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Jojo Rabbit · 2019 — 第 4 / 18 章 · 2'37" · B2

Elsa Reveals Herself to Jojo, Explained：in a pickle

It looks like a scared boy and a ghost, except the intruder in the wall is very real. She says she is not a ghost but 'something worse' — a Jew — and warns that if he reports her, she will take his family down with her. 'I'll do the world a great, big favor and cut your Nazi head off.'

あらすじ

Jojo finds a person hiding inside his own wall and asks if she is a ghost. She says she is not a ghost but 'something worse' — a Jew — and claims his mother invited her. Then she threatens him: if he reports her, she will take his mother down too, and she will cut off his Nazi head.

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注目の表現

in a picklegesundheitmind controlhold onto

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このシーンの表現

in a pickle

in trouble, in a fix

With his knife gone and his secret exposed, Adolf tells Jojo he is in a pickle.

We lost the keys and were in a pickle until the landlord came.

このシーンの他の表現

  • gesundheit

    a mock bless-you

  • mind control

    controlling someone's mind

  • hold onto

    keep, grip

  • something worse

    a worse kind of thing

  • typical

    sarcastic not-surprised

このシーンのメモ一覧

46 行のセリフに 30 件のメモ

表現 · B1make someone do something

force someone to do

Don't make me run, kid.
表現 · B2the taste of blood

a craving for violence

I'm far too hungry and you know how much we love the taste of blood.
表現 · B1far too + 形容词

much too

I'm far too hungry and you know how much we love the taste of blood.
表現 · A2already know something

have known all along

I'm not a ghost, Johannes. I'm something worse, but I think you already know that, don't you?
文法 · B1don't you

tag question: The tag don't you turns the statement into pressure on the listener.

I'm not a ghost, Johannes. I'm something worse, but I think you already know that, don't you?
発音not a ghost

Not a links into no-ta, then ghost cuts off sharply.

I'm not a ghost, Johannes. I'm something worse, but I think you already know that, don't you?
スラング · A2Gesundheit

bless you — German for bless you, used here as a pun.

Gesundheit.
表現 · A2invite someone

asked me to come

Well, your mother invited me, so I suppose that makes me her guest.
文法 · B2I suppose that makes me her guest

object clause: Suppose takes a that-clause, and make takes the double object me her guest.

Well, your mother invited me, so I suppose that makes me her guest.
発音makes me her

Makes me her runs together, with her reduced.

Well, your mother invited me, so I suppose that makes me her guest.
表現 · A2be not allowed

forbidden

- It's not allowed. - What will you do, sweet Hitlerchen?
スラング · A1Hmm

huh, a questioning hum — A spoken hum that signals a question or hesitation.

Hmm?
表現 · A2go on

carry on

Go on, then. Tell them.
表現 · B1what happens if ...

the result of doing it

But do you know what happens if you do?
文法 · B2what happens if you do

embedded question: The embedded what-clause contains its own if-clause about the consequence.

But do you know what happens if you do?
表現 · B2be kaputt

be finished

Then we'll all be kaputt.
スラング · B1kaputt

broken, finished — German loanword for broken or done for, used casually.

Then we'll all be kaputt.
表現 · B1just one word

a single word

And if you tell her you know about me, just one word...
文法 · B2if you tell her you know about me

conditional clause: The if-clause sets the condition, with that dropped after tell.

And if you tell her you know about me, just one word...
表現 · B1do someone a favor

a really big favor

I'll do the world a great, big favor and cut your Nazi head off.
文法 · B1do the world a great, big favor

double object: Do someone a favor takes two objects, with the world standing in as the someone.

I'll do the world a great, big favor and cut your Nazi head off.
発音head off

Head off links, with d sliding into the vowel.

I'll do the world a great, big favor and cut your Nazi head off.
表現 · B2hold onto something

keep, grip

Elsa claims Jojo's dropped knife with this line, keeping it because she likes it.

I think I'll hold onto this. It's pretty.
スラング · A2Sheesh

jeez, wow — A spoken sigh of disbelief; not for formal writing.

