In Bruges, the movie
Today I went to the movie In Bruges in Newcastle together with Tinne. It’s a funny movie about two assassins in Bruges, a tourism city in Belgium. Now that we are back at our place in Durham UK, I immediately wondered whether they are playing the movie in Belgian movie theaters too. Surprisingly they don’t. Sure they make fun of Belgians, Belgium and the “shit-hole Bruges” quite a lot. But hey, that doesn’t mean you can’t air the movie in our country! We can take a couple of yokes. Don’t worry!
It was a bit sad that they didn’t speak a single word of Flemish/Dutch in the movie. It’s not really normal for Flemish people to spontaneously and automatically reply in fluent English each time any guy asks something. Even the people screaming when a dude falls out of the sky at the end of the movie don’t use a single word of Dutch for the shouting. I’m quite sure you’d hear a “Wat is da joh??” or a “Godverdoemme! Wah valt er naa ut de lucht?! Nen Englander!” and then they’d probably go look at say something like: “ei mo, dien hee een geweer”. And they’d continue with a “goh ligge, die zen aant schieten na mekander!”.
Nothing like that in the movie. Just boring English speaking people doing English, like in every typical movie. They did get the bus company, De Lijn, right in the beginning of the movie. Also some romantic images from the city Bruges. That was about it, regretfully.
Anyway, me and Tinne had a few good laughs. Funny Belgians, etc etc.
DBusGlibBindings and AsyncWorker combined
I added a sample to the DBus page that I wrote this weekend. It uses AsyncWorker. I also made the now two samples actually compile. Although I have not really tested them, you can download them too now.