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The recent twist has been to note the fact that longbows are traditionally made of yew wood, and claim that the act of drawing the bowstring was called plucking yew; the victorious English not only waved their fingers at the French, but shouted We can still pluck yew!
Around them edged subalterns, each plucking away like a blue-suited migrant worker the decorations that went up before each stop.
Here it's Bono (a bland Jay Underwood), dressed in a fur vest, plucking out "I Got You, Babe."
The Dardennes are peerless at staging and shooting rituals, such as Rosetta's day selling waffles and beer from a truck: taking an order, plucking a waffle from the iron, grabbing a beer from the shelf, counting money, making change, saying thank you, taking another order … It's easy to dismiss films that make grandiose statements about how people ought to live but never convincingly portray how they do.
Decapitated fowl are chucked in to speed the plucking and goats are seared to remove the hair.