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Nikita
The watermark. There's one person, there's two persons, and there's three persons.
Hello. In Taxi Driver (1976), A cabby named Doughboy wants Travis to help him sell a piece of Errol Flynn’s bathtub: "Dig the symbols. F-4-0-5-4-3-4. [Then Doughboy flips the piece and points to something:] And the watermark. There's one person, there's two persons, and there's three persons. I got this at his estate, The Pines."
We can't see the side that he's showing to Travis. Perhaps I'm missing something here, but I wonder whether there are three watermarks (the first: "there's one person"; the second which is just above the first: "there's two persons"; the third which is above the second: "and there's three persons") or just one. So could you explain it to me, please?
Thank you.
20 พ.ย. 2019 เวลา 17:41
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It’s not easy to tell from what you’ve written. Maybe it would be easier if I saw it. He uses watermark in singular so that implies one. When he is counting to three people it’s a little hard to tell whether he is contradicting his previous singular use or counting up to the watermark.
What seems clear is he is making a reference to Errol Flynn’s famous playboy lifestyle claiming there were two others in the tub with him.
If I had to bet I would say he’s referring to a single literal watermark where the water marked the piece of the bathtub at a level where three people would fit.
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