calm the difficult crowd natives here means the difficult people she has to handle
-This is very important. -I have to go quell the natives.Don't Look Up · 2021 — 第 3 / 25 章 · 3'15" · B2
Kate and Mindy Wait Seven Hours, Explained：skirt around something
The White House keeps two scientists waiting over seven hours and never calls them in, then has the nerve to charge them for free snacks: "He charged us for the snacks, but they're free." The snub is the point — the people with the news are treated as an inconvenience.
あらすじ
Kate and Mindy arrive at the White House to deliver urgent news, but they are left waiting more than seven hours and never called in. Before they leave, they discover the general charged them for snacks that were free. On TV, President Orlean is buried in a scandal; at home, family tensions flare.
注目の表現
put someone upgo on recordskirt around somethingwrapped up in something
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このシーンの表現
skirt around something
avoid the real topic
Neither of them will name the problem, so Kate finally puts the avoidance itself on the table.
Let's stop skirting around the real problem.
このシーンの他の表現
- put someone up
give someone a place to stay
- go on record
state something publicly
- wrapped up in something
totally absorbed in
- clickbait
attention-grabbing trash
- out of sorts
not quite yourself
このシーンのメモ一覧
59 行のセリフに 33 件のメモ
the difficult crowd — An old, loaded term; avoid it in modern settings.
-This is very important. -I have to go quell the natives.negative question: A negative question like isn't it important presses the listener to agree.
Isn't it important that he was in the room with us? I mean, what…asked us to pay for
He charged us for the snacks, but they're free.ever, at all
Why on earth would he do that?Stress on earth so the disbelief comes through.
Why on earth would he do that?give someone a place to stay
After keeping them waiting, the staff offer a hotel, polite words hiding a brush-off.
We're gonna put you up in a hotel somewhere.Link put you up so it runs together.
We're gonna put you up in a hotel somewhere.joking with me
You gotta be fucking kidding me.summon someone in
And then they made us wait for over seven hours, but they never called us in. I couldn't believe it.causative make: Made us wait is causative: they forced us to wait.
And then they made us wait for over seven hours, but they never called us in. I couldn't believe it.The d in made often disappears before us.
And then they made us wait for over seven hours, but they never called us in. I couldn't believe it.totally absorbed in
Asked if she has seen the news, Kate says she has been buried in the project, half excuse, half hiding.
No, I've been pretty wrapped up in our… project.right in the middle of
President Orlean is in the middle of an all-time shit storm.a raging scandal — Crude; say mess or disaster in formal settings.
President Orlean is in the middle of an all-time shit storm.prepositional modifiers: The with phrase stacks up the nominee's problems in one breath.
Sheriff Wade Conlon was already a controversial nominee, with no law degree and a record of "shoot first and ask questions later."at this moment
Yeah, I'm watching it right now.state something publicly
The reporter has five students willing to speak openly, which is what gives the story its weight.
I found five former students who are willing to go on record that Conlon got noticeably aroused when he posed for their drawing class.relative clause: The who clause describes the students and what they will do.
I found five former students who are willing to go on record that Conlon got noticeably aroused when he posed for their drawing class.come across as
Or "engorged"? Because I don't want this to read like clickbait.attention-grabbing trash — Internet slang; rare in formal writing.
Or "engorged"? Because I don't want this to read like clickbait.not quite yourself — A gentle, everyday way to say someone seems off.
-Out of sorts tonight. -Can we have this conversation?avoid the real topic
Neither of them will name the problem, so Kate finally puts the avoidance itself on the table.
I feel like we're skirting around this.have a problem with
Do you have an issue with my mom? Is that what this is all about?well done
Way to go, Marshall. I'm proud of you, buddy.a steady score
-I'm a solid four. -[Mrs. Mindy] Ooh!a steady four — Casual scoring talk among friends and family.
-I'm a solid four. -[Mrs. Mindy] Ooh!improved compared with
Well, that's better than last month, right?say something, louder
A family member reminds Mindy to actually talk in tomorrow's meeting, revealing how quiet he gets.
You know, just remember to speak up in the meeting tomorrow. Okay?Link speak up in as one smooth run.
You know, just remember to speak up in the meeting tomorrow. Okay?claim the praise
When it's time to take credit, you kind of…noun clause: The if clause is the object of asked, meaning whether, not a condition.
She asked you if you were a lesbian. She did not say that you were a lesbian.meet with someone
Can I sit down with your mom to have lunch in, like, seven months?「Kate and Mindy Wait Seven Hours」を読み解く
What's really going on
The comedy is doing the work of an indictment. Waiting seven hours is not an accident of scheduling; it is how the powerful signal that you do not matter. The free-snack gag sharpens it: the general skims money off something that costs nothing, and the visitors are too stunned to laugh — "He charged us for the snacks, but they're free." Meanwhile the same White House is consumed by a media scandal at home, which tells you exactly where its attention is. Back with family, the mood curdles into avoidance: "I feel like we're skirting around this," someone says, and the pattern repeats — the people who should hear the truth keep talking around it. The scene's running joke is that information only travels when it is convenient.
Theme
AbsurdityA free snack gets sold to government visitors, and a seven-hour wait for urgent news is treated as normal.
PowerThe White House decides whose warnings get heard, leaving the scientists outside the room.
このチャプターで学べること
- Waiting seven hours is the White House saying you do not matter.
- Go on record gives a rumor the weight of a named witness.
- Out of sorts is how a scene shows a character before she speaks.
- Even free snacks can be turned into a small humiliation here.
- The news turns a personal scandal into public background noise.
発音のポイント
- on earth — Stress on earth so the disbelief comes through.
- put you up in — Link put you up so it runs together.
- made us — The d in made often disappears before us.
- speak up in — Link speak up in as one smooth run.
He charged us for the snacks, but they're free.The general took money for snacks the White House gives away, the small corruption that says more about the place than any policy.
Why on earth would he do that?The incredulous line about the petty charge; 'on earth' turns plain surprise into disbelief that anyone would bother.
And then they made us wait for over seven hours, but they never called us in. I couldn't believe it.The summary of the whole humiliation: a government that asked them to come, then ignored them for an entire day and never heard them out.
President Orlean is in the middle of an all-time shit storm.A blunt news line about the president: the scandal has fully swallowed the White House, and its timing buries the visitors' warning.
I feel like we're skirting around this.An accusation dropped into a private argument: instead of saying the real problem out loud, the two dance around it — the film's core habit of avoiding the truth.
このシーンについての質問
Why were Kate and Mindy kept waiting at the White House?
They came with urgent news, but no one called them in. An aide said the meeting wasn't going to happen that night and offered them a hotel, and they ended up waiting more than seven hours for nothing.
Why does the general charge them for the snacks?
The snacks are free — a staffer confirms it — so the charge is plain petty skimming. The joke shows small corruption and total indifference inside the same building that ignored their warning.
What does 'shit storm' mean in the newscast?
It means a scandal completely out of control. The reporter uses it for President Orlean's situation, which is exactly why the White House has no attention left for the visitors.
Who is Sheriff Wade Conlon?
He is President Orlean's controversial nominee, attacked over a leaked story that he became noticeably aroused while posing as a nude life model for a student drawing class.
Why does the family conversation turn awkward?
The talk slides from small things into what nobody wants to say. A plan to have lunch with a mother 'in, like, seven months' is so oddly specific and distant that it exposes how far apart they are.
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