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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp · 1943 — 第 29 / 30 章 · 4'51" · C1

Theo's Speech About Total War, Explained：a different kettle of fish

Retired again and feeling useless, Candy is told by his old friend Theo that this war cannot be fought by the old rules: "The enemy's different, so you have to be different too." Theo's argument is that fair play will lose to a ruthless enemy, and that the British have not learned the lesson.

あらすじ

Candy has been retired again and tells his friends that they no longer need him. Theo, himself a refugee after losing everything, argues that the coming war must be fought differently. When Candy insists on fair play, Theo answers with the lesson of the last war and the warning that defeat now would be final.

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注目の表現

down the hatcha different kettle of fishhit backthe rules of the game

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このシーンの表現

a different kettle of fish

a very different matter

Clive insists that being ordered to retire is not the same as being quietly discarded.

Moving house is a different kettle of fish from redecorating.

このシーンの他の表現

  • down the hatch

    drink it down

  • hit back

    strike in return

  • the rules of the game

    the accepted way to compete

  • for your very existence

    for survival itself

  • a return match

    a second, deciding game

このシーンのメモ一覧

68 行のセリフに 22 件のメモ

表現 · B2get a commission

being made an officer

- How is your boyfriend? - He's getting a commission.
表現 · A2turn something down

rejected

- Turned down. Enemy alien. - But you're an expert.
表現 · A2have another one

take one more

Have another one, Angela.
スラング · B1Axed

cut, dismissed — A blunt way to say someone was cut or a plan killed off.

Retired again. Axed. They don't need me any more.
表現 · B1know how that feels

what that is like

I... I know how that feels.
表現 · B1a fellow like me

someone like me

I've often thought, a fellow like me dies - special knowledge - awful waste.
文法 · C1a fellow like me dies

parenthetical clause: The inserted clause paints the death first, then the dash delivers the verdict.

I've often thought, a fellow like me dies - special knowledge - awful waste.
表現 · B2count for nothing

be worth nothing

Does my knowledge count for nothing? Experience, skill?
発音have to

Have to reduces to a quick haf-ta.

The enemy's different, so you have to be different too.
表現 · B2up to the point where ...

as far as the part where

I read your broadcast up to the point where you described the collapse of France.
表現 · A2and so on

and the like

refugees, machine-gunning hospitals, lifeboats, bailed-out pilots and so on -
表現 · B2So I would.

yes, I would

So I would.
文法 · B2too fair to hit back

too ... to: Too fair to hit back means his fairness itself makes retaliation impossible.

Clive, if you let yourself be defeated by them just because you are too fair to hit back the same way they hit at you,
文法 · B2while they use every foul and filthy trick against you

while-clause: While contrasts your fair play with their cheating happening at the very same time.

If you preach the rules of the game while they use every foul and filthy trick against you,
表現 · B2fight foul

fought dirty

They fought foul then and who won it?
スラング · B2foul

dirty, dishonestly — An informal way to say someone played dirty.

They fought foul then and who won it?
発音lost it

Link lost and it so the t slides into it.

We lost it, but you lost something too.
表現 · B1learn a lesson

take the warning to heart

Because victory was yours, you failed to learn your lesson 20 years ago.
文法 · C1Because you've been educated to be a gentleman

because-clause: The because-clause explains the whole verdict: his upbringing taught him to play fair.

Because you've been educated to be a gentleman and a sportsman in peace and in war.
表現 · B2a gentleman's war

a war fought by fair rules

... this is not a gentleman's war.
発音idea ever

Run idea and ever together with the stress on ever.

This time you are fighting for your very existence, against the most devilish idea ever created by a human brain.
表現 · B2not even for [time]

not for a century

Perhaps not even for a hundred years.

「Theo's Speech About Total War」を読み解く

What's really going on

The scene is the film's argument at full strength, and it is staged as a conversation between friends rather than a debate. Candy arrives diminished — 'Retired again. Axed. They don't need me any more' — and Theo, who has lost a country, refuses to comfort him with a lie. His point is not that cruelty is good but that the enemy has changed the terms: 'The enemy's different, so you have to be different too.' The most cutting line is aimed at victory itself: 'We lost it, but you lost something too.' Theo is saying that a war won by rules that the other side ignores teaches the winner nothing, and now the fees come due again. Candy's insistence on honour, which the film has treated warmly for two hours, is here exposed as a luxury that may cost everything.

Theme

DutyThe argument is about what a soldier owes: Candy's answer is honour and fair play, while Theo insists that survival now outweighs the old code.
SurvivalTheo frames the entire war as an existential one: the enemy is a system, not an army, and losing would mean no second chance at all.

このチャプターで学べること

  • Not a gentleman's war means the old fair-play rules are gone.
  • Count for nothing says experience is being ignored.
  • A return match is a second chance that will not come.
  • Repeating different drives the whole argument home.

発音のポイント

  • have to — Have to reduces to a quick haf-ta.
  • lost it — Link lost and it so the t slides into it.
  • idea ever — Run idea and ever together with the stress on ever.
This time you are fighting for your very existence, against the most devilish idea ever created by a human brain.

Theo's summary of the stakes: this is not a contest between armies but a fight against an idea, and the cost of losing is the nation's survival.

We lost it, but you lost something too.

His answer about who really won the last war: Germany lost the fighting, but Britain lost part of its code by refusing to learn from it.

The enemy's different, so you have to be different too.

The practical claim behind the speech: an enemy without rules cannot be beaten by someone who keeps them, so the rules must change.

Retired again. Axed. They don't need me any more.

Candy's flat report of his own dismissal: three short sentences that show how completely the army has cast him aside.

このシーンについての質問

Why has Candy been retired?

He is no longer wanted by the army, which he describes as being axed again. The film uses his dismissal to put him on the outside of the war he knows best.

What does "a different kettle of fish" mean?

It means a completely different situation, not to be compared with the first. Theo uses it to say that Candy's case is unlike his own.

What is Theo's main argument?

That the enemy has changed the rules, so Britain must change too. He argues that a country too fair to hit back will be defeated, and that there will be no second chance.

Why does Theo say Britain 'lost something too'?

Because winning the last war taught Britain nothing, as victory hid the lesson. He argues that this blindness is now being paid for in the present conflict.

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