More tea, anyone? Ehh, how?


Connery's character asks, "More tea, anyone?" - then there's a dramatic silence, and he pours tea for himself.

But no one has any tea cups in front of them! Even many of the glasses seem to disappear when people rise up.

When you look at the scene where people rise up, that's shot from a higher angle so you can clearly see everything that's on the table, you can see there are NO TEA CUPS on the table.

So when Connery's character asks whether anyone wants more - and remember, he does use the word "MORE", implying they (or even everyone) has already HAD some tea, or is drinking tea, and might want MORE of it - tea, WHERE is he supposed to pour it in?

Regular glasses?

I mean, these are people that smoke in a submarine for some reason, and no one seems to mind, so maybe they're not all that 'etiquette' about tea cups, either, but there's a reason why tea is drank from cups and not glasses, and it's hard to believe disciplined people like this crew would be so sloppy as to not know that.

When you look at Connery's hand lifting up the teapot, READY TO POUR, you have to then wonder, when you look at the table and the glasses, _WHERE_ is he supposed to pour it?

WHERE?

How can you drink tea from glasses?

I guess we were LUCKY that no one wanted more tea, so we don't have to witness the horrible disaster that would have happened, or the confusion that would've ensued, trying to get tea poured into NON-EXISTENT TEA CUPS.

And people call this a good movie about subs.

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I'll have to rewatch to see what you're talking about, but the party chairman back in Moscow had his tea in a glass.

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Nomination for -

Top ten hilarious movie rants of the year.

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I always thought it reflected that bit in The Rocky Horror Picture Show when, coincidentally, Tim Curry says "That's a rather tender subject. Another slice anyone?"
I think it was Ramius making subtle reference to the death of .. Putin...(coincidence) by slipping on tea. I don't think he meant it as a threat to his officers, but more of an acknowledgement that this is what needs to be done, to be free.

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What about the typical Russian tradition of pouring hot tea straight from the kettle into their throats Bruce Campbell style?
Is that what he meant, hence nobody says yes?
Would that answer you rant?

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What an uncultured rant. In the Middle East they drink tea mostly from glasses. Ever thought about a "tea glass" Google search?

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Some trivial thing about tea cups doesn't have any bearing on whether this is a good movie or not.

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Its not mandatory when asking someone if they want tea that they have a cup in front of them.
There *are* other solutions to furnishing someone with a cup of tea than "pour it into a cup they have in front of them"

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