where are you bringing me
The other way. Where are you taking me?Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb · 1964 — 第 16 / 20 章 · 2'11" · B2
Mandrake Bluffs His Way to the Phone, Explained：executive officer
Colonel Guano marches Mandrake to the gate at gunpoint, convinced he is a 'deviated prevert' leading a mutiny. Mandrake seizes on one detail — the president wants Ripper — and turns it into leverage: "I've got to talk to him." It ends at a phone box, with Guano warning, "I'll blow your head off."
あらすじ
Colonel Guano takes Mandrake to the main gate at gunpoint, believing he is a pervert and a traitor. Mandrake uses the one fact he has: the president wants to speak to Ripper, and Ripper is dead. As his executive officer, Mandrake argues, he must take the call. Guano lets him try the phone box.
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このシーンの表現
executive officer
a unit's second-in-command
Mandrake names himself Ripper's executive officer to claim the call is his to take.
The executive officer signed the order while the colonel was away.
このシーンの他の表現
- prevert
a mangled "pervert"
- bloody well
an emphatic British intensifier
- blow your head off
shoot someone fatally
- person-to-person call
a call to one named person
- come up
arise without warning
このシーンのメモ一覧
29 行のセリフに 27 件のメモ
what has been happening
Colonel, I must know what you think has been going on here.have to hear your view
Colonel, I must know what you think has been going on here.want to — Everyday speech; avoid it in formal writing.
You wanna know what I think? Yes.a mangled "pervert" — Learn the joke; don't reuse it as an insult.
I think you're some kind of deviated "prevert."besides that
Now, move! [jet engines roaring] On top of that, I don't know anything about any planes attacking russia.know nothing about
Now, move! [jet engines roaring] On top of that, I don't know anything about any planes attacking russia.my only order was to
All I was told to do was get Ripper on the phone with the president of the United States.hold on a moment
Now just one second. You just said, "the president."wants to talk to
The president wants to speak to general Ripper, doesn't he?tag question: A tag question turns a statement into a request for confirmation.
The president wants to speak to general Ripper, doesn't he?formal tag: The full form is he not sounds more formal and colder than isn't he.
Now, general Ripper is dead, is he not?an emphatic British intensifier
Even at gunpoint Mandrake insists, in British style, that the president must speak to him.
I am general Ripper's executive officer, So the president will bloody well want to speak to me, won't he?Stress both words to make the demand sound absolute.
I am general Ripper's executive officer, So the president will bloody well want to speak to me, won't he?a British emphatic — Common in British talk; avoid it in formal settings.
I am general Ripper's executive officer, So the president will bloody well want to speak to me, won't he?the line might be free
There's a telephone box over there and the line may be open.have to do
I don't want to talk to him, colonel, I've got to talk to him.In fast speech I've got to becomes I've gotta.
I don't want to talk to him, colonel, I've got to talk to him.conditional clause: The if-clause stacks his demands before the main clause delivers the threat.
And I can assure you, if you don't put that gun away and stop this stupid nonsense, The court of inquiry on this will give you such a pranging, You'll be lucky if you end up wearing the uniform of a bloody toilet attendant!The t in don't collides with put and almost disappears.
And I can assure you, if you don't put that gun away and stop this stupid nonsense, The court of inquiry on this will give you such a pranging, You'll be lucky if you end up wearing the uniform of a bloody toilet attendant!a severe telling-off — British forces slang; keep it out of formal writing.
And I can assure you, if you don't put that gun away and stop this stupid nonsense, The court of inquiry on this will give you such a pranging, You'll be lucky if you end up wearing the uniform of a bloody toilet attendant!attempt to get
Go ahead, try and get the president of the United States on the phone.shoot someone fatally
Guano warns Mandrake that any trick in the phone box will get him shot.
If you try any preversions in there, I'll blow your head off.This is blurs together, with is barely audible.
Operator? This is group captain lionel Mandrake.has suddenly arisen
Something urgent has come up and I want you to place an emergency person-to-person call...Link Something and urgent so they run as one.
Something urgent has come up and I want you to place an emergency person-to-person call...a reverse-charge call
Could you, uh-- could you make this a collect call, operator?「Mandrake Bluffs His Way to the Phone」を読み解く
What's really going on
The comedy here is the gap between the gun and the argument. Guano has the weapon and the certainty, but his theory is nonsense — Mandrake is a "deviated prevert" plotting a "mutiny of preverts" — while Mandrake has nothing but a phone number and a fact. He wins the scene by refusing to argue about the accusation and pressing the one thing that matters: "I don't want to talk to him, colonel, I've got to talk to him." That shift, from wanting to having to, is what makes Guano pause. The threat at the end — "I'll blow your head off" — is the last of Guano's authority, and it comes after he has already given in. The film lets the absurd and the urgent share the same sentence: a man who thinks fluoride is a plot can still be moved by the president's name.
Theme
AbsurdityAn armed colonel marches a man off as a 'prevert' plotting a 'mutiny of preverts,' while the real crisis is a phone call.
DutyMandrake insists he must speak to the president, turning rank and procedure into a way past the gun.
このチャプターで学べること
- Rank is his only weapon in this standoff.
- A mispronounced word can undercut any threat.
- Mandrake keeps his calm and keeps pushing.
- The phone call matters more than the gun.
発音のポイント
- bloody well — Stress both words to make the demand sound absolute.
- I've got to — In fast speech I've got to becomes I've gotta.
- don't put — The t in don't collides with put and almost disappears.
- This is — This is blurs together, with is barely audible.
Colonel, I must know what you think has been going on here.Mandrake asks the colonel to explain his reasoning, trying to find a way through the armed standoff.
I think you're some kind of deviated "prevert."Guano's absurd accusation, complete with a mispronounced word, showing how little he really understands.
All I was told to do was get Ripper on the phone with the president of the United States.Mandrake's one solid fact, which he will use as leverage to get to a telephone.
I am general Ripper's executive officer, So the president will bloody well want to speak to me, won't he?His argument from rank: as the dead commander's second-in-command, he is the man the president should be talking to.
I don't want to talk to him, colonel, I've got to talk to him.The line that shifts the scene: not desire but necessity, which gives Mandrake the authority to insist.
And I can assure you, if you don't put that gun away and stop this stupid nonsense, The court of inquiry on this will give you such a pranging, You'll be lucky if you end up wearing the uniform of a bloody toilet attendant!Mandrake's threat of a future court of inquiry, using the promise of disgrace to make Guano back down.
If you try any preversions in there, I'll blow your head off.Guano's parting threat as Mandrake enters the phone box, the last gesture of a man losing the argument.
このシーンについての質問
Why does Colonel Guano arrest Mandrake?
He believes Mandrake is a 'deviated prevert' who was organizing a mutiny with Ripper. Guano does not know about the real nuclear alert and thinks Mandrake is the criminal.
How does Mandrake get to use the phone?
He uses the fact that the president wants to speak to Ripper, who is dead, and argues that as Ripper's executive officer he is the one who must take the call. He also threatens a court of inquiry.
What does 'executive officer' mean?
It is the second-in-command of a military unit, often shortened to XO. Mandrake uses the title to claim he is now the man in charge at the base.
Who does Mandrake try to call?
He asks the operator to place an emergency person-to-person call to President Merkin Muffley at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. He then discovers he does not have enough change.
Why does Mandrake ask for a collect call?
He runs out of coins at the phone box, so he asks the operator to make it a collect call, meaning the person receiving it — the president's office — would pay for it.
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