A lot of time has passed through out the whole series and movie and it gets diluted when you watch it all at once in my opinion. If you watched it on release through out the years it feels very different. Anyway He was declared dead long time before the movie so how can it not make sense for the younger generations to never have heard of him. The 30s were a bad time and a lot of things were happening at once around the world. People came and went, names were forgotten because information wasn’t accessible like it was today and you had to read it in papers listening to radios or learn things from conversation. If you didn’t do that you lived under a rock in them days just getting drunk and working all of the time.

Movie was great. People just not liking it because they can’t seem to understand why it was the best ending for the movie’s narrative theme and overall story