professorsparklepants:

I was talking to my sister about it last night in the car and I’ve concluded that the best movie adaptation of Hamilton would be randomly anachronistic for seemingly no reason. Like, the characters all dress like it’s the late 19th century but the props and setting change wildly.

• It’s Quiet Uptown takes place in The Grange surrounded by historical estates and brownstones, but the entirety of The Schyler Sisters takes place in like, modern Times Square
• The start of the Aaron Burr, Sir sequence starts in a dark period appropriate tavern and then Laurens kicks the door open carrying an actual six pack of Samuel Adams
• Both the one v one Hamilton & Washington scenes are set in the oval office (despite the White House not actually existing yet) but the cabinet battles are set in… whatever building they were using to house the government in Philadelphia and NYC at that point
• Hamilton’s line about “We have resorted to eating our horses” is angrily shouted into a corded desk phone that he slams to hang up
• Phillip Hamilton interrupts an actual play in a period theatre but the ushers that show him out at the end all have flashlights
• Farmer Refuted takes place in Central Park and the accompaniment is from street musicians, including the harpsichord
• The hard cut to King George’s declaration has him with in the set they use for the Queen’s Christmas Speech, except instead of a photograph on the desk there’s a big portrait of Queen Victoria behind him
• Cabinet battles have a stenographer using a type writer

Basically, anything that could be quickly googled to provide a date is allowed to be anachronistic, and everything else has to be period accurate. Add your own!