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* John Madden's ''[[Shakespeare in Love]]'', which sports 16th century theatre production riddled with movie-producing Hollywood stereotypes.
* Stephan Elliott's adaptation of ''Easy Virtue'' is set in the 1930s and includes songs such as "Sex Bomb" and "When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going".
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* In ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'', the Singing Sword sings "Witchcraft," which was written in 1953. The movie takes place in 1947. Also, Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote appear in the film despite debuting in 1949.
** In regards to cartoon characters that debuted after 1947 appearing in the film, the filmmakers [[Hand Wave]] it as them "not having made it in films yet".
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* [[Woody Allen]], who has stated his appreciation of Hope, played some period roles the same way, as in ''Love And Death'', and the segment of ''Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex'', where his medieval court jester is trying to seduce the queen - he quips "I must hurry because soon it will be the Renaissance, and before you know it we'll all be painting!"
* ''[[Your Highness]]'', a fantasy comedy set in medieval times and starring [[Natalie Portman]], [[James Franco]], [[Zooey Deschanel]], [[Danny McBride]], and Justin Theroux, aims for just this. The f-bomb gets dropped several times throughout the red-band trailer, including a use of the word "buttf**k". Natalie Portman also wears a modern-looking getup of a bikini top and thong when she bathes in the river. McBride's character, Thadeous, tells his brother, "handle your shit Fabious, please."
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** This is more of an example of [[Schizo-Tech]] or [[Mad Science]]. The Venom Gun is a [[Gatling Good]] weapon that would have to be mounted on a vehicle to be used today, and the [[Shock and Awe|Tesla Gun]] is just plain impossible. Most of the [[Stupid Jetpack Hitler|Nazi science]] in the game is as fantastic as the zombies and undead knights.
* ''[[Shadow Hearts]]: From The New World'' causes problems with its attempt to jump on the "What really happened in Roswell" bandwagon... as the game is set in 1929, 18 years before the Roswell incident. Not that this is anything ''new'' for ''[[Shadow Hearts]]'', or that the series has ever tried for historical accuracy in the first place. Let us put it this way: one of the people in the crashed vehicle is a [[Magical Girl]] vampire.
** The historical inaccuracies start in the first game, with [[Mata Hari]]'s bikini and cell phone. Not to mention my history textbooks have all failed to mention Japan had combat robots during WWI.
** ''[[Shadow Hearts]]'' IS this trope. We've got the heroes zipping around in a giant nuclear-powered flying ship which can circle the globe in no time flat. We've got Anastasia (yes, [[Anastasia|THAT Anastasia]]) running around taking Polaroids. We've got Johnny wielding a cellphone (whereas Mata Hari's was a clunky 80's model, his is a modern fliptop phone with viewscreen). We've got people going into outer space. We've got supercomputers popping up everywhere. We've got genetically enhanced apes with human intelligence and laser guns. All before 1930. [[MST3K Mantra|Not that any of this is a problem.]]
* The ''[[Monkey Island]]'' series has this in spades, cheerfully throwing vending machines, electric devices and Elvis pins into the 17th century [[Welcome to The Caribbean Luv|Caribbean]]. Of course, given the tone of the series, this is often cheerfully [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]], as when Guybrush complains about the shoddy, 17th century electrical wiring.
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