It seems to me that it is an arrogant suggestion and in this Movie as with many others was used several times ? WHY ? Not a bad film (In the UK we still call them that) and although mainly American 'humour' (note spelt correctly) was reasonably enjoyable - but that final Church scene stretched the imagination a little to far - however believe it films are not supposed to be real life are they ? might be a bit too boring !
shareListen...
stfu.
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I love it when people can't think of anything good or funny to reply so they just nitpick on the spelling.
I'm the guy who makes the "worst movie ever" thread in your favorite movie board
Oh, my space 1999 comment was quite funny, thank you. Moreover, you missed the point of my post. The original poster was on his British high horse, pontificating about American vernacular speech. Thus the delicious irony of my "english, mother F-er, do you speak it" line, which was an allusion to Spike Lee's "Do The Right Thing."
Of course, I can see how all of that could have been lost on someone with no pop-cultural frame of reference, i.e. a slack-jawed moron like you.
Or just maybe, some of us aren't from the USA but just happen to speak more than one language. like myself, so I don't really need to get "YOUR" pop culture references.
And it was said MUCH much better in pulp fiction btw.
I'm the guy who makes the "worst movie ever" thread in your favorite movie board
*Applause* !!!
Madonna is that you??
awww madge you are adapting quite well to brit life.
we must make time for custard creams and kettle tea tomorrow, yes?
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"Give us a drink" ! - certainly not a British vernacular, far too vague, at least it would be ‘Give me a stiff drink, please’ I suppose that over the pond you find the wide variety of British dialects confusing. In a film such as ‘Bend it’ filmed up north lad, they do speak a bit different like, but we love it. But even there they don’t say "Give us a drink" !
shareeven there they don’t say "Give us a drink" !
I guess our "Listen, I'll explain" type deal is our nice way of saying "be quiet you don't know what's going on"
I have not seen this movie... it was on tv and well I wanted to know if it had the girl that either "Makes coffee nervous" (you've got mail, the girl Tom Hanks dates) or the girl that was in leagly blond... this thread caught my eye with the title.
either it's listen shhh i have something to say, or listen as in hush up you don't know whats going on. Guess it's the imformal way of saying Wait.
Instead of fighting with each other, I'm going to try to answer the OP's question.
I'm Canadian so I'll venture a guess since our use of language is pretty similar. I would think it's one of those weird writing conventions and doesn't happen nearly as much in real life as it does in movies.
For example, how often do people in novels or movies say the name of the person they're speaking to either at the beginning or end of a sentence to drive home the point? A lot. How much does it happen in real? Not very often. It's just a way of emphasizing a point. Everything is exagarated, it's just one of those things.
I wish I said it that good.
You rock.
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Listen GrrMeister......
Who cares???
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