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GoodFellas · 1990 — 第 23 / 28 章 · 4'13" · B2

Jimmy Decides to Whack Morrie, Explained：whack

The crew's paranoia after the heist turns lethal. On the surface it is a relaxed diner breakfast and a friend who talks too much; underneath, Jimmy has already decided that Morrie is a liability who has to go. Henry narrates the calm: 'That's how it happens. That's how fast it takes for a guy to get whacked.'

あらすじ

After the Lufthansa job, Jimmy Conway is a nervous wreck, convinced that the talkative Morrie will slip and talk to the wrong people. Henry sees where it is heading and plays along, stalling for time. Morrie is invited out to dinner, keeps rambling at the table, and never comes home. The next morning, Belle comes looking for her missing husband.

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whackbreak my ballsgo along withbeat someone to a pulp

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このシーンの表現

whack

to kill someone

In voiceover Henry says he suddenly understood Jimmy was going to have Morrie killed.

The crew whacked him before he could talk.

このシーンの他の表現

  • break my balls

    annoy someone

  • go along with

    cooperate with

  • beat someone to a pulp

    beat someone badly

  • a load off my mind

    a relief from worry

  • jerkoff

    a crude insult

このシーンのメモ一覧

72 行のセリフに 33 件のメモ

表現 · B2be a nervous wreck

extremely anxious

I could see for the first time that Jimmy was a nervous wreck.
表現 · B1all at once

at the same time

His mind was going in eight different directions at once.
スラング · B2whack

kill (mob slang) — Mob slang; never use it in formal speech.

That's when I knew Jimmy was going to whack Morrie.
表現 · B2get whacked

be killed

That's how it happens. That's how fast it takes for a guy to get whacked.
表現 · B1act like a jerk

act like a fool

Acts like a jerk in his commercials. Nobody listens to what he says.
表現 · B2break someone's balls

annoy someone

During some gritty teasing, one man half joking tells the other to stop pestering him.

Stop breaking my balls, all right?
発音Stop breaking

Stress Stop and run breaking straight on.

Stop breaking my balls, all right?
スラング · B2breaking my balls

pestering me — Crude slang; fine between close friends.

Stop breaking my balls, all right?
表現 · B1stall for time

delay on purpose

I was just stalling for time.
表現 · B1go along with something

cooperate with

Henry only pretended to follow Jimmy's plan, but as far as Jimmy knew he went along with it.

But meanwhile, as far as Jimmy knew, I was going along with the program.
文法 · B2as far as Jimmy knew

parenthetical: The phrase marks the limit of what Jimmy knew, not what really happened.

But meanwhile, as far as Jimmy knew, I was going along with the program.
表現 · B1be out cold

unconscious

I pulled his hair out of his fucking head. I bit him. He's out cold.
発音out cold

The t in out drops before cold.

I pulled his hair out of his fucking head. I bit him. He's out cold.
スラング · B2Jerkoff

a crude insult — A heavy insult; never say it to anyone's face.

"Jerkoff! "
表現 · B2fly at someone

lunge at someone

What are you going to do? What? I fucking fly at him.
文法 · A2What are you going to do

future intention: Be going to asks about a plan, used here as a rhetorical question.

What are you going to do? What? I fucking fly at him.
表現 · B2beat someone to a pulp

beat someone badly

Henry recalls beating the man senseless, repeating the phrase to stress how hard he hit him.

I beat him to a pulp. To a pulp I beat him.
表現 · A2be out of breath

gasping for air

He's laying there full of fucking blood. I'm out of breath.
表現 · B1be about to do something

ready to do very soon

Forget about tonight. Forget about it.
文法 · C1how close he'd come to getting killed

noun clause: A how-clause acts as the object, and he'd come to marks how near death he was.

He never knew how close he'd come to getting killed.
文法 · C1Even if I told him

unreal conditional: Even if with the past tense plus would have imagines a past that never happened.

