be too hard on oneself
The last thing you wanna do is get down on yourself as a therapist.Deconstructing Harry · 1997 — 第 14 / 17 章 · 4'56" · B2
The Character Born From Harry's Pen, Explained：got even with
A woman confronts Harry as if she were a real person: "So you got even with your ex-wife and with your sister, and I was born?" His answer — that she came "from your pen" — is the joke and the wound at once. A writer's inventions keep turning up as people who can accuse him.
あらすじ
A character Harry invented appears to him as a living woman and confronts him about using her, and his ex-wife and sister, as material for his fiction. Later, while shopping, Harry runs into an old friend, Larry, who has just come back from a boat trip down the Amazon, and introduces him to Fay.
注目の表現
got even withdisappointed inwise-crackingtook up with
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このシーンの表現
got even with
took revenge on
The invented son coldly accuses Harry of taking revenge through his fiction.
He got even with his old boss by quitting at the worst possible time.
このシーンの他の表現
- disappointed in
let down by someone
- wise-cracking
making jokes constantly
- took up with
started a relationship with
- eternally grateful
deeply and permanently thankful
- started out
began as or by
このシーンのメモ一覧
112 行のセリフに 27 件のメモ
stuff, belongings — Vulgar slang for belongings, said in anger.
I want you to get your shit,an extremely vulgar insult — Extremely vulgar; never use it in polite company.
And I mean tonight, motherfucker!took revenge on
The invented son coldly accuses Harry of taking revenge through his fiction.
So you got even with your ex-wife and with your sister, and I was born?should never have done it
My sister never should have married Burt.modal perfect: Should have plus a past participle expresses regret or blame about the past.
My sister never should have married Burt.let down by someone
So she disappointed you in her choice of husbands?a vulgar dismissal — A blunt vulgar retort; hostile and informal.
Well, fuck you. She loves Burt.a natural talent for
She had a flair for physics.emphatic do: The auxiliary did adds emphasis, making the refusal to forgive sound final.
Just my father did never forgive him when his wife died.come to terms with the truth that
You know, he could just never accept the fact that there are things you can't know.appositive clause: The that-clause spells out what the fact is, rather than describing it.
You know, he could just never accept the fact that there are things you can't know.unable to do something
The man is incapable of an act of faith.become something
You turned into this double-talking, wise-cracking, tap-dancing liar.constantly joking — Casual and slightly critical; not a compliment.
You turned into this double-talking, wise-cracking, tap-dancing liar.started a relationship with
Harry admits he cannot explain why he got involved with that patient.
I have no idea why I took up with that patient.continue in a dull way
You know, and my marriage was droning on.deeply and permanently thankful
For once Harry drops the jokes, saying he is forever thankful for his son.
She... you know, she gave me Hilly, and for that I'm... I'm eternally grateful 'cause I love him so much.In fast speech what are you can blur into something like wacha.
Larry, what are you doing here?return
Running into Larry after years, Harry's first question is when he got back.
I can't believe it. When did you get back?a journey by boat
I took a boat trip down the Amazon.Link took and a so it sounds like took-a.
I took a boat trip down the Amazon.do fine without something
Yeah, I can live without that, however.a long shared history
We go back a long way.began as or by
Larry recalls their shared beginnings as aspiring writers, with a hidden comparison.
We both started out wanting to be Kafka, and you got slightly closer than me.The d in started is nearly dropped before out.
We both started out wanting to be Kafka, and you got slightly closer than me.pick up the skill of
I've always wanted to learn how to snorkel.「The Character Born From Harry's Pen」を読み解く
What's really going on
The woman's accusation is simple and impossible to answer: Harry turns the people closest to him into fiction, so in a sense he made her. "So you got even with your ex-wife and with your sister, and I was born?" she asks, and he can only say "From your pen." When she describes how he behaved when Joan caught him — "You turned into this double-talking, wise-cracking, tap-dancing liar" — it is the ugliest portrait in the film, and it comes from his own creation. The later reunion with Larry is lighter but rhymes with it: two writers who "started out wanting to be Kafka," and one of them admits he became the insect. Everything here is about the cost of turning life into art.
Theme
IdentityA writer's invention insists she is a person, blurring the line between creator and created.
GuiltHarry's own characters and memories keep returning to charge him with the lives he used.
このチャプターで学べること
- A creator can be judged by the people he invents.
- Old friends measure each other with polite, barbed comparisons.
- Fiction lets a writer hide his grudges in plain sight.
- Jealousy often arrives dressed as a compliment.
発音のポイント
- what are you — In fast speech what are you can blur into something like wacha.
- took a boat — Link took and a so it sounds like took-a.
- both started out — The d in started is nearly dropped before out.
You turned into this double-talking, wise-cracking, tap-dancing liar.The accusation that lands hardest: when he was caught cheating, Harry didn't become honest or ashamed — he became a performer.
We both started out wanting to be Kafka, and you got slightly closer than me.Larry's wry way of saying they began as writers with the same ambition, and Harry has ended up the more celebrated one.
No, because when she caught you, you weren't a man.The reason Joan hates Harry isn't the affair itself but how he behaved when it was discovered — that is the part no one forgives.
So you got even with your ex-wife and with your sister, and I was born?The character's summary of Harry's whole method: he settles scores by writing people into his stories, and she is one of the results.
このシーンについての質問
Who is the woman confronting Harry?
She is a character from Harry's fiction who appears to him as if she were real. She calls herself the product of his pen, which is the film's way of staging the guilt he feels about the people he writes about.
Why does she say she was 'born from your pen'?
Because Harry created her on the page. Her point is that his writing is not harmless invention — it takes real people's lives and turns them into characters, so she exists only because he used them.
What did Harry do when Joan caught him cheating?
According to the accusation, he didn't act like a man. He turned into a double-talking, wise-cracking, tap-dancing liar — in other words, he joked and performed instead of facing what he had done.
Who is Larry, and how does Harry know him?
Larry is an old friend and fellow writer Harry runs into at a store. He has just returned from a boat trip down the Amazon, and Harry introduces him to Fay before inviting them to East Hampton.
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第 2 章spin gold out ofLucy Pulls a Gun on Harry
第 3 章to the moonDeath Comes for Mendel Birnbaum
第 4 章out of focusMel Is Out of Focus
第 5 章a match made in heavenHarry Begs Joan for a Visitation Day
第 6 章it's benignHarry Learns It's Benign
第 7 章talk someone out ofHarry Begs Her Not to Marry Larry
第 8 章on the houseHarry Asks Cookie to Come Along
第 9 章thinly disguisedHarry Meets His Own Creation
第 10 章all mapped outI'm Being Replaced
第 11 章return to one's rootsDoris Confronts Harry About His Book
第 12 章let sleeping dogs lieMax's Dark Secret at the Dinner Table
第 13 章tap-dancingHarry Sleeps With a Therapist's Patient
再生中 · 第 14 章got even withThe Character Born From Harry's Pen
第 15 章call offHarry Shows Up With a Corpse
第 16 章the house always winsThe Devil Proves He's a Bigger Sinner
第 17 章under my noseFay Chooses Larry Over Harry第 14 / 17 章 · 残り約 13 分