Sheesh. That was intense.
表現 · A2have no idea

not know at all

- What am I going to do? - Honestly, no idea.
表現 · B2get control of something

take charge of

How did she get control like that?
表現 · B2be in a pickle

in trouble, in a fix

With his knife gone and his secret exposed, Adolf tells Jojo he is in a pickle.

You're definitely in a pickle, my friend.
発音in a pickle

In a links into one sound; keep the k in pickle crisp.

You're definitely in a pickle, my friend.
スラング · A2what to do

what should I do — Spoken musing when you are stuck for an answer.

Ah, what to do, what to do?
表現 · B1burn down something

destroy by fire

- I will negotiate. - Burn down the house

「Elsa Reveals Herself to Jojo」を読み解く

What's really going on

The scene reframes the whole hiding place: what Jojo thought was a ghost turns out to be a person with more power than he has. Her line 'I'm something worse' is the hinge — it turns his own vocabulary of fear back on him, since the 'worse' thing is exactly what his training has taught him to hate. She then does something the adults around Jojo never do: she is honest and calm, and she does not beg. When she claims his mother invited her and threatens to take everyone down with her, 'Then we'll all be kaputt,' she is buying her survival with his silence. The knife she keeps at the end is the visual punchline: the boy who was taught to be a soldier has just been disarmed by a girl hiding in his wall. Even his imaginary friend admits, 'That was intense.'

Theme

CourageElsa faces a boy who could expose her, and instead of begging she takes control and calmly threatens him back.
IdentityJojo's labels collapse: the thing he feared as 'something worse' turns out to be a person with a name and a voice.

このチャプターで学べること

  • A hunted girl turns the threat around on the boy who found her.
  • Fear and bravado sit in the same sentence here.
  • The imaginary Hitler turns dread into a punchline.

発音のポイント

  • not a ghost — Not a links into no-ta, then ghost cuts off sharply.
  • makes me her — Makes me her runs together, with her reduced.
  • head off — Head off links, with d sliding into the vowel.
  • in a pickle — In a links into one sound; keep the k in pickle crisp.
I'm not a ghost, Johannes. I'm something worse, but I think you already know that, don't you?

Elsa refuses the ghost label and names herself as the thing Jojo has been taught to fear, while pointing out that he already suspects it.

Well, your mother invited me, so I suppose that makes me her guest.

Her ironic claim to be a guest gives her a reason to stay and a hold over Jojo through his mother.

I'll do the world a great, big favor and cut your Nazi head off.

A blunt threat: if Jojo exposes her, she will kill him and frame it as a service to the world.

Like a little, female Jewish Jesse Owens.

A mocking comparison to the famous Black athlete Jesse Owens, a dig that mixes racism with jealousy.

You're definitely in a pickle, my friend.

The imaginary friend's verdict on Jojo's impossible situation, trapped between a hidden Jew and his own ideology.

She must've used her powers.

Jojo's imaginary friend explains away Elsa's control over him as supernatural, refusing to admit a person simply outmatched him.

このシーンについての質問

Why does Elsa say she is 'something worse' than a ghost?

Because Jojo has been raised to see Jews as monsters, so in his own terms a Jew is scarier than a ghost. She is naming herself with the word for the thing he fears.

Why doesn't Jojo turn Elsa in?

She warns him that she will claim he and his mother helped her, which would destroy them too. He is trapped: reporting her would expose his own family.

What does Elsa take from Jojo, and why does it matter?

She keeps his knife. It matters because it flips the power between them: the boy training to be a soldier is disarmed by a girl he is supposed to hate.

Who is the voice arguing about Elsa afterward?

It is Jojo's imaginary friend, who cannot believe a girl outsmarted him and jokes that she must have used mind control.

Why do they call her a 'female Jewish Jesse Owens'?

It is a racist joke from Jojo's imaginary friend, comparing Elsa's fast movement to the Olympic champion Jesse Owens, whose success the Nazis could not stand.

ジョジョ・ラビット · 全 18 章

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