Vik-Nik-Sor
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Green Goblin tells Spider-Man:
-- There are 8 million people in this city, and those teeming masses exist for the sole purpose of lifting the few exceptional people onto their shoulders. You and me, we're exceptional.
Spider-Man, movie
I think that by "the few exceptional people" here refers to the two specific people -- himself and Spider-Man.
If he'd said "few exceptional people" instead, without the article, it would be about unspecified few people, and in this case, in the next sentence ("You and me, we're exceptional.") he would reckon himself and Spider-Man among the category of "few exceptional people". Am I correct?
Thank you.
-- There are 8 million people in this city, and those teeming masses exist for the sole purpose of lifting the few exceptional people onto their shoulders. You and me, we're exceptional.
Spider-Man, movie
I think that by "the few exceptional people" here refers to the two specific people -- himself and Spider-Man.
If he'd said "few exceptional people" instead, without the article, it would be about unspecified few people, and in this case, in the next sentence ("You and me, we're exceptional.") he would reckon himself and Spider-Man among the category of "few exceptional people". Am I correct?
Thank you.