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Rotary Dial Telephones-an intentional anachronism??

posted 9 years ago by nagmashdriver
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I just saw this movie for the third or fourth time, I can't keep track. Every time I notice something new and this time it was the preponderance of rotary dial telephones.

Was Mamet doing this just for a goof or was it something deeper? Does it imply that Joe likes old-school technology mixed with his computers?

Compared to most of the rest of the posts on this film, I know this is trivial but what the hell, I thought I'd add some fuel to the fire!

[–] maxi13 8 years ago

i havent realized that and dont know how the telephones look like,
if thez were really old...
but 1997 rotary telephones still existed and were still used.
in the office of my dad there was for sure one at that time

[–] MoviemanCin 8 years ago

It was 1997, dude. By my high school math that's 19 years ago.

Boom.

Schrodinger's cat walks into a bar, and / or doesn't.