What does "Eight for Silver" mean.
The movie was called The Curse, but when I get here, I see this title. This was also a statement mentioned in the movie by the solider they were pulling the bullets from in the beginning.
shareThe film premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival under the title Eight for Silver.
shareHa, yes, that's why he's asking--what does that phrase mean in the context of the film? Why was it originally titled that, and what does it mean when the soldier says it?
share"When people traditionally think of children’s nursery rhymes, it’s “six for silver”, tell us about the update.
Sean Ellis: It was all to do with One for One for Sorrow, two for joy three for girl four for a boy. And then we went, “Five for wedding, six for birth, seven for a curse buried in the earth. Eight for silver nine for gold, 10 for a wolf, and you won't die old.” So actually, if you think about it, it’s the movie in a new nursery rhyme.
Never heard of such a nursery rhyme!
shareLate 1700s in the UK. There's a little information on it on the Wikipedia page.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_for_Sorrow_(nursery_rhyme)