31st August 2004, 11:51 AM
ABF, that's about right. When that dedicated hard core friend of a friend sitting nearby said that to me, I thought it DID mean something totally different and a huge part of the meaning of the movie was changed. The person had to TELL me that all under heaven was just an expression that was a sort of unifying thing. Honestly, I agree that "all under heaven" would confuse a large number of people, myself included, and LEGITIMATLY so at that. In the context it sounds like "taking over the world is an admirable goal".
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)