Spanish Army t-shirt
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npfist2 — 20 years ago(January 04, 2006 12:13 AM)
i'm watching "good bye lenin" this week and will tell you if i notice it. in the meantime, ejercito definitely means "army." it could also perhaps refer to the republican army/militia during the spanish civil war, which stood for collectivization and socialism. this would correlate well with jan's beliefs. watch land and freedom, la lengua de las mariposas, or silencio roto. most people remain pretty clueless about the spanish civil war, and it's impact on the world during the second world war.
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Tristan!-2 — 20 years ago(January 20, 2006 06:39 PM)
I agree. I spotted it. It seemed very out of place.
No real anticapitalist antiglobalist person would wear this shirt. Daniel Bruhe should have tipped off the costume department.
Likewise, the other guy wears a blue shirt with "AIR FORCE ACADEMY" on it. Another odd choice for an anticapitalist.
But the Ejercito one, especially with the big right-wing Spanish escudo in the middle, is quite out of character. -
Eivi — 19 years ago(September 23, 2006 04:41 PM)
I Agree with you. I felt very uncomfortable every time I noticed that Spanish shirt. Some people living under the Spanish government (the basque and the Catalan, like me)do not feel any kind of sympathy towards Spanish army and this detail ruined,in someway, the whole movie.
Beside this I love the film! -
SerpientePlisken — 18 years ago(July 15, 2007 02:45 PM)
You are living under the Spanish Government??? wow I'm surprised Zapatero let's you use internet under the terrible oppression - you writing from a resistance hide out??? Keep safe from the oppressors and their t-shirts
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meininki — 18 years ago(April 17, 2007 02:11 AM)
I mentioned this before, in Germany it's VERY common for anti-fascists/anti-globalists, etc. to wear army style clothes. It's a means of taking the army's symbols and giving them a new meaning. Especially in the 70s and 80s, the "Bundeswehrparka" was almost a sort of uniform for leftwingers, albeit with the German flag taken off.
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not_sponsored — 18 years ago(July 04, 2007 07:41 PM)
of course it was a concious descision, the other guy has a tshirt on it that says air force academy or something like that. They're anti capitalist/idealist twentysomethings, shirts like that are just part of the mis en scene.
done.