The closed captions for Turner Classic Movies attribute this song to Wagner, calling it "The Prize Song" from Die Meistersinger and they say it is sung in German. In reality, it is an old drinking and college song, sung in Latin.
shareNot only did TCM get the languange and origin wrong (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaudeamus_igitur), but also the composer. Johannes Brahms quoted the song in the final section of his Academic Festival Overture (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_Festival_Overture) which is prominently played throughout the film especially at the beginning and end.
shareI used to advise my foreign-born students to watch old movies with the English subtitles activated so that they could simultaneously hear and read conversational English. It has become evident over time that this advice no longer holds because the people who are transcribing the dialogue (and everything else) are too damned stupid to do their jobs accurately. Truly pathetic.
Wagner. Good God.
The Wagner music is the piece played on the record player at her uncle's house. The sub-titles get this correct. The title credits mention that the other music -- heard several times throughout the film -- is Brahms.
Where's your crew?
On the 3rd planet.
There IS no 3rd planet!
Don't you think I know that?
It is indeed Wagner played at Uncle John's. The most fitting music that could have been used in the film would surely have been Schoenberg's Verklarte Nacht, though.
"I beseech ye in the bowels of Christ, think that ye may be mistaken."
I just watched a Rodney Dangerfield clip from a 1973 Johnny Carson show. Rodney said "I knew a guy was so lazy he married a girl who was already pregnant".
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