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Franz Jäger?

posted 16 years ago by jmalmsten
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Ok, probably one of the most unrelated questions that struck me when watching this (on pirated download, after finally giving up all hope for a legal solution)...

mr Bad goes into the office of his employer, they have a duel of words and then one of blades and gun. After making sure he's well enough past away, mr Bad walks up to a wall. Pulls it apart to reveal a safe, Made by no other than one "Franz Jäger" in "Moskva 1925".

Now, to understand my question I guess you must somewhat be scandinavian and grown up with the films detailing both Jönssonligan and it's predecessor Olsenbandet. And the question is simply. Is there a connection between them and this Korean Western? Since I have always thought that Franz Jäger was a fictional maker of Safe-keeping devices, made up by the scandinavian filmmakers (since I guess no real safe-maker would want to be associated to easily openable safes).

A quick google-search on Franz Jäger gives me the expected links towards the Jönsson-ligan films and to some designer in berlin called Franz Jäger Berlin. But nowhere a safe.

Is it a fluke (now wouldn't that be random)? Is it a weird nod from the makers of Good Bad Weird that someone in there is a fan of scandinavian crime-comedies(a bit more believable)? Or was Franz a real safe-maker during that time that I haven't heard about (probably the case)?

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[–] HamatoYoshi 16 years ago

http://www.diplomatsafe.dk/franz_jaeger.asp

[–] jmalmsten 16 years ago

If my knowledge in danish isn't betraying me, it says that the notion of the "franz jäger safe" was cooked up for the olsenband-films as a reference to a german photographer in a joint german-scandinavian film?...

So question still remains for me... does this mean that Ji-woon Kim or someone in the art department is a fan of Olsenbandet or Jönssonligan?

[–] forever_blue138 16 years ago

I just watched the movie and noticed the same thing so I came here to see if anyone knows the answer... This is very bizarre, indeed. I got the same information as you did from the link posted here above. I´d love the hear the reason behind this "cameo".