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MuggySphere — 10 years ago(February 20, 2016 04:22 AM)

What sort of name is Zec?
What a dumb ass name for a bad guy.

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As they explain in the film, albeit better in the book, his name when literally translated means 'prisoner man', as in a man of prison, a man of jails and bars and cells, a man whose life is prison.

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What sort of name is Zec?
What a dumb ass name for a bad guy.
What kind of name is MuggySphere? Or Jack Reacher for that matter.

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Also, "the Zec" is played by Werner Herzog and has most of his fingers on both hands missing, some of them due to frostbite.
Maurice Herzog is a French mountaineer who led an expedition to the Annapurna in the 50's and lost most of his fingers to frostbite.
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Good job paying attention.

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I might be able to afford her. But NO WAY I can if she's not a whore.

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Prisoniski Whoreski

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what is the russian for prison whore?

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It's pretty much, well explicitly, explained in the movie, right near the end.

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I think this is not an actual name but more a nickname.
There is a russian word "" or "" (zec) which means the prisoner or man who was in prison.

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