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I'd say this gesture was something so subtle and unconcious that it just falls below any cultural assimilation. He has "counted to three" in the "British way" all over his life and even excessive exposure to German native speakers and culture probably won't change such a highly non-descript and intuitive gesture. You can speak fluently in a language and be ...
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Excellent question, you raise here. The only trick Borden knew was using his other twin brother. So it is expected that he used his brother. But it is possible that Borden wanted to pick that girl and so after his performance was over, he instructed his brother to enter her house. But again one can argue then how did he know that heir conversation was ...
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The main reason is that he had not spotted that the open window gave Holmes an escape route and was therefore not in any kind of rush.
Voices tend to echo slightly in rooms and the smoke was disorientating. Too many gun shots would have raised attention which might cause issues so he wanted to wait until he was sure he had a clean shot. It was only a ...
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Well, whatever the reason machines keep humans alive, it is definitely NOT because of humans' excellence in the role of batteries. However it is possible that the machines themselves are spreading that myth. (For example Morpheus would believe anything the Oracle says). That machines don't really need humans for power is revealed in the last part, when the ...
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Well me and my wife both took German in high school and were taught by a native German. He told us the way that Germans count one with their thumb instead of with their fore finger. I always remembered this and she didn't. We both visited Germany through a student exchange program and became fluent in the language. While watching Inglorious Basterds I ...
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The situation that they were in was that he was clearly dying and struggling to hold the weight up. He was resigned to dying there. Therefore it is unlikely that they could reason with him before he tripped the explosive either intentionally or not.
Hence they have two choices which are either attempt to take the detonator off him and make the IED safe ...
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I assumed that he had arranged with his brother ahead of time that he would walk her home and ask to come in for tea and to then find an excuse not to in order to 'appear' inside.
Either she would decline or he would adlib a different reason not to go in through the door with her.
Magicians are usually very good at adlibbing under pressure.
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Someone has to pay the margin; an exchange isn't going to let you buy and sell without putting up some money.
Normally, Barings would take this money from the customer and (if an actual purchase was
to be made, instead of balancing it internally with another customer's sale) pay it to
the exchange where the contract was being traded. Since Barings didn't ...
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It's part of the allegorical elements of the film. By being powered by people, the machines are literally taking the power from the people (i.e. the opposite of 'power to the people'). So the machines are only existing because of the people's power, the people having sort of surrendered it to the machines. This is in addition to the in-Matrix subjugation ...
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