10 More Movie Mistakes You Can't Believe You Didn't Spot

5. The Visible Contrail - Marie Antoinette

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Shooting a period film is just a massive pain in the ass, and one of the many reasons that historical movies tend to have higher budgets than contemporary fare is the effort they must make to accurately capture the period.

And even accepting that Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette is willingly packed with anachronistic music and fashion choices, there is one scene where an out-of-time artefact was most certainly not intended.

Roughly 85 minutes into the film when Marie (Kirsten Dunst) is playing outside in a meadow with her daughter, a low-angle shot shows her looking up to the sky, where the contrail of an aircraft is very obviously visible cutting through the skyline.

This it the sort of gaffe which could be removed with relative ease on even home computers these days, and yet back in 2006 Coppola either simply didn't notice or didn't consider it disruptive enough to spend any of the movie's svelte $40 million budget correcting it.

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