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Pepi was HOT!!!! 'By chance' all those Americans hang around?

posted 15 years ago by TheClevelandShow
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Just up my alley as a 1940's "twink". I'd soooo do him! Less Jimmy more, William. :-D

Why do so many Hungarians speak English, but more noticeable: Why are there soooo many Americans within a square block of a Budapest street? Was it like an American version of "Little Italy" in that area?

Why did Mr. Matuschek speak in English to his wife (perhaps she, too, was American; though never seen)?

It's like in 'The Sound Of Music' where they're in friggin' AUSTRIA, yet Captain Von Trapp, his kids and his sister spoke w/ proper British accents. I mean, C'mon! I can understand Maria being a British nun, but the VT fam would have spoken the natural Austrian language to the lowly nanny, not the OTHER way around.

Same thing w/ SATC.

[–] MichaelMartinDeSapio 15 years ago

They speak English because it's an English-language movie. What are they going to do, have them speak Hungarian and have English subtitles?

There's no "Austrian language". It's called German.

[–] Evil_Bob 15 years ago

I didn't even cop they weren't in America until near the end but they're clearly not meant to be American. Even their second names are a clue.

I wish my hair was Emo so that it would cut itself

[–] CharteredStreets 14 years ago

The fairytale way that Budapest is evoked with english-speaking actors is part of the charm. Hollywood just wouldn't make a picture like this in a foreign language in the '40s, and probably still wouldn't. Lubitsch, a German, did something similar in "To Be Or Not To Be."

If I have to tell you again, we're gonna take it outside and I'm gonna show you what it's like!

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[–] BigWhiskers 14 years ago

are you seriously stoned ?
pepi hot ? annoying and a scut he was

"So, a thought crossed your mind? Must have been a long and lonely journey"

[–] stevenvh 13 years ago

Have you noticed that in westerns the Indians always speak English too?

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