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Factual error: The climax of the first show by Tom Ford happens with the bold presentation of a Gucci g-string. Maurizio is alive and well here, but the event happened at the presentation of the Spring collection in 1997, months after his death.

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Factual error: In the scene after the "stealing" argument with Paola, Patrizia asks her indifferent husband "Do you like my hair?" He's reading a page from "Il Foglio." First, it can't be the actual newspaper because it literally means "The Sheet" and its format is exactly that, a single page and he's reading a large bundle of pages, but more importantly, "Il Foglio" was founded in 1996, after Gucci's death. (01:43:55)

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Continuity mistake: Paola tells Patrizia that she made strudel. Her cigarette hand is down, but in the next shot the arm is on top of the bench's back. (01:42:05)

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Factual error: Maurizio Gucci is killed practically in front of a recognizable landmark (Fontana delle Rane, "Frog Fountain") in Rome, but in reality he was killed in Milan. The registration plates of the cars in the scene are also "MI", which would be a pretty extraordinary coincidence in Rome.

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Continuity mistake: In the Christmas gifts scene, Lady Gaga picks the gift card with her left hand, it's in her right hand in the next shot, left hand again at the cut. (01:41:20)

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Factual error: When Paolo insults Maurizio and Patrizia after the disaster at his fashion show, in the background there's a street sign (a red and blue circle with a cross) which was introduced only in 1992. The scene is set in 1986. (01:25:50)

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Factual error: When Patrizia tells Maurizio that she talked to Paolo, the coffee table showcases a variety of books completely inappropriate for the 1983 timeframe (for instance there's "All Prints of Kusama Yayoi" with her pumpkin print from 2005 on the cover and "The Lives of Others" by Simon Watson, which came out in 2020). (01:16:45)

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Revealing mistake: Maurizio tosses on the table the newspaper with the article about the new "P.G." brand launched by his cousin Paolo. The article itself is a copy/paste of the same paragraphs repeating a bit of history of the Gucci family and brand. (01:11:05)

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Factual error: When Maurizio is discussing for the first time Paolo's burgeoning business, on the table you can see San Pellegrino bottled water with the modern format and packaging instead of the appropriate bottle shape and label for 1983 that appears in other scenes. (01:11:00)

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Continuity mistake: Backstage of the Versace show. The young designer asks Maurizio what's his name as he sips some champagne. He holds the flute glass in a different way between shots. (01:09:20)

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Factual error: Backstage at Versace's in 1983, in the scene with the enigmatic "Walter" the song from Eric B. And Rakim, "Paid In Full" plays diegetically. The song was a 1987 release. (01:09:05)

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Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the scene when Patrizia finds her maid's counterfeit Gucci, she puts her shopping bags on the kitchen counter. They are all roughly parallel, but when she questions Ira, the Burberry shopping bag is perpendicular to the others. (01:05:20)

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Continuity mistake: When Maurizio discusses Rodolfo's inheritance and the taxes to pay, look at the objects in front of Patrizia; they go from the side of the book, to the top of it. (01:01:45)

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Factual error: When Patrizia gives her reluctant father-in-law the locket the birthdate of the baby is not only historically inaccurate (real life Alessandra Gucci was born in 1977, in the movie they hadn't even met by that time) but does not fit the altered timeline of the movie itself, since it says January 20th 1980. It was established that they met in 1978 and married 2 years after that, so a baby in early 1980 is way too soon considering the pregnancy happens way after the wedding in the movie too. (00:58:40)

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Continuity mistake: Patrizia is trying on some shoes inside the store in Via Condotti after Sophia Loren left. Al Pacino checks her out from behind, and you can see that there's nothing directly in front of the stool, but in close-up there's a pair of red heels. (00:42:00)

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Continuity mistake: When Patrizia calls the fortune-teller, the ice cream cups change position on the table between shots (when she says ""Will I get what I want?"). (00:40:50)

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Stupidity: Patrizia Reggiani is no rocket scientist in this movie, but it's quite bizarre that calling the fortune-teller she sees on TV, with her name written in giant letters in two different spots on screen, she asks her "What's your name?" It makes sense for the international audience who may not recognize the word "Pina" as a name, but an Italian wouldn't have any doubt. (00:41:05)

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Other mistake: When Patrizia watches Pina Auriemma's commercial, the word "verità" ('truth') is written twice wrong (no accent), and most importantly, the phone number is a 800 number, which was not a valid number in Italy back then, being a modern (post-1999) prefix for toll-free services. In the 80s, TV fortune reading services as the one the movie wants to portray would have a normal area code. (00:40:00)

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Continuity mistake: Paolo is lamenting his father's lack of trust in his 'brilliant ideas'. There's a shot on a befuddled Lady Gaga staring in space while Paolo in his farcical accent says "because-ah." Jared Leto's arm is in frame, and it's immoble. The shot was edited in from a different take of a different part of the scene, because at that point Paolo is supposed to be gesticulating like a buffoon. (00:36:50)

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Other mistake: When Al Pacino reads the magazine (Grazia) with the news of Maurizio's wedding, the article is probably a reproduction (with the actors' picture in place of the actual Maurizio and Patrizia) of a news story about the actual wedding, so the details conflict entirely with the fabricated story. You can easily read (in Italian of course) that they met in 1971 (1978 in this movie), there are over 500 guests to the wedding (much more of a private affair here) and Maurizio had to ask some of his friends to introduce Patrizia to him and asked her out, which is the opposite of what happens here. (00:28:40)

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