What's Wrong with this Picture?

[truepictures]

A million dollars to the person with the right guess.*

*a million dollars = a note of praise.

[judex]

Could it be the bottled water? Not much of that stuff in the fifties.

I'll take the million in gold ingots. Much more liquid than praise.

[truepictures]

Yes! How could they have made such a simple mistake. No gold for you. But I'm VERY IMPRESSED!

[GiGi]

'ol Eagle Eye Judex...haha

What a great job of reconstructing an era; but somebody certainly dropped the ball on that. Interesting pic, True..hehe

[brady]

Are we sure this is actually a still from the movie, and not a photo from the set? Because that's not a minor gaff.

[truepictures]

It's a photo I got from the NYT review of the film. I believe it to be a still and not just a still of behind the scenes.

But we cannot be sure until we watch the film. But I'm pretty confident that the f'ed up.

[brady]

It just seems pretty extreme that they would fuck up twice: once by leaving the bottle in the shot, and then again by releasing it as one of the promo stills. But it sounds like that's exactly what they did.

[Rory L. Aronsky]

I showed my Mom the still from the movie and she said, "Bottled water. Yeah right. We didn't have bottled water back then."

An amusing glaring error, however.

[Terminal_Ny]

Saw that right away.

That has to be the BIGGEST anachronism/mistake I've seen in a movie since the passenger in "Titanic" wearing a digital watch.

Great job, True. Funny as hell.

[bronsonseven]

The actors look too comfortable for that to be an actual shot scene. I am going for behind-the-scenes still.

[Rory L. Aronsky]

I am going for behind-the-scenes still.

You were right, Mike. I looked at the New York Times review, and found the photo credited to Melinda Sue Gordon. Her IMDB listing reveals her as a still photographer on this and many other movies. No indication, however, as to whether this was during the filming of a scene or simply director Clooney chatting with his actors.

[truepictures]

Hey for those who have watched the film, did you see if the photo's in the frame on the big screen too?

[sharell]

I didn't notice it.

[Dr Creep]

Looks more like product placement to me.

I think they're discussing how Viagra has improved their sex lives.

[Rory L. Aronsky]

And talking about going to the bar after work to get a Bud Lite. ;)

[KingVidiot]

The actors look too comfortable for that to be an actual shot scene. I am going for behind-the-scenes still.


Probably, but I love anachronisms nonetheless.

In this age of digital magic, you would think anachronisms would be a thing of the past. It's so easy to just paint them out.