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Post by lemacd on Jun 11, 2018 4:32:39 GMT
 Maria: I'd like to thank you all for the precious gift you left in my pocket today. Captain: What gift? Maria: It's a secret between the children and me. Captain: Then I suggest you keep it, and let us eat. Maria: Knowing how nervous I must have been, a stranger in a new household, knowing how important it was for me to feel accepted... it was so kind and thoughtful of you to make my first moments here so warm and happy and pleasant. Captain: What is the matter, Marta? Marta: Nothing. Captain: Fräulein, is it to be at every meal or merely at dinnertime that you intend leading us through this rare and wonderful new world of indigestion? Maria: They're all right, captain. They're just happy. I like this moment but also don't understand it. I understand what Maria was doing with the guilt trip she was putting on the children and I get why they are crying, but... "They're just happy"? Thoughts? |
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Post by INeverExplainAnything on Jun 11, 2018 8:06:46 GMT
I always took it as a "Look how unhappy your children are". Like she was trying to guilt trip the Captain as well as the children.
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Post by lemacd on Jun 11, 2018 23:14:15 GMT
so, sarcasm?
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Post by INeverExplainAnything on Jun 12, 2018 4:44:45 GMT
Yep haha
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Post by Supercali on Jun 13, 2018 7:29:30 GMT
I don't understand this scene either. Especially after Maria saying "They're just happy", the children started crying even louder.
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Post by lemacd on Jun 13, 2018 13:20:31 GMT
I don't understand this scene either. Especially after Maria saying "They're just happy", the children started crying even louder. exactly! I think the crying harder thing is what throws me... |
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Post by andhereweare on Jun 14, 2018 2:17:45 GMT
The only thing I can think of is that they're upset because they haven't been able to succeed in the latest edition of "Dispatch a governess in a hurry." The crying is a bit overwrought, though. I'd cue the Four Seasons right now.
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Post by ladyp on Jun 17, 2018 20:15:07 GMT
I figured she meant: "they're not upset, Captain; those are tears of joy...!"
I've always laughed harder as the children CRY harder based on that interpretation.
Maria got her gentle revenge on the kids brilliantly: guilting them to tears, knowing they cant reveal why they're really crying (admission of misbehaviour/guilt!). And now Im downright belly laughing at the screen cap -- all the children upset, Georg totally bewildered/unsettled, and Maria (even with her back to us!) clearly just eating her dinner, totally un-bothered. LMAO
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Post by lemacd on Jun 17, 2018 21:55:09 GMT
it would have been hilarious if the line was, "they're just happy... pass the salt."
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Post by Supercali on Jun 17, 2018 22:43:36 GMT
I think Georg more or less knew why the children were crying since he knew the existence of that pine cone and certainly had heard from the previous governesses. But as he pretended to ignore these sort of pranks, his hands were tied at this point. And Maria probably knew that, so the revenge actually killed two birds with one stone.
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Post by indigoblue on Jun 17, 2018 23:47:12 GMT
Yes, fits with my theory of Georg being the one who put the pine cone there, hence the kids' tears at being wrongly accused...and Maria skewers him in one.
Smart move. She's got him sussed. His face says it all.
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Post by reverendcaptain on Apr 25, 2020 18:36:35 GMT
Did Georg know what the gift was? Has every previous governess complained to him that the children put a creature in their pocket upon arriving at the house and he was just testing her out to see if she would do the same? Or did he really not know what she was talking about?
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Post by emilia78 on May 9, 2020 21:28:22 GMT
Did Georg know what the gift was? Has every previous governess complained to him that the children put a creature in their pocket upon arriving at the house and he was just testing her out to see if she would do the same? Or did he really not know what she was talking about? He definitely knew it was some kind of creature, if not a frog, maybe a spider or I do not know what else... I imagine that these pranks were the only means that the children had to connect with their father as accomplices... |
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Post by missisa on Sept 23, 2021 20:25:00 GMT
Yes, fits with my theory of Georg being the one who put the pine cone there, hence the kids' tears at being wrongly accused...and Maria skewers him in one. Smart move. She's got him sussed. His face says it all. Is there any thread where I can read more about this theory of yours, @indigoblue ? LOL |
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Post by indigoblue on Sept 23, 2021 22:46:16 GMT
I've always felt he is very supercilious, both in the scene above and when she sits on the pine cone, and previously in the hall when he says there's nothing wrong with the children, only the governesses. It makes me wonder whether he is in cahoots with the kids to test out the governess to see what she's made of...
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