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Big Flaw in the Movie

posted 10 years ago by tlsnyder42-1
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There's a big plot hole in the movie. Noodles' visit to the future is supposed to be just a wish-fulfillment fantasy to assuage his guilt, but, apparently, he knows everything about 1960s pop culture, including pop music and the ubiquity of television.

I believe the writer asked Sergio Leone about the problem, but Leone just waved away his concerns.

[–] Boricanator (1369) 5 years ago

Another possibility is that the events do take place in the 1960s, but Noodles imagined a lot of the things that happened because he is still using dope.