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GoodFellas · 1990 — 第 8 / 28 章 · 2'52" · B2

Paulie's Restaurant Racket, Explained：a big score

Henry lays out how the restaurant racket works: Paulie is your partner when there's trouble, but his money has to come in every week no matter what. The surface is business advice; underneath it's a loan shark's rulebook, ending with a match and a burnt-out shell.

あらすじ

Henry explains the deal that comes with Paulie as a partner: any problem can go to Paulie, from a bill to the cops to Tommy. In return, the weekly money has to arrive no matter what, and when nothing is left, you burn the place down and call it profit. The back half shows the other kind of favor, a friend asking Henry to help him chase a woman.

Asking for helpNegotiationThreateningPersuadingFriendsB2fastamerican
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注目の表現

watch your figurefuck you, pay meit's all profita big score

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このシーンの表現

a big score

a large illicit gain

Tommy urges Henry to go on the date, claiming the woman's family is rich and could mean a big score.

The crew planned the job for months, hoping for a big score.

このシーンの他の表現

  • watch your figure

    a flirty double meaning

  • fuck you, pay me

    crude demand for payment

  • it's all profit

    coldly reframing loss

  • broad

    a crude word for a woman

  • in this day and age

    in modern times

このシーンのメモ一覧

57 行のセリフに 29 件のメモ

表現 · B1as a partner

in the role of partner

Now the guy's got Paulie as a partner. Any problems, he goes to Paulie.
スラング · A2cops

the police — Casual slang; say police in formal settings.

Trouble with the cops, deliveries, Tommy...
表現 · B2come up with something

produce or raise something

Now the guy's gotta come up with Paulie's money every week...
発音come up with

Come up with links into one run: come-up-with.

Now the guy's gotta come up with Paulie's money every week...
表現 · B1no matter what

whatever happens

no matter what.
表現 · B2run up bills

accumulate debts

Especially run up bills on the joint's credit. And why not?
表現 · A2at a discount

below the normal price

you move the stuff out the back and sell it at a discount.
スラング · A2buck

a dollar — American slang for a dollar.

...when you can't borrow another buck or buy another case of booze...
スラング · B1booze

alcohol — Informal, slightly dismissive word for alcohol.

...when you can't borrow another buck or buy another case of booze...
表現 · A1need help doing something

require assistance

Do you need help reaching anything?
スラング · B2shag

have sex with — British crude slang; avoid it in formal talk.

The Jew broad, Diane, I was telling you I'm going to shag.
表現 · B1for a ... month

for a whole month

I've been trying to bang her for a fucking month now.
スラング · B2bang

have sex with — Crude slang; never say it to the person involved.

I've been trying to bang her for a fucking month now.
表現 · A2go out with someone

date someone

She won't go out with me alone.
文法 · B1She don't

nonstandard agreement: Standard grammar wants doesn't; spoken English often uses don't with she.

She don't want to go out with Italians alone.
表現 · B2prejudiced against someone

holding a bias against

She's prejudiced against Italians.
発音prejudiced against

The d in prejudiced often drops before against.

She's prejudiced against Italians.
表現 · B2in this day and age

in modern times

Tommy cannot believe someone still holds an old prejudice, and says so with this set phrase.

You fucking believe that? In this day and age?
表現 · A2come with someone

join someone

She won't go out with me alone unless her girlfriend comes with us.
文法 · B2unless her girlfriend comes

unless clause: Unless sets the condition that must be broken for the main clause to happen.

She won't go out with me alone unless her girlfriend comes with us.
表現 · A2come along

join in and come

Tommy asks Henry to come along as a partner for Diane's friend so the date can happen.

So you come along, go out with her girlfriend.
表現 · B1ask someone a favor

request a favor

What did I ask you for? I'm asking you for a favor.
表現 · A2do someone a favor

do someone a good turn

I do a lot of fucking favors for you.
表現 · A2help someone out

give me a hand

I'm trying to bang this fucking broad. Help me out.
表現 · B2wind up with something

end up having

Maybe the family owns the whole block. You may wind up with a big score.
文法 · B2may wind up with

modal prediction: May marks possibility and wind up with names the eventual outcome.

Maybe the family owns the whole block. You may wind up with a big score.
表現 · A2enough to eat

sufficient food

How about it? Did you have enough to eat?
表現 · A2ask for the check

request the bill

When they were having coffee, I was asking for a check.
発音asking for a

Asking for a blurs into askin-fer-a in fast speech.

When they were having coffee, I was asking for a check.

「Paulie's Restaurant Racket」を読み解く

What's really going on

The first half is a cold manual for a protection racket, and Henry narrates it the way someone explains a recipe. Being Paulie's partner sounds like insurance — "Any problems, he goes to Paulie" — but the insurance runs one way: "the guy's gotta come up with Paulie's money every week... no matter what." Henry's examples turn the squeeze into a punchline, ending with the rule that a bad year still means paying. The logic is total: brick by brick the place is stripped, the deliveries sold off the back door, and the burned shell filed under "It doesn't matter. It's all profit." Then the chapter flips to a smaller, uglier kind of debt: a friend who won't take no for an answer, calling in favors and blaming the woman's 'prejudice' when she won't be alone with him. Favors go one way here too.

Theme

MoneyThe racket turns friendship into a debt: Paulie is a partner when useful, but the weekly payment never stops.
PowerFavors and debts run one direction, from the man who needs help to the man who gives it.

このチャプターで学べること

  • The voice-over turns extortion into a business plan.
  • Repetition makes the demand sound non-negotiable.
  • Bills on credit are a weapon, not an oversight.
  • Burning the place down is filed under routine.

発音のポイント

  • come up with — Come up with links into one run: come-up-with.
  • prejudiced against — The d in prejudiced often drops before against.
  • asking for a — Asking for a blurs into askin-fer-a in fast speech.
"Business is bad? Fuck you, pay me. Had a fire? Fuck you, pay me.

Henry's caricature of the lender's only rule: excuses don't matter, the money is due whatever has happened.

It doesn't matter. It's all profit.

Dark irony. Once the goods are stolen, sold cheap and the place is torched, every loss still counts as gain to the mob.

Maybe the family owns the whole block. You may wind up with a big score.

The friend is told to chase the woman for her family's money, framing romance as one more chance to score.

What the fuck is this world coming to?

A mock-outraged complaint that a Jewish woman is prejudiced against Italians, said without a hint of self-awareness.

このシーンについての質問

Why does Paulie get his money no matter what?

Because being his partner is protection, not charity. He settles problems with bills, cops and Tommy, but the weekly payment is fixed, so bad business or a fire never excuses it.

What does 'bust the joint out' mean?

It means to strip a business down and then burn it, wiping out the debt, which Henry lists as the final step once nothing is left.

Why does Henry say 'it's all profit'?

It is dark irony. Once the goods are stolen and sold cheap and the place is burned, the loan is never really paid, so to the mob every loss still counts as profit.

Why does the friend need Henry to come along?

Because the woman won't go out with him alone; she only agrees if her girlfriend joins. He wants Henry to come as a date for the girlfriend so he can get his chance.

Why does the friend complain about prejudice?

He says she won't date Italians alone and calls her prejudiced, ignoring that he is mostly interested in her family's money and her looks.

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