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The opening motif from Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is played to represent "V for Victory" (dot-dot-dot-dash is the Morse code for V, which stands for victory); this was used as a victory motto for World War 2; which is what the narrator is talking about at this moment (the end of the war); onscreen we see an army surplus store; Steiner states the four-note motive normally (echoed in a descending sequence), then repeats the whole opening phrase a step higher (quite unexpectedly), then continues to vary Beethoven's emblematic gesture (almost mockingly) |
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