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The Gentlemen · 2020 — 第 2 / 15 章 · 2'36" · C1

Mickey and Matthew's Dinner Standoff, Explained：pull the plug on

Dinner between Mickey and the American buyer Matthew is a polite duel. Matthew praises the business while admitting he cannot work out how it runs, and Mickey answers with a backhanded "I'm flattered to hear that from you." The narration calls it what it is: a cock off. Meanwhile Fletcher is laying out the scheme to take Mickey down.

あらすじ

At a dinner, Mickey Pearson meets Matthew, an American buyer. Matthew praises Mickey's enterprise but admits he cannot figure out how it works, while Mickey answers with mock modesty. In the frame story, Fletcher explains to Ray how he was hired by Big Dave to dig into Mickey, and how much power it would be worth to be able to stop a deal like Mickey's.

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このシーンの表現

pull the plug on

shut something down

Fletcher prices the power to kill a deal at will, dressing lethal authority as a service.

The board decided to pull the plug on the whole project.

このシーンの他の表現

  • cock off

    a crude contest of male egos

  • fucking

    vulgar intensifier for emphasis

  • heroes and zeros

    a pun rhyming heroes with zeros

  • flattered to hear

    mock pleasure at a rival's praise

  • keep an eye on

    watch someone closely

このシーンのメモ一覧

47 行のセリフに 27 件のメモ

表現 · B1one another

each other

Sniffing round one another's intellectual assholes.
スラング · B2assholes

a crude insult — Crude and insulting; only joking among close friends.

Sniffing round one another's intellectual assholes.
発音old fashioned

Stress both halves of old fashioned and run them as one unit.

It's a good old fashioned cock off, Raymond.
スラング · C1cock off

a crude ego contest — Crude British slang; keep it out of formal talk.

It's a good old fashioned cock off, Raymond.
表現 · B1look forward to doing something

be eager for something

Michael, I'm looking forward to doing business together.
発音forward to

The to in forward to is weak and nearly swallowed.

Michael, I'm looking forward to doing business together.
表現 · B2excuse oneself

take one's leave politely

May we excuse ourselves? Yes, please.
表現 · A2say good night to someone

bid someone good night

We should say good night to our host.
表現 · B2let someone into the henhouse

let a fox into the henhouse

If you let him in the henhouse, you can expect blood and feathers everywhere.
文法 · B1you can expect

conditional main clause: The if-clause sets the condition and can expect states the certain result.

If you let him in the henhouse, you can expect blood and feathers everywhere.
表現 · A2be looking good

seem promising

It's looking good, Ray. It's looking fucking good.
スラング · B2fucking

vulgar intensifier — Vulgar intensifier; avoid it at work or with elders.

It's looking good, Ray. It's looking fucking good.
表現 · B1be impressed with something

admire something

I'm impressed with what you've done with your enterprise.
表現 · C1try as I might

however hard I try

You see, try as I might, I can't work out how you do it.
表現 · B1work out how ...

figure out

You see, try as I might, I can't work out how you do it.
文法 · C1try as I might

concessive clause: Try as I might means however hard I try, setting up a concession.

You see, try as I might, I can't work out how you do it.
発音can't work

The t in can't often drops, and work out runs together.

You see, try as I might, I can't work out how you do it.
文法 · C1And bush is

fronted emphasis: Fronting bush puts the emphasis on his speciality rather than on himself.

And bush is my game.
表現 · B1figure something out

work it out

I imagine that big brain of yours is sweating a stream of tears just trying to figure it out.
文法 · B2that big brain of yours

appositive phrase: The phrase that big brain of yours singles out and mocks his intelligence.

I imagine that big brain of yours is sweating a stream of tears just trying to figure it out.
表現 · C1hang in the balance

undecided, at stake

But there was a lot of money hanging in the balance.
表現 · B2pull the plug on something

shut something down

Fletcher prices the power to kill a deal at will, dressing lethal authority as a service.

To be able to pull the plug on an operation like that.
表現 · B1come up with something

think something up

Yeah, but I didn't really come up with it, did I?
表現 · B1keep an eye on someone

watch someone closely

Fletcher lists the surveillance work he was hired for: watching Mickey, digging through rubbish, gathering dirt.

You know, sniff about, keep an eye on him, go through his bins, reveal his sins.
表現 · B1go through someone's things

search someone's belongings

You know, sniff about, keep an eye on him, go through his bins, reveal his sins.
スラング · B2Yankee

an American, often derisive — A British label for Americans, often mocking.

Mickey Pearson, the odious Yankee gangster. We're gonna bury him.
表現 · C1be in line to the throne

position in the royal succession

Yeah. Once fourth in line to the throne.

「Mickey and Matthew's Dinner Standoff」を読み解く

What's really going on

The dinner is a negotiation performed as manners. Matthew is the buyer, and his compliments are really reconnaissance; he tells Mickey he cannot work out how the business runs, which is both flattery and a probe. Mickey's reply — "I'm flattered to hear that from you, Matthew" — is a jab wrapped in politeness, and the narration names the game for us. Around this, Fletcher narrates the larger scheme to Ray, including the question of what power is worth: the ability "to pull the plug on an operation like that." The scene's pleasure is watching people say hostile things without ever raising their voices, and the film knows the audience enjoys the disguise.

Theme

PowerThe dinner and the narration are both about leverage: who can stop a deal, who can bury whom, and what that power costs.
MoneyA buyout, a set of numbers, and a price for power run under every polite sentence at the table.

このチャプターで学べること

  • Compliments at this table are weapons.
  • Fletcher narrates betrayal like a travel story.
  • Fox-and-henhouse idioms do the threatening.
  • Every polite question hides a price.

発音のポイント

  • old fashioned — Stress both halves of old fashioned and run them as one unit.
  • forward to — The to in forward to is weak and nearly swallowed.
  • can't work — The t in can't often drops, and work out runs together.
I just think it's really important to remember who you're talking to, Dave.

Fletcher's quiet warning to Big Dave: he is reminding the man that the person across the table is not someone to be ordered around.

If you let him in the henhouse, you can expect blood and feathers everywhere.

A farmyard metaphor for a dangerous mistake: bringing this man into the business will end in chaos and damage.

You're a cunning and creative toad, aren't you, Fletcher?

A backhanded compliment: Fletcher is clever and useful, but also slippery, and the speaker wants him to know he is seen.

I imagine that big brain of yours is sweating a stream of tears just trying to figure it out.

Mock sympathy aimed at a rival's curiosity: the speaker imagines him straining, and enjoys the image of him failing to understand.

このシーンについての質問

Why does Mickey say he is "flattered"?

It is not real gratitude. Matthew has just said he cannot understand how Mickey's business works, so Mickey's reply is a polite way of saying he does not believe the compliment, or the man.

Who is Fletcher and what is he doing?

He is the investigator narrating the story to Ray. He has been hired by Big Dave to look into Mickey — watching him, checking his affairs — and he is laying out both the scheme and his own role in it.

Why does Big Dave want Mickey investigated?

Because Mickey has a new powerful friend, Lord Pressfield, and Dave wants to bury him. He treats Fletcher as his favorite bloodhound and orders him to dig up everything he can.

What does "pull the plug on" mean?

It means to stop something abruptly, like cutting power to a machine. Here it is about the ability to shut down a deal at will, which is exactly the kind of power being priced in the scene.

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