They may show two borders, each reflecting a national claim with the disputed land in-between.
There is colourised black-and-white footage and depthless digital panoramas of New York, the Hamptons and the ashy, crummy no-man's-land in-between; there are hyper-real street scenes through which Gatsby roars in his sports car.
This is the land in-between, up to Lincoln's Inn Fields and Bloomsbury, and it's a terrific area.
The engine cluster is also different; the original design had 4 Raptor engines in a square, with two smaller "sea-level" engines for landing operations in-between them.
The land in between was porous.
The flat, fertile land in between the lakes serves old orchards and dairy farms.
The diverted rivers try to revert to their natural courses during storms, washing away the land in between.
But let's have a moratorium on versions that occupy the theatrical no man's land in between.
Hisham Matar's latest book The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between (Viking) is published on 30 June.
