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She definitely had braces when I watched the film in the early 80's. I wouldn't have noticed or remembered if I had watched it again, before I found out about the disappearing braces, a few weeks ago however. I would have watched as normal, not thinking anything was different, as I'm not expecting anything different. Same as any other film that has this Mandela Effect attached to it.
shareI remember seeing this movie on TV. We had the First Choice super station. I can remember her then having braces. When I watched the movie clip on youtube I found it odd that she had no braces.
Then I heard about this mandela effect. Here is what I think the situation is.
Ether the braces were edited out, or there were two versions of this scene filmed. Where she had braces, and didn't.
So early copies that came to TV had the braces scene.
Superman 2 had a bunch of scenes added in even some alternate scenes for TV back in the 80's. This was a common practice back then. However none of those scenes were ever used again for any vhs, or dvd release.
I'm thinking this must be the same case.
But it's weird that there are no records, anywhere, to prove she had braces.
I saw the film in a theatre when it came out and- when she smiled, showing her BRACES- the whole audience laughed, because they got the joke that Jaws would fall for a girl with metal teeth too.
In no way is this a false memory.
I know I went to the theater to see this, and am MOSTLY sure she had braces exactly for the point you mentioned: their connection and the comedy of that.
My BluRay has no braces.
Nobody wants to admit this publicly, but if there really is some alternate reality junk going on, the script would have been made POST some butterfly effect where braces were never written in, thus, not seen, and no alternate edit exists WITH braces.
STILL, I am 99.999% sure I saw it with BRACES, and it was a fun connection for those two.
And if reality time lines are being altered, and not just a occam's razor mass remember it wrong crap, we'll have no way to ever prove it anyway.
I saw this at the theater in 1979 and she had braces. I have a 1992 VHS of Moonraker and no braces. Mandela Effect.
shareThis was my experience as well.
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I don't remember Dolly having braces at all, only weird geeky glasses. Clearly the Mandela sufferers are transposing Jaws' grille onto Dolly.
I think the expectation that she should have them is influencing their memories. It's the obvious joke.
No footage exists of her with the braces, there's no old theatrical print or anything, and the actress herself has said no, she didn't wear them. Mandela effect confirmed.
I think the expectation that she should have them is influencing their memories.
Mandela effect confirmed.
The question nobody is asking is if she originally had braces and they have been edited out...why?
I don't understand why someone would wipe their existence out so completely from all subsequent copies unless there was a reason.
As far as I know they were not considered controversial, offensive or anything like that.
So for those who are convinced she originally had them, please tell me why you think they were since removed.
This is utterly bizarre. I would have sworn she wore braces. I didn't even know there was any dispute about it.
shareI have a freakish memory.
I saw the film opening weekend and she had braces and they animated a metallic gleam when she smiled.
The audience burst out laughing.
As others mentioned, that was a huge joke because Jaws was instantly cured by the love of finding a girl like him.
If you do an internet search, there's a German commercial that features the same scene with the braces.
What they did was put together and edit that left out that scene.
I saw Albert Brookes in Broadcast News when that came out. There was a hilarious scene where his dream to anchor the news finally came true. While he was on TV he started sweating insanely and that was done with hoses in his clothes. I thought it was hilarious as did the audience.
When the movie came out on VHS I thought my parents would find it funny and would love that scene. However, if was not on the VHS version and in that he only had mild realistic sweats.
Something like that was done with the Bond movie.
I've long known about the Mandela Effect, but I think this is the first time I've encountered the possibility personally. I had no idea that anyone had even called the existence of Dolly's braces into question. My memory of Dolly having braces is as solid as my memory of her having pigtails.
shareIt's not the "Mandela Effect" if just the fact that media is see by people as being fact, when it's not.
If someone changes something in a movie, etc then it's see as being "impossible" to people who aren't smart. That's because they think everything is set in stone, but it's not.
One ridiculous issue is people saying Fruit of the Loom clothing didn't have a "cornucopia" with fruit coming out of it as a logo. It did and everyone who was alive knows it. Meanwhile the company changed their logo, so people started acting like the past never happened.
On the internet, it's said the company denies ever having a cornucopia. However, since people are dumb they take what they read as being fact.
Meanwhile, there are many pictures of the logo on clothes, a musician named his album after it, and so on. However, people are still going with the "Mandela Effect" instead of realizing that it's just people not knowing what they are talking about on the internet.
There are also lots of lines from movies that people misremembered, misheard, and all of that is part of the Mandela Effect, which is just nonsense.
It's part of a totally ridiculous idea that the CERN science project split our universe off into some parallel one.
that was literally the only thing i remember from the movie. "that james bond flick where a villain with iron teeth and a girl with braces fall in love". i remember watching it on tv as a kid with my dad and he specifically pointed out the great humor of that scene when she reveals her braces.
shareEye witness testimony is known to be one of the least reliable forms of evidence available. Add to that the fact that in the modern version her teeth still have something of an odd sheen to them, combined with the poor resolution of the 1980s televisions and VCRs and voila.
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