Was this really such a significant tell? I feel like I (and people around me) have been using both ways to show 3 with my fingers my whole life interchangeably. I certainly wouldn't be able to tell where a person is from just from the way they do it. Is it just a british/german thing?t. yuropoor
>>216935301Considering they were just talking about whether the guy was a spy or not… yes, that’s a tell
Tarantino forgot to make the Nazis unlikeable
>>216935301Maybe things have changed due to the internet and mass media? Maybe it was more universal there before a bunch of american movies and stuff got there.
>>216935301I’ve never seen anyone here in the US use the thumb when showing 3 fingers but at the same time i don’t know that to be a euro thing so I might have just mistaken it for a regional thing like maybe that’s something they do in Texas or Iowa or something
>>216935301Tarantino is not the director I'd be going to for historical realism; Holding out 3 fingers was just a plot device, he could have chosen any little thing.
>>216935367exactly, things were more localized in cultures before internet and mass media. once again, op is proven to be a massive faggot
>>216935428I don't wanna be mean about it. Was an interesting question from a semi local perspective.
>>216935329But the scene is presented like he just unequivocally gave himself away. I just can't imagine it's such an important cultural thing. Surely even in nazi Germany there would be people who show 3 that way.>>216935367That's a good point, I'll try asking some elderly people.>>216935428No need to be rude you little nigger.
>>216935301Who the fuck would ever show three with such an awkward hand-gesture? It's physically straining to bend the small finger while keeping the ring finger straight? Why would you start with the index finger (the second finger) in the first places instead of the thumb? How do you even show four and five? Do you wrap around like pacman? What's the logic and reasoning for doing it this way? Only the juadized untermensch could come up with such a convoluted, unnatural gesture.
>>216937012>t.stubby non dexterious hands
>>216935515>>216935539i apologize for my rudeness
Why the fuck were all of the characters in this scene obsessed with balls?
>>216935301This is absolutely not a British thing, it’s Tarantino thinking he’s being clever
>>216935301how do you even do that? it hurts my hand
>>216937140germans, aren't they.
>>216935539Its not unequivocal, just that he was suspicious to begin with, they barely passed his initial test, then something weird happened to ping his antenna further and when he called them on it they started sweating bullets.
>>216935301The entire scene is bullshit because his British accent should've given him away straight away.
>>216938567it wasn't british, it was irish and to a german it sounds like a frisian.
>>216935409>I’ve never seen anyone here in the US use the thumb when showing 3 fingersIt’s an ASL thing. I live near a deaf school so there’s a lot of people who gesture 3 that way around here
>>216937012>It's physically straining to bend the small finger while keeping the ring finger straightYou use your thumb to keep your pinky bent>How do you even show four and five? Do you wrap around like pacman?It makes more sense to me than using your thumb, index and middle fingers to show 3, then showing 4 by showing all your fingers except your thumb, no? Unless you show 4 by only bending your pinky
