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Re: Did they always pee on their officers?
Posted by:
Meg Rosenfeld
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Date: July 08, 2003 01:12PM
<HTML>Just to get my two Pfennig's-worth in here, Buchheim loathes that scene (oily rag) and says that if it had ever really happened to him, he wouldn't have just looked stunned and run out.
Petersen really played up the greenness of the young PK, partly I suspect for the sake of playing to the "Groundlings" and, more legitimately, in order to give the audience someone with whom we could identify, e.g. someone ignorant of U-Boot routine (as I know many of you are not, but I was), in order to make the expository scenes play naturally and believably.
I think it's Ario who throws the rag, thus setting up that character as a bully, which role he continues to play, with various victims, until the moment when he covers the sleeping LI with a blanket, then crouches down to tuck it higher around him. In the Director's Cut you can't see who it is who does that, but in the Fernseh version you see that it's Ario, beer bottle in hand, visiting the Diesels. Again, we're playing to the Groundlings a little ("Big mean guy turns softhearted at sight of sleeping hero") but why not . . .
Regards,
Meg</HTML>
Petersen really played up the greenness of the young PK, partly I suspect for the sake of playing to the "Groundlings" and, more legitimately, in order to give the audience someone with whom we could identify, e.g. someone ignorant of U-Boot routine (as I know many of you are not, but I was), in order to make the expository scenes play naturally and believably.
I think it's Ario who throws the rag, thus setting up that character as a bully, which role he continues to play, with various victims, until the moment when he covers the sleeping LI with a blanket, then crouches down to tuck it higher around him. In the Director's Cut you can't see who it is who does that, but in the Fernseh version you see that it's Ario, beer bottle in hand, visiting the Diesels. Again, we're playing to the Groundlings a little ("Big mean guy turns softhearted at sight of sleeping hero") but why not . . .
Regards,
Meg</HTML>