Die Blechtrommel

Deangelo 2022-04-19 09:03:11

Oscar (David Bennent David Bennent ornaments) family is a bit absurd. His mother fell in love with her cousin and was forced to marry a businessman because close relatives could not marry. Only his mother knew whose child Oscar was. On his third birthday, his mother gave him a tin drum. Oscar liked it very much and hung it around his neck and knocked it.
One day, Oscar discovered the secret of his mother and uncle while hiding under the table to play. He thought that the adult world was full of deceit, so he decided not to grow up. When Oscar jumped from the upstairs, a miracle happened, he no longer grew taller, and his height was always only three years old!
Oscar also accidentally acquired a mysterious ability - a high-decibel scream. When he saw his mother and his uncle rendezvous, he would climb up the bell tower and shatter all the glass with a scream; when the teacher scolded him, his scream broke the teacher's eyes. Oscar maintained his height at the age of three and grew up slowly.

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The Tin Drum quotes

  • Bebra: You must join us, you must!

    Oskar Matzerath: You know, Mr. Bebra... to tell the truth, I prefer to be a member of the audience, and let my little art flower in secret.

    Bebra: My dear Oskar, trust an experienced colleague. Our kind must never sit in the audience. Our kind must perform and run the show, or the others will run *us*. The others are coming. They will occupy the fairgrounds, they will stage torchlight parades, build rostrums, fill the rostrums, and from those rostrums preach our destruction.

  • Oskar Matzerath: There once was a drummer. His name was Oskar. He lost his poor mama, who had eat to much fish. There was once a credulous people... who believed in Santa Claus. But Santa Claus was really... the gas man! There was once a toy merchant. His name was Sigismund Markus... and he sold tin drums lacquered red and white. There was once a drummer. His name was Oskar. There was once a toy merchant... whose name was Markus... and he took all the toys in the world away with him.