Lion's Courage

       The Wizard of Oz                                                                                   Murder in Greenwich

                 The ribbon  attached to a medal represents the medal itself.                                Can you find the Lion's ribbon in this screenshot?                       

Of course, you can find the Lion's medal in the packing-for-Greenwich scene of Fuhrman's movie. Once you know what to look for, you can't miss it. If anyone other than Fuhrman were planting Wizard of Oz clues in his movie, the flag in the photo behind him would wrap it up. It is inconceivable, however, that Fuhrman would stop with the ribbon if there was a way he could represent the Lion's medal with overkill. The solution is another example of mixing what you see with how you say what you see.

Do you see a metal cross with the word "courage" written across it it? Or do you see a copper-colored cross with a silver-colored inlay and a blue banner that spells "courage" in copper-colored letters?

Do you see a uniformed police officer with a tin badge on his cap, or a cop in a blue uniform with a silver-colored badge pinned to his chest?

Cop is the shortened form of the original slang for a London policeman, "copper." You get the cross by turning a noun (the copper cross) into a verb (you see Fuhrman cross the room). Courage is "spelled out" in Fuhrman's preparation to go where he knows he will receive a hostile reception.