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500 Things I learned about from watching The Debt


1. an intercepted emergency call also relays to real emergency services

2. you can pretend to be a postal employee when there is only one person scheduled for the night shift

3. slamming a ceramic dish into someones face doesn't cause deep scarring

4. having intercourse with two males living under the same roof is okay

5. you don't need to scream for help when you're an elderly lady with two deep stab wounds

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7-The best way to commit suicide is just to walk in front of a truck.

8-If you need to feed an evil man,let it be done by a woman not
by a man or else,you'll waste alot of food.

9-It's always better to ask questions before killing a man
in a wheelchair.

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10 when ur down and out on da ground, its best 2 try 2 grab da guy's leg so he can kick u a few timez more

11 a skinny, frail lookin, almost anemic woman is an obvious choice 4 a special agent

12 despite worthinton's inability 2 act and display human emotion, he still getz work

13 I saw da last 3rd of movie be4 and its called da Loserz starrin Mirren again

14 da trailer really fooled me on dis 1...da secret turned out 2 be quite stoopid

15 august moviez suck ape ballz

16 bein a female mossad agent meanz u have 2 show ur beaver 2 every1...da enemy, ur colleaguez, every1

I live, I love, I slay, and I'm content

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17. If you lay false claim to having assassinated somebody, people will take your word for it. No evidence necessary.

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(18) Rachel stole a mini-digital camera from James Bond.
(19) A notorious ex-Nazi hides in a country controlled by the people who lost even more lives than the Jews.
(20) Israel has great secret agents, but lousy plastic surgeons.
(21) To kidnap a Nazi, send an agent who lost his entire family in the Holocaust - maybe he won't hold a grudge.
(22) Kidnapping someone elaborately from their office is much easier than just pulling them off the street and shoving them in a van.
(23) When you're knifed in the stomach and losing a pint of blood per minute, a paper towel will do the trick nicely.
(24) How often do the trains go? So often, the guards won't notice (anything).
(25) Only an obscure Ukrainian journalist will notice the resurgence of a notorious Nazi in the '90s. Won't Inquiring Minds want to know, too?
(26) Mossad agents' disguises are so good, they make Israelis look like WASPs.
(27) Stab me once - shame on you; stab me again 30 years later - I won't get fooled again!

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(28). Twenty something actors can play teens, but a thirty something isn't convincing as a 25 yr old.

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Chastain was 28 when filming began.

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29. 80-something year old Nazis are still as quick and strong as a 22 year old when trying to escape an ex Mosad agent in a nursing home.

30. Krav Maga is worthless against an 80-something year old man.

31. It's easy to recognize someone you haven't seen in 30 years.

"I'm an ideas man, Michael. I think I proved that with *beep* Mountain." - Gob Bluth

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30. Don't you think she was just a little out of practice? I use to do fight training, and just 3 months off made a big difference, never mind 30 years.

31. Meh... if it was a face you've studied and thought about all your life, then maybe.

p.s. love the Gob quote ;)

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32. When you decide to lie about having killed one of the most wanted people on the planet, make sure you get as much publicity out of it as possible and convince your daughter to stake her fledgling journalistic career on writing a book on the lie.

33. Even though you're 30 years out of the spy game, you still manage to break into an Ukrainian newspaper building.

34. Nobody works at night in Ukrainian newspapers and journalists only come in for a sh*g.

35. When you're assigned to one of the most important secret missions in the history of your country, it's okay to get pregnant by your fellow agent in the process.

36. Nazi monsters make nice gynaecologists.

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This movie was made in 2009 I believe, she was born in 1977, she would of been 32 during filming, don't know how the hell you came up with her being 28.

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28. You can have a substantial cleft chin in your 20s and have it completely removed in your 60s.

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32. Fingerprints just glow under black light for no reason.

33. When holding a hostage in an apartment, be sure to cover his mouth with tape so he won't make noise. But then also be sure to fight kung-fu style in the livingroom. As to not draw attention to yourselves.

34. When a journalist is researching a story about someone you claimed to have killed and may not be dead, he most certainly will be able to recognize you. Especially if you go on the Israeli Oprah to talk about what you allegedly did.

35. If your hostage escapes after getting bashed in the face with a ceramic bowl, and roughed up by your female cohort, and especially if the hostage could barely walk down the stairs, he can certainly run faster than two able-bodied, strapping young men who were not just in a fight. Under no circumstances should you try to chase him down.

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32. Wasn't that the reason Rachael handed the envelope to the lady just as they were closing? I assume it was coated in something.

33. They also didn't want him talking to them, remember?

35. They were out of the house at the time, weren't they? Rachael didn't regain consciousness until much later.

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I can’t read all the replies, so I don’t know if my comment is redundant.
Not only do the fingerprints glow, but no one else has ever touched the pad, and magically the SEQUENCE of the numbers is also revealed.


Harry Lime

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The glow-in-black-light powder on the ad info has been covered. She got the sequence from watching the girl hit the numbers when the employee set the alarm.

Some people just don't pick up on anything.

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For 32, Rachel handed the young woman an envelope with her fake advertisement in it. The envelope was coated with a powder that stuck to the woman's hand, and that's why the fingerprints appeared under the blacklight.

For 35, they did try to find him on the streets, but were unsuccessful.


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36. The Eastern Block was such a bad place that even the Sun didn't shine there properly.