Even if I told him, he would have never believed me.
表現 · B1do anything for someone

do whatever for someone

I'd do anything for you. Except to stop busting my balls.
文法 · B2Except to stop busting my balls

prepositional phrase: Except to do carves out the single thing he will not do.

I'd do anything for you. Except to stop busting my balls.
発音anything for you

Link anything for you; for weakens into a schwa.

I'd do anything for you. Except to stop busting my balls.
表現 · A2pick up something

buy or collect

Let's pick up some Danishes for Belle.
発音pick up

Link pick up so it sounds like one word.

Let's pick up some Danishes for Belle.
表現 · B2be a pain in the ass

a big nuisance

What a pain in the ass.
表現 · B2have a better shot at something

a better chance

I got a better shot letting him drive.
表現 · A2calm down

relax, settle down

Calm down.
発音Calm down

Stretch Calm and let down fall to settle someone.

Calm down.
スラング · B2Who gives a fuck

who cares (vulgar) — Vulgar and dismissive; only among close friends.

What'll I tell Belle? Who gives a fuck?
表現 · B1run off with someone

elope with someone

Tell her he ran off with some broad. What do you care?
スラング · B1broad

slang for a woman — Dated and dismissive; skip it today.

Tell her he ran off with some broad. What do you care?

「Jimmy Decides to Whack Morrie」を読み解く

What's really going on

The chapter is about how casual violence can look from the inside. Jimmy's panic is not grief or guilt; it is risk management, and Henry reads it in a glance. 'That's when I knew Jimmy was going to whack Morrie' — one question about whether Morrie talks to his wife is enough to sign a death warrant. What makes it chilling is the mundane cover: coffee, Danishes for Belle, jokes about warming up the car before chopping someone up. The men treat a murder like a chore on a list. Henry even admits his own relief: 'It was a load off my mind.' Meanwhile Belle is left at the door with a lie, that her husband ran off with another woman, and the audience understands she will never get the truth.

Theme

BetrayalJimmy turns on an old associate, judging Morrie a loose end, and Henry quietly lets it happen while pretending to cooperate.
CorruptionMurder is handled like routine business: a decision, a dinner, a car to get rid of, and a lie told to the widow.

このチャプターで学べること

  • Getting whacked is the quiet risk behind every favor
  • Henry's calm narration makes the violence sound routine
  • A nervous wreck can hide what he is about to do
  • The man who almost died never knew how close it was

発音のポイント

  • Stop breaking — Stress Stop and run breaking straight on.
  • out cold — The t in out drops before cold.
  • anything for you — Link anything for you; for weakens into a schwa.
  • pick up — Link pick up so it sounds like one word.
That's how it happens. That's how fast it takes for a guy to get whacked.

Henry's point is that a mob killing is decided in a moment and carried out without ceremony; the victim usually has no idea it is coming.

He never knew how close he'd come to getting killed.

One man was beaten badly but lived, never realizing he had been a hair's breadth from being murdered.

I'd do anything for you. Except to stop busting my balls.

A half-joking line of loyalty between mobsters: total devotion, undercut by the daily habit of needling each other.

It was a load off my mind.

Henry feels relief once the night's killing is called off; his tone is calm, and that calm is the unsettling part.

このシーンについての質問

Why does Jimmy decide to kill Morrie?

Morrie talks constantly, and Jimmy fears he will tell his wife or the wrong people about the crew's business. To Jimmy that makes Morrie a loose end after the heist, so he orders him brought over.

What does 'whack' mean in this scene?

It is mob slang for killing someone. Henry uses it plainly — 'Jimmy was going to whack Morrie' — to show how ordinary the idea has become to him.

Does Henry try to save Morrie?

Not really. He says he was stalling for time and going along with the program, which suggests he did not want to be involved but also would not risk crossing Jimmy.

Why do the men joke while getting rid of the body?

The comedy — arguing about chopping someone up 'at Charlie's, not here' and warming up the car — shows how routine this violence is to them. The joke is the horror.

What lie does Belle get told about her husband?

She is told Morris ran off with another woman. It is a convenient cover story that keeps her from the truth and keeps the crew out of it.

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