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Amadeus · 1984 — 第 3 / 25 章 · 2'21" · B2

Mozart's Backwards Proposal, Explained：fiend

Mozart turns everything backwards — walking, singing, even the talk — and hides a real question inside the game. "Marry me" arrives as a joke, meets a flat "I'm not gonna marry you," then finally flips into "But I love you."

あらすじ

Alone together, Mozart and Constanze kill time by turning everything backwards. In their game, people walk, dance, sing and even talk in reverse. It builds to a sideways proposal — "Marry me" — which is turned down flat, until a reversed "But I love you" finally slips out.

ProposalsConfessing feelingsTeasingConfessing loveCoupleB2slowbritish
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注目の表現

go backwardsvery sickfiendnot gonna

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このシーンの表現

fiend

a wicked person, or a fanatic

Constanze calls Mozart a fiend, half joking.

He drove like a fiend.

このシーンの他の表現

  • go backwards

    move in reverse or decline

  • very sick

    seriously ill

  • not gonna

    not going to

  • it's serious

    this really matters

  • start without me

    begin without me

このシーンのメモ一覧

37 行のセリフに 18 件のメモ

表現 · A2know where you are

know your position

Yes! You don't know where you are.
文法 · B1where you are

noun clause: The where-clause is the object of know.

Yes! You don't know where you are.
表現 · B1go backwards

move in reverse or decline

Mozart explains that at this place everything goes backwards.

Here,everything goes backwards.
発音goes backwards

Goes backwards runs together.

Here,everything goes backwards.
表現 · A2very sick

seriously ill

Constanze deadpans that he is very sick, taking his nonsense literally.

Yes,you are. You are very sick.
表現 · B1say something backwards

say it in reverse

No! Say it backwards,shitwit!
スラング · C1shitwit

idiot — vulgar insult; avoid entirely in formal speech

No! Say it backwards,shitwit!
表現 · C1kiss my ass

rude dismissal

Kiss my ass.
スラング · C1Kiss my ass

rude dismissal — vulgar; only among close friends

Kiss my ass.
表現 · A2not play

refuse to join in

- I'm not playing! - Say it,it's serious.
文法 · B1I'm not playing

present continuous: The present continuous states a refusal right now.

- I'm not playing! - Say it,it's serious.
表現 · A1marry someone

take me as your spouse

Marry me.
表現 · B2a fiend

a wicked person, or a fanatic

Constanze calls Mozart a fiend, half joking.

I'm not gonna marry you. You're a fiend.
表現 · B2say it backwards

backwards for eat my shit

- Tihs-ym-tae. - What?
スラング · C2Eat my shit

very rude dismissal — extremely vulgar, even as a joke

Tihs. Eat my shit.
表現 · B2you filthy ...

you dirty ...

You filthy fiend!
表現 · A2start without someone

begin without someone

They've started without me.
発音started without

Started without blends across the words.

They've started without me.

「Mozart's Backwards Proposal」を読み解く

What's really going on

On the surface it's two people being silly with a party trick. Underneath, Mozart is doing what he always does: refusing to be serious, because seriousness is where he loses. He can't simply say he loves Constanze or ask her to marry him, so he buries it in a game — "Marry me" and "But I love you," both hidden inside backwards words. Constanze plays along and answers just as sharply, "I'm not gonna marry you," which is less a rejection than a dare. Both of them use the game as cover: they can flirt, insult and even propose, and if it goes wrong they can pretend they were only joking. The joke is the only way either of them can mean it.

Theme

RomanceA proposal and a confession are hidden inside a children's word game, so love only surfaces sideways, never stated straight.
AbsurdityThe whole game runs on a world where people walk, dance and sing backwards, turning a courtship into a nonsense contest.

このチャプターで学べること

  • Gonna is the spoken form of going to.
  • Go backwards can mean decline, not just reverse.
  • Fiend is a literary word that works as a mock insult.
  • The archbishop's entrance ends the game cold.

発音のポイント

  • goes backwards — Goes backwards runs together.
  • started without — Started without blends across the words.
Yes! You don't know where you are.

In the game, it means the other person is completely lost — in this backwards world you have to move the other way. Said on its own, it's also a plain jab: you have no idea what's going on.

People walk and dance and sing and even talk backwards.

The rule of the game: in this place every action is reversed, so people walk, dance, sing and talk the wrong way round. It's the line that names the whole scene.

Yes,you are. You are very sick.

It's a comeback: 'Yes, you are' answers an accusation, then lands harder with 'You are very sick.' Playful from the other side, but it sounds like a real insult if you don't know the game.

I'm not gonna marry you. You're a fiend.

The blunt answer to 'Marry me' — no, and the reason is that he or she is a monster. Spoken inside the game, it's teasing rather than a real goodbye; the playful 'fiend' is almost affectionate.

- I'm not playing! - Say it,it's serious.

One person wants to quit the game, the other refuses to let it drop and calls the next backward word 'serious' — with a straight face. The comedy is that a nonsense game is being treated as a solemn test.

このシーンについての質問

Why does Mozart say everything is backwards?

It's his whole way of being: he refuses the court's idea of dignity, so he turns the world upside down for fun. The backwards talk is him showing off — and hiding what he actually wants to say.

Does Constanze really mean it when she calls Mozart a fiend?

No — it's part of the game. Calling him a fiend and refusing to marry him are the teasing she does instead of saying yes, while the reversed "But I love you" shows where she really stands.

What does "fiend" mean here?

Literally a monster or a wicked person, but here it's affectionate name-calling: a lover's insult that means the opposite. It keeps the flirtation at arm's length while letting the real feeling show.

Is the proposal serious or just a joke?

Both. Coded into the backwards game, "Marry me" can be laughed off if the answer is no, and kept if it's yes. The reversed "But I love you" is the moment the joke stops being only a joke.

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