Run Lola Run - what does the animated guy say?

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We watched Run Lola Run in my film class this week. Loved it. There was one part where a line of dialogue wasn’t subtitled, and I’m dying to find out what the guy says. I believe it happens right after Lola hangs up the phone with Manni at the beginning of the film (first 15-20 min). There’s a little animated bespectacled guy who pops up on screen and says something (we later see that it’s the roulette guy at the casino). What does he say? I couldn’t even tell what the syllables were. It sounded French-ish to me… I should really know if it was French or not considering I’m majoring in it, but that’s another story.

So what does the guy say? Thanks in advance!

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I think he said “Rien ne va plus”, which is a French expression used by croupiers when nobody wins.
It means the same as “the house wins” (not literally, I think literally it means “nothing goes”?).
I would have to check my copy to be 100% sure, but I am 99% sure.

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Rien ne va plus…actually is the term for no more bets. The croupier utters these words a few seconds after the little ball starts spinning in the wheel. Funny how I know the french words but none of the actual terms for items ona roulette table…

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Thanks so much! I was pretty sure I heard “rien” and “plus”, but I couldn’t make sense out of it. Thanks again!

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I thought it was a good film and deserved a better audience in the States, although for a German film subtitled in English, it did decent boxoffice.

Impressed that your film class is showing it!

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My film class specifically deals with “film in the age of new media.” So right now we’re looking at film as video games/video games as film. We also watched Groundhog Day and Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within.

I really love my film class this semester. Here are some of the other movies we watched:
Fight Club
Amélie
Moulin Rouge!
Les Triplettes de Belleville
Forrest Gump
Toy Story
Waking Life
A Hard Day’s Night
All awesome films in my opinion.

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I’ve seen all of those films save two. Do you think there’s a chance I could get class credit? :slight_smile:

As to what the croupier is saying, now that you know what it means, it makes sense, right? IMO it’s the filmmaker’s way of saying life is a gamble and each time you spin the wheel you don’t know what little thing is going to make it turn out differently.