give me a hand
Can you help me out mister?Interstate 60 · 2002 — 第 16 / 22 章 · 2'27" · B2
Cody Makes a Panhandler Work, Explained：hold someone to something
A panhandler holding a "Will work for food" sign meets a man who takes the words as a binding contract. One apple is offered, one windshield must be washed, and when the panhandler refuses, the argument turns into a threat. "You made an employment agreement" is the setup for the whole absurd standoff.
あらすじ
Driving with Cody, Neal stops where a panhandler holds a "Will work for food" sign. Cody takes it literally: he hands over an apple, then orders the man to wash a windshield. When the panhandler refuses, Cody insists the sign is a contract and will not back down, even threatening him with terminal illness and dynamite.
注目の表現
work for foodhold someone to somethingfuck youin writing
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このシーンの表現
hold someone to something
insist someone honor a promise
Cody treats the sign as a binding deal and says he will hold the man to it.
He promised a rematch, and we will hold him to it.
このシーンの他の表現
- work for food
do work in exchange for a meal
- fuck you
one of the heaviest insults
- in writing
put down on paper
- six months to live
having six months left to live
- take out
destroy or eliminate
このシーンのメモ一覧
53 行のセリフに 27 件のメモ
do work in exchange for a meal
On the street Cody reads the beggar's sign aloud, half teasing and half serious.
- Will work for food, eh?the windshield of that person's car
Now, I'd like for you to wash that man's windshield.The for in I'd like for you is barely voiced.
Now, I'd like for you to wash that man's windshield.Ain't gonna often blurs into one running sound.
- Hey man, I ain't gonna wash his windshield for no apple.am not going to — Street speech; keep it out of formal talk.
- Hey man, I ain't gonna wash his windshield for no apple.a limited list of options
- Oh, excuse me but it doesn't say might work for food, it doesn't say restricted menus, it says will work for food.money given as charity
You just want a hand out, so you can buy booze.be honest about something
And if you'd been straight about it, I'd bought you some Chivas.unreal conditional: A past unreal conditional: the honest version never happened.
And if you'd been straight about it, I'd bought you some Chivas.form a work contract
You made an employment agreement.insist someone honor a promise
Cody treats the sign as a binding deal and says he will hold the man to it.
Which I intend to hold you to.relative clause: Which refers back to the whole agreement just mentioned.
Which I intend to hold you to.have got to — Spoken shorthand; not for writing.
- Fuck you man. I don't want your fucking apple, so I don't gotta wash that fucking car, yeah?one's opinion of something
Here's what I think of your fucking apple.put down on paper
Cody rages that the man's lie is literally written out for everyone to read.
This jerk out here lying in writing?refuse to put up with something
I don't tolerate lying from any one!the damned car — Angry speech; avoid it in polite settings.
You, wash the damn car.get out of here — Blunt dismissal, only in a fight or among friends.
- Hey you all get outta here, now!be ill with lung cancer
You see, I've got lung cancer.having six months left to live
Cody calmly announces he is terminal with six months left, chilling the whole street.
I'm terminal, six months to live.Stress six months and let to live trail off.
I'm terminal, six months to live.destroy or eliminate
Cody describes the blast radius as if reading a spec sheet, making the threat colder.
Enough to take out everything in radius of 150 yards.not care at all — Crude and jokey; friends only.
I don't give two farts and a martini, if I go now or later.you should, or else
But if you do you'd better wash that car.had better: Had better warns of consequences if the advice is ignored.
But if you do you'd better wash that car.summon the sheriff
- You ought to call the sheriff, and have that guy shot through the head, he's crazy.「Cody Makes a Panhandler Work」を読み解く
What's really going on
The scene is a black comedy about literalism and power. The panhandler's sign is a small social lie — a way to ask for money without saying so — and Cody decides to enforce it as written: "You made an employment agreement." His outrage at lying in writing says as much about Cody as it does about the panhandler; he needs the world to be exact and controllable, which is the same need that made him hire a driver. Then the comedy turns menacing when he claims terminal cancer and a bomb, and the bluff works. Neal, watching, tries to soften it and fails. Nobody in the scene is entirely wrong or entirely decent, which is the film's tone in one small exchange.
Theme
PowerCody uses a sign as a contract and a bomb as a bluff, treating other people as things to be controlled and corrected.
AbsurdityA man with cancer and dynamite argues about an apple and a windshield, and the threat is what wins.
このチャプターで学べること
- A sign can be read as a contract.
- Working for food here means real work.
- Written words are harder to walk back.
- Cody's calm makes the threat worse.
発音のポイント
- I'd like for you — The for in I'd like for you is barely voiced.
- ain't gonna — Ain't gonna often blurs into one running sound.
- months to live — Stress six months and let to live trail off.
You just want a hand out, so you can buy booze.Cody's accusation: the sign is not about hunger but about money. He says he would have bought the man a drink if he had been honest about it.
Enough to take out everything in radius of 150 yards.The threat behind Cody's calm: he claims the bomb he carries could destroy everything nearby, so no one should provoke him.
I don't give two farts and a martini, if I go now or later.Cody's dark joke about being terminal: he has nothing to lose, which is exactly what makes his threat credible.
- Now, let's be honest, you don't wanna work.The line that starts the argument: Cody refuses to let the sign mean one thing and the man mean another, so he names the truth out loud.
このシーンについての質問
Why does Cody make the panhandler wash the car?
The sign says the man will work for food. Cody gives him food first, so by his own logic the man now owes him the work, and Cody insists on it.
How does Cody force the man to wash the car?
He threatens him. He claims he has terminal cancer and carries enough dynamite to destroy everything nearby, so resisting seems worse than washing.
What does "hold someone to" mean?
It means to insist that a person keeps a promise or agreement. Cody says he intends to hold the panhandler to the sign he is holding.
Is Cody's story about being sick true?
The film never confirms it. What matters is that the threat works; Cody wins the argument by making himself the person no one dares to challenge.
Does Neal agree with Cody?
No. Neal calls it unimportant and tries to defuse the situation, but Cody will not back down. The scene shows how far Cody takes his need for control.
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