Don’t worry: Tom Hanks is coming out
You may have never heard of the Mandela Effect, but you certainly know what it is: it’s about those pieces of pop culture that you absolutely believe are called a certain way or feature certain actors but they really have subtle differences with reality. The film is often used as an example Shazam! starring Sinbad, who directly… does not exist. The one that really exists is Kazaam!, with Shaquille O’Neal in the lead role (and, frankly, I wish he didn’t exist). But there are many, many more examples that make you seriously think about the existence of an alternative universe that you went to without knowing it for a moment.
Mandela and Ryan
From the monocle of the protagonist of Monopoly (no, it does not have and has never carried) even the dog and Ricky Martin’s jam in Surprise Surprise, there are many who are absolutely sure that they have seen things that have never existed. AND one of these most curious Mandela effects occurs in the film Saving Private Ryanwhere, if you ask many people, several will be sure that it co-starred Ben Affleck.
It is possible, in fact, that have you read the previous sentence and have thought “Well yes, right? Ben Affleck comes out”. But no, but it is normal that you fall: on the one hand comes Matt Damon, who at that time was almost indivisible from his best friend. On the other hand, one of the protagonists is Ed Burns, who has an Affleck vibe. And on the other hand, finally, three years later he appeared in Pearl Harbor. In the end, as the years go by, it is normal for there to be those who mix everything up and want to defend in any way that Spielberg had the protagonist and director of air.
What we would have liked to see in this universe would be the version that Michael Bay planned to make of the original material and that he ended up leaving in the hands of Steven Spielberg because he had no idea how to make a movie out of it. Imagine Saving Private Ryan with the touch of the Bay of the 90s. Unparalleled masterpiece or disaster. There aren’t many other options in between.
