absent
Well, I doubt he's missing. He's just not around.Slacker · 1990 — 第 3 / 22 章 · 2'53" · B2
The Moon Landing Was a Cover-Up, Explained：cover-up
A stranger stops a passerby to explain that the moon landing was faked. He describes a suppressed transmission, an astronaut shouting about a giant spacecraft in another crater, and NASA cutting off the feed. For him it all adds up to one giant cover-up.
あらすじ
A man on the street stops a passerby and launches into his theory that the moon landing was a lie. He says the astronauts saw a giant spacecraft in another crater and were cut off by NASA, that the whole space programme is a cover-up run by the US and the Soviet Union, and that people have been on the moon since the 1950s.
注目の表現
yelling his fool head offthe gist of itcover-upcovert operation
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このシーンの表現
cover-up
a hidden truth
He insists the whole space program is a lie, one giant official cover-up.
The report called the whole affair a cover-up.
このシーンの他の表現
- yelling his fool head off
shouting at the top of his lungs
- the gist of it
the main point
- covert operation
a secret mission
- tie in
connect logically
- sitting on their ass
doing nothing at all
このシーンのメモ一覧
59 行のセリフに 23 件のメモ
roaming about
He's found wandering around, didn't know who he was, where he came from.embedded questions: The who and where clauses are embedded questions, so they keep statement order.
He's found wandering around, didn't know who he was, where he came from.a blocked broadcast
You know about the suppressed transmission, of course?the famous moon-landing line
And way back when they're giving us that "One giant step for mankind" bit...that routine — Casual for a routine or spiel someone performs.
And way back when they're giving us that "One giant step for mankind" bit...on earth — A spoken intensifier for questions; avoid it in formal talk.
saying, " Oh, my God. What's that over in the crater? What the hell is that?"interrupt and silence
Well, NASA cuts him off just like that.become known
That's right. Oh, it all begins to leak out then...possessive contraction: The 's here shortens is, not possession, so the sentence is a statement about the program.
that the space program's just one giant big cover-up.take secretly from
We stole it from the Nazis after the end of World War II. It's perfectly obvious.Link stole and it so they sound like one word.
We stole it from the Nazis after the end of World War II. It's perfectly obvious.mind surgery
And, uh, it's about kidnapping people, using a little psycho-surgery on them...global warming
the reason we're up there covertly is because of the greenhouse effect.Reduce because of to a quick becuz-uv in fast speech.
the reason we're up there covertly is because of the greenhouse effect.present perfect continuous: Have been doing stresses an action running right up to now, sharpening the accusation.
You can ask yourself what they've been doing sitting on their ass for 49 years, huh?The t in what drops and blends into they've.
You can ask yourself what they've been doing sitting on their ass for 49 years, huh?butt — Crude; keep it out of formal or polite speech.
You can ask yourself what they've been doing sitting on their ass for 49 years, huh?in a century
"Greenhouse effect. A hundred years from now.hide a known fact
The government's sitting on the fact that it's 10-20 years maximum.the polar ice sheets
Yeah, and when the polar ice caps begin to melt...worldwide disorder
it's not gonna take a certified genius to understand that we're in serious global confusion.settle in space
They've colonized outer space.「The Moon Landing Was a Cover-Up」を読み解く
What's really going on
The monologue is a classic Slacker set piece: a stranger with total conviction and no interest in your answer, explaining the world in one take. The joke is not just the content but the method. He stacks details — the suppressed transmission, the astronaut cut off mid-sentence, the technology stolen from the Nazis — so that each new claim seems to prove the last, and he ends with the greenhouse effect, which ties everything together. What makes it funny is how reasonable it sounds while he is doing it, and what makes it unsettling is the feeling underneath: a man who sees a hidden hand behind every ordinary thing. His line, "Except it's absolutely true, all of it," is the whole character in five words, and the film never tells you whether to laugh or to worry.
Theme
SecretsThe whole monologue is about information the government is hiding, from crashed craft to the real cause of a warming planet.
DeceptionHe treats the moon landing as the great public lie of the age, staged to hide a longer and stranger truth.
このチャプターで学べること
- A cut broadcast becomes the seed of a whole conspiracy.
- He chains unrelated facts together with one confident phrase.
- The listener barely answers, and that keeps the rant rolling.
- Even a moon landing gets folded into a climate story.
発音のポイント
- stole it — Link stole and it so they sound like one word.
- because of — Reduce because of to a quick becuz-uv in fast speech.
- what they've — The t in what drops and blends into they've.
It's a covert operation between the United States government and the Soviet Union.His claim that the space race was in fact a joint secret project between the two Cold War enemies.
We've been on the moon since the '50s.The centre of his theory: the famous 1969 landing was staged because humans had already been there for years.
You can ask yourself what they've been doing sitting on their ass for 49 years, huh?His challenge about the greenhouse effect: if it was known so long ago, why has nothing been done?
Except it's absolutely true, all of it.The punchline of his sci-fi movie story, and the moment he insists his whole theory is fact.
このシーンについての質問
What is the man's theory?
He believes the moon landing was faked, the space programme is a cover-up shared by the US and the Soviet Union, and people have secretly been on the moon since the 1950s.
Why does he mention a suppressed transmission?
He says an astronaut was heard shouting about a giant spacecraft in another crater before NASA cut the feed, and only people with the right radios heard it.
Where does he say the anti-gravity technology came from?
He claims it was stolen from the Nazis after the Second World War, which is why he thinks the technology has been available for decades.
Why does he bring up the greenhouse effect?
He argues it explains why the powerful are secretly colonising space, and warns that the planet has only ten to twenty years left.
What does "cover-up" mean?
It means an attempt to hide the truth, usually to protect someone powerful. He uses it to say the entire space programme is a lie.
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