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The King of Comedy · 1982 — 第 15 / 21 章 · 3'46" · C1

Jerry Apologizes at Gunpoint, Explained：a two-way street

Held at gunpoint in Masha's house, Jerry tries to talk his way out. He offers an apology — "You're right, I'm wrong" — and promises not to "press charges," while Masha and Rupert turn on each other over the tape, the sweater, and whose idea the kidnapping was.

あらすじ

Inside Masha's house, Jerry sits with a gun on him while Masha and Rupert argue — about the tape Jerry never listened to, the sweater Masha knitted, and who really planned the kidnapping. Jerry seizes the pause to apologize, offers not to press charges, and asks to be allowed to walk out.

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注目の表現

pull offa two-way streetdrive someone nutsgoddamn

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このシーンの表現

a two-way street

needs effort from both sides

Complaining that he gets nothing back, Rupert says friendship is a two-way street.

Marriage is a two-way street.

このシーンの他の表現

  • pull off

    manage to achieve

  • drive someone nuts

    make someone crazy

  • goddamn

    damned

  • foibles

    small weaknesses

  • autograph hound

    someone who chases autographs

このシーンのメモ一覧

58 行のセリフに 26 件のメモ

表現 · A2listen to something

play and hear something

Why didn't you listen to the tape when I asked you to? It wasn't that hard, was it?
表現 · B1work on something

spend effort on something

A few minutes of your time to listen to something that I worked on my whole life.
表現 · B1be behind something

be the reason for all this

If that's what's behind all this, let's go to my office and we'll play the tape right now.
表現 · B2pull something off

managed to achieve it

You pulled this off. That makes you smart.
表現 · A2tell someone something

say something to someone

You know, Jerry, I'm gonna tell you something.
表現 · B2a two-way street

needs effort from both sides

Complaining that he gets nothing back, Rupert says friendship is a two-way street.

Friendship is a two-way street.
発音is a two-way

Is a links into iza, with two-way stressed.

Friendship is a two-way street.
表現 · B1knock off something

stop doing something

You gonna knock off the talking for two minutes?
スラング · B1knock off

cut it out — Blunt spoken order; not for elders or strangers.

You gonna knock off the talking for two minutes?
表現 · B2drive someone nuts

make someone crazy

Worn down by the nagging, Rupert snaps that he is being driven nuts.

You're driving me nuts. Can you be quiet for one goddamn minute and let me rest?
発音driving me nuts

Driving me runs together, and nuts lands with a sharp stress.

You're driving me nuts. Can you be quiet for one goddamn minute and let me rest?
スラング · B1nuts

crazy — Casual for going crazy; keep it informal.

You're driving me nuts. Can you be quiet for one goddamn minute and let me rest?
表現 · B2someone's domain

someone's territory

This is my house. This is my domain.
文法 · B2If it wasn't for me, you wouldn't

unreal conditional: If it wasn't for me sets an unreal cause, and wouldn't states the contrary result.

Whose idea was this anyway? If it wasn't for me, you wouldn't even be here.
表現 · C1it's mind-boggling

overwhelming to think about

I'm sure you can understand, doing the kind of show I'm doing, it's mind-boggling.
表現 · B2keep one's head clear

stay clear-headed

There's so much stuff that comes down, you can't keep your head clear.
表現 · C1autograph hound

someone who chases autographs

Listing the costs of fame, Jerry names the groupies and the autograph hounds.

The show, the pressure, the groupies, the autograph hounds, the crew.
表現 · B2in spite of something

despite all of it

...if I'm wrong, in spite of all that...
文法 · B2in spite of all that

concessive phrase: In spite of takes a noun phrase for concession, unlike although which takes a clause.

...if I'm wrong, in spite of all that...
表現 · A2shake hands

make peace

If you accept my apology, I think we should shake hands and we'll forget the whole thing.
表現 · B2press charges against someone

bring a legal charge

Jerry offers not to press charges, presenting mercy as his bargaining chip.

I won't press charges. You two could be in deep trouble, but I will not press charges.
スラング · B1Yeah, right

sure, as if — A sarcastic way to reject a claim outright.

Yeah, right. All of a sudden with a gun on him, he wants to be friends?
表現 · B2take someone's word for it

believe me without proof

With nothing to prove it, Jerry asks them to take his word for it.

Now, that's the truth. You have to take my word for it.
発音word for it

The d in word flaps in American speech, and for weakens.

Now, that's the truth. You have to take my word for it.
文法 · B2If you think I'm not telling you the truth

if-clause: The if-clause sets the condition, and the main clause is a command: then don't respond.

If you think I'm not telling you the truth, then don't respond.
スラング · B2the hell

used for emphasis — Crude intensifier; avoid it in polite speech.

If you think I'm telling you the truth, then let me get the hell out of here.

「Jerry Apologizes at Gunpoint」を読み解く

What's really going on

The gun is the only reason anyone is talking, and everyone knows it. Jerry's apology is a performance with an exit in mind: "You're right, I'm wrong," he says, listing the show, the pressure, the groupies and the "autograph hounds" as if they were excuses. Then he asks to shake hands and forget it, and promises not to "press charges." He reads the room correctly — the two captors are more dangerous to each other than to him. Masha wants respect and credit, Rupert wants credit for the plan, and the fight keeps slipping away from Jerry's fate. When Masha finally says, "I'm sorry, Jerry," it lands as the only genuine apology in the room.

Theme

TrustThe whole standoff comes down to whether anyone can take another person's word, and the answer keeps turning out to be no.
Dark humorJerry, a gun at his head, apologizes with the smooth sarcasm of a talk-show host, listing his own pressures as if that were a defense.

このチャプターで学べること

  • Jerry bargains with mercy instead of force.
  • Rupert treats the kidnapping like a lovers' quarrel.
  • Abstract words dress up a very simple plea.

発音のポイント

  • is a two-way — Is a links into iza, with two-way stressed.
  • driving me nuts — Driving me runs together, and nuts lands with a sharp stress.
  • word for it — The d in word flaps in American speech, and for weakens.
Friendship is a two-way street.

A quiet accusation in the middle of the standoff: if friendship has to go both ways, then Jerry has given nothing back. It frames the kidnapping as a debt, not a crime.

I'm just a human being, with all of the foibles and all of the traps.

Jerry's defense is that he is only human — full of flaws and traps — so he should be forgiven. The high-flown wording makes it sound rehearsed rather than heartfelt.

You pulled this off. That makes you smart.

Jerry praises the man who kidnapped him: pulling off something that difficult proves you are smart. The compliment keeps the captor calm and quietly reframes the crime as an achievement.

There is nothing else. Just my word.

Jerry has offered everything he can as proof — his word alone — and it is not enough in a room where trust has already run out.

このシーンについての質問

Why doesn't Jerry just listen to Rupert's tape?

Rupert believes the whole kidnapping comes down to Jerry never playing it: "A few minutes of your time to listen to something that I worked on my whole life." Jerry offers to hear it at his office, but Rupert won't go near the building where he would be caught.

Why is Jerry so polite to the people holding him?

He is buying time and looking for an exit. An apology costs him nothing, and offering not to "press charges" flatters them into believing they can still walk away — which is exactly what he needs them to think.

Do Masha and Rupert trust Jerry's promise?

No. One of them answers Jerry's word with "And what else?" and warns that the moment he walks out the door, they will be jumped. The standoff is really about two people who no longer trust anyone, including each other.

What does Masha's final "I'm sorry, Jerry" mean?

After all the arguing and threats, it is the one apology that sounds meant. She has spent the night trying to be close to Jerry, and the line lands as regret for how the whole thing turned out.

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