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Turn on automatic pilot.Airplane! · 1980 — 第 6 / 10 章 · 2'31" · B2
Elaine Calls Air Traffic Control, Explained：crack under pressure
With the crew unconscious, stewardess Elaine calls Chicago for help, and air controller McCroskey discovers that fog has closed every field east of the Rockies. His response to the crisis is a deadpan complaint: "Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking."
あらすじ
Captain Oveur is out cold and the copilot and navigator are down too, so the stewardess Elaine Dickinson radios Chicago Air Control. Steve McCroskey takes over, halts all takeoffs, learns that fog has shut every landing field east of the Rockies, and realizes the plane must limp all the way to Chicago.
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このシーンの表現
crack under pressure
fall apart when stressed
McCroskey sets the bar for the man he wants in the tower.
She never cracked under pressure during the merger talks.
このシーンの他の表現
- the wrong week
the worst possible week
- no matter what
regardless of
- I read you
I hear you clearly
- pull out
take it out
- deflating
losing air
このシーンのメモ一覧
37 行のセリフに 18 件のメモ
Stress both words and keep a clean break before Over.
We're in terrible trouble. Over.pause or delay it
Get back to you in a minute. Hold all takeoffs.issue a notice
Put out a general bulletin to suspend all meal service on flights out of Los Angeles.stay at one's station
Tell all dispatchers to remain at their posts.gonna: Gonna is the spoken form of going to, fine in talk but not in formal writing.
It's gonna be a long night.Keep gonna light and run be a together.
It's gonna be a long night.what about — A casual suggestion between people who know each other.
- How about some coffee, Johnny? - No, thanks.on this side of a place Here it means every field west of the Rockies.
I want the weather on every landing field this side of the Rockies no matter what the size.search a place for something
Terry, check down the field for emergency equipment.all the way down to ground Deck here means ground level, not a ship deck.
Chief, we got fog, right down to the deck, every place east of the Rockies.make it through to a place
They'll have to come through to Chicago.know it completely
A man who knows that plane inside and out and won't crack under pressure.relative clause: The who-clause hangs both requirements on the noun man.
A man who knows that plane inside and out and won't crack under pressure.directly beside it
Elaine, right next to the throttle is the air-speed gauge.on the right side of it
That's the dial just below and to the right of the air-speed indicator.it is losing air
Oh, my God! The automatic pilot, it's deflating!a valve for blowing air in
Now that is the manual inflation nozzle. Pull it out and blow on it.「Elaine Calls Air Traffic Control」を読み解く
What's really going on
The scene plays a genuine emergency through Airplane!'s deadpan machine. Elaine's call is all business — 'We're in terrible trouble. Over.' — and the tower responds with procedure: hold takeoffs, notify dispatchers, gather weather. Then the film quietly turns the crisis into a joke about appetite and nerve. McCroskey suspends 'all meal service' as if that were the emergency, and when he asks for a man who won't 'crack under pressure,' his own aside gives him away: 'Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking.' That is the film's whole method — catastrophe delivered in the flat voice of routine, with the characters' private habits leaking through. The deflating automatic pilot later turns the danger into slapstick, but the tone here stays perfectly even.
Theme
AbsurdityA full emergency is handled in the flat tones of office procedure, down to suspending meal service and a joke about quitting smoking.
CourageMcCroskey asks for a man who won't crack under pressure, measuring nerve even as he admits his own is fraying.
このチャプターで学べること
- The wrong week turns a disaster into a self-mocking aside.
- Put out a bulletin is bureaucratic wording used for comic effect.
- No matter what the size flattens every condition into one order.
- Crack under pressure names the exact fear behind the search.
発音のポイント
- terrible trouble — Stress both words and keep a clean break before Over.
- gonna be a — Keep gonna light and run be a together.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking.McCroskey's deadpan way of admitting the crisis is stressing him; the joke reveals his vice as the real emergency.
Put out a general bulletin to suspend all meal service on flights out of Los Angeles.An absurd priority in a life-or-death emergency, played completely straight as routine procedure.
A man who knows that plane inside and out and won't crack under pressure.McCroskey's description of the expert he needs, the standard the rest of the film tests its hero against.
It's gonna be a long night.The controller's flat summary of the situation: resignation delivered as ordinary small talk.
このシーンについての質問
Why is the plane in trouble?
Captain Oveur has passed out, and the copilot and navigator are down as well, leaving the stewardess Elaine Dickinson to radio Chicago for help.
Why can't the plane land anywhere?
Fog has come down to the ground at every field east of the Rockies, so no airport can take it. The plane has to press on to Chicago.
What does 'crack under pressure' mean?
It means to break down or fail when things get stressful. McCroskey wants a man who knows the plane inside and out and won't crack under pressure.
Why does McCroskey mention quitting smoking?
It is his running joke: each escalating crisis makes him say he picked the wrong week to give up smoking, then drinking, and so on. It shows the strain while keeping the tone flat.
Who does McCroskey send for?
He asks for Rex Kramer, the best available man — someone who knows the plane inside and out and won't crack under pressure.
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