to what extent
How far does a girl have to go before you'll notice her?Rear Window · 1954 — 第 6 / 13 章 · 2'29" · B2
Jeff Ignores Lisa to Spy on Thorwald, Explained：cut up
Lisa arrives dressed to be noticed and asks, "How far does a girl have to go before you'll notice her?" — but Jeff's attention is fixed on the neighbor he suspects of murder. The flirtation and the crime theory run side by side until Lisa says he's scaring her.
あらすじ
Lisa comes to Jeff's apartment in a new dress, hoping for his attention, but he can't stop watching the salesman across the courtyard. He lists the clues — a suitcase on a rainy night, a butcher knife, a small saw wrapped in newspaper — and even asks how you'd start to cut up a body. Lisa grows uneasy.
注目の表現
pay attention toon the other side ofcome backcut up
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このシーンの表現
cut up
cut into pieces
Jeff calmly asks Lisa how she would start to cut up a human body.
Cut up the vegetables before you cook them.
このシーンの他の表現
- pay attention to
focus on
- on the other side of
across from
- come back
return
- be honest with
tell someone the truth
- wrapped in
covered with
このシーンのメモ一覧
35 行のセリフに 25 件のメモ
time clause: The before-clause sets the condition that must be met first.
How far does a girl have to go before you'll notice her?sufficiently pretty
Well, if she's pretty enough, she doesn't have to go anywhere.Have to merges into hafta, the v almost gone.
Well, if she's pretty enough, she doesn't have to go anywhere.aren't I
Well, ain't I?am not — Nonstandard speech; keep it out of writing.
Well, ain't I?not really
I'm not exactly on the other side of the room.Exactly on links up, the y sliding into the vowel.
I'm not exactly on the other side of the room.every part of him
And when I want a man, I want all of him.have a problem
Don't you ever have any problems?return
Jeff lays out the puzzle: the salesman leaves and comes back three times.
Why would a man leave his apartment three times on a rainy night with a suitcase, and come back three times?modal question: Would here signals disbelief, not future time.
Why would a man leave his apartment three times on a rainy night with a suitcase, and come back three times?how someone does it
He likes the way his wife welcomes him home.what is notable about
What's interesting about a butcher knifethe whole day
Why hasn't he been in his wife's bedroom all day?present perfect: The present perfect stresses the state lasting up to now.
Why hasn't he been in his wife's bedroom all day?would not risk doing
I wouldn't dare answer that.existential: The existential there's states that something wrong exists.
Well, listen. I'll answer it, Lisa. There's something terribly wrong.the problem is mine
And I'm afraid it's with me.shortly before now
He went out a few minutes ago in his undershirt, hasn't come back yet.that would — Spoken contraction; too casual for formal writing.
That'd be a terrible job to tackle.begin to
Just how would you start to cut up a human body?starting to
Jeff, I'll be honest with you. You're beginning to scare me a little.Honest with you runs together, the h barely there.
Jeff, I'll be honest with you. You're beginning to scare me a little.hush — A quick sound to demand silence.
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What's really going on
The scene plays as a duel for attention. Lisa has dressed up and crossed town to be looked at, and she says it plainly: "I'm not exactly on the other side of the room." Jeff, though, can only look at what he can't have — the private lives behind the windows across the way. His detective patter about the knife and the saw is partly real suspicion and partly a way of dodging her. The murder theory is horrifying, but it also keeps him comfortably behind glass, safe and detached. Lisa names the cost: 'You're beginning to scare me a little.' The irony is that she is scared for him, while he is scared of what she wants from him.
Theme
RomanceLisa dresses up and asks to be noticed, while Jeff keeps turning his attention to strangers in other windows.
DeceptionJeff reads the neighbor's odd behavior as murder, and his suspicion doubles as a way to avoid Lisa.
このチャプターで学べること
- Jeff notices the window, not the dress.
- The knife and saw turn talk into fear.
- Lisa names her fear instead of hiding it.
- The hush at the end resets the whole scene.
発音のポイント
- have to go — Have to merges into hafta, the v almost gone.
- exactly on — Exactly on links up, the y sliding into the vowel.
- honest with you — Honest with you runs together, the h barely there.
How far does a girl have to go before you'll notice her?Lisa's complaint that Jeff still won't look at her no matter what she does; it's both flirty and genuinely hurt.
And when I want a man, I want all of him.She tells Jeff she wants complete commitment and attention, not a distracted half-relationship.
Just how would you start to cut up a human body?Jeff follows his murder theory to its gruesome practical question, showing how far his imagination has gone.
Why would a man leave his apartment three times on a rainy night with a suitcase, and come back three times?The clue that starts Jeff's suspicion, framed as a riddle Lisa is meant to help him solve.
このシーンについての質問
Why does Lisa ask if she has to go far to be noticed?
Because Jeff keeps ignoring her, even though she has dressed up and is sitting right in front of him. She wants his full attention, not the half he gives her.
Why is Jeff suspicious of the salesman?
He has watched the neighbor leave with a suitcase three times on a rainy night, skip work, and handle a butcher knife and a small saw wrapped in newspaper.
What does 'cut up' mean here?
It means to cut something into pieces. Jeff uses it in the grim sense of dismembering a body while he works through his theory about the neighbor.
Why does Lisa get scared?
Jeff's murder theory grows more graphic — he asks how you would start to cut up a body — and she tells him he is beginning to frighten her.
What happens at the end of the scene?
Jeff spots the neighbor returning and shushes Lisa: 'He's coming back!' The argument stops as he turns back to the window.
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第 3 章seen better daysLisa Brings Dinner to Jeff
第 4 章in the palm of your handJeff and Lisa Argue About His Life
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第 7 章jump at the chanceJeff Calls Doyle About a Murder
第 8 章knee-deep inDoyle Won't Search Thorwald's Apartment
第 9 章live out of somethingJeff Spots the Missing Handbag
第 10 章a fairy taleDoyle Dismisses Lisa's Clue
第 11 章love thy neighborThe Neighbor's Dog Is Killed
第 12 章since when ...?Jeff Spots the Disturbed Flower Bed
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