Anachronistic Zorro
Jul. 23rd, 2020 04:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kengrI recently came across a pair of *very* anachronistic Zorro movies. both are on youtube.
The first, which I haven't watched yet is Zorro and the 3 Musketeers (1963). I looked at the beginning, and it explicitly states that it's in the 1600s.
The second is a Republic serial Zorro's Black Whip (1941). It's set in the late 1800s (main plot is about peopling trying to keep Idaho from becoming a state). Technically it's not a Zorro movie. But they have the outfit and use a whip a lot.
It also has a few other not quite anachronisms. Such as there being a few telephones (the really old wall mount sort with cranks). After a bit I realized that there seemed to be only two. One at the newspaper office and the other at the ranch of the newspaper publisher. Though there's a bit near the end when the bad guys are using them, and it doesn't quite seem right for the plot.
But with only two phones that *does* explain why there isn't an operator. But it doesn't explain why nobody ever tries to cut the phone wires!
Given that Zorro lived in Spanish California in the late 1700s/early 1800s you might be able to explain the outfit as having been passed along to a new family.
This doesn't help at all with the 3 Musketeers one though. well over a century too early.
Ah well, it's all fictional.
The first, which I haven't watched yet is Zorro and the 3 Musketeers (1963). I looked at the beginning, and it explicitly states that it's in the 1600s.
The second is a Republic serial Zorro's Black Whip (1941). It's set in the late 1800s (main plot is about peopling trying to keep Idaho from becoming a state). Technically it's not a Zorro movie. But they have the outfit and use a whip a lot.
It also has a few other not quite anachronisms. Such as there being a few telephones (the really old wall mount sort with cranks). After a bit I realized that there seemed to be only two. One at the newspaper office and the other at the ranch of the newspaper publisher. Though there's a bit near the end when the bad guys are using them, and it doesn't quite seem right for the plot.
But with only two phones that *does* explain why there isn't an operator. But it doesn't explain why nobody ever tries to cut the phone wires!
Given that Zorro lived in Spanish California in the late 1700s/early 1800s you might be able to explain the outfit as having been passed along to a new family.
This doesn't help at all with the 3 Musketeers one though. well over a century too early.
Ah well, it's all fictional.
