Comments on: david-slade

By: Aiden

Aiden — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:08:55 +0000

Haha, it’s kinda funny that people are saying, “Haha, you tricked me,” when what he’s doing is actually offensive. At least, it is in the UK, and since David Slade is British, he probably meant it to be offensive.
My understanding of it is that in the olden days before guns etc. when enemy soldiers were captured, those two fingers were cut off because those were the fingers used to draw a bow string, so if they were released then they couldn’t be archers anymore and then wouldn’t be a threat. (Also, I suspect that having a couple of fingers removed would probably impede their sword wielding skills as well.) So giving someone the “V” sign was like saying “Mwahahah! I still have my fingers and you don’t! So there! Take that, you fingerless buffoon!” Or something like that anyway. I don’t think it has quite the same meaning today, but in the UK I think it is maybe considered equally offensive as the middle finger.
But in an unusual fit of deciding-to-check-my-facts-before-posting-stuff-on-the-internet, this is what Wikipedia says on the subject of the origins of the “V” sign:

According to a popular legend the two-fingers salute and/or V sign derives from the gestures of longbowmen fighting in the English army at the Battle of Agincourt (1415) during the Hundred Years' War. The story claims that the French claimed that they would cut off the arrow-shooting fingers of all the English and Welsh longbowmen after they had won the battle at Agincourt. But the English came out victorious and showed off their two fingers, still intact. Historian Juliet Barker quotes Jean Le Fevre (who fought on the English side at Agincourt) as saying that Henry V included a reference to the French cutting off longbowmen's fingers in his pre-battle speech. There is no record of this explanation for the V sign before the 1970s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_sign

So there you have it. Archey is a common theme, but you can never believe everything you read, even if it's on Wikipedia.
In any case, I think it's meant to be offensive.

By: Anna_Loves_TWILIGHT

Anna_Loves_TWILIGHT — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 03:45:39 +0000

So is he trying to flip us off, or is he trying to tell us “peace?” I'm American, so I'm just gonna say he's saying peace. He sorta looks like hes in a “im gonna flip someone off” mood, though….

By: Paige

Paige — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 03:13:47 +0000

Don't ever to that to me again, Kaleb! You scared the crap out of me.....

I'm not sure about David Slade, but I trust Summit to make a good choice. Plus, Catherine was AWESOME and Chris seems like a really good director.

*crosses fingers*

By: Kathryn

Kathryn — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 03:12:29 +0000

Zella is 100% correct though i haven't heard it called 'The Vicky' before- may have to use that one.
He is from the UK and doing the two fingered salute to us, I'm afraid- though I guess it doesn't matter either way right?
Anyway I have never seen anything by him so I guess I have to before I decide if I'm excited about him or terrified of him ruining it!

It is nice to have a name for Eclipse's director already, though

By: Zella

Zella — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:51:25 +0000

Haha, I'm from Britian!

I am no expert on swearing, but here's the situation from my area of the land of pavements and tea.

We do have “flipping people off” or “the middle finger”, but we also have “the Vicky” or “the V”. When the palm faces the person who is making the sign, it's the V, but when the palm faces the person recieving the sign, it's peace.

By: shelby

shelby — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:21:40 +0000

omg kaleb you are hilarious i thought u were serious lol

By: Jessica K.

Jessica K. — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:14:25 +0000

Ha ha. Good one. You definitely tricked me.

By: Aiden

Aiden — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:08:55 +0000

So there you have it. Archey is a common theme, but you can never believe everything you read, even if it's on Wikipedia.
In any case, I think it's meant to be offensive.