Scarlet Assigns the Crown Heist, Explained：get down to business

What's really going on

The scene is where the film's villain finally explains her motive, and it is deliberately childish. Scarlet does not want power or money in the abstract; she wants a crown because it would make her a princess, and the narration says as much: "But that crown would mean she was a princess, and everybody loves a princess!" Her whole speech is built like a fairy tale because her ambition is a fairy tale, and the bedtime story turns it into a threat, since the pigs who fail are blown off the earth. The comedy comes from the mismatch between how cute she sounds and what she is actually promising to do, and the Minions, who understand none of it, simply cheer.

Theme

このチャプターで学べること

• Use blew them off the face of the earth in a comparable exchange.
• Listen for the attitude around blew them off the face of the earth.
• Notice how the reply changes the scene.

発音のポイント

• get down — flap
• all your dreams — liaison
• Once upon — liaison