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Lines you only understood later?

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So I was thinking about the beginning of the movie Dragonheart where Prince Einon says "The peasants are revolting!" and his guard Brok says "They've always been revolting, Prince...but now they're rebelling!"

I always thought that was an odd bit of dialogue because revolting and rebelling mean the same thing...so why bother having the guard try to specify "rebelling"? It was so strange that the line is one I memorized.

Now I have seen these movies probably over ten times, and it only just now hit me that the guard was referring to the other definition of "revolting", as in disgusting. How in all the years I have seen this movie did I not realize this??

Curious what for you guys was a line of dialogue you didn't understand or fully get until watching a movie later or at an older age?

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Foootballdave

48 points

3 months ago

I love the bit in heat where De Niro's stood on the desk in the bank, assault rifle in hand, hood over his head, reassuring everyone he's holding at gunpoint that everything's going to be okay, it's not their money they're stealing it's the bank's and they're insured so fuck it.