELESS dialogue, that, though).
Given that the character has no idea where he's going or, more precisely, WHEN, and that he was born after Kennedy's assassination, and that there is no indication he knows anything whatsoever about coins, AND that there are all of these wonderful tiny details throughout the story to really set the scene (e.g., when applying for a teaching position in the past, the main character is INSTANTLY asked about the current most scandalous book, The Catcher In The Rye) . . . you'd think he'd have something to say about Ben Franklin being on the coin.
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