Timeline for Why does Dodgeball take place in 1993?
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| Jul 2, 2018 at 13:21 | comment | added | Chris Dafnis | or White Goodman is lying, since we know that either he's wrong, or Lance Armstrong is wrong and so is The Ochco | |
| Jun 29, 2018 at 17:12 | comment | added | WakeDemons3 | @T.E.D. - The line in the movie is "that was me 6 years and 600 pounds ago". So no, it isn't just any 6 year period. It establishes a present (1993) and stretches back 6 years from that present. | |
| Jun 29, 2018 at 16:05 | comment | added | Steve-O | @Cubic Like I said, agree to disagree. I don't see any reason why any and all meanings of the word can't be applied equally to a movie. And if they can, then some anachronisms in movies may not be continuity errors. | |
| Jun 29, 2018 at 15:59 | comment | added | Cubic | @Steve-O That's one of the meanings of anachronism which is "something which seems out of place for a time period". In fiction in particular anachronism means "something that is in fact out of place for the time period" (either due to an error by the writers or because it serves the drama for some reasons... technically you could also use it for time travel plots but I've never heard anyone use it in that context) - which of course can't happen in real life (unless you believe time travel is possible). | |
| Jun 29, 2018 at 15:56 | comment | added | Steve-O | @Cubic The literal definition of anachronism does not require the thing in question to be impossible. A man who lives in 2018 but dresses like Abe Lincoln (regardless of why he does so) would be an anachronism, but not necessarily a continuity error. I mean, it could happen in real life... | |
| Jun 29, 2018 at 15:54 | comment | added | Cubic | @Steve-O That's the literal definition of an anachronism. You could say it's a continuity error if you think Armstrongs career is part of the continuity of Dodgeball I suppose, but to me that's a pretty hard sell. | |
| Jun 29, 2018 at 15:49 | comment | added | Steve-O | @Cubic It's opinion-based, I know, but if the movie supposedly took place in 1993 and yet made reference to IRL events that didn't happen until 2004 (ie: Armstrong's 5th win), I'd consider that BOTH an anachronism and a continuity error. Agree to disagree, I suppose. | |
| Jun 29, 2018 at 14:30 | comment | added | T.E.D. | Seems like another possibility is that the "6 years" in the ad weren't all the years. In other words, the guy was saying he lost 600 pounds in 6 years, then spent the remaining years maintaining that new weight. | |
| Jun 29, 2018 at 10:55 | comment | added | Cubic | @Steve-O Because "continuity error" tends to refer to something happening that contradicts an earlier occurrence (someone changing shirts between shots, the order of people entering a room being different in a flashback etc). It would be a continuity error if the movie started out as taking place in 1993 and then switched to taking place in 2004, whereas if the movie stayed in 1993 and some things took place that would only make sense if they took place later it'd be an anachronism. | |
| Jun 28, 2018 at 20:37 | comment | added | Steve-O | @WakeDemons3 Why can't they be both? | |
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| Jun 28, 2018 at 19:14 | comment | added | WakeDemons3 | Sounds like he basically confirms it's a period piece, aka takes place in '93. Btw, wouldn't those references be anachronisms, not continuity errors? | |
| Jun 28, 2018 at 19:07 | history | answered | onewho | CC BY-SA 4.0 |