a dream too perfect to be real
He names the childhood he wanted pie-in-the-sky, a cover dream the constant moves never matched.
Spielberg: I really wanted my childhood to be sort of the pie-in-the-sky, Norman Rockwell American Dream.Spielberg · 2017 — 第 2 / 10 章 · 3'20" · B2
Spielberg Takes the Camera, Explained：pie-in-the-sky
A father is headhunted from company to company, the family moves like Army brats, and a mother acts as a sibling instead of a parent. The wanted childhood never arrives. "I really wanted my childhood to be sort of the pie-in-the-sky, Norman Rockwell American Dream." What he can hold instead is the camera.
あらすじ
Someone wanted a Norman Rockwell childhood. A headhunted father kept the family moving like Army brats, with formative years in Phoenix. A mother is a sibling, not a parent. A dying monkey comes home and the kids freak out. One line says he got bullied. A line in the first person calls the demons self-inflicted wounds. The camera is a pen: saying "action" and "cut" wrests control back.
注目の表現
pie-in-the-skyArmy bratsPeter Panfreaked out
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このシーンの表現
pie-in-the-sky
a dream too perfect to be real
He names the childhood he wanted pie-in-the-sky, a cover dream the constant moves never matched.
A private island is a pie-in-the-sky plan on our salary.
このシーンの他の表現
- Army brats
kids moved by a parent's job
- Peter Pan
an adult who will not be the parent, only a playmate
- freaked out
suddenly panicked
- the muscle guy
the one with the build and the strength
- self-inflicted wounds
harm you do to yourself
このシーンのメモ一覧
43 行のセリフに 22 件のメモ
recruited by other firms other companies kept recruiting his father
My dad was this computer genius that was on the team that invented the first commercial data processing machine at RCA back in 1950, and so my dad was headhunted a lot and went from company to company.relative clause: That invented follows team and limits it to the crew that built the machine; that was on follows genius, both after the noun.
My dad was this computer genius that was on the team that invented the first commercial data processing machine at RCA back in 1950, and so my dad was headhunted a lot and went from company to company.kids moved by a parent's job
A father often hired away leads the speaker to call his own family Army brats who kept moving, though most of his formative years were in Phoenix.
Like Army brats, we moved from place to place.years that shape who you are
But most of my formative years took place in Phoenix, Arizona.the main person raising a child
She was a sibling, not a parent, because she was a best friend, not a primary caregiver.land in a mess
And she got into trouble like we got into trouble.Give Knows the weight and keep Father and Best lighter.
Anne: Steve had a feeling that family should be like "Father Knows Best," but we were not the usual family.people who live outside the usual rules
We just kind of were bohemians growing up in suburbia.curled up like a fetus
and there was a monkey sitting in a cage like this, fetal position.suddenly panicked
A caged monkey comes through the door and the kids freaked out, harder than the next line's plain scared.
And I remember the kids freaked out.an ordinary home
Steve said, "You know, in a normal household, kids say, 'Can we have a monkey?'kept criticizing me here his father kept after him over it
My dad was always on me for that.feel pulled toward
He did not like me getting Cs, but school was not a place I was really drawn to.the strong one — Used to set him apart from the strong kids, not in a formal introduction.
He wasn't the muscle guy.be picked on
You know, he got bullied a lot.harm you do to yourself
The bullying line says he got bullied. This line switches to my demons and calls them self-inflicted wounds: things inside, and the way the speaker saw himself, not that bullying.
Most of my demons were self-inflicted wounds.strong regard for someone
I didn't have a lot of high esteem for myself, you know, growing up.a way to express yourself
It was not just a means of expression, but it was aa way out of a hard place
Movies are called a means of escape here, a way out of the life he had. Making friends is the next means in the same sentence, not part of this phrase.
means of escape, and it was a means of sometimes making friends with people that you couldn't otherwise,spend easy time with
or getting to hang out with girls that you might not be able to otherwise, or just finding a way to have meaning.seize control of something
And when I was able to say "action" and "cut," I wrested control of my life.「Spielberg Takes the Camera」を読み解く
What's really going on
The gap is the point. He names the childhood he wanted as "the pie-in-the-sky, Norman Rockwell American Dream," and the details that follow do not match it. A father works six days and comes home late. A mother is "Peter Pan," a best friend rather than a primary caregiver, getting into trouble the way the kids do. Someone drives home a monkey the shopkeeper calls dying, and the children freak out. In a normal household, one quoted line says, the mother would ask "Are you crazy?" Cs, bullying, not being "the muscle guy," and "self-inflicted wounds" sit beside "I just was a lonely guy." Someone else says making movies was a means of escape, not only a means of expression, and a way toward people he could not otherwise reach. Spielberg then says "The camera was my pen," and that calling "action" and "cut" was when he "wrested control of my life." The dream stays out of reach. The lens is what he can hold.
Theme
DreamsHe wanted a picture-book American childhood, names it as out of reach, and can hold the camera instead.
LonelinessBullying, low esteem, and "I just was a lonely guy" sit beside the wish for a picture-book childhood.
発音のポイント
- Father Knows Best — Give Knows the weight and keep Father and Best lighter.
Spielberg: I really wanted my childhood to be sort of the pie-in-the-sky, Norman Rockwell American Dream.Here it is the childhood he wanted: picture-book America, sweet and out of reach, unlike the moves that follow.
And when I was able to say "action" and "cut," I wrested control of my life.Calling "action" and "cut" is the moment he says he took control of his life back.
このシーンについての質問
What does "pie-in-the-sky" refer to in his sentence?
He sets it beside the "Norman Rockwell American Dream." It is the childhood he wanted, pretty and out of reach. A headhunted father and a family moving "like Army brats" are named right after. The phrase is for a plan or promise too perfect to be real.
Why compare the family to Army brats?
His father "was headhunted a lot and went from company to company." The next line says, "Like Army brats, we moved from place to place." Most of the formative years were still in Phoenix. The line borrows the moving, and it does not say the father was in the army.
Why describe his mother as Peter Pan?
The following lines spell out the job. She was a sibling, not a parent, a best friend rather than a primary caregiver, and she got into trouble the way the kids did. One speaker says Steve had a feeling that family should be like "Father Knows Best," and that this one was not the usual family.
Are the "self-inflicted wounds" the bruises from being bullied?
The bullying line comes first: "You know, he got bullied a lot." Then "That was tough." After that, "Most of my demons were self-inflicted wounds," "They were things inside myself," "The way I saw myself," and "I didn't have a lot of high esteem for myself." The wounds here are how he saw himself.
Why did the kids freak out?
A shopkeeper says the monkey is dying, "taken away from his mother" and depressed. Someone comes home "with a big cage in the back and a monkey in the cage." Then "the kids freaked out" and "They were so scared." It is a real scare, not a small startle.
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