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"..like I know my own smell" makes no sense


Think about it; do YOU know your own smell? Does anyone?

Usually someone ELSE has to tell you, "eww, you stink!", because people do not know their own smell.

The way nose works, is that it detects NEW or UNFAMILIAR smells sharply, but it gets used to any mild enough smell (within reason) pretty quickly, and stops detecting it. If you use incense, at first you smell it very easily, but even when the room still smells like Lavender or whatever incense you used, and anyone entering the room will clearly smell it, you will no longer smell it as 'lavender', but just 'no smell whatsoever', because your nose gets used to it.

This is why different skins, although they smell different, are usually not detected by smell by the people wearing the same kind of skin. For example, I have heard that 'white people smell like wet dogs'. I don't really know what wet dogs smell, but to so-called 'white people', they probably don't smell like that, only to people wearing other kind of skins.

So basically any smell you are surrounded by for long enough a time, you stop detecting, and you need to smell something else for awhile to be able to detect it again.

Guapo CAN'T KNOW HIS OWN SMELL, so he can't know his people, either. This is really bad writing or Guapo is just incredibly inexperienced with life, or ridiculously stupid. He also smokes cigars, which emit a smell MUCH stronger than anyone's BO, so again he's being stupid or lying. There's NO WAY he can smell his 'own smell' when that cigar is disturbing it. Add alcohol, probably not showering much, gunpowder, horses, dirty fortress/castle/hacienda/house/whatever that thing is, plus the smells of the other men, HOW THE HECK can Guapo ever know his own smell?

Seriously, do you truly know your own smell? No, you don't. Guapo doesn't, either, so it makes no sense.

As a sidenote; I am SO tired of movies, TV shows and other things always using the masonic numbers, when they could easily use something else. Even Bill Burr tried to use number '15' once, but then had to correct himself - as if he remembered, oh yeah, not allowed, has to use '13' instead.

The masonic numbers are things like 33, 13, 11 and some others. If you watch movies with these numbers in mind, you will be SHOCKED as to how much these particular numbers are used for seemingly no reason at all. It's always 13 years or 11 minutes or 33 bottles of beer or in this movie, Quapo's announced age (his real age is supposed to be 40, but this is just an excuse to use the number '33', because his sidekick thinks Guapo is depressed because he's turning 40).

Watch any random TV show or movie, even local movies from smaller countries or whatnot, it's always 33, 13 or 11. It's pissing me off.. can't they for ONCE use another number? Just ONCE I'd like to see a movie that doesn't use any of those numbers whatsoever.

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I'm so hungry I can eat a sandwich from a gas station.

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As my grandmother would say. You nose is too near your own arse, avortac4.

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