Willow ,'First Date'
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Neither have I, but I wouldn't be surprised if there were some really obscure flick that Tarantino was paying homage to with that scene.
From the interviews I've read, he said it was a reply to older movies like Where Eagles Dare where you just have to suspend disbelief and go along with the fact that Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood could freely mingle with Germans without giving themselves away verbally/culturally.
But that doesn't mean you're wrong either. QT is a cagey...basterd.
By the way, I always use the German-style hand gesture to indicate "three". I wonder if I'm going to be outed as a German spy anytime soon.
Hmm, I do to. I wonder if the three middle fingers is strictly a UK thing, or if it varies in the US depending on what part of the country you're in.
I do the three middle fingers thing. I totally would have given myself away as a spy.
I'm confused, what's the three fingers thing?
megan, it's about the different ways of indicating the number three with your fingers - thumb, index and middle, or index, middle and ring.
I get that, but which way do the Germans do it?
I haven't seen IB yet, but the whitefont is hilarious. Because I have been teaching my children to show numbers the British way, and then they come back from school and Kindergarten and do them the German way. Perfect spys in the making, what the bilinguialism and all as well .
ETA: also reminds me of a very nice wartime British movie "Went the Day Well?", where a group of Germans inflitrates a perfect little English village and give themselves away by putting a line through their sevens, amongst other things.
megan - according to the movie, Germans do it thumb, index, middle. Whether that has anything to do with reality, I don't know. NOTHING in the rest of the movie has much to do with reality, so there's lots of wiggle room.
The Germans use the thumb, megan.