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Sunset Boulevard · 1950 — 第 10 / 19 章 · 4'38" · B2

Joe Meets Betty at Artie's Party, Explained：close, but no cigar

Joe flees Norma's mansion for a New Year's Eve party at Artie Green's apartment, where the guests are broke writers and hopeful actresses. He asks to crash on the couch, then runs into Betty Schaefer, the reader who once hurt his pride. Their talk about his old story, "Dark Windows", turns barbed before turning warm.

あらすじ

Unable to stand Norma's house any longer, Joe drives to Artie Green's apartment on Las Palmas, where a New Year's party is in full swing. He asks Artie to put him up for a couple of weeks and takes the spare couch. Then he meets Betty Schaefer, who says she has been rereading his old stories.

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注目の表現

give a hootclose, but no cigarstick aroundput someone up

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このシーンの表現

close, but no cigar

nearly right, but not quite

Someone jokes that Joe borrowed his coat from a movie star; Joe grins and says close, but no cigar.

Close, but no cigar: it was Rome, not Athens.

このシーンの他の表現

  • give a hoot

    care at all

  • stick around

    stay for a while

  • put someone up

    give someone a bed

  • loaded

    drunk; also bases loaded

  • run into

    meet by chance

このシーンのメモ一覧

79 行のセリフに 22 件のメモ

表現 · B2a New Year's shindig

a New Year party

There was bound to be a New Year's shindig going on in his apartment down on Las Palmas.
スラング · B2shindig

a big party — Old-fashioned and playful; not for formal writing.

There was bound to be a New Year's shindig going on in his apartment down on Las Palmas.
表現 · B2not give a hoot

care at all

Joe describes Artie's crowd as kids with no prospects who simply do not care.

A bunch of kids who didn't give a hoot just so long as they had a yuk to share.
文法 · B1kids who didn't give a hoot

relative clause: The who-clause describes which kids he means: the ones who didn't care.

A bunch of kids who didn't give a hoot just so long as they had a yuk to share.
発音didn't give

The t in didn't often drops before give.

A bunch of kids who didn't give a hoot just so long as they had a yuk to share.
スラング · B2yuk

a laugh — Slang for a laugh; too loose for writing.

A bunch of kids who didn't give a hoot just so long as they had a yuk to share.
表現 · C1report someone to the Bureau of Missing Persons

the missing-persons bureau

I almost reported you to the Bureau of Missing Persons.
スラング · C1Judas H. Priest

a mild oath of shock — An old minced oath; dated but harmless.

Judas H. Priest!
表現 · B2close, but no cigar

nearly right, but not quite

Someone jokes that Joe borrowed his coat from a movie star; Joe grins and says close, but no cigar.

Close, but no cigar.
表現 · B1go easy on something

be gentle with it

Hey, wait a minute. Go easy on that punch bowl.
表現 · A2stick around

stay for a while

Once at the party, Joe asks Artie whether he can stay on for a while.

Say, Artie, can I stick around here for a while?
表現 · B1put someone up

give someone a bed

When Artie misses the hint, Joe asks outright whether he can put him up for a few weeks.

No, I mean, can you put me up for a couple of weeks?
発音put me up

The t in put flaps toward a d between vowels.

No, I mean, can you put me up for a couple of weeks?
表現 · B2a vacancy on the couch

a free spot on the couch

It just so happens we have a vacancy on the couch.
文法 · B1It just so happens we have

it happens that: It just so happens introduces a convenient fact, with that usually left out.

It just so happens we have a vacancy on the couch.
表現 · B2be loaded

drunk; also bases loaded

Artie jokes with Betty, and Joe pounces on the film title Bases Loaded to make a pun.

Wait a minute. This is the woman I love. What's going on? Who was loaded?
文法 · A2the woman I love

relative clause: A reduced relative clause: the woman (that) I love.

Wait a minute. This is the woman I love. What's going on? Who was loaded?
スラング · B2loaded

drunk — Casual slang for drunk; keep it out of formal talk.

Wait a minute. This is the woman I love. What's going on? Who was loaded?
表現 · A2run into someone

meet by chance

Betty says she has been hoping to run into Joe, the writer whose script she once panned.

- Thanks. - I've been hoping to run into you.
表現 · C1be worthy of notice

deserving attention

Joe repeats Betty's praise in mock-formal tones, calling one passage worthy of notice.

Now, if I got you correctly, there was a short stretch of my fiction which you found worthy of notice.
表現 · B2live it up

enjoy oneself wildly

Joe wants to talk work, but Betty reminds him it is New Year's Eve and suggests living it up.

