I'm just intrigued that all these things were considered German, when it seems to be more of a Continental/Anglo-Saxon divide.
Well, technically, the comment that was made on
the fingers was that a German would never do the "index, middle, ring" gesture, not that the other was German per se. And it was specifically a region-neutral German accent that started the whole thing off.
ION, Top 10 forgotten and underrated Sci-fi movies
Cool that
eXistenZ
and
Gattaca
are in there. But is
Brazil
underrated?
Nearly every film on that list has a devoted cult following that I feel disqualifies it from being "forgotten."
to catch up, my middle finger cooperates quite well, I just can't get the little finger to do anything without the ring finger getting involved, either up or down. They're so co-dependent.
There seems to be more of a sense of isolation/desolation in Spaghetti Westerns, ie, the long establishing shot of an empty landscape and one guy on a horse. A lot of SF has the same feeling.
My ex-husband would screw the three finger hypothesis all to hell; he used the little, ring and middle finger to indicate three. I've been known to do that myself, occasionally.
That's what I do, too--see previous co-dependent finger issues.
Of course, now we're revealed as alien spies, so we'll have to kill you.
I have seen 3 fingers counted from either side of the hand, or the middle. I go back and forth between thumb and middle 3, but usually do the "German" way (because the middle 3 mean "W"
t /ASL
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Wow, The Hurt Locker is already playing at the $2 theatre near me! I might have to go see it again for that price.