Link all and right into one smooth sound.
It's all right!American Movie · 1999 — 第 15 / 19 章 · 4'48" · B1
Mark Pushes Bill Through 31 Takes, Explained：for the birds
Mark keeps rolling on the same lines, take after take, while Bill gets more and more fed up. "This is for the birds," Bill says, and finally he walks: "I ain't gonna do this anymore." The directing tip underneath is simple: "You have to believe in what you're saying, Bill."
あらすじ
On set, Mark pushes Bill through the same short speech again and again, counting the takes up past thirty. Bill grumbles that the whole thing is for the birds and finally refuses to continue. Later, one of them tells a long story about an overdose, a hospital brain scan, and where all the drugs ended up.
注目の表現
for the birdsthe shitsyou couldn't ask for anything betterI'm like
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このシーンの表現
for the birds
worthless or a waste
After take after take, Mark writes the whole session off as pointless.
Standing in line an hour to save two dollars is for the birds.
このシーンの他の表現
- the shits
a vulgar word for garbage
- you couldn't ask for anything better
glowing praise undercut by a complaint
- I'm like
introduces a reaction
- make it
to survive or pull through
- blacked out
lost consciousness suddenly
このシーンのメモ一覧
80 行のセリフに 28 件のメモ
a reason worth living
There's something to live for!tell someone so
Jesus told me so!vulgar; total garbage — A vulgar complaint; avoid it in formal settings.
This is the shits. For the birds.worthless or a waste
After take after take, Mark writes the whole session off as pointless.
This is for the birds.record or monitor
Hey, Mike, why don't you keep track of what takes these are.trust and mean it
You have to believe in what you're saying, Bill.come loose
'cause they clack a little bit when they loosen up in the mouth.try your hardest
Give it all you got. What take is this?won't, in dialect — Dialectal speech; too casual for writing.
- No, listen-- - I ain't gonna do this anymore.make do with it
Okay. I'm gonna see what we have to work with.full of
And it's like the room was filled with this thick green and red web, you know?emerge from
And it's coming out of Laura, and it's coming out of the table...Link coming out of; the t in out nearly disappears.
And it's coming out of Laura, and it's coming out of the table...suddenly
You know? And all of a sudden...lost consciousness suddenly
Mike describes hitting the table and losing consciousness as the drug takes over.
my face hit a table, you know, and I blacked out.relative clause: The who-clause adds that Mike lived with her, with the preposition left at the end.
And then her grandma came home, who she lived with, you know...participle phrase: The participle marks his state while lying in the hospital, not a second action.
So I'm laying in the hospital, passed out.mom, casually — An affectionate, informal word for mother.
And the doctor goes to my ma...to survive or pull through
The doctor gently tells Mike's mother her son may not survive.
"I don't think your son is gonna make it.Gonna swallows going to into a single word.
"I don't think your son is gonna make it.a mild swear word — A mild swear for surprise or annoyance.
I'm like, "Damn, where the hell am I?"end up being
They analyzed one hit, and it turned out to be...third conditional: It means the downer saved him; the past-unreal condition uses had not been for.
They said if it hadn't been for that little bit of downer, I'd be dead.what remains of it
I'm like, "Damn, now I can't drop the rest of my acid in the hospital."throw it away for good
So she flushes it down the toilet, you know?the most severe case
They said I was the worst case they ever had.slightly less than
a little under a year and a half ago.「Mark Pushes Bill Through 31 Takes」を読み解く
What's really going on
The scene is a small portrait of how hard it is to direct someone who has stopped believing. Mark asks for the same lines over and over, and the more he demands passion, the flatter Bill gets, until Bill answers the note with a deadpan question of his own: "I do?" The gap between them is not skill but conviction, and Mark names it: "You have to believe in what you're saying, Bill." Then the film cuts to an entirely different register, a wild anecdote about a P.C.P. overdose and a vision of a "thick green and red web" filling a room. Told calmly and with jokes, the story turns the film's obsession with suffering into something the subject can narrate, and survive.
Theme
SurvivalThe drug story ends with the fact that a bit of downer kept him alive, turning a near-death night into a story he can tell.
DreamsMark keeps pushing his actor to believe in the words, insisting the film is worth the endless takes.
このチャプターで学べること
- For the birds writes off a wasted effort.
- Make it can mean survive, not just arrive.
- The green web image sells a near-death memory.
- All of a sudden signals a hard turn.
発音のポイント
- all right — Link all and right into one smooth sound.
- coming out of — Link coming out of; the t in out nearly disappears.
- gonna — Gonna swallows going to into a single word.
There's something to live for!The line Mark is trying to get from Bill, a message of hope in the film. Bill can't deliver it with conviction, which is the scene's whole problem.
You have to believe in what you're saying, Bill.Mark's direction in one sentence: the performance fails not because of technique but because Bill doesn't feel the words.
They said if it hadn't been for that little bit of downer, I'd be dead.Doctors told them a small amount of a sedative is what saved his life, so the near-fatal trip also becomes the reason he's still here to tell it.
And it's like the room was filled with this thick green and red web, you know?The drug vision at the center of the story: everything in the room seems connected by a web bursting out of a person, the table, the walls.
このシーンについての質問
Why does Bill refuse to keep filming?
Mark makes him repeat the same speech for dozens of takes, and Bill no longer believes in the words. He eventually says he won't do it anymore and walks off.
What does 'for the birds' mean?
It's an old slang expression meaning worthless or a waste of effort. Bill uses it to say the whole exercise is pointless.
Why does Mark keep telling Bill to believe what he's saying?
Because the lines only work if the actor feels them. Mark is trying to get real conviction out of Bill instead of a flat recitation.
Whose story is told after the shoot?
One of the people on camera describes an accidental P.C.P. overdose. He blacked out, was rushed to hospital, and was told that a little bit of downer in the dose is what kept him alive.
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