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You shot me! You shot me right in the arm and it really hurts!
— Mustafa · Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
Behind the line May contain spoilers.
Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
Mustafa reduces a dramatic shooting to an indignant complaint about how much his arm hurts. Repeating what happened gives the protest its comic bluntness. Rather than a grand final speech, the words insist on the immediate, ordinary misery of being injured.
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