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Memorable Movie Quotes
Robert: We are supposed to be righteous. That's a beautiful thing. And we're losing it. If I lose that, that's everything. That's my soul.
Ephraim: We deposit money from a fund that doesn't exist into a box we don't know about in a bank we've never set foot in.
Trivia
A crew truck imported from Germany and laden with heavy equipment, mysteriously caught fire during shooting in Malta, sparking fears of a possible terrorist attack. Local police attributed the fire to generators overheating due to the heat of the Maltese summer.
Guri Weinburg plays his own father. He is the son of Moshe Weinberg, the Israeli wrestling referrer and former champion who died in the massacre when Guri was just 1 month old.
Tony Kushner first declined to co-write the screenplay; he felt it was too controversial and too complicated to be his first screenplay for a feature film.
During the scene where Avner's team joins up with the Israeli commandos in Beirut, one of the commandos introduces himself as Ehud Barak. Barak was a member of the most elite commando force of the Israeli army, sayeret matkal, before becoming a politician and eventually Israel's Prime Minister.
When Geoffrey Rush and Eric Bana are walking on the sea-front, they pass an old man with a hat twice. That man is the Maltese actor Joe Quattromani.
To create the blue pastel effect in the Beirut scenes, special Fuji film stocks were used exclusively. The notable challenge for that was that it has to be processed in a Fuji lab (in this case in France) since most Technicolor labs use Kodak calibrations and a reprint is required if there was a case of a print printed to the wrong specifications.
Goofs
When dialing the phone number of the bomb-trapped phone for the second time, Carl begins with a different digit than he did the first time he called.
Duing the attempt to debrief the team leader, they are in what appears to be an underground room. Along the far wall (behind the reel-to-reel tape recorder) there is a water cooler which has a polycarbonate bottle in it. They used glass bottles then.
When Avner meets Andreas and his friend Tony in a Rome café, there is a huge statue of Queen Victoria, in her extremely distinctive pose, in the middle of the square, with the British coat of arms on the pedestal, betraying the location as Malta.
When Avner is leaving his apartment in New York, a yellow "rubber bumper" MGB is present in the line of cars on the side of the street. The federally mandated rubber energy absorption bumpers were not installed on MGBs until late summer of 1974 as a 1974/5 model. The age of Avner's daughter would seem to suggest this scene takes place sometime before then.
When Avner and Ephraim are walking along the sea front in Israel - there are modern Maltese phone boxes and buses in the background.
When Avner and Ephraim are walking along the beach in what is supposed to be Tel Aviv, the sea is to the left and the sun is casting shadows towards the camera, revealing that they are walking towards north, so the scene must have been shot on the east coast of Malta and not in Tel Aviv (which is on the west coast of Israel).
Avner's Beretta M9/92F did not come out until 1976.
When Avner is on the plane to Geneva he removes his wedding ring from his left hand and puts it in his pocket. Israelis wear wedding rings on the right hand.
When Avner finds Carl dead and naked in the bed and moves his head, you can see Carl's eyes moving about four times.
When Jeanette the Dutch Assassin is killed at her house and she is shown mostly naked in her chair, you can still see her breathing by the reflection on her chest.
Golda Meir tells Avner "mazel tov" on the baby that is not yet born. It is commonly known that saying "mazel tov" on an unborn baby is bad luck.
When Avner and Ephraim are walking along the beach in the middle of the film, a jet-ski can be seen in the sea in the background. Jet-skis were invented in 1976.
When Avner and his crew are in Rome, there is a trash can of a style that was introduced in Rome in around 2000.
Though they took the time to digitally enter in the World Trade Center in the final shot of the movie, they did not edit out the Citigroup Center and the Bloomberg building (two obvious landmarks that were built after the time setting of the film).
When Avner and one of his team members find their mate stabbed to death on the bench near the river, on the bridge above a modern-day truck passes by with a spoiler and cooling-unit on the roof.
When walking on the waterfront in Tel Aviv, there is a rusty beat-up 72-79 VW Bus on the street. This is supposed to be in late 1972. A brand new first year model would not be that beat up and rusty after just a few months.
The reel-to-reel tape recorder used in the debriefing of the leader is an Revox B77. This recorder came on the market in 1978.
When Avner is on the airplane to Geneva, the flight number announced starts off with an SA airline code, which is the code for South African Airways' flights. South African Airways has never flown to Geneva.
When Avner checks his TV he is holding a MagLite in his mouth. The first MagLite was introduced in 1979 though. The one he is using seems to be the AA-Type. This one was introduced in 1984.
At the time of the kidnapping of the Israeli's athletes, weightlifter Yossef Romano was injured and he was walking with crutches. In the movie, he is featured as a well-fit man who also attempts a rescue which eventually results in his death.
The first victim, after being shot, clearly falls face first onto his grocery bag. In the next scene involving this victim, he is lying face up.
Box Office Info USA
Budget: $75,000,000
Opening Weekend: $6,040,860
Gross: $47,379,090
Filming Dats: June 29, 2005 to September 29, 2005
Filming Locations
Bir-Hakeim Bridge, Paris, France
Budapest, Hungary
Bugibba, Malta
Cospicua, Malta
Fort Greene, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Malta International Airport, Luqa, Malta
Marriott Budapest Hotel, Budapest, Hungary
Marsaxlokk, Malta
New York City, New York, USA
Paris, France
Puskás Ferenc Stadium, Budapest, Hungary
Rabat, Malta
Rue Mouffetard, Paris 5, Paris, France
Sliema, Malta
Valletta, Malta