Eddie said they're honeymooning in Cuba. The movie starts off the day after Christmas 1959. That would put them in Cuba in January 1960, almost exactly a year to the day after Castro took power. I don't think so!
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US-Cuba sanctions didn't start until later in 1960, and the full embargo didn't get put in place until 1962. So I think it was entirely possible to go Cuba on a pleasure trip in January 1960. Whether that's something they would have done is a tougher call.
I wonder whether Levinson didn't just get years mixed up a bit in making the movie - either mixing up the date of the Cuban revolution, or mis-communicating the year the movie is supposed to take place.
If they showed up in Cuba exactly as Castro seized power, that would be a kind of nifty twist ... kind of commentary on the past's ignorance of the future, plans gone awry, etc.
Yeah, I'm thinking they could have run into Michael kissing Fredo . . . but only if it had been a year earlier.
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I think Levinson screwed up. He thought the revolution happened 12/31/1959. Remember when, discussing his honeymoon, Eddie says they're gonna get married on 12/31/1959 and then party all night in Cuba? We're supposed to laugh our heads off at some poor schmuck planning to party in Cuba on New Year's Eve the night of the revolution. Otherwise the dialog is pointless.
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