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.
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Date: 2020-07-24 02:15 pm (UTC)My first exposure to Zorro (oops; misspelled it above, though DreamWidth didn't flag it) was the Disney version as aired on the _Disneyland_ anthology series, starting in 1960. (I was too young to remember it during the original airing.)
Ah, Guy Williams. Plus several other brilliant cast members. (Is it just me, or do Penn and Teller remind folks of Disney regulars Henry Calvin and Gene Sheldon?)
Is anyone else familiar with that version? Were there any anachronisms in it?
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Date: 2020-07-24 05:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-07-25 02:42 pm (UTC)My original thought was that I saw it on the MMC, but it first showed on there when I was just two or three years old. Did they show it again, later? Or was the MMC in reruns in the middle Sixties?
Can't remember clearly and too lazy/busy just now to look it up. I do know I loved to watch the variously-named versions of the Disney show on Sundays, which among many other programs showed compilations of the Zorro episodes.
I need to upgrade to a better brain. :-(