be launched away
Oh, yeah. They're gonna get boosted off this rock before it melts.Slacker · 1990 — 第 4 / 22 章 · 2'19" · B2
Conspiracy Guy Warns a Stranger, Explained：keep it under your hat
A man walking down the street launches into a full conspiracy theory: the operation is funded by a drug cartel and run by the CIA, scientists are being recruited or killed, and a drug from Guatemala strips people of their memories so they will follow orders.
あらすじ
On the street, a stranger starts telling a conspiracy story. The secret group in charge will leave Earth before it is destroyed, he says, and the project is funded by a drug cartel with the CIA's help. He warns about missing scientists, a memory drug from Guatemala, and ordinary people turned into perfect employees.
注目の表現
keep it under your hatlackeyliquid lobotomyhack the hell out of
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このシーンの表現
keep it under your hat
keep it secret
Before the most sensitive part, he tells the listener to keep it quiet.
Keep it under your hat, but we're moving in May.
このシーンの他の表現
- lackey
an obedient servant
- liquid lobotomy
chemical mind-wiping
- hack the hell out of
cutting away furiously
- in close proximity to
very near to
- stick around
stay nearby
このシーンのメモ一覧
47 行のセリフに 23 件のメモ
the others like us
And the rest of us, what do they care?abandoned to suffer
We're gonna be left here to fry.channeled into
to handle large sums of money being funneled into this project.contact clause: The relative pronoun after people is dropped, leaving a bare contact clause.
Keep it under your hat. [Sighs] The people they need, like scientists. You heard about that?do the hard work
I really hope your friend is not, well - Well, they need a lot of lackeys to do the labor though.Link like, you and and into one smooth run.
You know, just like you and me.with certainty
Well. And I know this for a fact.in the jungle
They got this drug down in Guatemala in the rain forest.with wild intensity — A crude intensifier; too rough for formal talk.
Why do you think the C.I.A.'s down there hacking the hell out of that forest, huh?remove
Yeah, this drug takes away your long-term memory...recent memory
leaves your short-term memory, so there you are.relative clause: The that-clause describes the people, who no longer know their own identity.
You got people that don't know who they are, where they came from...tell someone to do: Tell takes a person then a to-infinitive, meaning to order someone to act.
but you tell them to do something, and they do it.obey orders
They can follow instructions. Perfect employees.sexual deviants — An insult; keep it out of polite or formal speech.
There are not that many perverts around.very near to
He warns the listener that the headquarters, and so the danger, sits right nearby.
Is that you're in close proximity to all this.In American speech the tt in gotta flaps toward a d sound.
All right, look. I gotta go see this friend of mine, okay?have got to — Spoken shorthand for have got to; avoid in writing.
All right, look. I gotta go see this friend of mine, okay?good chatting with you
Anyway, look, pal. It's been nice talking to you.be entitled to
- I just thought you had the right to know. - Thanks.Link stick and around so the k rolls into the vowel.
Tell you what, listen. I'm gonna stick around outside, just for a little while...not tailed
You know, make sure we weren't followed.「Conspiracy Guy Warns a Stranger」を読み解く
What's really going on
The scene works because the stranger is never invited to speak and never stops. He opens with an image of escape — "They're gonna get boosted off this rock before it melts" — and then builds a whole system on top of it: cartel money, the CIA, missing scientists, a drug that erases long-term memory. The detail that gives the game away is how fond he is of the theory's tidiness: "Make sense? Sure it does." The most unsettling line is also the funniest, "They can follow instructions. Perfect employees," because it describes a workforce with no memory and no self, which is exactly what he fears the world is becoming. Then he says goodbye, offers to watch the street, and wishes the man a nice day, as if they had been talking about the weather.
Theme
AbsurdityA stranger delivers an elaborate conspiracy to someone who never asked, then ends it with a polite goodbye as if nothing odd had happened.
PowerThe theory describes a hidden group with total control, escaping the planet while everyone else is left behind to burn.
このチャプターで学べること
- The escape plan is for the powerful, not for everyone.
- Mind-wiped workers are sold as the ideal staff.
- Drug money is the quiet engine of the whole story.
- He ends by offering to watch the street for tails.
発音のポイント
- like you and — Link like, you and and into one smooth run.
- gotta go — In American speech the tt in gotta flaps toward a d sound.
- stick around — Link stick and around so the k rolls into the vowel.
Oh, yeah. They're gonna get boosted off this rock before it melts.The announcement of the whole theory: the powerful are leaving the planet, and the rest of us will stay. 'This rock' is the Earth.
They can follow instructions. Perfect employees.His conclusion about the drugged workers, and the phrase that gives the scene its title: people with no memory make ideal, obedient labour.
We're gonna be left here to fry.The flip side of the escape: ordinary people stay behind on a planet that is heating up, with no one looking after them.
but you tell them to do something, and they do it.The description of the perfect employee: no memory, no questions, and total obedience, which is exactly what he finds frightening.
このシーンについての質問
What is the conspiracy the man describes?
A secret group funded by a drug cartel and helped by the CIA is taking scientists off the planet. It also uses a memory-erasing drug to turn ordinary people into obedient workers.
Why does he tell the stranger all this?
He believes the man has a right to know, and he seems unable to stop once he has started. He even offers to wait outside to check whether they were followed.
What does 'keep it under your hat' mean?
It is an old idiom meaning to keep something secret. He says it before sharing the details, which makes the warning sound even more like a confession.
What happens to the scientists?
According to the man, they are recruited or they mysteriously die. He connects the missing scientists to the same project that needs workers.
How does the conversation end?
The stranger has to go and see a friend. The man wishes him a nice day and says he will stay outside for a while to make sure they were not followed.
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