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Manhattan · 1979 — 第 17 / 23 章 · 3'25" · C1

Isaac Finally Kisses Mary, Explained：hung up on

At his apartment, Isaac complains about an ancient corned beef sandwich and then suddenly kisses Mary. He says it is something he has wanted to do for ages; she says she thought he wanted to kiss her back at the planetarium. Then she pulls away, insisting she cannot keep going from relationship to relationship.

あらすじ

At Isaac's apartment, he complains about an old corned beef sandwich and then abruptly kisses Mary. He calls it something he has wanted for ages, and she admits she expected the kiss at the planetarium. But then she pulls back, saying she cannot go from relationship to relationship and that she is trouble.

First datesConfessing loveSaying noCoupleC1fastamericanClean
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corned beefhung up onnegative capabilitybucks

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このシーンの表現

hung up on

unable to get over someone

When Mary says she cannot move from one relationship to the next, Isaac asks if she is still hung up on Yale.

She is still hung up on her old roommate.

このシーンの他の表現

  • corned beef

    salted beef

  • negative capability

    comfort with uncertainty

  • bucks

    dollars

  • get involved with

    become romantically involved with

このシーンのメモ一覧

51 行のセリフに 24 件のメモ

表現 · A2every time something happens

whenever

Or Grand Illusion. That's... I see that every time it's on television, if I'm aware of it.
表現 · B1a corned beef sandwich

a salted beef sandwich

Oh, Jesus, what is this? You got a corned beef sandwich here from 1951, I think.
表現 · A2have time to do something

time to cook

- I don't have time to cook. - Corned beef should not be blue.
表現 · B2kiss someone flush on the mouth

right on the mouth

What am I doing? You have to ask? I was kissing you flush on the mouth.
発音kissing you

Kissing you runs together into one smooth sound.

What am I doing? You have to ask? I was kissing you flush on the mouth.
表現 · B2cool and casual

relaxed and unbothered

Do you? Cos I... I thought I was hiding it. I was trying to be real cool and casual.
発音trying to be

The to in trying to be often collapses in fast speech.

Do you? Cos I... I thought I was hiding it. I was trying to be real cool and casual.
スラング · A2Cos

because — Spoken shorthand for because; too casual for writing.

Do you? Cos I... I thought I was hiding it. I was trying to be real cool and casual.
表現 · A2go out with someone

date someone

But you were going out with Yale then and I would never in a million years interfere...
表現 · B2never in a million years

absolutely never

But you were going out with Yale then and I would never in a million years interfere...
文法 · B2never in a million years

emphatic adverbial: The phrase exaggerates never and sits between would and the verb.

But you were going out with Yale then and I would never in a million years interfere...
表現 · B1soaking wet from the rain

drenched

But you were so sexy. You were soaking wet from the rain and I had a mad impulse to throw you down on the lunar surface and commit interstellar perversion with you.
表現 · B2from X to X

one relationship after another

I can't go from relationship to relationship. It's senseless. I can't do it.
表現 · B2be hung up on someone

unable to get over someone

When Mary says she cannot move from one relationship to the next, Isaac asks if she is still hung up on Yale.

Well, what... Are you still hung up on Yale? Is that the problem?
発音hung up on

Hung up on links into a single rushed phrase.

Well, what... Are you still hung up on Yale? Is that the problem?
表現 · B1get involved with someone

become romantically involved with

Mary warns Isaac off getting involved with her, which is really a confession.

I'm really not the person to get involved with. I'm trouble.
文法 · B2both attracted and repelled

paired adjectives: Both A and B pairs opposite adjectives to show mixed feelings.

My problem is I'm both attracted and repelled by the male organ.
表現 · B1get into something

start taking drugs

She got into drugs and she... moved to San Francisco.
表現 · A2a kind of something

a sort of

This... this, I think, has a kind of wonderful otherness to it, you know.
文法 · B1I think

parenthetical: The inserted I think softens the claim into a passing opinion.

This... this, I think, has a kind of wonderful otherness to it, you know.
表現 · B2keep one's eyes on something

keep watching

Yeah. You look so beautiful I can hardly keep my eyes on the meter.
スラング · B1bucks

dollars — Casual for dollars; keep it out of formal documents.

It's 14 bucks!
スラング · A2Course

of course — The of is dropped in speech; informal only.

Yeah, I love seafood. Course I'm drunk. I don't know if you can tell or not.
表現 · B2the only time in one's life

the one time ever

Hey, you know, it was the only time in my life I ever had Chianti from Warsaw.

「Isaac Finally Kisses Mary」を読み解く

What's really going on

The kiss is the movie's romantic peak and its complication in one moment. Isaac does what he has been rehearsing internally, and his confession of it is charming: "It's something I wanted to do for ages." Mary's answer is more ambivalent. She had been expecting it since the planetarium, but she also has a speech ready about why she cannot fall into another relationship, and she asks whether he is over Yale. When she says, "I'm really not the person to get involved with. I'm trouble," the line is both a warning and a test — she wants him to say the warning is fine. His joke about his middle name turns it away. The rest of the scene, with the wine and the taxi, shows the two of them happy and a little drunk, but the question of whether she can stay in anything is left open.

Theme

RomanceIsaac finally kisses Mary and admits it was long planned, while she frames the same moment as a reason to be careful.
IdentityMary describes herself as trouble and someone who cannot maintain a relationship, turning self-doubt into a warning.

このチャプターで学べること

  • A kiss lands harder when it answers a dumb question.
  • Naming yourself trouble can be a way of flirting.
  • The lunar joke keeps desire safely playful.
  • Mary hides her feelings behind fancy vocabulary.

発音のポイント

  • kissing you — Kissing you runs together into one smooth sound.
  • trying to be — The to in trying to be often collapses in fast speech.
  • hung up on — Hung up on links into a single rushed phrase.
I can't go from relationship to relationship. It's senseless. I can't do it.

Mary's claim that serial dating is pointless and that she is not willing to start another one now.

But you were so sexy. You were soaking wet from the rain and I had a mad impulse to throw you down on the lunar surface and commit interstellar perversion with you.

Isaac's comic confession of desire, mixing the planetarium setting with a joke about being unable to resist her.

I'm really not the person to get involved with. I'm trouble.

Mary presenting herself as a bad idea, which is also her way of asking to be wanted anyway.

- I don't have time to cook. - Corned beef should not be blue.

The scene's comic opening: an excuse about cooking answered by a line about how badly a sandwich has gone off.

このシーンについての質問

Why does Isaac kiss Mary when she is dating Yale?

He has wanted to for a long time, and he says he would never have interfered while she was with Yale. By the time he acts, that relationship is over, though the timing is still messy.

Why does Mary pull away after the kiss?

She says she cannot go from relationship to relationship and that she is trouble. The retreat is honest and also a test: she tells him she is a bad idea while hoping he disagrees.

Why does Isaac joke about his middle name?

When Mary calls herself trouble, he answers that trouble is his middle name, then deadpans that it is really Mortimer. The joke eases the tension without answering her question.

What does the story about the first wife involve?

A first wife who was a kindergarten teacher, got into drugs, moved to San Francisco, joined the Moonies, and now works at a talent agency. It is told as a series of comic turns.

How does the scene end?

In a taxi after wine and seafood, both of them a little drunk. Mary worries that she has never had a relationship that lasted, and Isaac tells her she is drunk.

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