produce combined energy
Buildings create synergy. They're a focus for creativity.24 Hour Party People · 2002 — 第 4 / 10 章 · 4'15" · B2
Tony Wilson Opens the Hacienda, Explained：go to town
Tony introduces the Hacienda as if buildings could change how people think, and the opening night is nearly empty. "The smaller the attendance, the bigger the history," he insists, comparing thirty people to the Last Supper. The scene makes self-belief into an art form.
あらすじ
Tony shows off the new club, Fac 51, and talks about how buildings create synergy and change the way people think — the Victorians, he says, went to town when they built railways. Opening night draws only about thirty people, and one partner feels betrayed. Tony shrugs it off: the smaller the attendance, the bigger the history.
注目の表現
go to towna mammoth taskwankerstake yourself too seriously
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このシーンの表現
go to town
to do it in style
Tony says Victorian railway builders did not settle for huts, and a mate sums it up: they went to town.
They really went to town on the wedding decorations.
このシーンの他の表現
- a mammoth task
a huge job
- wankers
idiotic jerks
- take yourself too seriously
to be too self-important
- turn up
to arrive, to show up
- have nothing in common
to share nothing
このシーンのメモ一覧
75 行のセリフに 24 件のメモ
a centre for
Buildings create synergy. They're a focus for creativity.to build
When the Victorians built railways, they didn't just put up Portakabins.time clause: The when-clause sets the time, and the main clause delivers the point.
When the Victorians built railways, they didn't just put up Portakabins.Run went-to-town together with a flapped t.
- Jesus Christ. - They went to town.how people think
Buildings change... the way people think.as a keepsake
..thought we might use them as a souvenir or something.to distribute
They didn't hand out tickets for the Sermon on the Mount.idiotic jerks — A strong British insult; never in polite company.
I'm a genius, you're fucking wankers. You'll never see me again.Flap the t in what and link it into a.
What a fucking joke!the final hiding place
Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented.land a booking
It's what you do when you can't get a gig.predicative clause: The what-clause sits after is and names the whole activity.
It's what you do when you can't get a gig.a performance job — Musicians' everyday word for a paid performance.
It's what you do when you can't get a gig.one notch below
It's one down from Celebrity Squares.less is somehow more
The smaller the attendance, the bigger the history.the comparative: The + comparative twice means the more one thing, the more the other.
The smaller the attendance, the bigger the history.an offensive word for a little person — Offensive and dated; say little person instead.
This morning, I was doing a feature on an elephant being washed by a midget.a person with dwarfism — Clinically less loaded, but still delicate face to face.
He was... He was a dwarf.is important to
- It doesn't matter. - Well, it matters to him.Glide from matters into to without a pause.
- It doesn't matter. - Well, it matters to him.pretend we never met
..get me a proper gig or let's forget we ever met.see you later
- Catch you later! - Right. Don't call me...very, crudely intensified — A crude intensifier stuffed into very; highly informal.
Yeah. Yes, I do. I take myself veryfucking seriously.「Tony Wilson Opens the Hacienda」を読み解く
What's really going on
The scene is about belief as a business strategy. Tony's pitch for the Hacienda is pure romance — "Buildings create synergy" and "Buildings change the way people think" — and the film stages it against an opening night that is almost empty. Where a normal promoter would panic, Tony reframes the failure as destiny: "The smaller the attendance, the bigger the history." He backs it with a list of small beginnings — the Last Supper, Kitty Hawk, Archimedes in his bath — turning a thin crowd into proof of greatness. Later, the same confidence meets a journalist who tells him, "You take yourself too seriously," and Tony's answer is that he does, proudly. The scene's joke and its argument are the same: in Manchester, self-invention is the whole game.
Theme
AmbitionTony sells an empty club night as history in the making, turning a small turnout into proof that something important is starting.
IdentityThe scene is about self-invention: a city mocked as 'Dark Ages Manchester' gets a myth built on buildings, bands and belief.
このチャプターで学べること
- To go to town is to do something lavishly.
- The last refuge is a final hiding place for the second-rate.
- Turn up is British for arrive or show up.
- Taking yourself seriously means acting self-important.
発音のポイント
- went to town — Run went-to-town together with a flapped t.
- What a — Flap the t in what and link it into a.
- matters to — Glide from matters into to without a pause.
Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented.A joke with a sting: Tony dismisses jazz as what people play when they can't get real work, echoing the scene's habit of ranking everything.
The smaller the attendance, the bigger the history.Tony's paradox and his defense of a nearly empty opening night: obscurity now is proof that this will matter later.
You know your problem? You take yourself too seriously.The journalist's jab at Tony, who cheerfully agrees — treating even self-importance as something to be proud of.
They didn't hand out tickets for the Sermon on the Mount.Tony's answer to late tickets: real events don't need invitations. People came to the Sermon because it was worth coming to.
Well, goodbye. We obviously have nothing in common.A crisp break-up line: the speakers have reached an impasse and one of them ends it by naming the gap out loud.
このシーンについての質問
Why does Tony talk about buildings changing how people think?
It is his pitch for the Hacienda: a building is not just a venue but social engineering. He wants the club to stand for an idea, not only a night out.
Why is the opening night so important in this scene?
Because it looks like a failure — only about thirty people — and Tony refuses to read it that way. He insists small beginnings are how history gets made.
What does "the smaller the attendance, the bigger the history" mean?
It means a tiny turnout can matter more than a huge one, because it becomes the story people tell later. Tony uses it to spin an empty room into a legend.
Why does the journalist tell Tony he takes himself too seriously?
She is annoyed by how grand he sounds about a silly zoo assignment. His reply — that he does take himself seriously — shows the self-belief that drives the rest of the film.
What happens to Tony's partnership in this scene?
One partner feels betrayed by the club's poor start and walks away, but Tony keeps going, treating the setback as part of a larger story.
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