Anachronistic knives

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I was recently watching–maybe binge-watching–the new Netflix show Stranger Things with Winona Ryder which is set in the early 80s and prides itself on accurately portraying that era. It's good show but I did notice in episode 4 a one-handed-opening knife that looked too modern for that time period. It was the scene where the police chief cut open the fake body in the morgue. Anyone else notice this? Any other examples of knives in shows or movies not fitting the time period?
 
Well, I don't know about knives...In the movie Kung Fury, the main character goes back in time to B.C. era and there are cave women riding T-Rexs carrying machine guns. I don't think dinosaur-mounted machine guns were invented until the 1920's, am I right?

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I've been watching this show as well (I effing love it) and I totally didn't even think about the knife in that scene. I was too busy having my mind blown.
 
Right off the top of my head, I can think of two examples:

Summer of Sam (1999), which takes place in 1977 and deals with the Son of Sam killings. During one scene in a bar(?) or something, a guy (possibly someone performing on a stage?) takes out a one-hand opening liner lock knife that looked very much like a '90s-era design. I only saw the movie once, back when it first came out.

Ip Man 3 (2015), which takes place in 1959 Hong Kong. One thug pulls out an automatic knife (switchblade) that appears to be of modern design.

Jim
 
I saw a movie set in like, 400 AD or something, which had an Indian character wielding a katar, a dagger that wasn't developed until the 1300's.
 
DShiflet said:
I saw a movie set in like, 400 AD or something, which had an Indian character wielding a katar, a dagger that wasn't developed until the 1300's.
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I'd be inclined to give that one a pass as creative license, given that the katar is almost the quintessential "Indian" knife.
 
Get a screencap of the knife. They're period accurate down to the firearms so I'm surprised a prop from a key scene isn't period.
 
A well-known scene in the BBC show Poldark features a bit of scything (with awful technique) and despite it being set in 18th century England the protagonist was shown using a scythe with a double-curved American snath that wouldn't be invented until the early 1830's, as well as the twist-to-tighten nibs (grips) that wouldn't be invented until 1838, and aluminum nib blocks (ferrules) that would have been worth more than platinum until the 1920's.
 
FortyTwoBlades said:
A well-known scene in the BBC show Poldark features a bit of scything (with awful technique) and despite it being set in 18th century England the protagonist was shown using a scythe with a double-curved American snath that wouldn't be invented until the early 1830's, as well as the twist-to-tighten nibs (grips) that wouldn't be invented until 1838, and aluminum nib blocks (ferrules) that would have been worth more than platinum until the 1920's.
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I love that post. I see you screaming at the tv "That's a double curved American snath! Gah! Idiots!" :)
 
marcinek said:
I love that post. I see you screaming at the tv "That's a double curved American snath! Gah! Idiots!" :)
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Well, especially the fact that wedge-fit nibs and blades and proper UK patterns of snaths continued to be made there up into the modern era, so there's very little excuse for the oversight other than laziness on the part of the props department! They just had to run around to a couple of antique shops and they could have easily found themselves a scythe that, while not perfect, would have been overwhelmingly more similar to period-correct ones.
 
FortyTwoBlades said:
Well, especially the fact that wedge-fit nibs and blades and proper UK patterns of snaths continued to be made there up into the modern era, so there's very little excuse for the oversight other than laziness on the part of the props department! They just had to run around to a couple of antique shops and they could have easily found themselves a scythe that, while not perfect, would have been overwhelmingly more similar to period-correct ones.
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You are the best! :thumbup: Still steamed over that one! :D "And the nibs are entirely wrong too! Morons!" <throws popcorn at TV>

Its great. Love to see that combination of passion and knowledge.
 
SCWillson said:
Why is she using a sword at all? The iconic character used her fists and a magic lasso.
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Wonder Woman has been using a sword regularly since at least 2011, and has used one before then multiple times as well. And since the latest movies are based more on the modern versions of the character, a sword is perfectly acceptable.
 
Kopis? Falcata? Its all Greek to me.
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Bad sgt's cold steel punch dagger Platoon.
 
Whoa. Waitaminnit. I thought Wonder Woman was an Amazonian Queen? Amazon = South America. Now she's a Greek goddess? She must be pissed because the Greeks never mentioned her. They changing her origin story, too? She was always a bit of a misandrist, and the whole "women-only society" kind of explained that, but now it's just because she's a bitch?

Good to see they're keeping the invisible jet! It's in the sky in the above cover. But then, it's always been the easiest thing to draw.

What were we talking about? Oh yeah, what's with the sword? I thought she carried a spear?

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Don't be obtuse.
[video=youtube;dakxwoVV7yM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dakxwoVV7yM[/video]
Speculation that the idea of Amazons contains a core of reality is based on archaeological findings from burials, pointing to the possibility that some Sarmatian women may have participated in battle. These findings have led scholars to suggest that the Amazonian legend in Greek mythology may have been "inspired by real warrior women".[96]

Evidence of high-ranking warrior women comes from kurgans in southern Ukraine and Russia. David Anthony notes, "About 20% of Scythian-Sarmatian 'warrior graves' on the lower Don and lower Volga contained women dressed for battle similar to how men dress, a phenomenon that probably inspired the Greek tales about the Amazons."[97]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazons#Scythians_and_Sarmatians

Myth & archeo, she should be an archer. With a Pegasus.
 
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