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Diego Luna's 'Chau' -there might be a SPOILER-


This question is mainly for Mexicans, I think, that if Diego Luna's character was supposed to be Mexican, I don't recall it right now.

Anyway the thing is that 'Criminal' is a remake of 'Nueve Reinas', a bad remake in my opinion but whatever.

The thing is that many things changed in 'Criminal' as to adapted to an American audience (such as the casino scene instead of the gas station, the amount of money, the bill instead of the stamps, the reason the buyer has to leave the country, the bank thing and of course, the language) but when Diego and John go to pick up the bill (I think it was then), when they are leaving Diego says 'Chau', which was the line in 'Nueve Reinas'. What I wonder is if they forgot to adapt that line or if the Mexican community in the US say 'Chau', since I thought that was used in Argentina and Uruguay. I thought in Mexico people said 'Adios' or something like that.
I really don't know but I feel curious about this meaningless detail, if anyone out there could enlighten me I'll appreciate it.


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It's been a while since you posted your question, but the answer is yes, in Mexico goodbye is "adios". But, it is also very common to hear "bye" and less common to hear "chau", yet you can hear people say it. So I wouldn't say it was totally out of Diego Luna's character.

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Hi, My take on "Brian" saying "chau" to "Valerie" is that he was saying "ciao", Italian for goodbye and pronounced "chow". People tend to use this to try to give themselves a certain "suave" air, but it usually comes off as phoney. Just another $.02 worth.

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but it didn't sound like 'ciao' but like 'chau' (which, if you are familiar with both sounds, you'll notice they are pretty different).
This 'chau' sounded like a quite Argentinean 'chau'.

By the way, Argentinean 'chau' came from Italian 'ciao' but over the years the sound of it changed and now you can really tell the difference between both of them.

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