10 Famous Movie Moments Made Possible By Totally Ignoring History

6. The Iconic Travel Map Calls Siam "Thailand" Three Years Before Its Name Was Changed - Raiders Of The Lost Ark

To fully embrace the spirit of the B-movies of their youth, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas came up with the cool idea of showing Indiana Jones' journeys around the world on an old map, superimposed with images of planes and him getting drunk on the plane and stuff (maybe). When Indy changes countries, we're treated to a little musical interlude, whilst a red line shows us our favourite fictional archaeologist going from destination A to destination B. Check out the first of these map travel sequences, though, and you'll notice that the map reads "Thailand" in the space where where Thailand is. The problem? Well, in the year that Raiders is set - 1936, to be precise - Thailand was still called and know as "Siam." It's name wasn't changed until 1939.... which means that Indiana Jones had presumably been on some crazy time-travelling adventure at this point - one that has yet been turned into a lame movie by George Lucas, thank God. "Indiana Jones and the Anachronistic Map," anyone?