How about living it up a little?
発音living it up

Living it up runs together as one unit.

How about living it up a little?

「Joe Meets Betty at Artie's Party」を読み解く

What's really going on

Joe tells himself he just needs to hear people laugh again, but the party is also an escape from a life that is swallowing him. The guests are all chasing the same dream that has passed him by, and he fits right in: "A bunch of kids who didn't give a hoot just so long as they had a yuk to share." Moving in with Artie is his attempt to get back to his own world, and Betty is the door. Their exchange starts as a grudge — Joe asks if she came "to recover that knife you stuck in my back" — and turns into the first honest conversation he has had in a long time, about a flashback she finds "worthy of notice." For once, someone is talking to Joe about his work, not about Norma.

Theme

LonelinessJoe bolts from Norma's mansion to a crowded party simply to be around people his own age and hear laughter again.
FriendshipArtie offers him a couch without hesitation, and Betty reopens the door to the career and self-respect Joe has abandoned.

このチャプターで学べること

  • A borrowed couch says more than a welcome speech.
  • The room full of failures is the warmest place in the film.
  • Betty's praise stings Joe more than any insult.
  • The title pun turns jealousy into a running joke.

発音のポイント

  • didn't give — The t in didn't often drops before give.
  • put me up — The t in put flaps toward a d between vowels.
  • living it up — Living it up runs together as one unit.
A bunch of kids who didn't give a hoot just so long as they had a yuk to share.

The narrator's fond, slightly sad description of the party crowd: broke and careless, happy as long as there is a laugh to share.

It just so happens we have a vacancy on the couch.

Artie's deadpan hospitality — he turns taking in a friend into a hotel-style joke about a vacancy.

- Thanks. - I've been hoping to run into you.

Betty's opening line, at once an apology and an admission that she has been looking for Joe.

Wait a minute. This is the woman I love. What's going on? Who was loaded?

Artie's mock alarm at seeing Joe with Betty: he jokes about whose drink was spiked rather than admit the triangle.

- Now why don't you use that character... - Who wants true? Who wants moving?

Betty's push against Joe's cynicism — she wants the true, moving story, and he pretends nobody wants either.

Suddenly I find myself terribly afraid of losing you.

Part of the radio-style dialogue drifting through the party, a melodramatic line that echoes what Joe is starting to feel.

このシーンについての質問

Why does Joe leave Norma's house on New Year's Eve?

He has been isolated with her for months and wants to be around people his own age. He says he just had to get out and hear somebody laugh again.

How does Joe end up staying at Artie's?

He asks Artie if he can put him up for a couple of weeks, and Artie jokes that there is a vacancy on the couch. Joe takes it on the spot.

What does 'close, but no cigar' mean?

It means someone is nearly right but not quite. Artie guesses wrong about where Joe got his coat, and Joe delivers the phrase as a friendly put-down.

Who is Betty Schaefer?

She works in Sheldrake's office and is the reader who once criticized Joe's story. At the party she tells him she has been rereading his old work, and they begin talking about a scene she liked.

サンセット大通り · 全 19 章

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第 1 章there's gonna be fireworksThe Repo Men Come for the Car第 2 章over a barrelJoe Pitches Bases Loaded at Paramount第 3 章a white elephantJoe Is Mistaken for the Undertaker第 4 章It's the pictures that got smallNorma Desmond: The Pictures Got Small第 5 章a pressing engagementNorma Makes Joe Read Salome第 6 章make it worth your whileNorma Hires Joe to Fix Her Script第 7 章not by a long shotNorma Moves Joe Into Her Mansion第 8 章a matter of life and deathNorma Buys Joe New Clothes第 9 章take me for grantedNorma's New Year's Eve Confession再生中 · 第 10 章close, but no cigarJoe Meets Betty at Artie's Party第 11 章sell on somethingNorma Sends Her Script to DeMille第 12 章write on specBetty Asks Joe to Write With Her第 13 章give someone the brushNorma Desmond Returns to Paramount第 14 章nothing would please me moreNorma Desmond's Comeback Falls Apart第 15 章sell like hotcakesJoe and Betty Write the Script Together第 16 章come cleanBetty Tells Joe the Nose Story第 17 章wipe outBetty Confesses She Loves Joe第 18 章a good dealJoe Shows Betty Norma's Mansion第 19 章have the heart toJoe Tells Norma He's Leaving
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