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Spielberg: I was looking for a different perception of myself.Spielberg · 2017 — 第 7 / 10 章 · 2'59" · C1
Spielberg Admits He Was Timid, Explained：the full monty
On the surface he is explaining a turn at forty and calls the film "a very sobering journey." Underneath is the mirror scene he never shot. "I just didn't go for the full monty the way the book did" means the book went further, and the reason he gives is that he was timid.
あらすじ
Spielberg talks about choosing The Color Purple near forty, less optimistic and ready for a sobering journey. Clips show a woman who will kill a man dead before he beats her, then a line about climbing on to do his business, which the reply hears as a toilet. He admits the mirror scene stayed out of the film because he was timid.
注目の表現
make a departuresobering journeykill him deadmessing in some territory
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このシーンの表現
the full monty
the whole thing, nothing held back
Right after the mirror scene is named, he says he did not go for the full monty the way the book did.
They went for the full monty and printed every receipt.
このシーンの他の表現
- make a departure
a deliberate break from your usual path
- sobering journey
a process that makes you sober
- kill him dead
kill, with dead added for force
- messing in some territory
step into ground that can blow up
- do his business
euphemism heard as sex or toilet
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a deliberate break from your usual path
Someone explains a later film as a choice he would have skipped without a conscious break from his old image.
And if I didn't want to consciously make a departure and prove something,past counterfactual: might not have marks a past that did not happen.
I might not have chosen "Color Purple" as my next movie.Let have stay light and short after might not.
I might not have chosen "Color Purple" as my next movie.serious material about human life
But it was my first really mature film, which took on, you know, substantive, humanistic subject matter.relative clause: which adds what that mature film actually took on.
But it was my first really mature film, which took on, you know, substantive, humanistic subject matter.a process that makes you sober
After saying forty looks less sunny, he names the shoot as a sobering passage he still accepts.
And so, I knew this was gonna be a very sobering journey, and I was willing to take it on.accept a hard task
And so, I knew this was gonna be a very sobering journey, and I was willing to take it on.Press never and keep ain't light so the negation holds.
A girl child ain't safe in a family of mens, but I ain't never thought I had to fight in my own house!never did — Dialect for a firm never; keep it out of formal writing.
A girl child ain't safe in a family of mens, but I ain't never thought I had to fight in my own house!men, in dialect — A dialect plural; do not carry it into formal prose.
A girl child ain't safe in a family of mens, but I ain't never thought I had to fight in my own house!kill, with dead added for force
Right after saying she loves him, she swears she will kill him dead before another beating.
God knows I do, but I'll kill him dead before I let him beat me.something that really matters Not a large sale: the choice carries real weight.
Oprah Winfrey: For Steven to even take on this material was a really big deal, because you're messing in some territory where if you get it wrong, then you get a lot of people upset.step into ground that can blow up
Oprah calls taking the material a big deal because a wrong step in that territory upsets many people.
Oprah Winfrey: For Steven to even take on this material was a really big deal, because you're messing in some territory where if you get it wrong, then you get a lot of people upset.When get it runs together, the t is a quick tap, not two beats.
Oprah Winfrey: For Steven to even take on this material was a really big deal, because you're messing in some territory where if you get it wrong, then you get a lot of people upset.while something is still there Not a person nearby: repression still bearing on that world.
He wanted to create not only an African-American worldview, but a matriarchal world in the presence of patriarchal repression and violence.push past your old limits Not a physical stretch: attempting work he had never tried.
And I truly believe that he wanted to stretch himself in a way that he never had before.a deep, stubborn tendency
but he's not gonna push himself too far in advance-- the audience or maybe his own, you know, core inclination.he does not — Vernacular agreement; skip it when the writing is formal.
He don't ever ask me how I feel.never asked anything The two negatives still mean he never asked.
Just never asked me nothing about myself.euphemism heard as sex or toilet
Someone quotes do his business back at Miss Celie and drags it toward the toilet, sharp and public.
Just climb on top of me, do his business.avoid something from discomfort
Spielberg says critics disliked that he shied away from the love story between Shug and Celie.
