Julie & Julia Movie Details
Julie & Julia taglines:Passion. Ambition. Butter. Do You Have What It Takes?
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| IMDB Rating: 7.3/10 out of 15,056 votes |
“Julie & Julia” 2009 by Nora Ephron – Movie Goofs
“Julie & Julia” Plot Summary
Julia Child’s story of her start in the cooking profession is intertwined with blogger Julie Powell’s 2002 challenge to cook all the recipes in Child’s first book. add synopsis
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“Julie & Julia” Goofs List
- Anachronisms: Throughout the film, Stanley Tucci’s glasses can be seen to have a modern anti-reflective coating on them, years before such coatings became available. The tell-tale green sheen on the lenses is particularly visible during the outdoor wedding party.
- Anachronisms: The postal vehicle appearing in front of the Cambridge house, a DJ5, was not used until 1965. The scene in the movie is 1961 or earlier.
- Revealing mistakes: The scene involving Paul Childs photographing a food display in their kitchen, he uses a Rolleiflex camera. While shooting he winds the crank approximately one-and-a-half turns, when loaded with film the transport only requires 2/3 of a turn and stops automatic. So actually he was using an empty camera.
- Anachronisms: When Stanley Tucci is being questioned in Washington there is a pack of Lucky Strike in a green pack. Famously “Lucky Strike green went to war” because the ink contained chromium, a strategic material. Lucky Strike green never came back and the replacement design by Raymond Lowey in white which was introduced early in the war is still in use today and was in the 50s.
- Boom mic visible: When Julia is at lunch with her co-authors and shows them a new recipe, the boom mic is visible when Julia is talking.
- Anachronisms: In the scene where Julia receives a letter about publishing her first book in 1961 (or earlier). The letter carrier bears a blue and red patch with a horse and rider facing left. These patches did not come into service until 1965. The appropriate patch should be a maroon patch with the horse and rider facing the right (backwards) when warn on the left shoulder.
- Anachronisms: The movie opens in 1949 in Paris. In several establishing shots, including the Ile de la Cite and Notre Dame Cathedral, all the buildings appear to be a light tan sandstone color. Until the cleaning projects by culture minister Andre Malreaux in the late 1960s, all the famous buildings in Paris were quite black from centuries of pollution.
- Crew or equipment visible: When Julia is teaching basic tasks with the other ladies at their cooking school, during the shot one can see the checkered platform under Julia’s feet to make her appear taller.
- Revealing mistakes: In the scene where Julie is writing in her blog about being stood up by Judith Jones, she is typing on her laptop. In the close-up when she decides to press the delete key, the key appears to be that of a full-size keyboard, not a laptop.
- Factual errors: The movie follows Julia Child & Alex Prudhomme’s book, My Life in France, in referring to Paul’s work with “General” Mountbatten, rather than Admiral. The entirety of Mountbatten’s active service life was spent in the Britain’s Royal Navy. Although as minor German (and adopted British) royalty, Mountbatten may have had concurrent honorary army ranks, he was never referred to as General. This may have even been an intentional error by Prudhomme to call attention to his great aunt’s memory or lack thereof: “Who-o-o’s to know?”
- Anachronisms: In the scene when Julia is speaking to her French teacher in the library, she is using the word “salesperson”. But this is a “gender-neutral” neologism created in the late 20th century. In 1950, an American would have used the word “saleslady” for “vendeuse”.
- Factual errors: In the opening scenes Julia and Paul pull up to their Paris apartment. Their Parisian apartment was at 81 Rue de L’Universite aka Roo de Loo. The apartment building the Childs pull up to in the film is number 10.
- Anachronisms: The opening scenes of the movie clearly state that we are in Paris in 1949. The Buick station wagon is a 1950 model (identifiable by the squared portholes in the hood – not round portholes in the fenders – and the “malocclusion” chrome grille). Even allowing that the model year began in September then, it’s highly unlikely the Childs would have had a brand-new 1950 Buick available to be shipped to France.
- Errors in geography: Julie and Eric say they are going to visit Julia Child’s kitchen on display in Cambridge at the Smithsonian. Julia’s kitchen is installed at the Smithsonian’s Museum of American History in Washington, DC.
- Anachronisms: In one scene, Julie holds Julia Child’s memoir My Life In France. However, the book was actually completed by her nephew, Alex Prud’homme after her death. In the movie, Julia is evidently still alive as evidenced near the end by the call from the reporter telling of Julia’s comment regarding Julie’s blog.
- Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Julie adds a whole bay leaf when cooking Julia Child’s classic boeuf bourguignon when the recipe calls for a crumbled bay leaf.
- Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When cooking Julia Child’s classic boeuf bourguignon Julie uses a Bordeaux or Bordeaux style wine rather than the burgundy or burgundy style wine (Pinot Noir) called for in all beef bourguignon recipes (including Child’s).
- Anachronisms: In the final scene, Julia opens a large envelope from her publisher with a copy of her first cookbook inside (published by Knopf, 1961). The envelope is of the Bubble-Wrap variety. Bubble-Wrap itself didn’t receive the US Patent (Number 3,142,599) until July 28, 1964. Envelopes of that type started appearing in the late 70’s.
- Anachronisms: The Childs moved to Paris in 1948. There is a scene, fairly early during their stay, at a reception where one can hear a famous Charles Aznavour song in the background. Aznavour was writing for and performing with others then, and only became famous as a solo singer in 1953-54.
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