charge it to someone
- Put it on Miss Weinmeyer's bill? - Uh, yeah, why not?Some Like It Hot · 1959 — 第 3 / 19 章 · 3'03" · B2
Spats Wipes Out Toothpick Charlie, Explained：bump someone off
Spats Colombo walks into a garage, greets Toothpick Charlie with "Long time no see," and has him and his men shot. Joe and Jerry, hiding on the floor, become the only witnesses. When they promise, "We won't breathe a word," the reply is simple: Spats doesn't like witnesses. It is a gangland execution staged as dark comedy.
あらすじ
In a Chicago garage, Spats Colombo's gang corners Toothpick Charlie and his men, forces them against the wall, and guns them down. Joe and Jerry, hiding on the floor, witness the whole thing. Spats's men find them, hear their promise of silence, and decide the safest option is to remove the witnesses too — until Joe and Jerry talk their way toward a getaway.
注目の表現
fill it uplong time no seepay one's respectsmortuary
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このシーンの表現
bump someone off
kill someone
Jerry blurts that their infighting is none of his business, which only reminds Spats of the witnesses.
The gang bumped off the informant before the trial.
このシーンの他の表現
- fill it up
fill the tank
- long time no see
it's been a while
- pay one's respects
offer a polite visit
- mortuary
a funeral home
- on one's hands
left to deal with
このシーンのメモ一覧
43 行のセリフに 21 件のメモ
while you are doing that
And while you're at it, fill it up.put your hands up
All right, everybody, hands up!turn to the wall
Face the wall!the chief — Casual address for whoever is in charge.
Okay, boss.stop by
I just dropped in to pay my respects.kind enough to do
You were nice enough to recommend my mortuary to some of your friends.be wasted
Now I got all those coffins on my hands and I hate to see 'em go to waste.be not involved
Honest, Spats. I had nothing to do with it.Gonna is going to compressed into one word.
I think I'm gonna be sick.going to — Everyday speech; too casual for formal writing.
I think I'm gonna be sick.not someone's concern
Besides, it's none of our business if you guys want to bump each other off. We don't...conditional clause: The if clause states the condition under which their business stays private.
Besides, it's none of our business if you guys want to bump each other off. We don't...kill each other — Gangster slang; keep it out of polite speech.
Besides, it's none of our business if you guys want to bump each other off. We don't...collect something
W-We came to pick up a car. Nellie Weinmeyer's car.existential there: There be states that something exists or is happening, here a dance tonight.
There's a dance tonight.a very long distance
I-It's about a hundred miles from here, so don't...The g in going drops, so it sounds like goin'.
You're not goin' nowhere.tell anyone anything
When Spats says he hates witnesses, Jerry promises they won't breathe a word.
- I don't like no witnesses. - We won't breathe a word.double negative: Two negatives in speech add emphasis; he means he wants no witnesses at all.
- I don't like no witnesses. - We won't breathe a word.Don't like no runs together, with the t barely released.
- I don't like no witnesses. - We won't breathe a word.「Spats Wipes Out Toothpick Charlie」を読み解く
What's really going on
The comedy comes from the gap between what is happening and how it is said. Spats does not storm in shouting; he walks up like an old acquaintance — "Long time no see" — and turns the killing into a bit of bookkeeping. Charlie's coffin business becomes the excuse: "Now I got all those coffins on my hands and I hate to see 'em go to waste." The men being executed are still trading poker talk about "three eights." Joe and Jerry's panic is played for laughs, but it names the rule they have just broken. Their one hope is to be forgotten, and the reply — "You won't breathe nothin'." — is funnier because it is so calm.
Theme
PowerSpats settles a score with a calm visit and a gun; the scene runs on the gangster's power to decide who lives.
Dark humorAn execution is staged as a polite call and a funeral joke, letting the film laugh at death without softening it.
このチャプターで学べること
- Politeness here is a threat, not a greeting.
- Keeping silent is the only survival skill in the scene.
- Gangster slang makes violence sound almost casual.
発音のポイント
- gonna be — Gonna is going to compressed into one word.
- goin' — The g in going drops, so it sounds like goin'.
- don't like no — Don't like no runs together, with the t barely released.
You were nice enough to recommend my mortuary to some of your friends.Spats's way of accusing Charlie of sending men to their deaths at his funeral home, turning a compliment into a threat.
Now I got all those coffins on my hands and I hate to see 'em go to waste.The joke that carries the threat: since the coffins are already paid for, he might as well put Charlie's gang in them.
Besides, it's none of our business if you guys want to bump each other off. We don't...Joe and Jerry's attempt to talk their way out: they pretend the gang war is a private matter and that they will stay out of it.
I just dropped in to pay my respects.Spats announces himself like a polite visitor, a line that sounds courteous until you notice who is holding the gun.
- You don't owe me no nothin'. - I wouldn't say that.Charlie insists he owes Spats nothing; Spats politely disagrees, which is the moment the scene turns lethal.
このシーンについての質問
Who is Spats Colombo and why is he there?
Spats is the gang boss. He believes Charlie's gang set up the deaths of some of his men, so he visits the garage to settle the score, with the whole hit staged as a friendly call.
Why do Joe and Jerry survive the scene?
They are not the targets — they just happen to be in the garage picking up a car. Once they are seen, Spats decides they are witnesses to silence, but the two men talk fast enough to stay alive for now.
What does "bump someone off" mean?
It is gangster slang for killing someone. Joe uses it when he claims the mob war is not his business: if the gangs want to bump each other off, that is their problem.
Why does Spats mention Charlie's mortuary?
Because it is his cover story for the hit. He claims Charlie sent him business by recommending the mortuary to friends, so the coffins he now has "on his hands" are the excuse for the killings.
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