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Candy arrives at a London station and scolds two young officers for singing and shouting like rowdy civilians — until he sees the Victoria Cross on one of them and realises they are old comrades from South Africa. The tone flips from reprimand to warmth.
Growlers Barred, Please
Candy Scolds the Singing Officers
Read It, You Big Ape
At a London station, Candy is about to leave when he hears two young officers singing loudly in public. He lectures them on behaving like drunkards while men are dying in South Africa — then spots the VC on one man's chest and recognises a fellow survivor from Jordaan Siding. He offers them a lift and wishes them a good leave.
The scene turns on a class of English officer who is horrified by public noise and won over by a medal. Candy begins as a moralist, telling the young men to be ashamed and contrasting them with soldiers dying in South Africa; it is the performance of a man who believes in decorum above almost everything. Then he sees the VC, and the lecture dissolves — "You're Candy. 'Sugar' Candy!" — into the recognition of a shared past. The comradeship of the camp, where they all knew the same aria by heart, overrides the scolding entirely. The warm goodbye that follows — "I hope you two boys enjoy your leave. You've earned it." — is the film's affection and its blind spot in one: the same man who cannot bear noise in the street can only relate to fellow soldiers.
A1–C2 es la escala MCER. Las tarjetas por encima del nivel elegido se atenúan y la reproducción no se pausa en ellas.
“I could have done with a nap myself. I'm going to the theatre tonight.”
A wish for sleep is quietly cancelled by a prior engagement, which is how English grumbling stays polite.
Neutral
“Ought to be ashamed of yourselves, yelling and screaming like some damned... damned foreigner.”
The insult stumbles and repeats its swear, which shows a limited vocabulary and a temper running ahead of it.
Informal
“Officers and men losing their lives in South Africa, while young officers are roaring about public places like drunkards.”
Death and noise are set side by side with while, and the contrast does all the accusing.
Formal
“I hope you two boys enjoy your leave. You've earned it.”
After the scolding the tone turns warm, and 'earned it' makes the praise feel paid for, not flattered.
Neutral
“- Why? - Well, read it, you big ape.”
Calling a friend a big ape while shoving the letter at him is affection disguised as an insult.
Informal
Siguiente · 05too hot for himselfLa escena: Clive Reports a Letter From BerlinBecause they are singing and shouting in public, and he thinks officers should behave better — especially while soldiers are dying in South Africa.
The Victoria Cross on one man's chest. Once he sees it and learns where they served, he stops lecturing and treats them as old comrades.
One of the young officers; Candy recognises his family name and asks if he is the son of Barney Hopwell of the 66th. It turns a stranger into a comrade.
It has passed through many hands to reach Candy, carried from Berlin by way of a governess's sister. Suggie will not explain it, only tells him to read it himself.
It is Candy's instruction about the cab: he wants a hansom and will not take a growler, an old four-wheeled cab. It shows his fussy, particular style.
