Spanish Army t-shirt
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meininki — 20 years ago(December 12, 2005 03:36 PM)
I guess he has the german nationality too but he is spanish in the first place.
I just saw an interview with him and when he was asked where he felt most at home, he distinctly said Cologne. That's where he spent most of his life. He also said his new home was Berlin.
When asked whether he felt Spanish or German, he said he considered himself European and that he thinks it's sort of cute how the Spanish just pretend he's completely Spanish, calling him a Catalan actor.
He simply is both, German and Spanish, whether you like it or not. -
Manu-29 — 20 years ago(September 26, 2005 01:16 AM)
Well Google automatic translation doesn't exactly works well.
It could give you and idea but it lacks the comprehension.
Ejercito, could mean "I excercise", but Ejrcito, notice the accent over the "e" means "army".
You probably are thinking "I didn't see any E with accent".
Well sometimes and in some spanish countries when all the text is in uppercase, they take out the accent.
Hope this clarify the "I excercise". By the way, I use "Yo hago ejercicios" rather than "Yo ejercito".
Don't trust Google translation tool too much, is just a machine, not a translator -
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.