What are they saying in Spanish during the bathtub scene?

Rupert Pupkin1, I don't think there is any point in my attempting to explain the humour, if you don't get it. All I can do is assure you that the movie is indeed humorous, and that the explosion scene is not out of place, because it is balanced by other humorous scenes.








"great minds think differently"

One might attempt to eat an unfamiliar food with the wrong fork if one doesn't know any better.




If the opposite of "pro" is "con", then I know why the opposite of PROgress is...

The movie was full of subtle, sweet humor that greatly helped characterization and also served an expository purpose. Remember when Mr. Briggs gave Rose tickets to the opera instead of a receipt? Or when Lottie asks Mrs. Fisher if she knew Keats (b. 1795 -- d. 1821)? He died nearly 100 years BEFORE the movie is set! And Mrs. Fisher's answer, "No! And I didn't now Chaucer or Shakespeare, either!" I love Rose's response to Caroline Dester's complaint, "I am so tired of being the center of everything all the time. You know what that's like." And Rose says, "No, I don't." Quiet, subtle, funny. G-d, even the way Caroline knows how to stand to have a servant remove her coat -- the looks on Rose and Lottie's faces are priceless! The whole interaction when a desperate/enthusiastic Lottie won't let Rose leave -- insists on talking to her -- oh, there is so much subtle humor in the movie! I just wonder that you could have missed it.

And the reason the women are so awkward when they eat pasta is because they have NEVER even SEEN pasta before. They are guessing. They really don't know what to do. It makes perfect sense. The correct way to eat pasta may be obvious to YOU, but how would they know anything about it? And why on earth would there need to be locals for contrast? The locals would demonstrate how to eat pasta and then the women would watch them and just copy. Having locals there eating pasta would also make no sense. We need to see how the women handle the challenge of maintaining their British manners while eating this"alien" food. The whole point is to show how cloistered their lives have been and now we are seeing them take their first baby steps into this new world. And, like babies, they make a mess when they eat.

And Molina did a fine job in the explosion scene. You call him a "chap" and compare him to John Cleese. Why? I think you don't know who Alfred Molina is. He and Cleese are peers (I am using that term in the American sense, not the British). Both are award-winning actors with international careers. And Molina has been nominated for three Tony Awards -- I don't think Cleese has ever been nominated for a Tony, but I could be wrong. Still, it's ridiculous to dismiss Molina the way you do. The world sure hasn't.

Of course, you missed all the subtle humor, so I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that you couldn't understand how good Molina really was.

The movie was full of subtle, sweet humor that greatly helped characterization and also served an expository purpose. Remember when Mr. Briggs gave Rose tickets to the opera instead of a receipt? Or when Lottie asks Mrs. Fisher if she knew Keats (b. 1795 -- d. 1821)? He died nearly 100 years BEFORE the movie is set! And Mrs. Fisher's answer, "No! And I didn't now Chaucer or Shakespeare, either!" I love Rose's response to Caroline Dester's complaint, "I am so tired of being the center of everything all the time. You know what that's like." And Rose says, "No, I don't." Quiet, subtle, funny. G-d, even the way Caroline knows how to stand to have a servant remove her coat -- the looks on Rose and Lottie's faces are priceless! The whole interaction when a desperate/enthusiastic Lottie won't let Rose leave -- insists on talking to her -- oh, there is so much subtle humor in the movie! I just wonder that you could have missed it.

And the reason the women use a dessert fork when they eat pasta is because they have NEVER even SEEN pasta before. They are guessing. They really don't know what to do. It makes perfect sense. The correct way to eat pasta may be obvious to YOU, but how would they know anything about it? And why on earth would there need to be locals for contrast? The locals would demonstrate how to eat pasta and then the women would watch them and just copy. Having locals there eating pasta would also make no sense. We need to see how the women handle the challenge of maintaining their British manners while eating this"alien" food. The whole point is to show how cloistered their lives have been and now we are seeing them take their first baby steps into this new world. And, like babies, they make a mess when they eat.

And Molina did a fine job in the explosion scene. You call him a "chap" and compare him to John Cleese. Why? I think you don't know who Alfred Molina is. He and Cleese are peers (I am using that term in the American sense, not the British). Both are award-winning actors with international careers. And Molina has been nominated for three Tony Awards -- I don't think Cleese has ever been nominated for a Tony, but I could be wrong. Still, it's ridiculous to dismiss Molina the way you do. The world sure hasn't.

Of course, you missed all the subtle humor, so I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that you couldn't understand how good Molina really was. The whole movie was magnificent, moving, and so beautiful.