I just watched the end of this film on Channel 5 and something struck me as odd. It may have been my eyes playing tricks or a grainy picture, but I am pretty sure the flag planted at the end was French not Italian! Anyone else any clues?
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The flag is definately wrong, French not Italian. Considering the importance of the flag to the story, that's got to be one of the worst blunders ever made in a movie!
shareIt was the wrong flag indeed and I was waiting for the punchline, but it never came. How could it be that nobody from the intire film crew noticed this mega blunder? It makes you wonder..
shareYes, this appears to be a major screw up. I did a bit of research, and Italy has never used a red, white and blue flag. I can't imagine that the colour processing on the film translates that badly onto home televisions; so maybe there was a patriotic Frenchman on the editing team!?! How gutted would you be if you'd climbed that mountain for your country, only to find that you'd mistakenly taken Frances flag up there!
share Zut alors-ou-la-la!...that`s definitely the French flag.If this wasn`t the central theme of the film then I`d let it go but either the director is colour blind,we`re all colour blind,all the prints we`ve seen have dodgy colouring or someone in props(head of props was Jean-Francois- Chavrier-things are suddenly becoming clearer!) played a huge joke and got away with it.Anyone think of a worse **** up in a film?
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The flag was correct, green-white-red. It really has something to do with the colours of TV and video or DVD-equipment.
When I first watched this movie, I had a VHS-tape in NTSC and I also wondered about the flag because the green stripe seemed a bit turquoise (but was never really blue like the French flag). And depending on how the light was, it became a bit more green. I also noticed that sometimes the grass and plants around looked a bit turquoise too. Then I got this movie on DVD and watched it in PAL-system and here the coulour is a bright green like the Italian flag really has. So it really is a question of the TV-system and –equipment.
Apart from that, even if the film-makers shouldn’t have noticed a wrong flag, what I wouldn’t believe, at least Vincent Spano who played Franco Distassi would have noticed it before he had put it on the top of this mountain, because he is half-Italian (as is Tony LoBianco) and I’m sure they both know exactly how the Italian flag looks and would never have used a wrong flag......