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Favourite lines/dialogue (spoilers likely)


I'm surprised such a thread doesn't exist already. Some of mine ...

I once buried two Arabs in a wall over there, facing Mecca of course
I usually start the month with a postman. I get up early and spend the morning pinching pensions
I won't touch him ... AIDS ... green monkeys ... They have a way of talking to animals

I love the recipe for the "dead baby boy" drinks and the game associated with them. Don't eat the rope!!

And, how could one forget the different ratios of ballast to body according to age (old bones are more porous, so elderly need more, as do midgets whose bones are more dense - how many midgets did Benoit kill?!? )

Never test the depth of the water with both feet

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hi,there is a bit of lost in translation with the dead baby boy, in french ben say "un petit Gregory""a little Gregory" not a dead baby boy, it is even more sinister because it make reference to a real crime which happened in France in 1984, they found the dead body of the litle gregory a kid aged 4, his hand and foot were bound, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1222422/1984-murder-Gregory-Villemin-4-haunts-France-reopened-new-DNA-evidence.html

For me, this fact add a lot of darkness to the movie and as i red the message board i didn't see anyone mentioning it so here it is.

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Thanks for the link that I've marked up here http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1222422/1984-murder-Gregory-Vi llemin-4-haunts-France-reopened-new-DNA-evidence.html

My subtitles definitely said 'dead baby boy' and not 'a little Gregory'. I'll listen for it more closely the next time I watch. The use of this line makes the film more wicked in its satire and humour. It is a very dark film because it shows how mundane is evil and how easy it is to perpetrate evil.

Why do you refuse to remember me?

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You are welcome, for me My favourite line is when the kid get away and Ben is like come on buddy it was a joke.

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