Classic screwed up details in a movie for the appropriate category of nerd:
Classic screwed up details in a movie for the appropriate category of nerd: In "Mrs. Doubtfire", Sally Field's character is explaining her design plans for restoring her former friend/boyfriend Pierce Brosnan's new Mansion/B&B and talks about how she was thinking of putting a "17th century grand piano" in the music room styled lobby inspired by the French Second Empire. Even assuming what she's doing is mixing details from different periods, there's one problem. The piano, in any form, was only invented around 1700. The earliest form you might call a grand piano was probably late 1700's, but what we'd all recognize was definitely an 1800's kinda thing. So she could have meant an 18th century grand piano, but I'm betting it was supposed to be a 19th century one. Not to mention that would then be spot on for the Second Empire. #nerd #ruiningmovieswithfacts #detailsdetails