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But the weapon would be anachronistic in many ways, experts say.

Despite his Gen Z status, he notably lacks the “smartphone face” that’s rampant among pop artists and celebrities — and is partial to dressing in an anachronistic way, which he pulls off with gusto.

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It’s based on a novel written in the 1890s by the Austrian writer Arthur Schnitzler, and the adaptation’s transposition of time and place comes off as anachronistic and unconvincing.

Black-cab drivers have to memorize London’s labyrinth of streets and pass a test known as “the Knowledge,” a feat sometimes seen as an anachronistic barrier to recruitment in the age of the sat-nav.

But it also lends the movie an anachronistic feel.

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