In the movie Eastern Promises...?!
Question: there was a scene where Anna's (Naomi Watts) uncle Stepan Insults Viggo Mortensen and spits on Viggo. After this Viggo touches his neck using his index finger and middle finger in a V shape and points @ Stepan. What did that gesture mean?
Obviously it was an insult...but what kind of insult? A threat?
Answers: there was a scene where Anna's (Naomi Watts) uncle Stepan Insults Viggo Mortensen and spits on Viggo. After this Viggo touches his neck using his index finger and middle finger in a V shape and points @ Stepan. What did that gesture mean?
Obviously it was an insult...but what kind of insult? A threat?
The V sign, when the palm is facing toward the person giving the sign, has long been an insulting gesture in England and later in the rest of the United Kingdom, as well as in Ireland and parts of France. It is frequently used to signify defiance (especially to authority), contempt or derision and is often accompanied by the obscene phrase 'f**k off'.
Yes, in Australia it means the middle finger!
Umm, I'm gonna go with what she said! lol I don't know but from that trailer you sent me it does look like a good movie, I'll have to see it now.
I asked myself the same question when I saw the movie myself.
I have looked everywhere for an explanation and I haven't found one yet.
Your best bet is to find a Russian and ask them.
Good luck!
Maybe you can give me a hollar if you find it?