i was flipping through the channels late one night and came across this movie. The opening of the film reeled me right in. three criminals try to get coffee and jsut keep hitting potholes with the the clerk.
shareI don't know what it is, but that clerk just had something wrong with her culturally that made her so intractable and unbending.
I don't know if I'd have gone as far as to execute her, though it would have crossed my mind.
She'd have definitely been wearing hot coffee, she can call a cop if she liked.
I don't know what it is, but that clerk just had something wrong with her culturally that made her so intractable and unbending.
Yeah, I downloaded the film from YouTube after watching the opening, but I don't think it is cultural as much as it is the dogmatic mindset of some people. The Paki/Indian accent helped though. The Scene cracked me up as it reminded me of what I call "The Smiling Stonewall", similar to that great scene in "Falling Down" when Mike Douglas asks for a breakfast meal two minutes after the time was up for breakfast.
You see this attitude in a lot of service jobs where the company's rep is SO unbending, keeps repeating, robot-like, the standard boilerplate reply, and then rubs it in by using the sappy "Have a nice day", or the Simpson's Apu gem "Thank you, come again."
Piss you off? Sure. Sometimes I'll jerk 'em around just in frustration, but, as with you, that's as far as I would go.
Nevertheless, that opening was a grabber.
That's what you want.