Spielberg: I got in trouble with several critics who didn't like that I shied away from the love story between Shug and Celie.inserted phrase: It sits between the verb and the object, adding the mirror.
And the scene where Shug Avery shows Celie, with a mirror, her vagina,the work's character and mood
that that did not go into the movie, which would've really changed the entire nature and tone of the film.all the way, nothing held back Literally stripping bare; here, filming the explicit scene as the book did.
I just didn't go for the full monty the way the book did.inverted conditional: had I made means if I had made, and he did not.
I might've done that had I made the movie 10 years later.Let might've swallow have before done instead of restoring it.
I might've done that had I made the movie 10 years later.the suitable person for the job
I just wasn't the right guy to do that.seen from his own angle
Kennedy: Steven was telling the story that Alice wrote, and he was trying to access that from his personal point of view.reach the place she reached
After noting he told Alice's story from his own view, someone says he could never go where she went with the book.
He could never go where Alice went with that book.「Spielberg Admits He Was Timid」を読み解く
What's really going on
He frames the choice as maturity near forty: humanistic subject matter, and a sobering journey he was willing to take on. One line says, "I'll kill him dead before I let him beat me." Someone calls the material a really big deal, "messing in some territory where if you get it wrong, then you get a lot of people upset," and says he wanted to stretch himself. The next voice says he pushes himself, but not too far ahead of the audience or his core inclination. Sex is passed over with "Just climb on top of me, do his business," and the reply hears a toilet. He answers critics who disliked that he shied away from Shug and Celie. The mirror scene "would've really changed the entire nature and tone of the film," yet "I just didn't go for the full monty the way the book did." He was timid and embarrassed: "wasn't the right guy." Someone else says: "He could never go where Alice went with that book."
Theme
IdentityNear forty he wants a different perception of himself, and later admits he was not the right guy for the scene the book already had.
CourageHe names a sobering journey he was willing to take on, and gives the reason he was timid and a little embarrassed.
発音のポイント
- might not have — Let have stay light and short after might not.
- ain't never — Press never and keep ain't light so the negation holds.
- get it — When get it runs together, the t is a quick tap, not two beats.
- might've done — Let might've swallow have before done instead of restoring it.
I was turning 40 and I was looking at life perhaps less optimistically.At the moment he chose this film, middle age had already cooled his view of life. The project starts from that, not from excitement.
A girl child ain't safe in a family of mens, but I ain't never thought I had to fight in my own house!Inside the movie, home is not a refuge. She has fought the men in her family and is shocked she must also fight in her own house.
God knows I do, but I'll kill him dead before I let him beat me.Love does not cancel the threat. If he beats her, she would rather kill him, and dead leaves no softer wording.
I just didn't go for the full monty the way the book did.The book went all the way. The film did not. He means the mirror scene he left out, not a general style of working.
I was just timid. I was just a little embarrassed.This is the reason he gives for leaving the mirror scene out: he was timid and a little embarrassed.
He could never go where Alice went with that book.He could not reach the place Alice reached with that book, even from his personal point of view. The line is about her book alone.
このシーンについての質問
Why did the mirror scene stay out of the movie?
He says Shug shows Celie her vagina with a mirror, and that scene did not go into the movie because it would have changed the entire nature and tone. He was timid, a little embarrassed, and says he just wasn't the right guy. He adds he might have done it had he made the movie ten years later.
Why does he call the film a sobering journey?
He was turning 40 and looking at life perhaps less optimistically. He knew it was going to be a very sobering journey, and he was willing to take it on. He is talking about making the film, not about going on a trip.
Why does the reply hear a toilet in "do his business"?
The line before is "Just climb on top of me, do his business." The reply repeats "Do his business" and says "you sound like he going to the toilet on you." The light wording comes first. The toilet is the other person's reading of it.
Does he claim he went as far as the book?
No. He says he just didn't go for the full monty the way the book did. His reason is that he was timid and a little embarrassed. Someone else adds that he could never go where Alice went with that book.
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