37. The Eastern Block country is exactly the right place for a Nazi criminals practicing medicine.

38. Being chased by nazi-hunters, they just move deeper to the East.

39. Who cares if in Eastern Germany the Ambulances were marked with a red, not a green, cross. That Eastern Block was such a lousy place anyway.

40. In the name of Justice, while smuggling the Nazi criminal across the Border, you may shoot as many Border officials as you need to. Who cares, they belong to that Eastern Block.

Listen to your enemy, for God is talking

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(27) Stab me once - shame on you; stab me again 30 years later - I won't get fooled again!

Ha! Bonus points for throwing in a Bushism.

http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0027163/quotes

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18. Agreed - that camera was a joke. The film would had to have been 1mm wide at best.

20. First you complain that the scar wasn't deep enough, and now that it's too deep?

26. ;)

27. lol

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<< (24) How often do the trains go? So often, the guards won't notice (anything). >>

51. And German subways continually run about 90 seconds apart all night.

52. Spies' careers are ruined when 1 mission goes wrong.

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17. It's amazing what people will believe without evidence. WMD, anyone?

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Special agents come in all shapes and sizes. that's why they're "special."!

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10 when ur down and out on da ground, its best 2 try 2 grab da guy's leg so he can kick u a few timez more

11 a skinny, frail lookin, almost anemic woman is an obvious choice 4 a special agent

12 despite worthinton's inability 2 act and display human emotion, he still getz work

13 I saw da last 3rd of movie be4 and its called da Loserz starrin Mirren again

14 da trailer really fooled me on dis 1...da secret turned out 2 be quite stoopid

15 august moviez suck ape ballz

16 bein a female mossad agent meanz u have 2 show ur beaver 2 every1...da enemy, ur colleaguez, every1
14b. If you're going to call something or someone stupid, you should probably spell the word correctly.

15b. The Debt came out in September.

17. Are we really trying to WRITE in Ebonics now?

"I'm an ideas man, Michael. I think I proved that with *beep* Mountain." - Gob Bluth

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Before you criticize someone for saying this was an August movie, by saying it 'came out in September', you should go back to the top of the page and see that it was in fact released in August. And, it probably had its premiere showing before that. That's just as foolish as those that say Summer is over after Labor Day (a USA holiday on the 1st Monday in September).
Did I say stupid? Oh, I forgot.
Maybe the guy (or gal) is doing their best to use English, and it's not their native language. Do you think?
And, #12 is correct in my opinion: Worthington is a poor actor. IM(humble)O

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Re-read my comment. I never "criticized" him for calling it an August movie.

I DID criticize his grammar (or more accurately, made-up language.) And if you honestly think he spells like that because he doesn't know how to otherwise, you are way out of touch. His writing "style" is harder than using actual English. He just wants street cred or something.

"I'm an ideas man, Michael. I think I proved that with *beep* Mountain." - Gob Bluth

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14b. If that's the only misspelling you're going to call him/her out on, you have selective sight.

15b. August 31, in the United States. I don't know where the poster is from.

17. That's racist.

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R u kidding? He was having a goof on. Ballz oddly aren't spelled that way either. Ya think he was having fun with stuff. Ya think? (By ya I mean you. Hope you're following.)

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11. So you've never heard of Anna Chapman, Maria Konnenkova, Krystyna Skarbek?

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17. itz cool 2 use numberz insted of wordz cuz it make me luk smart wit numberz lol
18. i'z also like to put z's insted of s's cuz *beep* da letter S
19. it makez me look hip n kewl if i use da insted of the

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Do you have to talk in Ghetto?

Harry Lime

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GO BACK TO SCHOOL PLEASE!!

Shut up and LIVE!

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That these idiotic "500 things I learned" threads will never go away.

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Bravo

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I learn a lot from reading those lists. I actually appreciate them as long as people realize that posting in the IMDB is for actual writing and not some place 4 txting 2 yer homees

Accept Loss ~ Jack Kerouac

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Where's the other 472

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If it's OK with all involved, it's OK.

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#6 wuz deleted by admin...total bs. here is it again - none of them aged very well.

I live, I love, I slay, and I'm content

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Wow, I really hate admins anymore. They wield too much power!

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and dont ever make fun of indian ppl here. i made racist remarkz on blk, asianz, white, and many, many racez, but nuttin bad happened. i made 1 racist remark on indian ppl...bang, acct suspended. no doubt dat da adminz r lowly paid outsourced ppl from india.

I live, I love, I slay, and I'm content

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Maybe the admin is a relative...weird decision :)

Jan 25, 2011 the day it all started. Walk like an Egyptian or just protest like one!

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1. - WRONG! they didn't intercept the emergency call. they were just listening to hear that the call was made, and they had to get the Surgeon of Birkenau before the Real Emergency Services got there.

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Yeah, OP is an idiot.

2. Nothing was said about there being only one person

3. Why would it? that's as weird assumption

4. She only had sex with Stephan

5. Try screaming with a deep puncture chest/belly wound

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when mossad agents disembark from a plane's cargo area, they must be equally spaced from each other, and no other people can be seen in the background. just the 3 of them. this applies to other military or special agent type characters as well.

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People could be seen as they came out of the plane. The spacing comment is just plain ridiculous.

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1...They didn't intercept the phone call. They just listened to it. Hence why they knew when the call was placed, and why the real EMS got the call.

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