ASNF
The inscription writen on the Radio that Deniro smashes..what does it stand for
shareA Son Never Forgets
share"A Son Never Forgets" is what Billy Sunday writes on it, but it actually stands for something else which no one knows.
Except maybe Carl Brashear's father.
Martin Timm.
are you sure that ASNF, wasn't intended to be A Son Never Forgets?
shareHaving just watched the film I'm not even sure it's supposed to stand for anything. My thinking for this is that the actual ASNF inscription appears to be printed on in a way that suggests machine done- and De niro's character just takes the letters and adds words. Just my view anyway.
shareThere were several radio props made for the movie. One of them was made to break apart when Billy Sunday (De Niro) threw it. The one you saw had ASNF actualy carved into the wood.
When Carl (Gooding) picks up the radio and turns it on, the internal lighting was supplied by little orange christmas tree lights inserted into inverted test tubes, wrapped with wire mesh. The effect was to duplicate the old-style vacuum tubes. The radio's power supply in the movie consisted of dry cells covered with printed cardboard. The prop's actual power supply were four AA batteries hidden in the base, used to power the lights. As with most props, this one is not a real radio. The crackle and hiss you hear are sound efects.
The whole point of the inscriptions was to show that the two of them had something in common (something Master Chief Sunday tried to deny when Carl noticed the scars on his palms). Carl's father put the inscription there because it was something he and Carl shared. Master Chief put the second inscription there to show that he grew up in a similar type of relationship with his father.
shareI've seen this movie at least a dozen times."ASNF" stands for a son never forgets. Not anything else, and not nothing.
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