stop you from falling asleep
One friend promises the tapes will keep the other awake through the night.
I'll try and keep you awake with them tonight.American Movie · 1999 — 第 16 / 19 章 · 4'49" · B2
Mark's Drunken Rant, Explained：just like you
A football game plays while the beer does its work, and Mark turns on the people around him. Then the turn: "I'll be okay again. I'll be just like you, wandering around the kitchen." He has spent the night raging at an ordinary factory life—and now admits he is walking straight into it.
あらすじ
Friends watch a football game and a stack of tapes at home. One man has just won $200 and they debate spending it at a bar; another has had too much to drink and starts shouting at everyone, cursing factory workers. Then he turns quiet, saying he will be just like the person he just attacked.
注目の表現
keep you awakeyou know whatbucksgo down
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いま
このシーンの表現
just like you
the very thing he swore to avoid
Right after swearing never to be like them, Mark calmly predicts he will be.
Sure, I'll be just like you, tired and quiet at forty.
このシーンの他の表現
- keep you awake
stop you from falling asleep
- you know what
a lead-in before news or a proposal
- bucks
dollars, in casual speech
- go down
to fall or be beaten
- go to hell
a blunt curse meaning get lost
このシーンのメモ一覧
64 行のセリフに 25 件のメモ
the day right before an event
It's almost like the day before Christmas.work a newspaper delivery job
You can take a paper route, you buy a CP-16, and you shoot the film.to handle or use something
What are you gonna do with that 200 bucks?dollars — Casual talk about money; keep it out of formal writing.
What are you gonna do with that 200 bucks?to come up with an idea
So if you think of something to spend 20 bucks on, maybe we can spend it.conditional clause: The if-clause sets the condition; the main clause offers the result.
So if you think of something to spend 20 bucks on, maybe we can spend it.large jugs of beer
About four pitchers at Jim Mitchell's.Going to collapses to gonna; buy and it run together.
I don't either, man, but if you were gonna buy it, I'll drink it.predicative clause: The what-clause completes That is, naming what they will watch.
The Patriots are coming back. They're getting into position-- - There's four minutes left. - That's what we're going to see now.already too much
You have had more than enough to drink.Link more and than; than reduces to a light syllable.
You have had more than enough to drink.to shut the door
- Hey, close the door. - Yeah.a crude exclamation — A crude reaction to surprise or annoyance; never formal.
- Just outside the Patriot's 40. - Shit!the real point or meaning
This is what it's all about-- winning a championship your way.great, impressive — Everyday approval, very casual.
That's cool. The Packers won the Super Bowl.someone who works in a factory
Every bitch-ass motherfucking factory worker will go down like that too.a crude insult word — Extremely crude; avoid outside film dialogue.
Bitch motherfucker!suddenly, exactly in that way
Just like that.To reduces to a schwa and glues onto go.
You can go to fucking hell.to walk about with no clear aim
I'll be okay again. I'll be just like you, wandering around the kitchen.participial phrase: The -ing phrase adds what he is doing, describing a state, not a new action.
I'll be okay again. I'll be just like you, wandering around the kitchen.all day long
Sunrise to sunset.whenever, on each occasion
In an interview, the speaker uses every time to string memories into a tribute.
Every time I spoke with him and every time we got together...the most admirable quality
I think that's the best thing I can say about his character.「Mark's Drunken Rant」を読み解く
What's really going on
The alcohol strips the filter off a man who has spent years insisting he is an artist and not a wage earner. The ugliest line in the film lands here—"I will never be like you, you fucking job-working, 40-hour motherfucker"—and it is aimed at the exact life he is afraid of ending up in. What makes it more than a rant is the collapse that follows: "I'll be okay again. I'll be just like you, wandering around the kitchen." The film does not explain the contradiction away. Friends respond with gentleness, calling him indomitable, which is both true and a way of not arguing. He is fighting a class and a fate at once, and losing.
Theme
ClassMark defines himself against the factory worker and the forty-hour week he is expected to accept.
AmbitionThe drunken rage is the shadow of his dream: fear of becoming ordinary and losing the fight.
このチャプターで学べること
- Never be like you rejects a whole way of life
- Go down can mean to fall or be beaten
- Bucks is casual American talk for dollars
- More than enough is a soft but firm stop
発音のポイント
- gonna buy it — Going to collapses to gonna; buy and it run together.
- more than enough — Link more and than; than reduces to a light syllable.
- go to — To reduces to a schwa and glues onto go.
I will never be like you, you fucking job-working, 40-hour motherfucker.The film's most quoted insult: Mark declares he will not become an ordinary wage earner, and aims the contempt at whoever is in the room.
I'll be okay again. I'll be just like you, wandering around the kitchen.The admission under the insult—he expects to sober up, calm down, and turn into the very person he just cursed.
This is what it's all about-- winning a championship your way.Said over the game: success is only worth it when it is done on your own terms, which is also Mark's argument for his film.
You have had more than enough to drink.A flat refusal from someone who has been watching him drink—less a warning than a decision that the night is over.
このシーンについての質問
Why is Mark so angry in this scene?
He has been drinking, and the football game and talk of factory jobs bring out his fear of ending up like everyone else. The insults are aimed at an ordinary life he despises and dreads.
Who is Mark yelling at?
The film keeps the target partly off-screen, and that ambiguity is the point. The "you" stands for a whole kind of life—steady work, a kitchen, forty hours—more than one person.
Does Mark mean it when he says he will be just like you?
Yes, and that is the sting. Right after raging at that life, he admits he will sober up and live it anyway, which undercuts the whole outburst.
What does "indomitable" mean here?
It means unbeatable or impossible to discourage. A friend uses it to praise Mark, but in context it also softens the scene—he keeps going even after these collapses.
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第 12 章let a day go byMark Watches His Old Footage
第 13 章the ship is sinkingMark Shoots the Last Take of Coven
第 14 章on the moneyMark Records the Film's First Line
第 15 章for the birdsMark Pushes Bill Through 31 Takes
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第 18 章catharticMark Smashes Cars on Set
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