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Okay, let's talk like turkeys.

Adolf's reverse-psychology lecture · Jojo Rabbit (2019)

Okay, let's talk like turkeys.

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You can't tell your mother or that Jew will cut off your Nazi head,

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1Okay, let's talk like turkeys.
In the sceneAdolf announces serious advice with a garbled version of the idiom talk turkey.
Everyday exampleLet's talk turkey about the budget.
2 You can't tell your mother or that Jew will cut off your Nazi head,
3but there's no reason this thing in the attic needs to ruin your life.
4In fact, you could use it to your advantage .
5How?
6When someone tries to use mind powers on me, know what I do?
7Use mind powers back on them.
8Remember last year when that one-arm pirate von Stauffenberg tried to blow me up with a table bomb?
9Yeah, you survived.
10 Correctomundo .
11 The only reason I survived, apart from having bombproof legs , is because I outwitted old von Stauffy.
12I let him think that I was dead, when in actual fact , I was absolutely fine.
13 By pretending I was dead , I drew out all the traitors.
14So what are you going to do?
15Pretend I'm dead?
16Exactly. Wait, no.
17No, what I mean is this:
18 make her feel safe and then she'll drop her guard and then you will be the one in control.
19- Reverse psychology. - Don't complicate things.
20Just use my backwards mind power trick, and everything will be fine.

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