its *beep* me he cleared it..ha"
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imdb-790-701694 — 15 years ago(July 13, 2010 05:50 PM)
Three and a half years of comments on this one line in the film! Wow. OK. I've got the current PG UK 1991 DVD release here. I'm English and, no. We don't all say Blimey or Cor Blimey all the time. We're not Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins.
Blimey is a (relatively) recent contraction of (God) Blind Me. If you look at Slater's lips, he mouths F me. The audio is Blind Me - not blimey because he puts equal emphasis on both sylables (and it's more in keeping with the time period to say it as two words)
It's brilliant that a film about English characters has more American actors and Actresses than English, but when it comes to a line dub, they try (and fail so bad to make you smile) at being English. Should have stuck to the original line - much better.
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lostdisciple56 — 15 years ago(July 29, 2010 05:30 PM)
Must be a reissue or a different version. (I'm not actually going to read through the other 6 pages of responses to see what everyone has said as I'm not here to argue, merely bring to light another point in the debate.)
As I was feeling a bit nostalgic and noticed this topic, I pulled out the old VHS I had of this movie when we taped it off of HBO (back in 92, I think. Not quite sure, but I'm amazed the tape still plays). I was almost 100% sure that it was beep me, he cleared it!' but I figured I would check anyway. Sure enough, the recording I have clearly has the above mentioned phrase, so I'm simply assuming that certain cuts, edits, editions, etc have different quotes. I find it a bit amusing, personally, that changes have been made over a simple word, but it is what it is.
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wwestar — 12 years ago(April 13, 2013 11:47 AM)
The original line is beep me. it was dubbed in the Uk so that children could see the film. back in 1990 if a swear word was in a film it automatically got a 15 certificate, Warners very much wanted the under 15 market.
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ellakittykat — 10 years ago(August 01, 2015 03:59 AM)
Haven't seen this movie in years but it used to be one of my favourites when I was a teen. I must of watched it about a hundred times on vhs (taped off the TV) and I always thought it was "well high me he cleared it" and I always wondered what that was supposed to mean! Lol
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bh_tafe3 — 10 years ago(January 27, 2016 12:22 AM)
I'm Australian and have the Special Edition DVD with about 10-15 extra minutes, pretty much all of Alan Rickman. Anyway, on that one he clearly says "F@CK ME. He cleared it!". Though I do remember having another version where he clearly says "Blimey." I'd say they looped the line to get a PG rating for the VHS release (the special edition was M) and also for the TV version if I had to guess. I claim no inside knowledge, but that would be the most logical explanation.