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sonja-cherno

1917 by Sam Mendes || BOOTS by Rudyard Kipling

Guess who spend two weeks making a tiktok trend edit, only to end up not being able to put it on tiktok!

I don't care tho, that was a really cool thing to learn how to do

sonja-cherno

Wasn't happy with tumblr's quality downgrade, so I decided to post it on youtube as well

#1917 #tom blake #william schofield #1917 movie #1917 film #1917 (2019)#blakefield #if you squint #Youtube

sonja-cherno

We've talked about Grace's rainbow symbolism in this scene, but I haven't seen anyone pointing out the detail of Stratt having a line of countries' flags behind her on her first appearance

koolkon08

@fridjitzu @the-printing-press @ddurandals

I did SO much research for ya'll that I couldn't fit it in a reply ;_;

Flags are typically flown in a VERY specific pattern; Host country on the furthest left, followed by alphabetical order. The UN specifically does English Country Name Left-to-Right, UNLESS hosted in the US, in which case it is hung separately.

We can tell a couple of things from the Canadian flag hanging in the 4th spot from the left of the camera frame. First off, due to the alignment of the Canadian Flag, we can confirm the top of each flag is on the left. Meaning they are being hung vertically, not horizontally. The Canadian flag tells us these are country flags, not state flags for whatever region this scene is in.

From this, we know that the Red/White/Blue flag on the left side of the gap is specifically a left-red, white-middle, Blue-right tricolor flag. Technically there are no CURRENT country flags matching both this description and shade without a symbol.

However! France did lay claim to this flag from 1790-1794, and is the only country to have a flag with the correct shades. In fact, their current flag is just a reversal of that one, so I think it is same to assume it is intended to be the French flag, and was hung at an incorrect alignment by someone too lazy to confirm. Or they relied on AI, which also tried to tell me it was a French flag. F definitely is after C, so we can infer a left-to-right display.

Now, we can tell the flag on the right is top-red, white-middle, blue-bottom tricolor with a symbol within it. There are SO MANY flags with this color scheme, so I cut out all the ones with incorrect shades, the ones that weren't for major countries and the ones that had no symbol. We can also tell the symbol is wholly within the white stripe, thus removing countries such as Croatia where the symbol overlaps the other stripes. Since we know the Flag before the gap is France, we can also assume it comes after France alphabetically.

This leaves us with Paraguay. Unless it is ALSO hung upside-down, but all of those have clearly different (or no!) Symbols.

This means that gap can hold anything between France and Paraguay. In a current UN line up of 193 flags, this means that there are MANY countries that should have been in between. Like 62 of them. I choose to hope we didn't lose 62 countries, so I looked at the UN Founders Flag list, which only holds 51, and coincidentally uses the Old, reversed French Flag. Yay! That fixes the upside down issue!

Now. The bad news is. That still leaves 17 missing flags: Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Iceland, India, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Liberia, Luxemburg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway and Panama.

I took a moment here, and compared the rest of the UN Founders Flag Lineup to the wall. And I was horrified to learn Canada wasn't one of the founders. On a personal level because this is my home and I'm kinda pissed we weren't a founder. This is important because this means they were NOT using the Founders set-up. Meaning I did not need to write all those countries. It means one of two things.

EITHER:

A) We really did lose 61 countries between now and that scene, and I highly doubt they are all listed in the movie or book as being gone, so we will never know which one survived.

B) The Artists/Set designers literally didn't care enough to check what order they should be hung in. Which sucks because this took me like an hour. It means we can not reasonably ascertain which one is missing. And also bothers me on a professional level as I can't break into the industry but the guy that decided to ignore such a basic concept did? Ouch.

TL;DR:

I am 99% certain that we cannot possibly know what flag is there, because to find out would require information never provided or a pattern that doesn't exist.

sonja-cherno

So I went to look back at that moment because there are a few more flags that are not visible in the shot I used (the quality is horrible since they aren't ever in focus)

Now you can barely see it but there is at least one more flag on the left so the line starts somewhere out of frame.

I have no idea what the first flag after that is (it might be Niger? it's not supposed to be hung that way but they could've messed it up 'cause it sometimes has 6:7 proportions?) but the second one is certainly the Saudi Arabia flag (wrong-sided).

On the right side after Brazil we have Andorra/Chad/Moldova/Romania then Australia/New Zealand (wrong-sided) and finally Argentina/El Salvador/Honduras/Nicaragua.

Whoever was responsible for putting those up had no idea what they were doing, god bless. Like, no matter which side you choose to look from, something is always wrong-sided. I would assume it's the camera being mirrored (kinda makes more sense that way), but there's the fire exit sign right there!

So yeah, definitely option B.

poochosa

azula sketches✨️

cattoonxd

Child of war

aisatsaa

if only Gyatso had run away with Aang

emziess

Rocky + Movement Project Hail Mary (2026) dir. Phil Lord, Chris Miller

nuthin-gold-can-stay

whats funny to me is that all the sherlock adaptations show sherlock as a creepy braggy intelligent cryptid watched by his exasperated friend watson while the truth in acd canon is. sherlock is a whimsical braggy intelligent cryptid watched by his enthralled and deeply proud friend watson. theres a difference there and it includes the world whimsical because goddamn fuck canon sherlock is WHIMSICAL

nikoisme

scrapped painting,, thought i might as well post it

hailed-marys

how to get out of your own way

lotldraws

hey don't worry? completely unrelated giant dump of heartwarming PHM doodles ok??

once again these are all from like the same two canvas files in procreate judging from the same color background. also straight up had a dream where grace and rocky figured out how to make gnocchi out of taumoeba hence the making gnocchi over a bunsen burner