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Is the title of “The Man With the Golden Gun” deliberately deceptive, or is something missing from the adaptation?
I don't believe there was any intended deception.
The films were adapted from two separate novels with those respective titles, which had two distinct villains. For Goldfinger (1964), they chose to ...
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Is this a continuity error in The Dark Knight Rises?
It was a deliberate directorial choice, so it wasn't an accidental continuity error
The script states the Stock Exchange scene is in the evening
INT. STOCK EXCHANGE - EVENING
A frenzy of trading on ...
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What is the history of the Tesseract in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, taking into account the events of 'Captain Marvel'?
So, official Tesseract timeline:
Captain America: The First Avenger
hidden for thousands of years in Asgardian mural, uncovered by Red
Skull
burned through hull of plane, fell into ocean
recovered ...
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"Fland Canyon" and Maude
Based on your comment:
@Walt I agree, but such a significant event surely must lie on a static timeline.
There is no static timeline, at least not to the degree that you're expecting it to exist. ...
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Is the title of “The Man With the Golden Gun” deliberately deceptive, or is something missing from the adaptation?
The title is a deliberate riff on The Man With The Golden Arm (1955). I don't think there was ever any intent to tie it back to Auric G, but rather to create an "in-joke" in the title. ...
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Is Disney+'s Moon Knight considered to be Canon to the MCU or other Disney Marvel productions?
As per official wording yes it's canon to MCU
“Moon Knight is very much in the MCU,” executive producer Grant Curtis
tells Inverse. “The observant viewer is going to hear and see those
Easter eggs we ...
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Longest Continuous Plotline Across a Series of Films
According to Wikipedia's entry for Blondie (the comic strip), of the 28 movies made based on the strip, at least the first 14 were a continuous series meeting your definition:
Blondie was adapted ...
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AvP and Covenant Timeline conflict?
AvP is not canon.
From here:
the promotional website Weyland Industries retconned the AvP movies from the canon by having Peter Weyland (Guy Pearce, pictured below) as the founder of Weyland Corp, as ...
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Is there any explanation for the differences to the existing Harry Potter timeline?
You're actually taking the word of Grindelwald (who lies and charms his way to get things done) very seriously.
For all we know, Grindelwald could be lying. Here are a few reasons why I think GG is ...
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What is the connection between Skyline (2010) and Beyond Skyline (2017)?
How the movies are really connected?
Beyond Skyline is direct sequel to Skyline and takes place just after the events of first film. Jarrod's transformation happened in Skyline and Elaine and Jarrod ...
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Was the Starfleet officer connected to the later series?
Word of God: Simon Pegg - co-writer of Beyond - has said that the character is a nod to Tom Paris, and is probably his grandmother.
http://twitter.com/startrekchina/status/766502895575367680
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Longest Continuous Plotline Across a Series of Films
New Answer:
It is The Land Before Time. There have been 14 movies in the series, but the 13th one is reboot. So, if we don't count it, there are still 12.
The Land Before Time is a franchise of ...
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Longest Continuous Plotline Across a Series of Films
The Up documentary series currently consists of nine films spanning 55 years. The original film, Seven Up!, was released in 1964 and featured interviews with several 7-year-old British children from a ...
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Possible continuity error in The Nun?
Maurice they show in The Conjuring is 20 years older than the one in The Nun. This movie takes place 20 years before The Conjuring where they show the case of Maurice. They also mention "20 Years ...
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Was the regenerating tooth an error, or something else?
Don't expect an explanation:
The film’s final twist is the final freeze frame, a smiling Lockhart
with all of his teeth intact. Verbinski has spoken about the film’s
dream logic, that certain ...
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Longest Continuous Plotline Across a Series of Films
Beating the 14 movie streak of the Blondie movies, we now have 23 movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe:
Iron Man
The Incredible Hulk
Iron Man 2
Thor
Captain America: The First Avenger
Marvel's The ...
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Why is everyone surprised by Jack-Jack's powers?
They couldn't see what was going on when Syndrome kidnapped Jack Jack.
Jack Jack starts displaying his powers when he and Syndrome are waaay up in the air. Here's the family's POV:
Those two blue ...
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Does Titans TV serial share the same universe as other DC TV serials?
Not yet
In the words of Marc Guggenheim himself:
“Great question, again, above my pay grade,” Guggenheim replied. “I
will say this, the one thing I’ve learned is 'never say never.' I
could not ...
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Does Phoebe believe that gravity exists?
Phoebe is the Queen of Mean. She really believes in both gravity and evolution, she's just playing a nasty trick on Ross. See, after Ross admits the possibility that he's wrong, she says "that ...
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Why and to which extent was The Night Manager recut for international release?
This was a BBC-AMC production. The episodes ranged from 57-62 minutes in length, which would have run with no ads in the UK and which ran with approximately 30 minutes of ads in the US (a 2:1 ratio of ...
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Is there a canon explanation for certain holodeck differences between Star Trek shows?
In both TNG and Voyager (and I guess DS9), they explain the holodeck is also an offshoot of transporter and replicator technology. It doesn't just use force fields and projections. It is not just hard ...
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Why did the marks think they recognized Hardison in s4e16 "The Gold Job"
I rewatched this to see if I could find any actual crossover between Hardison and his "players", but there's no explicit meeting.
He was in the antiques store when they arrived to check out the chest ...
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Differences between reboot, remake, reimagining - is my understanding correct?
Remake: Re-making the original film, with minimal or no changes.
I'd say this is wrong. A remake carries the same general plot line, but is often very different from the original. Just thinking of ...
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What happened to the Federation Universal Translator Technology?
The Deep Space Nine episode Sanctuary (S2 E10) has a race which comes through the wormhole and cannot be immediately understood. It takes some time for the Universal Translator to work out the ...
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Is what is happening in the courtroom known outside the courtroom in real time?
Jason Bull's company TAC is involved in jury selection before the trials begin, where Bull's psychology training is used to try and select jurors who will be sympathetic to their course of action. ...
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What is the history of the Tesseract in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, taking into account the events of 'Captain Marvel'?
Here is the history of the Tesseract and the Space Stone, based on Marvel Studios’ Marvel Cinematic Universe: An Official Timeline:
March 1942 | Not For the Eyes of Ordinary Men
As total war rages ...
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Are there any references in the movie 'Jason Bourne' that acknowledge the continuity of 'The Bourne Legacy'?
There is - when Nicky Parsons hacks into the CIA's mainframe the is a list of 'Black Ops' which includes the 'Outcome' programme from The Bourne Legacy
Unfortunately, I cannot find a complete ...
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Are there any continuity issues with ignoring Mission Impossible 2?
The Mission impossible movies are meant to function essentially like the Bond movies, with the main plot of each story being self contained. The only thing that really continues from movie to movie ...
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Why does Rod Flanders have black hair in the episode "Lisa's First Word" (9F08)?
It's not as exciting as it sounds. There are a ton of Simpsons characters that have incorrectly black hair, especially in the dark.
For example, from The Springfield Connection (S6E23) has Chief ...
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Are there any references in the movie 'Jason Bourne' that acknowledge the continuity of 'The Bourne Legacy'?
The Outcome and LARX programs are visible on the screen when Bourne looks through the USB Nicky provided in Berlin.
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