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What did he say after the joke?


Before Baldwin's character is discovered by the bad guys, the woman he's with makes a pathetic joke and he says something like "sacre ma" which the subtitles say is "sak la mage". What does that mean?

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As this is a movie based in Quebec, it's likely he's trying to swear in French.

"sacre man" - holy man

which if true is a terrible line as it's just about unintelligible. Even "sacre bleu" - a less blasphemous rhyming form of "sacre Dieu" or Holy God - is rarely used in modern times.

My question from this crapfest is why don't the bad guys just shoot the whole lot of them, they're planning on burying them in the mountain anyway. Geez.

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It's "sacrement".

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It's "sacrement".

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Maybe so, what would that mean in the context of the scene? Is that the French "sacrément"; how would you translate that?

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