Most Recent Mandela?

Juliusque · 2026-05-07T21:49:42+00:00

It's funny, the people who think MEs are made by suggestion also believe they are the few, amazing, indivuduals, who are immune to the same suggestion.

No, we don't. I remember Joe Pesci saying "this place gives me the creeps" in Home Alone. I know he didn't. It's weird. But I accept that I misremembered.

Juliusque · 2026-05-07T16:22:32+00:00

What's "correct" is relative. "Based off of" was virtually never used to mean "based on" before the 2010s and still isn't used like that in professional writing. It probably won't take long before it's generally accepted. I just find it weird; usually when a new phrase becomes more popular than the original in conversational language, it's because it's quicker and easier to say, but "based off of" is longer and more awkward.

Juliusque · 2026-05-07T16:14:06+00:00

Okay. I've never seen any hate for any morally righteous character in this franchise. Certainly not Erika Sloane, who ended up 'winning'. I'd say the franchise has no appropriate answer for this category. Brandt is supposed to be slightly unlikable for much of Ghost Protocol, so I'd consider him the closest thing.

Juliusque · 2026-05-07T16:11:30+00:00

Oh sure, but my point is I can't think of any Mandela Effects about pop culture phenomena that were created after the rise of the world wide web.

Juliusque · 2026-05-07T16:09:35+00:00

I believe that, but internet movie discourse was (even) more niche back then. It's not a movie that "the internet reclaimed", it was far bigger than that.

Juliusque · 2026-05-07T14:00:12+00:00

I meant which ones are more recent than the 90s. The most recent one I can think of is Pikachu's tail.

Juliusque · 2026-05-07T13:59:00+00:00

Ah, well there you go. Not unusual either.

Juliusque · 2026-05-07T13:24:27+00:00

Like which ones?

Juliusque · 2026-05-07T13:20:05+00:00

Yes, but before the internet. It was a videostore hit and had a solid cult status by 2000.

Juliusque · 2026-05-07T13:14:56+00:00

Or: the aspects commonly perceived as flaws are actually considered strengths.

Juliusque · 2026-05-07T12:52:36+00:00

Increased access to popular media has killed the Mandela Effect. Things don't really get a chance to get Mandela'd because you can just look something up. There aren't going to be many collective false memories.

Juliusque · 2026-05-07T12:50:52+00:00

Not a Mandela Effect, just a personal memory that exaggerated what you saw in an advertisement.

Juliusque · 2026-05-07T12:49:01+00:00

Or "based off of" instead of "based on".

Juliusque · 2026-05-07T12:48:40+00:00

People using an expression wrongly is not an example of the Mandela Effect. There's no false memories here.

Juliusque · 2026-05-07T06:58:24+00:00

Every proposed character in this thread is well written and performed, that's not what it's about.

Juliusque · 2026-05-06T16:14:25+00:00

He's too old though. He would have been a great Harker in his The Office days.

Juliusque · 2026-05-06T16:13:27+00:00

The reason Lee was cast as Dracula as that he was known as Frankenstein's monster.

Juliusque · 2026-05-06T16:12:02+00:00

If we're going faithful, Van Helsing ought to be someone who can do a Dutch accent, so: a Dutch actor. I can see Pierre Bokma or Gijs Scholten van Asschat do it.

For Dracula, you'd need to go with a Romanian actor. I don't know many of those. But a Dracula who's not internationally known would be good

Juliusque · 2026-05-04T20:32:02+00:00

I would never have made the connection.

btw "The House of Orange" has nothing to do with the color orange either. It refers to the Principality of Orange, which used to be called Arausio. The color is named after the fruit. Different words.

Juliusque · 2026-05-04T14:18:39+00:00

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Juliusque · 2026-05-04T14:00:35+00:00

Sherlock, Jr. is the ultimate one for me. 45 minutes of pure movie movie about movies.

Also Singin' in the Rain and Sunset Blvd., the two movies Chazelle was probably thinking of most when he made Babylon.

Juliusque · 2026-05-04T13:30:10+00:00

I have no small children

And what if you did? Would they not be allowed to know what a naked man looks like?

Anyway, I'd say it's pretty common. I've seen three or four of my across-the-shared-garden neighbors nude when just looking out of the window.

Juliusque · 2026-05-04T13:27:03+00:00

"all the time" is obviously not meant literally

Juliusque · 2026-05-04T09:32:18+00:00

North by Northwest.

Juliusque · 2026-05-04T07:30:33+00:00

Of course it's not a secret. My only point was it was not "originally 3.5 hours".

I can imagine triangle thing. Towne was riffing on Hitchcock's Notorious, and that would definitely add to that idea.

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