10 Movie Mistakes That Became Canon
4. The "Anachronistic" Period Detail - The Village
M. Night Shyamalan's wildly divisive The Village was dinged for many things upon release, and for anyone paying attention while they were watching it the first time, they might've had a few criticisms about the production and costume design.
While viewing it without any prior knowledge of its inevitable plot twist, you might be a bit mystified by the noticeably contemporary buildings built from materials only used since the 1950s, despite the film allegedly being set in a 19th century village.
Furthermore many items of clothing worn throughout by the commune's characters wouldn't have existed until around 1970, and during the first hour of the movie you'd be forgiven for thinking that Shyamalan simply got lazy where the finer details were concerned.
Yet that was all proven hilariously - if bafflingly - wrong in the third act, when we learn that the village actually exists within the present day, providing a plausible reason for the period-inaccurate buildings and clothes.