strike bargains
The old man corrects the student: Satan doesn't grant wishes, he strikes bargains.
He doesn't grand wishes, he makes deals.Interstate 60 · 2002 — 第 1 / 22 章 · 2'20" · B2
The Legend of O.W. Grant, Explained：take a shine to someone
A stranger in a bar insists America has its own wish-granter, and he is not a myth. "There is a fella in America, who grants wishes" sets up O.W. Grant: one wish per customer, impossible to find, a trickster with a monkey pipe. The scene turns a dorm-room argument about myth into the film's whole premise.
あらすじ
After a barroom argument about whether America has its own mythology, an old man tells the tale of O.W. Grant, a wish-granter who finds people instead of being found. One wish per customer, no exceptions. He is a prankster with a red bow tie and a pipe carved like a monkey, and the story is half joke, half warning.
注目の表現
grant a wishmake a dealmess with someonetake a shine to someone
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このシーンの表現
take a shine to someone
warm to someone quickly
The old man notes the exception: if Grant warms to you, he stops playing games and helps.
I could tell she was going to take a shine to him.
このシーンの他の表現
- grant a wish
make a wish come true
- make a deal
strike bargains
- mess with someone
tease or toy with someone
- son of a bitch
a bastard; rough but often half-admiring
- how come
why (casual)
このシーンのメモ一覧
47 行のセリフに 29 件のメモ
distinctive for
Our culture is unique in having no such mythology and-- - Oh, you're wrong my friend.preposition + gerund: Be unique in takes a gerund: unique in having, not unique in have.
Our culture is unique in having no such mythology and-- - Oh, you're wrong my friend.make a wish come true
The old man contradicts the student, naming the legend's core: a man who makes wishes come true.
- There is a fella in America, who grants wishes.relative clause: The clause who grants wishes describes the fella and adds the key detail.
- There is a fella in America, who grants wishes.one per person
And only one to a customer.the name commonly used
That's his usual name. He's got many others.a bastard — Coarse; used in casual, half-admiring complaint, never in polite talk.
And he's an elusive son of a bitch.find it easier to do
You'd get easier time finding a jinni.why (casual)
The student pushes back, asking why nobody has heard of this man; how come sounds more casual than why.
- So how come, we've never heard of this O.W. Grant?Stress much to sharpen the comparison with Ireland and Arabia.
- You haven't heard O.W. Grant, 'cause America is a much younger place than Ireland or Arabia.come across someone
Not too many people have had the chance to meet up with him.get the opportunity to
Not too many people have had the chance to meet up with him.just how he operates
Accidentally, that's his way.The t in don't often drops and find him runs together.
Folks don't find him, he finds them.The d in kinda often drops, so it blurs into one word.
He just kinda happens in to them, and they don't know who he is or whatkind of — Casual filler; keep it out of writing.
He just kinda happens in to them, and they don't know who he is or whattime clause: Until marks the point when the unknown finally becomes clear.
he does until he does it.play pranks
And mostly he messes with them, plays tricks, 'cause that's his way too, but sometimes,warm to someone quickly
The old man notes the exception: if Grant warms to you, he stops playing games and helps.
if he takes a shine to you, he'll play it straight.act honestly
if he takes a shine to you, he'll play it straight.Link shine to you smoothly instead of separating each word.
if he takes a shine to you, he'll play it straight.cross over here
Now, one story says that his daddy was a leprechaun, came over here with Irish.men who chase women — Dated and belittling; avoid saying it to anyone.
Now, midgets are notorious skirt chasers.get someone pregnant — Vulgar slang; never in formal speech.
This leprechaun goes and knocks up a Cheyenne Indian.seized from them
Cheyenne get the land taken away in the end up with the immortal, nomadic half-breed with magical powers.shaped to look like
The old man describes Grant's signature pipe, carved to look like a monkey.
He smokes a pipe, carved in the image of a monkey.prefer not to
He'd probable rather not have people knowing about him.full of nonsense — Rough and dismissive; only among friends or in anger.
- I guess tonight's everybody's full-of-shit night.「The Legend of O.W. Grant」を読み解く
What's really going on
The scene does two things at once: it wins a bar argument about myth and it quietly introduces the film's premise. The stranger's claim — "There is a fella in America, who grants wishes" — is delivered as fact, not folklore, and the details pile up until O.W. Grant feels real: one wish per customer, a red bow tie, a pipe carved in the shape of a monkey. What makes the legend stick is the rule underneath it. "Folks don't find him, he finds them." Fate, in this world, comes to you; you do not go looking for it. The other half of the rule, "if he takes a shine to you, he'll play it straight," is a promise and a threat at the same time.
Theme
PhilosophyThe legend argues that fate finds you rather than the reverse, and that a trickster is obeying a rule.
DreamsThe promise of one granted wish turns the wish into a test of what a person really wants.
このチャプターで学べること
- A legend works best when nobody can confirm it.
- Grant never looks for people; they simply turn up.
- His cruelty and his favors follow the same rule.
- The wish is always one per customer.
- A rough insult can sound almost admiring.
発音のポイント
- much younger — Stress much to sharpen the comparison with Ireland and Arabia.
- don't find — The t in don't often drops and find him runs together.
- kinda happens — The d in kinda often drops, so it blurs into one word.
- shine to you — Link shine to you smoothly instead of separating each word.
Folks don't find him, he finds them.The legend's central rule: O.W. Grant cannot be sought out. Fate works by arriving, not by being chased.
- There is a fella in America, who grants wishes.The claim that flips the argument: America does have its own wish-granter, and he is spoken of as real rather than as myth.
if he takes a shine to you, he'll play it straight.O.W. Grant's treatment depends on his mood toward you: if he likes you, the tricks stop and he deals honestly.
That's his usual name. He's got many others.A warning about the legend's instability: the name itself is only one of many, so nothing about him can be pinned down.
このシーンについての質問
Is O.W. Grant supposed to be real in the film?
The old man tells the story as fact, and the film later treats the road as real. Whether Grant is a myth or a person is left for Neal to find out.
Why can each customer only get one wish?
The limit is the point. One wish forces a person to decide what they actually want, the same question the whole movie keeps asking.
What does "take a shine to someone" mean?
It means to take a liking to someone, quickly and a little irrationally. In the legend, if Grant takes a shine to you, he stops playing tricks.
Why does the old man say not to mention O.W. Grant in the thesis?
He suggests Grant would rather not be written about. It is a warning dressed as advice, and it implies that naming him could draw his attention.
What do the monkey pipe and red bow tie mean?
They are the identifying marks of the legend, the details that let Neal recognize O.W. Grant later. A stranger is described by his odd objects, not his face.
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第 3 章be wiredNeal Takes the Card Test
第 4 章make a big dealNeal's Fortune Cookie Is Blank
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第 9 章long shotsThe Diner Eating Bet
第 10 章joker in life's deckGrant's Joker in the Deck Speech
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第 12 章at all costsNeal Picks Up Susan
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第 15 章safety valveCody Explains the Frontier Theory
第 16 章hold someone to somethingCody Makes a Panhandler Work
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