Game of Thrones, HBO’s spectacularly successful adaptation
of the George R.R. Martin saga, is in its final season—and in the news more
than ever. We recently learned that Bella Ramsey, the 15-year-old actress who
played the (now) late Lady Mormont (who was crushed to death during the epic
Battle of Winterfell as she stabbed a White Walker giant in the eye), is not
allowed to watch the series because her parents—rightfully—think the series
is too gory and adult-themed.
Then
there was incredulous mockery of a recent scene in which a disposable plastic
coffee cup could be distinguished amid the otherwise authentically medieval
accoutrement. Many wondered how such a glaring faux pas could possibly have
occurred in a series with such production values, and one so lavishly
outfitted, funded, shot and examined. It does boggle the mind, but, perhaps we
are all being too hard on the iconic series. It’s not as if G.O.T. is the only
major television or movie production that has ever experienced a similar
embarrassing lapse of historical credibility. Or, as another iconic television
institution (Sesame Street) puts it, “One of these things just doesn’t belong
here, one of these things just isn’t the same.”
I list
here, for my beloved reader’s edification, ten other epic film foul-ups of
similar type:
*Yoda
eating a Burger King Whopper in the original “Star Wars” movie, Episode IV.
(“Eat you I will…yes, yes…”).
*The
“Fats Domino” record seen in the background of the Biblical epic film, “Ben
Hur.”
*A
soldier playing Pokémon Go on the beach during “Dunkirk.”
*Multiple
Rubik’s Cubes seen in the movie “Titanic.”
*A Nerf
football clearly visible in “The Last Emperor.”
*The bucket
of Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) consumed by Union soldiers in
“Gettysburg.”
*Two
Hula Hoops in the movie “Lincoln.”
*A
“Captain Fantastic” pinball machine on the battlefield during the movie
“Braveheart,” chronicling fighting between Scottish and English troops in the
13th century.
*Spartacus
playing with a “slinky” in the movie “300.”
*Thomas
Jefferson using a flip-phone to call Ben Franklin in HBO’s otherwise critically
acclaimed mini-series “John Adams.”
It can
happen to the best of them, right? Sometimes these things just slip through
your hands. Now, about Jaime Lannister’s hands…
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