go shopping at the store
Relax. Eddie, I want you to go to the store for me.Do the Right Thing · 1989 — 第 8 / 20 章 · 2'37" · B2
Da Mayor Sends Eddie for Beer, Explained：too smart for your own britches
Da Mayor pays a kid a dollar to fetch a quart of Miller High Life, then a group of young men on the block start mocking him for being old and drunk. He fires back with his own hard-won authority: "Unless you done that, you don't know me, my pain, my hurt, my feelings."
あらすじ
On the stoop, Da Mayor offers a neighborhood kid named Eddie money to run to the corner store and buy him a quart of beer. Eddie keeps asking exactly what and how much, which irritates Da Mayor. When a group of younger men mock the old man as broke and drunk, Da Mayor answers with a speech about poverty and respect.
注目の表現
too smart for your own britchescut this shit outHis Honorlike a fossil
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このシーンの表現
too smart for your own britches
too clever for your own good
Da Mayor wants Eddie to run an errand, but the boy keeps questioning the cost, so Da Mayor needles him.
Don't be too smart for your own britches with your new boss.
このシーンの他の表現
- cut this shit out
stop this nonsense
- His Honor
sarcastic title of respect
- like a fossil
extremely old
- put food in their mouth
earn enough to feed them
- Drunk Ass
a pun on drunk and Da
このシーンのメモ一覧
60 行のセリフに 25 件のメモ
Link much is it so it runs like one word.
Question. How much is it gonna cost?be supposed to: Be supposed to marks what is expected; here it sounds like a challenge.
How am I supposed to know how much it's gonna cost if I don't even know what I'm buying?Reduce you're to /jər/ before too.
Eddie, you're too smart for your own britches.a quarter-gallon of beer
I want you to get me a quart of beer, Miller High Life.confined to bed
If anybody bothers you, say it's for your bed-ridden, old granddaddy.double negative: Double negatives do not cancel here; they still mean he has no money.
He ain't got no money to be giving nobody no money.The t in ain't often drops, and got blends into no.
He ain't got no money to be giving nobody no money.am not / have not — Nonstandard speech; keep it out of writing.
He ain't got no money to be giving nobody no money.stop bothering someone
Leave the man alone.used for emphasis — Adds punch when angry; too rough for polite talk.
Damn. You all leave me the hell alone.seriously, truly — Casual confirmation between friends.
For real. His Honor.a worthless loafer — An insult; never say it to someone's face.
Man, you a bum, man. You're an old, drunk zero, man.The t in can't nearly vanishes before even.
Can't even pee straight, nary a one of you. What you know about anything?not a single one — Old-fashioned; heard mostly in dialect.
Can't even pee straight, nary a one of you. What you know about anything?stand at the doorway
Unless you... Unless you done stood in the door,beg for food
listened to your five hungry children crying for bread,face someone directly
Your woman standing there, you can't even look her in the eye.nothing at all — Very vulgar; never use it in formal settings.
You don't know shit!allow someone to continue
No, let him finish. Let the old man finish.relative clause: The that-clause describes the sense, likening it to what a goat got.
You all ain't got the sense that God give a billy goat!find work
I'd be out getting a job, doing something, anything to put food in their mouth.cause your own trouble
You're the one who put yourself in this situation, man.always drunk
Chill man. Never sober!have self-respect
I respect those who respect themselves.「Da Mayor Sends Eddie for Beer」を読み解く
What's really going on
The errand is a small transaction, but the scene is about dignity. Da Mayor pays a ten-year-old to do what he can no longer easily do himself, and the young men on the block read his poverty and drinking as proof that he is worthless. Da Mayor refuses that verdict, turning his own suffering into evidence: "Unless you done that, you don't know me, my pain, my hurt, my feelings." His defense is not that he has been a good man, but that only people who have known real hunger have the standing to judge him. The younger man counters that the past does not excuse the present: "I'd be out getting a job, doing something, anything to put food in their mouth." Whoever is right, the exchange shows how quickly respect turns into a fight over who has earned it.
Theme
ClassA dollar errand and a bottle of beer expose the gap between a broke old man and the younger men who mock his poverty as a choice.
PrideDa Mayor refuses to accept the label of worthless drunk, insisting that only those who have suffered hunger can judge him.
このチャプターで学べること
- Mockery on this block is a group sport, not private cruelty.
- Da Mayor answers insults with a resume of real suffering.
- The ten-year-old is a pawn in an adult argument.
- Respect, not beer, is the fight under the name-calling.
発音のポイント
- much is it — Link much is it so it runs like one word.
- you're too — Reduce you're to /jər/ before too.
- ain't got no — The t in ain't often drops, and got blends into no.
- Can't even — The t in can't nearly vanishes before even.
Unless you done that, you don't know me, my pain, my hurt, my feelings.Da Mayor's core defense: only someone who has been unable to feed his own children has the right to judge him, so the young men mocking him do not really know him.
I'd be out getting a job, doing something, anything to put food in their mouth.The younger man's rebuttal: he says he would never just stand by while his children went hungry, implying Da Mayor's hardship is a result of his own choices.
I wouldn't stand in the doorway and listen to my five children go hungry.He answers Da Mayor's story about hungry children by claiming he would have acted instead of helplessly watching, turning Da Mayor's suffering back into an accusation.
Eddie, you're too smart for your own britches.Da Mayor's complaint that the kid's clever questions and haggling are too much for his age. It warns that being this sharp and cocky will get him into trouble.
このシーンについての質問
Why does Da Mayor pay a kid to buy his beer?
He is broke and too old to make the trip easily, and he wants a quart of Miller High Life. Paying Eddie turns a simple errand into a small trade, which is why the boy keeps asking how much it will cost.
Is Da Mayor really just a drunk, or is he being treated unfairly?
He does drink, and the young men have seen him drunk on the block many times. But the scene also shows him defending himself with real experience, so the film leaves it open whether he deserves their contempt or their sympathy.
What does "DA" mean in "Da Mayor, Drunk Ass"?
Da Mayor is his nickname, short for "the Mayor," though he was never elected. The joke twists the letters D and A into "Drunk Ass," mocking him as a useless old drunk.
Who is Eddie, and why is Da Mayor annoyed with him?
Eddie is a local kid Da Mayor sends to the store. He keeps questioning what to buy and how much it costs, refusing to just obey, which is why Da Mayor tells him he is too smart for his own britches.
Why do the younger men mock Da Mayor?
They see a broke, self-appointed "mayor" who drinks all day and claims authority he does not have. Calling him His Honor and an old drunk is their way of cutting him down to size.
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