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November 10

svu episode traumatic wound

Ref desk "TV episode troll" again
The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.
at a subway station, i found questions on paper about svu episode traumatic wound so is anyone else a fan about svu please etc?(Aarzoo19921999 (talk) 04:45, 10 November 2021 (UTC)).

November 11

Mystery of Canadian soldier

While I was reading more information about Queen and Country, I learned a little more about the older sister of John Boorman. Her name was Wendy. She and her Canadian soldier husband, Rene, were parents to a son, Robert, and a daughter, Linda. But what was Rene's last name? Plus, I also learned about Boorman's younger sister, Angela. What are Angela, Robert and Linda doing these days? (I know Wendy passed away in 1994.)24.193.124.17 (talk) 06:30, 11 November 2021 (UTC)

An extensive Google search failed to find anything, except that the wartime romance between his sister and the Canadian soldier is portrayed (with altered names, "Dawn" and "Bruce") in Boorman's autobiographical 1987 film Hope and Glory. Alansplodge (talk) 19:08, 11 November 2021 (UTC)

November 13

The Silence of the Lambs dancing scene

When I recently watched The Silence of the Lambs again, I was wondering about Jame Gumb's "lower parts" visible in the [in]famous dancing scene, as it looks very much like female genitals to me – with just a tuft of pubic hair visible, though it is supposed to represent his penis tucked in between his legs. However, when trying to reproduce this, you realize that, for reasons of anatomy, a penis actually can't be completely hidden between the legs that way. Hence my question: What is the deal with this particular aspect of the scene in question? How may the staging have been managed technically?--Hildeoc (talk) 22:08, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

November 14

Help identifying old war movie

I'm trying to find an old WW2 war/espionage movie that I saw as a (very) young kid. All I remember clearly is a scene where the heroes infiltrate the enemy lines by posing as sailors on a decrepit freighter, going as far as pouring whisky on their clothes to complete the drunk sailor illusion. A subplot involves a scary (for my four year old self) spy-lady that dispatches enemy spies with a stiletto in the back, but I'm not 100% sure it's from the same movie. I watched this in the very early eighties. No, it's not The Guns of Navarone.

If anyone can point me in the right direction, you have my thanks. 85.186.138.169 (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 20:33, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

Nevermind, I found it: The Sea Wolves. Quite a lot of the cast also starred in Guns of Navarone. The scary spy lady was Barbara Kellerman.

Resolved

November 15

English football archives

Is there any site which would have results for English football leagues outside the Football League before 2000? There is a site called thefootballarchives.com, but results are available only to registered users. All non-league sites which I know begin at about 2000 at earliest, and I have not found any non-league results site with results also before 2000 where results would be available also to unregistered users. --40bus (talk) 08:55, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

Do you have access to newspapers of the period of interest, e.g. via a public library? --184.145.50.17 (talk) 10:26, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

No, and there was a site called tonykempster.co.uk, but is was closed few weeks ago, and it featured some results which were only in that site, and not in any other site. I am very disappointed about this closure. --40bus (talk) 11:12, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

That's because Tony died in 2009 and the site had been kept going by friends. FCHD might have some of the info you require, either on his website or by contacting him direct. Otherwise it'll be rsssf or contacting libraries. Nanonic (talk) 11:20, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

Try English Non-League Archive 1965-98. Alansplodge (talk) 19:25, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

Or Non-League English Football. Alansplodge (talk) 19:28, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

These sites have only tables, no results. --40bus (talk) 08:27, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

November 17

Phrase: "I'm something I'm not" from The Matrix

• Neo says to Trinity:
• Neo: Morpheus did what he did because he believed I'm something I'm not.
• Trinity: What?
• Neo: I'm not the One, Trinity.

What does "I'm something I'm not" mean? Rizosome (talk) 00:18, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

In this context "something I'm not" is "The One".

Neo is saying that Morpheus acted because he believed that Neo is "The One" therefore Morpheus was acting on bad information.

(Of course, we later learn that Morpheus was correct, but at this point Neo believes otherwise.)

ApLundell (talk) 01:17, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

Nightwatching

The film Nightwatching

posits a conspiracy to murder within the musketeer regiment of Frans Banninck Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch, and suggests that Rembrandt may have immortalized a conspiracy theory using subtle allegory in his group portrait of the regiment, subverting what was to have been a highly prestigious commission for both painter and subject.

And its companion film Rembrandt's J'Accuse further pursues this notion.

1. Who is it that was supposed to be murdered? Neither film article says.

2. Was this murder theory a fictional invention for the films, or does it have some kind of historical antecedent, even a crappy one like Salieri poisoning Mozart?

Thanks.

2602:24A:DE47:B8E0:1B43:29FD:A863:33CA (talk) 01:23, 17 November 2021 (UTC)