Little Scenes in LTROI That Make Me Laugh

[OUTSIDER]

It was kinda funny when Oskar was in the other room emulating his scolding mother about going out with a killer on the loose.

[OUTSIDER]

I also giggle when Hakan hits his head before landing after Eli noms him. BAM!

I nearly felt the impact myself! That was a great scene. What exactly was that he hit ... an entry foyer?

[Twofaced]

i actually liked the fact they did very good on capturing the small things and the whole scenery was calm
i wonder if its gonna be same setting or modern on the new one.

[Unscathed]

Like others here, the post-shower scene brought me a big smile and felt so warm. Also, Håkan's plunge, while a gruesome scene, was hilariously dummy-y.

I laugh every time when Oskar asks Eli to go steady. Now, I haven't heard the expression 'go steady' enough to know its connotations, but the Swedish phrase "Får jag chans på dig?" tickles my chuckle-bone. It was such a haphazard expression used by youngsters back when I was little, where they wouldn't even realise what a relationship actually was! To me, 'go steady' sounds more serious. Perhaps a native english speaker could enlighten me? Does that phrase too have an air of innocent ignorance about it?

[sauvin]

Like others here, the post-shower scene brought me a big smile and felt so warm. Also, Håkan's plunge, while a gruesome scene, was hilariously dummy-y.

I laugh every time when Oskar asks Eli to go steady. Now, I haven't heard the expression 'go steady' enough to know its connotations, but the Swedish phrase "Får jag chans på dig?" tickles my chuckle-bone. It was such a haphazard expression used by youngsters back when I was little, where they wouldn't even realise what a relationship actually was! To me, 'go steady' sounds more serious. Perhaps a native english speaker could enlighten me? Does that phrase too have an air of innocent ignorance about it?

Going steady is something American kids do at various ages ranging from grade school on up through high school. The later years of high school and the college years, when a relationship manages to develop, it's "seeing somebody" or "in a relationship". "Going steady" is a very informal and effectively nonbinding agreement to go out and do things together on a regular basis. In its most serious terms, it's an admission that "yea, someday, maybe we'll think about talking about getting engaged, or maybe not", but more usually it's kind of like a relationship with training wheels - it's for practise more than for effect. Think of it as an exploratory phase.

In Oskar's particular case, an American gets the impression it means rather more than this, that Oskar is looking to bypass the "exploratory" phase and wants something resembling outright commitment.

[Unscathed]

Like others here, the post-shower scene brought me a big smile and felt so warm. Also, Håkan's plunge, while a gruesome scene, was hilariously dummy-y.

I laugh every time when Oskar asks Eli to go steady. Now, I haven't heard the expression 'go steady' enough to know its connotations, but the Swedish phrase "Får jag chans på dig?" tickles my chuckle-bone. It was such a haphazard expression used by youngsters back when I was little, where they wouldn't even realise what a relationship actually was! To me, 'go steady' sounds more serious. Perhaps a native english speaker could enlighten me? Does that phrase too have an air of innocent ignorance about it?

Going steady is something American kids do at various ages ranging from grade school on up through high school. The later years of high school and the college years, when a relationship manages to develop, it's "seeing somebody" or "in a relationship". "Going steady" is a very informal and effectively nonbinding agreement to go out and do things together on a regular basis. In its most serious terms, it's an admission that "yea, someday, maybe we'll think about talking about getting engaged, or maybe not", but more usually it's kind of like a relationship with training wheels - it's for practise more than for effect. Think of it as an exploratory phase.

In Oskar's particular case, an American gets the impression it means rather more than this, that Oskar is looking to bypass the "exploratory" phase and wants something resembling outright commitment.

I see. It actually is a good translation then, since your description also matches the swedish phrase. I agree about Oskar too; his question, while innocent, did seem thought through. Thanks for clearing things up

[lombano]

It was kinda funny when Oskar was in the other room emulating his scolding mother about going out with a killer on the loose.

Yes, while other scenes are very heartwarming, this is the only one I found truly funny, apart from when Oskar says 'You go home, I've lived here way longer than you.'

I can't recall any place in the film where I really laughed. JAL's books are loaded with funny/quirky comments and situations, and here I laugh.
But in the film, graveness is too close.

For me it's the exact opposite, in the novel all the irony and humour somehow make it grimmer, as if the horror is conveyed more strongly by a dose of irony.

I think that's his reaction to how Ávila speaks Swedish. He says something weird like "you can make strong" or something like that, but I think the only subs that got this right were on that not-so-legal screener versions.

A mistake that makes a lot of sense for a Spanish-speaker to make: he's probably thinking something like 'para que te hagas fuerte' and translating literally, word by word. The verb 'hacer' means to make but can also be used as an informal way of saying 'become' or 'get.'

[jellmoo]

As silly as it might be, I get a small chuckle when we first meet Eli. There's Oskar knifing the tree, and suddenly Eli is standing atop the jungle gym. Then, as though the tall leap to the ground were nothing, she leaps down with the grace of a cat. Unfortunately, poor Lina takes a single step and then almost trips in the snow. I don't know why that amuses me so much.

[sauvin]

As silly as it might be, I get a small chuckle when we first meet Eli. There's Oskar knifing the tree, and suddenly Eli is standing atop the jungle gym. Then, as though the tall leap to the ground were nothing, she leaps down with the grace of a cat. Unfortunately, poor Lina takes a single step and then almost trips in the snow. I don't know why that amuses me so much.

Must be [deleted] to have been twelve years old for a couple of centuries; the body, caught in a perfect stasis just as it was starting to really go nuts with all kinds of internal changes, leaves her in a perpetually off-balance state, maybe? You'll notice in a later scene, just after Oskar gives her the Morse Code sheet, they run off to their respective apartments in order to try it out. Eli's running, while far from graceless, is the typical lope/canter of a growing girl. Bet she hates that, too. She's the gazelle with the occasionally clumsy grace of a drunken chimpanzee.

Edit: 5 Novembre 2011, replaced a "bad word" with [deleted] to comply with renewed restrictions on language.

[jellmoo]

Must be hell to have been twelve years old for a couple of centuries; the body, caught in a perfect stasis just as it was starting to really go nuts with all kinds of internal changes, leaves her in a perpetually off-balance state, maybe? You'll notice in a later scene, just after Oskar gives her the Morse Code sheet, they run off to their respective apartments in order to try it out. Eli's running, while far from graceless, is the typical lope/canter of a growing girl. Bet she hates that, too. She's the gazelle with the occasionally clumsy grace of a drunken chimpanzee.

A very good point. I actually hadn't thought of that possibility. I was pretty much stuck on how the shot of her jumping down drew attention to an almost supernatural grace, only to have the poor girl stumble in the snow two steps later.