In the back of the van when Karim is shouting at Mason, he points at Mason with a finger and his hand is otherwise empty. Suddenly, a gun is in Karim's hand without him even reaching anywhere for it.
In the flashback to the airport with Cal and Skiles, the C130 is painted in a 21st century scheme of "Compass Gray" With stencil style low-visibility insignia. Nothing remotely like this scheme existed in US Air Force (or other US branches) service in1972. Several were used depending on which command owned the aircraft but the most-similar gray with white top used different colors, larger full-color insignia and numerous highly visible tail markings not present.
The tail code indicates this aircraft is from the 327th Tactical Airlift Squadron (as it was called between 1967 and 1992), but even in the current paint scheme, the tail markings for aircraft from that unit are very differently arranged.
The tail code indicates this aircraft is from the 327th Tactical Airlift Squadron (as it was called between 1967 and 1992), but even in the current paint scheme, the tail markings for aircraft from that unit are very differently arranged.
As it turns out Sandrine was in on the sting of Bashir, she wouldn't be held down sobbing out of his view while Stiles' crew were faking her death. However, Stiles' crew was unaware that Sandrine was working for Mossad, so she needed to maintain the ruse.
Alice returns to an apartment in which Cal has been staying that is said to be in a very unsafe area of the city. It is not realistic that a CIA operative in Beirut with responsibilities for supervising all Middle East operations would be domiciled in a very unsafe sector of any city in which his station was located.
Pictures are shown hanging on the wall of then-Vice President George H.W. Bush and President Ronald Reagan. Usually in government houses, the President's portrait hangs on the left and the Vice President's portrait hangs on the right (not vice-versa).
Mason Skiles (Jon Hamm) warns that the operation may "go sideways." The movie is set in 1982 but this phrase wasn't commonly used until the early 2000's.
Anyone familiar with colloquial Arabic would be able to pick up on the Lebanese characters' noticeable Moroccan Darija accent and dialect. Darija is seen even by native Arabic speakers as one of the more difficult Arabic dialects to understand let alone learn.
Several of the vehicles are from the wrong era, specifically a Cadillac limousine in the 1972 scenes, and a Jeep Wrangler in the 1982 scenes.
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