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And Marvin was crushed, crushed!Deconstructing Harry · 1997 — 第 2 / 17 章 · 5'02" · C1
Lucy Pulls a Gun on Harry, Explained：spin gold out of
Lucy doesn't come to the roof to talk. She has read herself in Harry's manuscript down to the smallest detail, and the gun in her hand is her answer. "You didn't care enough to disguise anything," she tells him — and for a writer, that is the confession she wants.
あらすじ
Harry is up on the roof working on a story when Lucy arrives with a gun. She is the woman he put into his fiction, family secrets and all, and she has come to make him answer for it. She meant to kill herself, then turns the gun on him instead.
注目の表現
spin gold out ofblow one's brains outgive me a breakwound up
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このシーンの表現
spin gold out of
turn something into value
Gun in hand, Lucy calls Harry a black magician who profits from other people's pain.
Writers spin gold out of their own bad years.
このシーンの他の表現
- blow one's brains out
shoot oneself fatally
- give me a break
stop being unfair
- wound up
ended up somewhere
- big fucking deal
sarcastic so what
- for Christ's sake
an exasperated plea
このシーンのメモ一覧
90 行のセリフに 25 件のメモ
prove something true
You've gone and confirmed it all for her.a foolish man — A Yiddish insult, playful among friends, rude to strangers.
The poor schmuck country doctor, the violinist...have an affair with
Her younger sister in Connecticut cheating with her husband...an exasperated plea
Reading that even the picture window made it into the book, Lucy blurts out an exasperated exclamation.
The picture window, for Christ's sake.remarks about someone
Cruel observations about Marvin with his barbecue and his chef's hat.relative clause: The clause that passed for wit describes the perceptions, the ones mistaken for cleverness.
It was not simply that Leslie had become numbed with the inane spate of leaden perceptions that passed for wit from Marvin.relative clause: Two relative clauses, with who and whose, both describe the older sister, split by Leslie felt.
but wanted to have children to retaliate against her older sister, who did not have a maternal bone in her being and whose every inch, Leslie felt, was occupied by gluttonous self-love.move a hand across
Ken ran his hand over Leslie's large round breasts and mounted her from the rear.not even try to do
Except, of course, I am Leslie, because you made no attempt to disguise anything.not care at all
You didn't give a fuck!The g in fuckin' drops, and it links straight onto heart.
You broke my fuckin' heart.a crude word for a woman — A vulgar slur for a woman; do not use it.
You left your wife and me for some little cooze.make someone suffer
Everyone's misery. You even cause them misery.end up in
I'm the one who wound up in Bellevue.Wound up in runs together as one blurred phrase.
I'm the one who wound up in Bellevue.not in someone's nature
No, you're not, because it's not in you.It's reduces to a light sound; the stress falls on not and you.
No, you're not, because it's not in you.persuade someone to do
Who else could have talked me into giving him a blow job at my father's funeral?!modal perfect: Could have talked marks a past possibility: who else could possibly have persuaded me.
Who else could have talked me into giving him a blow job at my father's funeral?!oral sex — Vulgar slang for oral sex; keep it private.
Who else could have talked me into giving him a blow job at my father's funeral?!if it pleases you
Look, if it makes you happy, my life has been going very badly.waste it all on
I've squandered everything I have on shrinks and lawyers and whores.a crazy person — Yiddish for crazy, often teasing, but not polite.
w-with a world-class meshugana cunt and beg for my life.an extremely vulgar slur — One of the harshest slurs; never say it.
w-with a world-class meshugana cunt and beg for my life.「Lucy Pulls a Gun on Harry」を読み解く
What's really going on
For all her rage, Lucy isn't really there to shoot anyone. She needs Harry to admit what he did: he took her life, her sister, the affair, even the picture window, and turned it into material. "You didn't care enough to disguise anything," she says, and that is the injury — not the book, but the fact that he never bothered to hide her. Harry answers with self-pity: "I'm the one who wound up in Bellevue." When she says he spins gold out of human misery, she names his method exactly, and the joke is that she is quoting his cruelty back at him. The scene is funny and cruel at once.
Theme
BetrayalHarry turned the people closest to him, and their private pain, into fiction without disguising any of it.
Dark humorA suicide threat becomes a punchline about a writer who mines other people's misery for gold.
このチャプターで学べること
- The gun turns a literary quarrel into a real threat.
- Harry defends art by confessing his own ruin.
- Big fucking deal works as sarcasm, not praise.
- An old story buys Harry just enough time.
発音のポイント
- fuckin' heart — The g in fuckin' drops, and it links straight onto heart.
- wound up in — Wound up in runs together as one blurred phrase.
- it's not in — It's reduces to a light sound; the stress falls on not and you.
Kill the black magician so he can't spin any more gold out of human misery.Lucy's verdict on Harry: his art runs on real people's suffering, and the only way to stop the damage is to stop him.
I've squandered everything I have on shrinks and lawyers and whores.Harry's defense — he has burned all his money on therapy, legal trouble and sex, so he is already paying for his life.
No, you're not, because it's not in you.Harry tells Lucy she won't really kill herself: it isn't in her nature. It is both a comfort and an insult.
I don't have the nerve to kill myself.Lucy admits she can't go through with suicide — seconds before turning the gun on Harry instead.
このシーンについての質問
Why does Lucy want to kill Harry?
She has read his new manuscript and sees herself, her sister and their family's private life copied into it without any disguise. Killing him is her way of stopping him from turning more people's pain into fiction.
Is Lucy really going to shoot herself?
No. Harry points out that suicide isn't in her nature, and she admits she doesn't have the nerve. She redirects the gun at him, which is the point of the scene.
Who are Leslie and Lucy in this scene?
They are the same person. Leslie is the character Harry invented for his book; Lucy is the real woman standing in front of him, and she insists on the difference between the two.
Was Harry really the one who was committed?
He says he wound up in Bellevue, the New York psychiatric hospital, and holds it up as proof that he has paid too. Lucy's reply — that he deserved it and worse — refuses the excuse.
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