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The Legend of Zorro is a 2005 movie directed by New Zealander Martin Campbell. The movie stars Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones and is a sequel to 1998's The Mask of Zorro
, also directed by Campbell and starring Banderas and Zeta-Jones. The film was shot in New Zealand and Mexico.

Plot summary

In 1850, after fighting to help California become the 31st U.S. state, Zorro promises his wife Elena that he'll give up his secret identity and go back to living as Alejandro de la Vega. However, he has second thoughts when an old villain makes plans to unleash a threat that has been years in the making.

Goofs

The movies central premise is based on the joining of California to the United States, which occurred in 1850. The first railroad in California, the Sacramento Valley Railroad was not built until 1856. It was only 17 miles long.

A major storyline is based on an intercontinental railroad, linking California and the Confederate States. The Confederate States did not come into being until 1861. The intercontintal railroad, which was not completed until 1869, never joined California and the Confederacy as the Confederacy surrendered in 1865.

The setting is prior to the US Civil War but the train use modern couplers which were invented in 1873 and not in widespread use until 1900.

Despite taking place ten years prior to Southern secession, the Confederacy is already in existence and planning war against the North. In addition, the Confederacy is depicted as an organization within the Union instead of an attempted-independent nation.

Armand's map of the 1850 United States shows all of the continental 48 states.

At the end when Zorro and Elena are being remarried the priest says "In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit." Until recently the expression ended with "the Holy Ghost"

Ticker-Tape was invented in 1876 by Alexander Graham Bell.

In the first movie, The Mask of Zorro, Zorro's (Banderas) name was Alejandro Murrieta. De la Vega was Elena's last name and the name of the original Zorro, Diego de la Vega played by Anthony Hopkins
. It is not known why Murrieta changed his name, however, it could be due to his prior reputation as a criminal or to carry on the legacy of the de la Vega name.

A major villain in the film is an elderley P.G.T. Beauregard. Beauregard was aged 32 in 1850.

At one point, Armand refers to the country Slovenia. It was not an independent nation until 1918.

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