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'The blood stays on the blade'

posted 8 years ago by GGoulart162
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Tell me your interpretation about that line.

[–] bakedlogic 8 years ago

My interpretation... History cannot be erased. You are what you've done.

[–] mikeyg24 8 years ago

Yeah I saw it as similar to the notches on Monk's club. A big element of Christianity is spilled blood for the payment of sins.

Hey! You're not old enough to drink! Now go and die for your country!!!

[–] MaximRecoil (4601) 2 years ago

Some pseudo "profound" / "deep" BS that means nothing, and results in a rusty/ruined blade.

[–] Darren (1342) 2 years ago

Yep. That was my take on it as well. If you don't want to ruin your knife, you want to clean blood off it, or it will rust. This was something they made up for the movie in order to make it look like the gang had some kind of deep "warrior culture" or something. It just struck me as silly.