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Sunset Boulevard · 1950 — 第 12 / 19 章 · 3'14" · B1

Betty Asks Joe to Write With Her, Explained：write on spec

At Artie's New Year's gathering, Betty Schaefer pitches Joe Gillis on writing their story together. She has Sheldrake interested and says she wants to write; Joe turns her down, saying he has given up writing on spec. 'It's not your career, it's mine!' she fires back, and the refusal stays with him long after he returns to Norma.

あらすじ

Joe Gillis slips away from Norma's house to join Artie's New Year's party, where he is greeted with a joke stick-up and finds Betty Schaefer. She has pitched their story to Sheldrake and wants Joe to write it with her, but he refuses, saying he has given up writing on spec. Betty, who only wants to write, takes it hard.

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注目の表現

Stick 'em upWhat's the big ideaWhere have you been keeping yourselfhopped up

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このシーンの表現

write on spec

write without a contract

Joe tells Betty he no longer writes on spec, a Hollywood term said with a weary tone.

Most young writers have to write on spec before they get a contract.

このシーンの他の表現

  • Stick 'em up

    hands up, here only a joke

  • What's the big idea

    what are you up to

  • Where have you been keeping yourself

    where have you been hiding

  • hopped up

    worked up, excited

  • a springboard

    a starting point

このシーンのメモ一覧

55 行のセリフに 24 件のメモ

表現 · A2a package of something

a pack of something

Give me a package of those Turkish cigarettes. Abdullas.
表現 · B1let someone have it

let someone have it

Stick 'em up, Gillis! Stick 'em up or I'll let you have it!
発音Stick 'em up

Link it as one run: stick-em-up.

Stick 'em up, Gillis! Stick 'em up or I'll let you have it!
表現 · B1how glad I am to do something

how happy I am

You don't know how glad I am to see you!
表現 · B1walk out on someone

leave someone behind

Walking out on the mob. What's the big idea?
スラング · B1the mob

the crowd, the gang — Casual word for a circle of friends; not for formal use.

Walking out on the mob. What's the big idea?
発音Where've you

Where've you blurs into one sound; the have nearly vanishes.

Oh, stop it, Artie, will you? Where've you been keeping yourself?
文法 · B2not to be spoken to

be to negative passive: Were not to be spoken to means nobody was allowed to mention you.

You were not there. You were not to be spoken to.
表現 · A2is that so

really, is that right

Is that so? What's the wonderful news?
表現 · B1make something into something

turn into something

He thinks it could be made into something.
表現 · B2bluff it out

fake one's way through

I bluffed it out with a few notions of my own.
表現 · A2plenty of something

a lot of something

Could you write in plenty of background action so they'll need an extra assistant director, huh?
文法 · B2so they'll need

so result clause: So introduces the result: the extra action means they will need more staff.

Could you write in plenty of background action so they'll need an extra assistant director, huh?
スラング · A2shut up

be quiet — Blunt; fine in jokes, rude in formal talk.

Oh, Artie, shut up!
表現 · A2give up doing something

quit doing something

I'm sorry, Miss Schaefer, I've given up writing on spec.
表現 · B1be half sold

halfway to a sale

But I tell you this is half sold.
表現 · B1as a matter of fact

actually, in fact

As a matter of fact, I've given up writing altogether.
表現 · B2in the pay of someone

paid by someone

This guy's in the pay of a foreign government.
表現 · A2run along

get going, leave

I've got to run along. Thanks anyway for your interest in my career.
発音kind of

Kind of reduces to kinda in fast speech.

It's not your career, it's mine! I'd kind of hoped to get in on this deal.
表現 · A2run into someone

meet by chance

Oh, I ran into some people I know.
表現 · B2put on a show

stage a show

Whenever she suspected I was getting bored, she would put on a live show for me.
文法 · B1Whenever she suspected

whenever time clause: Whenever plus would describes something that happened again and again.

Whenever she suspected I was getting bored, she would put on a live show for me.
表現 · A2have a great time

enjoy oneself a lot

Nothing's the matter. I'm having a great time. Show me some more.

「Betty Asks Joe to Write With Her」を読み解く

What's really going on

This is the scene that quietly hands Joe a way out he will not take. Betty has done the work — she got Sheldrake 'all hopped up' about the story and admits she 'bluffed it out with a few notions of my own' — and she asks Joe for the one thing that would make the collaboration real. He answers with a professional excuse, 'I've given up writing on spec,' which is true enough and also a shield. Betty sees exactly what it costs him: 'It's not your career, it's mine! I'd kind of hoped to get in on this deal,' and then the plain confession, 'I don't want to be a reader all my life. I want to write.' Joe walks away and back into Norma's performance, where he says he is 'having a great time' while his mind stays on Betty. The choice he keeps postponing is set up here.

Theme

AmbitionBetty refuses to stay a reader and pushes Joe to write with her, turning a studio encounter into a career move.
DreamsBetty says plainly that she wants to write, while Joe hides the same wish behind an excuse about spec work.

このチャプターで学べること

  • A mock holdup is how old friends say hello here.
  • Betty pushes; Joe hides behind having quit writing.
  • On spec means risking your own time for a maybe.
  • Joe's real career is still the one he denies.

発音のポイント

  • Stick 'em up — Link it as one run: stick-em-up.
  • Where've you — Where've you blurs into one sound; the have nearly vanishes.
  • kind of — Kind of reduces to kinda in fast speech.
You don't know how glad I am to see you!

Artie's loud welcome, a jokey way of saying how much he has missed Joe since the party.

Would you believe me if I told you I stayed with a sick friend?

Joe's teasing cover story for disappearing on New Year's Eve, offered with a grin rather than as a real excuse.

I haven't been keeping myself at all. Not lately.

Joe's deflecting answer to Betty's question, claiming he has not been hiding even though he has.

- Okay. Where's the cash? - Where's the story?

Joe's blunt joke that talk of a sale is cheap: show me the money or show me the story.

It's not your career, it's mine! I'd kind of hoped to get in on this deal.

Betty's protest that the story is her career, not Joe's, and that she hoped to share in the deal.

I don't want to be a reader all my life. I want to write.

Betty's clearest statement of purpose: she does not want to remain a reader, she wants to write.

このシーンについての質問

Why does Joe refuse to write the story with Betty?

He says he has given up writing on spec, meaning he will not work without a buyer lined up. He is also hiding at Norma's, so a steady collaboration with Betty is impossible.

Why is Betty so upset with Joe?

She did the work of getting Sheldrake interested and hoped to write the script with Joe. His refusal costs her the chance to move from reader to writer, and she tells him he has crossed her up.

What does Betty want for herself?

She does not want to spend her life as a reader. She says plainly that she wants to write, and sees the story with Joe as her way into that career.

Why is Artie pretending to hold up Joe?

It is a joke between friends. Artie greets Joe with an old gangster line, 'Stick 'em up,' to tease him for disappearing without a word on New Year's Eve.

What does 'write on spec' mean here?

It means writing without a buyer or contract, hoping to sell the script later. Joe uses it as his reason for refusing, claiming he no longer gambles his time that way.

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