Re: ...Here's looking at you, kid.

The Starmaker wrote:
> 
> The Starmaker wrote:
> > I don't understand those Double Indemnity dialogues. How does a bottle
of beer not be working? I don't get it.
> >
> > Phyllis: I was just fixing some ice tea; would you like a glass?
> > Walter Neff: Yeah, unless you got a bottle of beer that's not working.
> 
> It turns out the dialogue in "Double Indemnity" is strange because the
> writer
> Billy Wilder didn't know how to speak English when he wrote it!
> 
> That explains it.
> 
> The Starmaker

I mean, I understand now the use of the word "not working". I guess
in Billy Wilder's days there were a lot of illegal immigrants who didn't
know how to
speak English....
so they use broken English. 
If the door is lock, they say things like "the door's not working", or
the door's "broken", since they don't know how to say the word "open".
That can be a
very hard word for a immigrant to say. 

So he really meant to write 
Walter Neff: Yeah, unless you got a bottle of beer that's not "open".


I think immigrants talk cute. 

Like wash TV...
or fack you!

I spent last night with a illegal immigrant girl and I spent most of
the time correcting her English. Now she sounds like me.

The Starmaker

She said, "Let's get the fack out of here!

I said WHAT?