MovieChat Forums > Clear and Present Danger (1994) Discussion > Major Plot Question

Major Plot Question

posted 10 years ago by SnoozeAlarm
7 replies | jump to latest

Why do the two guys speak Spanish and then all of a sudden speak English? That was just plain bizarre and it ruined the whole movie for me.

It should be against the law to use "LOL" unless you really did LOL!

[–] comedyfish 9 years ago

Americans don't like to read subtitles.

-------------
fin

[–] kingdirt 9 years ago

It follows on from The hunt for red October, when connery is taking to the political officer, it closes in on his mouth and the language switches

[–] Fiery_Boycs 8 years ago

Pretty sure it was the other way around.

108 193 23 8114 246* 47.73 22 42

[–] BrianRaess_Is_FinallyGone 7 years ago

Pretty sure it wasn't.

[–] garnerphils 7 years ago

+1!

[–] stgcomm 8 years ago

I was marveling at the same thing.

[–] tmf_scipio 8 years ago

They could have done it the same way it was done in To Be or Not to Be.

The main actors were singing Sweet Georgia Brown in Polish, then an announcer came on and said that for reasons of clarity, and sanity, the rest of the movie would be in English.

Hitler! C'mon, I'll buy you a glass of lemonade.