Good Will Hunting · 1997 — 第 3 / 21 章 · 5'01" · B2

Lambeau Tracks Down Will, Explained:a shot in the dark

Will wins his own legal arguments — 'You know, another judge might care, but you hit a cop. You're going in' — and Lambeau starts hunting for the kid behind the courtroom genius. A flirtatious phone call to Skylar plays against the professor closing in on his door.

あらすじ

This chapter cuts between three threads: Will defending himself in court and getting his old charges thrown out, his awkward call asking Skylar out, and Lambeau tracking him down through a campus office and his parole officer. The thread closes when Lambeau appears at Will's door.

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got her numbershow upparole officerself-defense

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このシーンの表現

a shot in the dark

a guess without much hope

While asking Skylar out, Will guesses her major and softens the guess with this idiom.

It was a shot in the dark, but it worked.

このシーンの他の表現

  • got her number

    obtained her phone number

  • show up

    arrive or appear

  • parole officer

    an officer who supervises parolees

  • self-defense

    the right to defend oneself

  • rap sheet

    a criminal record

このシーンのメモ一覧

68 行のセリフに 23 件のメモ

発音do you

Do you is often reduced to d'ya in fast questions.

Well, I got her number! How do you like them apples?
スラング · B2them apples

how about that — A gloating, teasing phrase; skip it with strangers.

Well, I got her number! How do you like them apples?
表現 · A2turn off something

switch something off

I turned off the light
表現 · B1nothing like that

not that kind of thing

- Look, if anything was stolen, I should know about it. - No, no, no. It's nothing like that.
発音didn't show

Didn't loses its final t, and show up links together.

Willy didn't show up for work today.
スラング · B2Asshole

a jerk — A rude insult; avoid it in polite talk.

Asshole.
文法 · C1whereby a defendant can claim self-defense

relative adverb whereby: Whereby means by which and introduces how the rule works, typical of legal prose.

whereby a defendant can claim self-defense against an agent of the government...
表現 · C1speak in one's own defence

argue on one's own behalf

to speak in my own defence, sir, by the Constitution of the United States.
表現 · B1take a long breath

breathe in deeply

And when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girded too tight.
表現 · B1look something over

examine by reading

I've been sitting here for ten minutes now lookin' over this rap sheet of yours.
表現 · B1a friend of yours

belonging to you

I've been sitting here for ten minutes now lookin' over this rap sheet of yours.
文法 · B2had the case thrown out

causative have: Have something done means getting something done by someone else, here having the case dismissed.

Where, apparently, you defended yourself and had the case thrown out by citing...
表現 · B2remove someone from something

take someone out of a place

The state removed you from three because of serious physical abuse.
文法 · B1because of serious physical abuse

reason phrase: Because of introduces the noun reason for the state's action, stated plainly.

The state removed you from three because of serious physical abuse.
表現 · B1be going in

being sent to prison

You know, another judge might care, but you hit a cop. You're going in.
発音don't recall

The t in don't often drops and links into recall.

I don't recall meeting anyone who matched that description. I think I'd remember.
表現 · A2leave someone alone

stop bothering someone

who got hammered and wouldn't leave you alone all night.
スラング · B2hammered

very drunk — Casual for very drunk; not for formal speech.

who got hammered and wouldn't leave you alone all night.
スラング · B2juvi

juvenile detention — Street shorthand; formal writing says juvenile detention.

- Herve! I remember you from juvi. How you doing? - What's up, baby? What you doing?
表現 · A2get together

meet up

I was wonderin' maybe we could get together, um, sometime this week.
発音get together

The t in get flaps between vowels, sounding like a soft d.

I was wonderin' maybe we could get together, um, sometime this week.
表現 · A2that sounds + adjective

sounds great

- Oh, that sounds wonderful. - Yeah?
表現 · B1there's no chance that ...

not at all likely

but, uh, there's no chance that you're, uh, pre-law, is there?

「Lambeau Tracks Down Will」を読み解く

What's really going on

The genius that lets Will argue constitutional law and clear his record is the same thing that keeps him trapped. The judge isn't impressed by the brilliance: 'You know, another judge might care, but you hit a cop. You're going in.' Meanwhile Lambeau, who has seen Will's anonymous math work, hunts him down like a prize, asking for 'the name of a student who works here.' Will's end of the chapter is ordinary and nervous — he asks Skylar out with 'this is just a shot in the dark' — which makes the professor's arrival feel like a door opening whether Will wants it or not.

Theme

IdentityWill's brilliance marks him as exceptional, yet the court still files him with the same Southie record.
JusticeHe out-argues the law for years, then one punch lands him in jail anyway.

このチャプターで学べること

  • Reciting the law can be a performance as much as a defence.
  • The judge's kindness and the sentence arrive in the same breath.
  • A phone call can be wrecked in seconds by the wrong guest.
  • Will softens a guess so a possible no will not sting.

発音のポイント

  • do you — Do you is often reduced to d'ya in fast questions.
  • didn't show — Didn't loses its final t, and show up links together.
  • don't recall — The t in don't often drops and links into recall.
  • get together — The t in get flaps between vowels, sounding like a soft d.
Well, I got her number! How do you like them apples?

Will's taunt after scoring Skylar's number, aimed at Clark. 'How do you like them apples?' means 'how does that suit you now?'

You know, another judge might care, but you hit a cop. You're going in.

The judge admits Will's life was hard but says it won't save him. Hitting a cop decides the case, so he's going to jail.

I don't recall meeting anyone who matched that description. I think I'd remember.

Skylar's deadpan reply to Will's boast. She pretends not to know the handsome version he described, teasing him instead.

And when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girded too tight.

Will's courtroom flourish: law that suffocates the spirit is drawn too tight. He's quoting his way out of charges, not arguing in his own words.

このシーンについての質問

Why does the judge send Will to jail after clearing his record?

The old charges were overturned, but this time Will hit a police officer. The judge says another judge might care about his past, but that assault settles it: he's going in.

What does 'a shot in the dark' mean?

It means a guess with little or no basis, like firing without aiming. Will uses it to soften his question about whether Skylar is pre-law.

Why is Lambeau looking for Will?

Lambeau has realized Will is the anonymous genius who solved his math problem, and he wants to find him. He starts at the campus grounds office and follows the parole officer lead.

Why does Will pretend he's the 'ugly, obnoxious, toothless loser'?

Skylar teases that she'd remember anyone as handsome as he claims, so he flips the joke and describes himself as a mess. It's how the two flirt.

Does Skylar know who Will really is?

Not yet. She only knows him as the funny guy from the bar who wants to sit outside a cafe and eat caramels, not as a math prodigy with a criminal record.

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