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Thu 30 Jun, 2011 07:31 am
Movie Name: Prime Suspect 5: Errors of Judgement (1996)
Quote:
Superintendent Jane Tennison: Listen, I dont know what youve heard
about me, but, ehm...
DCS Ballinger: What have I heard?
Superintendent Jane Tennison: "That bloody Jane Tennison, shell be
storming into your nick, the balls of your best officers trailing
from her jaws, spraying people with claret, calling people Masons,
threatening resignation..." Well, I... I just wanted to tell you
Im not a complete maniac.
DCS Ballinger: Arent you? How disappointing.
"the balls of your best officers trailing from her jaws, spraying people with claret" What do the two sentences mean?
@RoseRose000,
the balls of your best officers trailing from her jaws, -
She will chew the testicles off your best officers
spraying people with claret -
Claret is a French wine. Probably considered upper class and not something to be drunk by a working class police officer.
Basically it means, Tennison is a man hating b**ch who is a high class snob.
@parados,
I suppose your literal translation might be accurate for someone who hasn't seen the television show. But for someone who has seen it, you forgot to translate it through an obvious sarcasm filter.
Tennison maybe a man hating b**ch (I have to go through a series rewatch to argue for or against this point) but she's far from a high class snob. She's far too likable of a character to be that. Helen Mirren has earned her legendary status because of her role in this television show.
Claret is indeed red wine; it is also a slang word for blood.
@tsarstepan,
Tennison is saying the words.
I guess I thought the sarcasm was a given but it probably wouldn't be for a non native speaker.
@contrex,
contrex wrote:
Claret is indeed red wine; it is also a slang word for blood.
That makes more sense.
British slang, I assume, so I missed that part.
@parados,
parados wrote:British slang, I assume, so I missed that part.
Sorry I meant to write that it was British slang. Underworld and police slang really.
@contrex,
Sports commentators use it too.
@McTag,
McTag wrote:
Sports commentators use it too.
Doesn't that come under "underworld"?
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