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Did he just say 'pop a cherry'?

posted 11 years ago by lithotomy
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The (fake?) Italian at the beginning of the movie, it sounds like he sneaks in "pop a cherry" in there. It's very funny. Could this have been a deliberate thing? I've watched many a Hitchcock film, and not one film lacks secret euphemisms and hidden entendres, but this one seems supremely secretive, maybe not even Hitch knew. Here's the dialogue:

http://youtu.be/wkEKw4icXAI?t=2m46s

Opinions?

[–] CoreyRuehling 10 years ago

My response is over a year late, but I'm watching it now and I see how you could hear that, but I don't know Italian, so I'm not sure.

I'm George McFly, I'm your density.

[–] JacintoCupboard 10 years ago

The link has been removed, but I don't doubt what you say. The actors (whether scripted or not) slip in all sorts of sly stuff into the foreign dialogue. When the maid is speaking to the hotel manager the Italian word for prostitute is spoken with much grinning and winking.