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Post by markpatrus on Jan 3, 2012 10:09:54 GMT -5
I've been trying to keep up with 'Hell on Wheels' also and have been enjoying it. But twice I've heard them use the word 'gunslinger'. Like 'gunfighter', that word was invented by Hollywood back in the 'fifties'. One of the few mistakes you will find in the movie 'Shane'.
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Post by TRK on Jan 3, 2012 13:30:35 GMT -5
I've noticed a number of anachronisms in the language on "Hell on Wheels." (e.g., Was the term "pissed off" really current in the mid-1960s? I seriously doubt it.) I read somewhere that "Deadwood" the series had the same rap. The dialogue and some of the mannerisms in "Hell on Wheels" doesn't feel all that period-authentic. But I like the show.
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Post by Allen Wiener on Jan 3, 2012 17:13:26 GMT -5
Me too, Tom. I also noticed some similar anachronisms in "Mad Men"; contemporary phrases that were not in use in the 50s/60s. And, I find it totally non-credible that any of those guys would have had a black girlfriend, even in Montclair, NJ. in 1960. Just didn't happen, believe me.
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