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Hungarian flag???

posted 20 years ago by Blasku
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I don't really remember seeing the movie (it's probably my memory throwing out useless things), but I saw a scene when I started scratching the wall, screaming. WHAT on earth does my country's flag do in medieval Anglia? It's shown somewhere around the scene where Lawrence is nearly beheaded I think. Is it supposed to be ironic? Hungary definitely didn't have the red-white-green flag in that time, we were busy with other things then...
No offence, but I think this movie is just a copy of all other similar films that probably took the basic idea from Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

[–] papasmirf21 19 years ago

Yea I noticed that too (since Im Hungarian also)
And what a coincidence I just finished reading that book.

[–] cus2a 19 years ago

Thanks for the tip! I love flags, but I'm not that familiar with the flag of Hungary and didn't catch it. I'll look closer next time. I'll bet it has a "Chivalic" look to it like the old double headed eagle from Prussia, huh? Hollywood knows what it's doing. Not to do it right, but to use things that put over the right effect easily and quickly. It's also a combination of intellectual laziness and a mild insult to our intelligence. "The audience would never know the difference." I'm always a little surprised that cable stations will cut out mild profanity during family hours but leave in the scene where the severed head gets mounted on a stick. GROSS.

[–] armagnacs 19 years ago

No, it is simply a red-white-green flag. As far as I remember the coat of arms was also included - that might have a medieval feeling in itself but the whole apperance has not.

[–] vsikur 19 years ago

Yes, it is the Hungarian flag with the coat of arms. I was also very surprised to see it. It's strange that it would have been left in - Hungary is not that obscure.